Indian Smart Grid Market 2017 – A Vision and Road Map for the Power Sector – Research and Markets

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Smart
Grid – A Vision and Road Map for Indian Power Sector” report to
their offering.

The Indian power sector consists of diverse participants including
generation, transmission, and distribution utilities, and system and
market operators. For efficient functioning of the sector, effective
communication between these entities is of vital importance.

In context of increasing demand-supply gap of electricity and the need
to optimize electricity usage, it has become imperative for India to
focus on smart grids. The idea behind India’s smart grid vision is to
transform India’s power sector to develop a secure, adaptive, efficient,
and sustainable system within a stipulated time-frame that provides
reliable and competitive energy to meet the needs and aspirations of all
citizens through active participation of all stakeholders and innovative
technologies and policies.

India has also recently launched the National Mission on Electric
Mobility (NMEM), with a target of 6 million electric vehicles – 4
million two-wheelers and 2 million four-wheelers – by 2020. For an
efficient rollout of the Electric Vehicle (EV) programme, there is a
need for upgrades in electrical distribution infrastructure and smarter
systems which will control/limit simultaneous charging of hundreds of
EVs from the same feeder.

The power sector can be seen as a logical information network where
nodes, representing information sources and sinks, are interconnected
with information links. Information travels from source nodes to
destination nodes over information links across devices belonging to
different systems, organizations, people, information representation
formats, and communication protocols. To facilitate seamless
communication between these nodes, a set of Interoperability Standards
are required.

This report compiles, analyses, and refines the different approaches to
interoperability and standardization in the field of power distribution
networks. It defines an analysis framework or Interoperability Matrix,
and uses this to categorize and compare the different existing
approaches. The interoperability matrix has been developed for various
application domains such as automated meter reading (AMR)/automated
metering infrastructure (AMI), demand response (DR), data management
system (DMS), network communication, wide area measurement systems
(WAMS), electric transport and cyber security.

Additionally, the report details national initiatives and international
experience (U.S., Japan, Ireland, Germany, China, Denmark, Canada and
Australia) with respect to interoperability. A gap analysis is also
carried out to bring out best practices suited to the Indian scenario.

The report concludes by providing a road map for achieving a high degree
of interoperability between communication entities and applications.

Key points that emerged from the analysis are as follows:

– Need for enterprise layer standards

– Communication between HES and data concentrator unit (DCU)

– Developments required to be undertaken for localized communication
networks i.e. from DCU to all meters.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Executive Summary

2. Overview & Background

3. Key Drivers for Smart Grid in India

4. Smart Grid Framework

5. Smart Grid Interoperability and Its Framework

6. Economics and Financing

7. Regulatory Framework

8. Business Case for Smart Grid Implementation in India

9. Current Status: Smart Grid Initiatives

10. Barriers & Challenges to Smart Grid Implementation in India

11. Road Map Ahead

12. Glossary

For more information about this report visit https://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/sk3twq/smart_grid_a

Contacts

Research and Markets
Laura Wood, Senior Manager
[email protected]
For
E.S.T Office Hours Call 1-917-300-0470
For U.S./CAN Toll Free Call
1-800-526-8630
For GMT Office Hours Call +353-1-416-8900
U.S.
Fax: 646-607-1907
Fax (outside U.S.): +353-1-481-1716
Related
Topics: Energy
Maps, Internet
of Things and M2M, Smart
Grid