Automation

To meet the needs of India’s growing economy, providing reliable, affordable and sustainable energy requires exploring a range of options. One of the most important requirements is reinventing the grid with the introduction of grid intelligence and communication systems for its secure and efficient operation. This paper is an attempt towards grid redesign to meet the requirements of the transforming energy sector in India... - Er. K S Sidhu

Substation automation refers to using data from intelligent electronic devices (IEDs) control & automation capabilities within the substation and control commands from remote users to control power system devices… - Dr B P Singh

Oracle Drive Systems use the new LINKNET system to update ageing fibre optic LINK drive control system, replacing it with new LINKNET modules for click-and-connect set-up and fast, straightforward configuration via Parker DSE software…

The requirement for making coal fired stations intelligent arises from the beed for highly efficient plant operation and asset management on one hand and wide scale penetration of renewable energy (solar  photovoltaic and wind) into the grid which results in rapid cycling of the thermal plants, on the other hand. Ramping up or down of thermal plants hitherto was through manual load setting or through the free governor mode of operation. With the entrance of  rapidly varying renewable generation, the need for automatic load setting on the thermal plants through intelligent features arises... - M. Siddhartha Bhatt,  N. Rajkumar

The project was sponsored by Government of Gujarat for 10 MW Canal-top Solar Plant at Vadodara. The students are thankful to their guide Asst. Prof. Avipsa Dey for her support and encouragement during the project... - Avipsa Dey, Nishi Shah, Sonali Ghatge, Vaishali Sapkal

'Assured and quality electric supply' is one of the core infrastructure elements of the smart city. The backbone to drive this objective is to implement an efficient and intelligent power distribution system. The trigger for an efficient power distribution network begins with the demand assessment. The methodology for arriving at the optimum demand assessment and planning of power distribution network for a smart city is deliberated in this article... - D Geethalakshmi, Fazlullah Syed

Programs are simultaneously working on many fronts to ensure technical up-gradation of distribution network, to ensure stability of power supply to consumers.….

The power flows from power utilities to consumers whereas if wireless sensor networks are added, then the real time price information will also flow from base station to consumers. If the consumer is aware of price of power in peak times, then consumer will act accordingly and regulate his consumption as per price information sent to him. - Geeta Yadav

Strategic mapping of Indian electrical equipment industry - Subhajit Roy, Group Editor

This article discusses the major challenges and strategies to protect smart grid against cyberattacks. - Dr L Ashok Kumar

Power grid is a combination of various network elements and electrical components used to generate, transmit, distribute and supply power to end users of electricity. Complexity of power system has been growing tremendously over the last few decades, facing new challenges and targets during its operation. In order to overcome some of these major challenges, there is a definite need of automation which helps in automatically operating & controlling the power system under various situations of operating grid in day-day scenarios. The new era of smart grid in the 21st century has made automation and standardization really a need to operate grid under the dynamics of rapid load changes, making the system more time sensitive towards faults and failure modes. This research article presents analysis & overview on emerging technology and standards over past few years for smart grid automation, from generation to utilization making Indian power grids to operate in efficient manner and resilient to failure modes. - Balakrishna P & Swarup KS

Open control technology for warehouse and distribution logistics.

The article gives a glimpse of functionalities of power grid, its automation and control system, communications. Potential cyberattacks and their adverse impacts on power grid operation are discussed, a general SCADA cyberattack process is presented. The article also discusses the major challenges and strategies to protect smart grid against cyberattacks. - Dr L Ashok Kumar

“The sector must focus on quick wins in core functions such as forecasting, yield optimisation and complaints management.”

An analysis on how automation can change the overall economics of power plant operation. By Subhajit Roy, Group Editor

The article discusses about the whole substation automation system, like the intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) and SCADA. - Dr G D Kamalapur

The article discusses introduction of IoT in power sector, leading to make the grid smarter, reliable, efficient and robust. - Dr. Sarat Kumar Sahoo, Archit Srivastava  

The article discusses on different technologies used for PV panel cleaning with their performance in different types of environment. It also discusses about the problems associated with different types of cleaning system. - Dr. L. Ashok Kumar, Madhuvanthani Rajendran

Unlike earlier times, home automation no longer falls under the uber luxury category, nor it is branded for the likes of wealthy and tech...

This article describes the various functions that IED (Intelligent Electronic Device) plays in today’s power networks.