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Delhi has total installed electricity generation capacity of 7,163 MW (as on 30st April, 2013).
As part of reforms, Delhi Vidyut Board was unbundled into six companies in July 2002. These are
TPDDL is sensitive to the aspect of Climate Change and is committed to introduce energy
efficient and greener technologies. Also, Tata Power Delhi Distribution also works on various
projects to preserve and regenerate the environment. It is a member of the Greening Agency within the
Department of Forest & Wildlife, Government of Delhi and is committed to promote tree plantation.
TPDDL has created several milestones in its journey so far; it is now focused and committed to the road
ahead and is exploring new opportunities to replicate its experience of distribution reforms both in India
and abroad. It is leveraging its unique learning and skillsets solely and in collaboration with leading
utilities and technology providers in the areas of communications & technology, change management,
consumer service delivery and business process re-engineering
COORPORATE PHILOSOPHY:
Vision:
To be the most trusted and admired provider of reliable & competitive power and services, and to be the company of
choice for all stakeholders.
Mission:
proportionate to the energy loss that occurs; the higher the loss, the lower the efficiency. The losses in
Indian Power Sector are about 20 40 % or even more as against 8 12 % in the developed countries.
Overall energy losses in a plant can result from losses due to designs that do not incorporate energy
efficient specifications such as heat recovery option; operations that run on inefficient methods; and
poor or non-energy efficiency-conscious maintenance programme. Reducing these losses will
substantially increase the plant's efficiency, but we need data to identify and quantify the losses and
subsequently suggest suitable techno-economic solutions to minimize the losses. This data can be
acquired through energy audits.
o Memory: Electronic Meters are equipped with inbuilt memory to store data for a period
of 30 to 60 days depending upon the manufacturer. EEPROM backup is used to store the
meter data which ensure data safety in case of power failures.
o Display: Different parameters can be viewed on a LCD based display panel.
o Logged Parameters: Modern meters show various parameters which can be utilized for
analysis, these include
GIS:
In the nationwide implementation of IT-enabled power reforms in Indian distribution utilities, under the
prestigious R-APDRP project, Geographical Information System (GIS) has gained importance as an
effective tool for improving customer services, enhancing operational and energy efficiency and
optimizing costs.
Lot of emphasis is given by the state utilities on the leveraging GIS for creating an energy balance sheet
and take effective measures to plug the revenue leakages. The geo-referenced electrical network
overlaid on area base map is handy for the utility not only for managing assets and their maintenance,
but also being used for mapping the electrical consumers to its source of supply for energy audit
applications. Moreover, by integrating electrical GIS with network analysis application, various analytical
studies are possible for load flow analysis, short circuit analysis, efficiency calculations and load
planning.
NDPL has used GIS (Geographic Information System) to capture ground maps. After implementing GIS, it
became a communications platform for various operations of NDPL. GIS has enabled NDPLs employess
to know the details of each district, zone, grid station, and even of each consumer, at the click of a
button. For instance, if a consumer faces a power cut problem and brings it to the notice of the NDPL
authorities, they can trace it out sitting their desk. They can ascertain the power grid from which the
consumer is connected and can also determine the exact transformer from where he/she gets power.
This helps in resolving problems faster than ever before. Similarly, if a customer wants to increase the
power load for their residence, GIS helps NDPL employee to determine whether it can be done from the
same transformer or whether they need to get another line from a different transformer. Another
interesting feature enables NDPL to determine the shortest route to plant a new electrification network.
Also, if NDPL wants to expand their existing electricity network, they can determine the shortest route
between two end points through the system, without actually going out to the field, which was the case
earlier. This has improved the efficiency of NDPL and has also helped them to cater to the needs of the
consumers faster. These benefits helped NDPL to save a huge amount of money, a whopping 1.26 crore
in the very first year of GIS implementation.
IT Solution Using a combination of GIS maps and GE small world solution suite, they were able to get
extensive details about their distribution networks.
GIS also provides a detailed list of all NDPL consumers. Hence, if there is a scheduled power cut at a
specific location, they can get the data about affected consumers within that specified location and
inform them in advance. All NDPL users have access to it and it can serve 200 concurrent users. They
have used a software called GE SmallWorld and the data is stored in the GE small world application
server.
GIS also acts as an input to other enterprise software such as SAP and SCADA. But the extensive use of
information makes it a unique project in itself. For people going to the field to lay a network or to check
faults in any of the transformers, the system provides invaluable help. They can download the GIS map
of the area to a PDA and carry it with them, hence making their life much simpler and work much faster.
One of the key challenges for them was data creation. With no prior knowledge and lack of availability
of a good consultant or agency, it was a challenge to gather such extensive data. The key benefits of this
project were faster service to consumers and faster and more cost-effective new network layouts.
Senior management can also monitor the development sitting right at their desks. All this has reduced
costs to a great extent, which indirectly benefits consumers too.
In the next phase, NDPL plans to integrate the GPS system in their recovery van so that they can monitor
it on the GIS map itself. This will help them provide faster and planned solutions to power failure
problems. They also plan to integrate other applications such as remote meter reading into a single
application, which will help them get more productive results.
SCADA
SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) is monitoring and controlling industrial and
manufacturing processes, and facilities. Several subsystems combine to make up an entire ICONICS
SCADA solution. A HMI (Human Machine Interface) presents data to a human operator who can then
monitor and control the process. Data acquisition is made possible through sensors placed throughout
the process or facilities. To relay data from the remotely located sensors, different hardware and
software systems utilize various open communication protocols, such as OPC, to communicate data to
the HMI.
values in an organized fashion. The systems may vary from simple, like temperature reporting in a
building to complex like monitoring the traffic on many traffic lights. The system consists of the following
elements:
1.
SCADA Master Station Computer Systems: It is the repository of the real-time or near real-time
reported data collected from the remote terminal units connected to it. It is generally standard computer
hardware equipment and very few SCADA system suppliers have ventured out to make their own
computer equipment. A few companies like IBM and CDC did try making hardware for it, but the effort
was short lived and commercial off-the-shelf computer products continue to be the main stay. The back
end SCADA software must be able to repeatedly poll the RTUs for data values, should have software for
their retrieval, storage and processing. The processing may include unit conversion, cataloguing into
tables etc.
2.
Human-Machine Interface: This is the eye candy part on the host station. The values that have
been stored in the host computers are presented to the human operator in an understandable and
comprehensible form using HMIs. These may provide trending, diagnostic or management information
and detailed schematics and animations representing the current states of the machines under its control.
Pictorial representation being more understandable to humans is the preferred form in SCADA HMIs.
1. Monitoring and logging of the following parameter is respect of all incoming and outgoing
feeders integrated on 15 minute basis:
2. Alarm feature to draw attention of the operator to any breach of various parameters beyond
specified limits.
3. Facility to generate spread sheet and MIS reports for the following
a. System Outage / Down time of the feeders
b. Energy Audit
c. Daily Peak loads
d. Voltage Profiles
e. Daily Log Sheets
4. The system to have capability for time synchronizing for each and feed meters from the
centralized base station.
5. Event information e.g. voltage failures, exceeding of threshold, error message or be made
available.
6. The availability based Tariff (ABT) based reports consisting of demand and frequency average
for 15 minutes.