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Somesh Kumar
Partner & Leader Power & Utilities, Indian subcontinent
Two-way flow of electrons, information and revenue is making the grid more complex!
Increased automation and IT is leading to a more vulnerable grid prone to cyber attacks.
Phasor
Advanced Metering
Measurement Units
Infrastructure
(PMUs)
(AMI)
Automated
Renewable
Meter Reading SCADA/DMS SCADA/EMS
Integration
(AMR)
Distribution Transmission
While Indian transmission utilities are much more advanced in adopting IoT, distribution utilities
are at the threshold of adopting novel technologies for operating the grid.
Challenge Solution
High electricity theft Remote reading of consumption data and events
Low billing efficiency Remote control of electricity supply to premises
High human errors Time of Use tariffs for managing peak demand
Inability to perform real Capability to switch from post-paid to pre-paid
time energy accounting IPv6 mandated for smart meters
Increasing tariff Low-CAPEX business models to reduce financial strain
Low customer satisfaction Revenue sharing business models for a win-win situation
for DISCOM, Industry and Customer
Analytics: Consumption Patterns, Load Forecasting,
Infrastructure Investment, Outage Detection, Voltage
Anomalies etc.
IoT network deployed for smart meters must be leveraged for other low throughput,
low power applications such as Distribution Automation, Home/Building Automation,
Demand Response, Street Light Automation, etc.
Challenge Solution
Lack of granular data Granular data (10s of samples per second) measurement from
Steady state data from PMUs
EMS/SCADA is insufficient Synchronised phasor measurements
Inability to prevent cascaded OPGW for low latency communication from PMUs to PDCs
failures leading to blackouts and control centres
Reduced grid stability NLDC storage capacity expansion for petabyte data transfer
Low transmission line capacity Analytics: System Disturbance Characterisation, Oscillatory
utilization Stability Management, Event Forensics, Dynamic Model
Validation etc.
India has one of the most complex electricity grid and has benefitted from one of the worlds
largest PMUs deployment thereby reducing the threat and scope of blackouts!
DISCOMs and Municipal Corporations have parallel and redundant last mile communication
Smart Grid and networks
Smart City
Yet to see unification of ideas between DISCOMs and Municipal Corporations
Missions
1 Lack of sufficient RF spectrum for interplay between smart grids and smart cities
3 Absence of guidelines on cyber security for IoT devices deployed in power sector
Absence of harmonization between smart grids and smart cities from an IoT
6 perspective
Equipment manufacturer-
BAU NIC-level interoperability
level interoperability
MoP v Decided to set up 11 REMCs for monitoring renewable generation thereby leading to a
& reliable grid
Regulators v Regulators are becoming more receptive towards approving innovative business models
v Considering standards-based IPv6 solutions for last mile connectivity for smart meters
DISCOMs and smart grids
Policies, Roadmaps
Standards and
Data Privacy Cyber Security
Regulations Specification
& Funding Spectrum Harmonization
Telecom
Standards Regulations
Innovative Interoperability
Utility Business Models Strategy
Capacity Building Analytics
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