Smart Grid Project to rid Gurugram of diesel generators

With a view to ensuring 24x7 uninterrupted power supply to consumers and making Gurugram a diesel generatorfree city the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam DHBVN has launched a Smart Grid Project for the Millennium City an official said on ThursdayThe Rs 1600crore project will help reduce ATampC Aggregate Technical amp Commercial losses and overhead cost The integration of various IT tools will also make the grid system more efficient while ensuring consumer participationGurugram Deputy Commissioner Vinay Pratap Singh said The objective is to make Gurugram a diesel generatorfree city This would lead to high level of customer satisfaction on account of reliable electric supply and pollution control etcAccording to him the project area consists of Sector 1 to 57 in Gurugram which are located on both sides of the DelhiGurugram Expressway and are almost fully occupied and a major source of revenue for the DHBVNThe area would be taken up to effectuate and adopt advanced smart grid technologies to improve upon the existing subtransmission and distribution system Its cost has been estimated at about Rs 1600 crore approximately he saidDHBVN Chief Engineer Sanjiv Chopra who is looking after implementation of this Smart Grid Project said The entire project for Gurugram Sector 1 to 57 will be implemented in four stages to ensure proper integration of various features of Smart GridIn Stage1 all the overhead 11 kV lines shall be converted to underground except wherever it is not feasibleThe optical Fibre will also be laid underground simultaneously with 11 kV HT lines to use the same for communication for SCADA supervisory control and data acquisition scalability up to distribution transformer level subsequently Chopra saidFor the implementation of the project sectors 1 to 57 have been divided into eight smaller zones comprising areas of around two subdivisions eachHe said that in StageII the SCADA system would be implemented up to substation levelChopra said that Advanced Metering Infrastructure AMI would be implemented in StageIII in the project areaIn StageIV alternative transmission network will be laid underground along with the provision for redundancy at low tension LT network level Also SCADA will be implemented up to distribution transformer levelRegarding the status of the work till now he said that two notices inviting tenders NIT covering areas under Maruti IDC amp DLF SDivision etc had been awarded in September 2017 The next NIT covering the area of Kadipur and South City subdivisions shall be floated shortly Chopra addedFurther investigation is on