Smart Grid Working Opportunities and Challenges in India – A Review

Abstract

India's power area is experiencing a sturdy boom in demand, manufacturing, and energy transmission. India is operating on several progressive policies and programs within the energy sector for holistic transformation. A factsdriven smart utility released by India will soon open up new commercial enterprise possibilities. Rapid populace growth and urbanization have a prime effect on energy consumption and power generation. Moreover, energy control is the largest task and an essential part of all kinds of regions. The Smart Grid performs a crucial role in this due to its benefits like contributing to the discount of T&D losses, Peak Load Management (PLM), progressing Quality of Service (QoS), improved reliability, better asset control, renewable integration, and better accessibility to electricity. National Smart Grid Mission (NSGM) was launched by the Ministry of Power (MoP) to deal with key problems of Smart Grid tasks on a large scale in the country and to make the Indian power infrastructure cost-effective. This paper first briefly describes the overview and making plans of the Indian energy sector followed by the development of pilot projects of Smart Grids in India and proposed several working opportunities in India towards Smart Grid. Challenges and barriers related to smart grid is also proposed in this paper.