Transmission Infrastructure
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Water Management for TPPs
Every Drop Counts: Efforts to reduce, recycle and reuse water at TPPs
Efforts to reduce, recycle and reuse water at TPPs Water plays a significant role in power generation and is required for process cooling in condensers, ash disposal, removal of heat generated in plant auxiliaries and […]
Water Management for TPPs
Reducing Consumption: Steps to manage the water requirement of FGD systems
Coal-based power plants are the largest producers of pollutants such as sulphur oxide (SOx) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions. As per industry experts, the power sector in India contributed about 50 per cent of the […]
Water Management for TPPs
Reuse and Recycle: Water and wastewater treatment solutions for TPPs
Water management is a key priority for power generation companies across the world, owing to stricter environmental regulations related to wastewater discharge and usage of treated sewage water for thermal power plants (TPPs), regional water […]
Cloud Solutions for Utilities
Moving to the Cloud: Use cases for discoms
The discoms face a host of challenges in the areas of metering and billing, peak load management and revenue protection. In order to tackle these issues, it is essential for utilities to adopt the latest […]
Water Management for TPPs
Water Conservation Efforts: Genco best practices
Water is one of the key inputs for thermal power generation. It is required for process cooling in the condenser, ash disposal, the removal of heat generated in plant auxiliaries, and various other plant consumptive […]
Cloud Solutions for Utilities
Cloud Computing Promise: Needs, drivers and potential for power utilities
The need to adopt new technologies for power utilities cannot be stressed enough, especially at present, when the world is grappling with a pandemic. With the Covid-19 crisis pushing millions of people to work from […]
Testing and Measurement
Optimising Asset Performance: Growing focus on T&M of critical equipment
Testing and measurement (T&M) has immense significance in the power industry as supply reliability depends on the smooth performance of all interconnected systems. Unless these systems are tested and maintained at regular intervals, breakdown of […]
Testing and Measurement
Quality Counts: Smart meter testing key to ensuring power reliability
With all meters expected to be smart prepaid meters in the next three to four years, the role of metering in India is expected to evolve significantly. From energy accounting and revenue administration, smart meters […]
Testing and Measurement
Tracking Plant Health: Testing and measurement solutions for efficient operations
Enhancing the operational efficiency of power plants as well as lowering their emission levels is the need of the hour. Various advanced technology solutions are being adopted by power plant developers to obtain the desired […]
Cloud Solutions for Utilities
Building Business Agility: Public, private and hybrid cloud computing models for utilities
Clouds are data centres or multiple data centres comprising computation and storage resources connected by a network. They are smart, automated and adaptive. Applications can be deployed far more quickly without customer provisioning boxes and, […]
Testing and Measurement
Monitoring Measures: Techniques for transmission line testing and fault detection
India has an extensive transmission network spanning 425,071 ckt. km at the 220 kV and above voltage levels as of March 2020. Any failure in the transmission network has the potential to disrupt power evacuation […]
Cloud Solutions for Utilities
Optimising Value: Utilities look at cloud-based solutions for asset management
Power management and the ability of utility companies to react to near-real-time operational data remotely is becoming more critical and represents an improved and strategic approach to work and asset management. For the assets themselves, […]
Testing and Measurement
Ensuring Equipment Safety: Substation and switchgear testing for maximising operations
Substations and switchgear are key elements in power systems and perform the functions of voltage transformation, system protection, power factor correction metering, and circuit switching. Beyond the financial value, they play a major role in […]
Energy Management and Efficiency
PAT Progress: BEE’s steps to regulate energy consumption reduction for cost-effectiveness
The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) launched the “perform, achieve and trade” (PAT) scheme in 2012, under the National Mission on Enhanced Energy Efficiency, to enhance the efficiency of energy-intensive sectors in the country. PAT […]
Distribution
Green Mobility: Tracking EV policies and programmes
In view of the growing environmental concerns associated with fuel-based mobility, the government has developed a policy framework and taken several other initiatives to create an e-mobility ecosystem in the country. The Department of Heavy […]
Energy Management and Efficiency
Optimum Savings: Enhancing energy efficiency in TPPs to reduce emissions
Thermal power is one of the most energy-intensive industries in the country. It is estimated that a conventional power plant consumes up to 7 per cent of its own electrical energy to operate its systems. […]
Distribution
Scaling Up: Public and private sectors take steps to expand EV charging facilities
Range anxiety and charge anxiety are amongst the biggest roadblocks to the adoption of electric vehicles (EV). While the former refers to the users’ concern about the number of kilometers an EV will run, the […]
Distribution
Raising the Range: Technology innovations to increase the energy density of EV batteries
In line with the target of deploying 30 per cent electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030, India is expected to become a major manufacturing hub for batteries. According to IESA’s estimates, between 2018 and 2026, the […]
Distribution
High Load Impact: Increased EV charging could pose demand challenges for discoms and the grid
The outlook for electric mobility in India has been becoming increasingly optimistic in recent years. Greater adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and the creation of supporting infrastructure come with their own set of challenges. To […]