The India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF), a PPP initiative of the Ministry of Power, in association with OPTCl and Gridco jointly organised a national-level workshop on ‘Smart Grid’ here on Thursday.
A Smart Grid is an electrical grid with automation, communication and IT systems that can monitor power flows from points of generation to points of consumption (even down to appliances level) and control the power flow or curtail the load to match generation in real time.
Speaking on the occasion, Energy Secretary Pradip Jena said the State is mulling to draw an ambitious plan to convert State capital into a Smart City and build its first ever Smart Grid city in recently cyclone-battered Chhatrapur town.
ISGF president Reji Pillai, CEA Chief Engineer Pankaj Batra and ISGP group presented an overview on the subject. MERC member Vijay Sonavane explained how Smart Grid pilot projects being successfully executed by Tata Power Discom in Mumbai.
Among others, OPTCl/Gridco CMD Hemant Sharma and OERC Member BK Mishra spoke. More than 150 delegates belonging to eastern States participated in the workshop.