Mysuru, the city of palaces becomes the first in the country to be equipped
with a ‘Smart Grid’. A pilot project by Energy Minister DK Shivakumar. Read
more below…
Smart Grid is a fully automated system to monitor
the distribution of electricity to individual customers and to facilitate
uninterrupted distribution of power, reduce load shedding and to check theft of
electricity across Mysuru.
Total 14 states including Karnataka, was chosen for
the Smart Grid pilot project. However, CHESCOM (Chamundeshwari Electricity
Corporation Ltd) is the first in the country to successfully implement the
project in December 2016. Mysuru is the first city in India to have implemented
the Smart Grid project under the PPP model at a cost of nearly Rs 32.59 crore.
As of now, it covers 24,532 consumers in the city.
The project
was instigated and implemented by Energy Minister DK Shivakumar through PPP
model in association with Enzen Global Solution Private Ltd.
Mysore
Smart Grid pilot project area
Smart Grid was taken up at the cost of Rs.
32.56 crores say reports. The project
involves 24,532 consumers with a good mix of residential, commercial,
industrial and agricultural consumers including 512 irrigation pump sets
covering over 14 feeders and 473 distribution transformers and accounting for
input energy of 151.89 MU.
As per the project, smart meters have been installed
at each household at the cost of over Rs 10,000 (per household) and they are
being monitored at centralized monitoring unit at CHESCOM office in
Vijayanagar.
However, additional functionality like Agriculture
DSM with community portal, consumer portal to support DSM/DR, employee portal
for knowledge sharing and benefit realization are also been implemented in the
Smart Grid pilot project.
The project has so far been implemented on a limited
scale in Mysuru to ensure better power supply-demand management by the
Chamundeswari Electricity Supply Company
(CESC), and it will also be expanded across the city in view of its success and
enhanced power savings.
Advantages
of Smart Grid project
• It omits
the human errors.
• Reduces
manpower and improves quicker billing
• Increases
the resiliency of the grid.
• Helps in
the implementation of Dynamic traffic.
• Helps to
catch power theft directly from the power lines.
• Helps to
catch tampering of Energy Meters.
The Smart Grid would be expanded to bring in all
four lakh CESC consumers in the city within its ambit and is expected to cost
around Rs. 400 crores. It has evoked nation-wide appreciation. Technical
experts from other parts of the country have also evinced an interest in its
functioning. Thanks to Energy Minister DK Shivakumar for his endless efforts in
laying the foundation step in ‘Smart Grid’ for Mysuru.
