New Delhi: Energy and new and renewable vitality minister Raj Kumar Singh on Tuesday devoted Automated Era Management (AGC) to the nation. The AGC sends indicators to energy crops each 4 seconds to take care of frequency and thereby reliability of India’s energy system.
“That is anticipated to facilitate attaining the federal government’s bold goal of 500 GW non-fossil fuel-based era capability by 2030. The AGC is being operated by Energy System Operation Company (POSOCO) by way of Nationwide Load Despatch Centre. By means of AGC, POSOCO sends indicators to energy crops each 4 seconds to take care of frequency and reliability of the Energy System,” union energy ministry stated in an announcement.
All attainable measures are taken to make sure that the grid frequency all the time stays inside the 49.90-50.05 Hz (hertz) band. The state-run Posoco oversees the nation’s vital electrical energy load administration features by way of the Nationwide Load Dispatch Centre (NLDC) and a set of regional load dispatch centres (RLDCs) and state load despatch centres (SLDCs). India has 33 SLDCs, 5 RLDCs—for the 5 regional grids that type the nationwide grid—and one NLDC.
“By means of AGC, NLDC (Nationwide Load Despatch Centre) sends indicators to greater than 50 energy crops within the nation each 4 seconds to take care of the frequency and reliability of the Indian Energy System,” the assertion stated.
“Whereas talking on the fifth POSOCO Day, Shri R.Okay. Singh remarked that India is preparing for integration of large-scale variable & intermittent renewable sources and one of many main instruments for enabling the frequency management is AGC,” the assertion stated and added, “He impressed that below the POSOCO’s AGC venture, until date 51 GW of era capability throughout all 5 areas is operational.”
This assumes significance on condition that 4 out of India’s 5 regional load despatch centres (RLDCs) that assist oversee the nation’ vital electrical energy load administration features have witnessed cyber-attacks. Crimson Echo, a hacker group affiliated with the Chinese language authorities, has repeatedly focused India’s energy grid earlier this 12 months.
“On the nation’s march in direction of attaining the renewable vitality capability of 175 GW in 2022, we now have achieved an put in capability of 150 GW of renewable vitality, together with giant hydro tasks. 63 GW of renewable vitality capability are below numerous phases of set up, which is anticipated to be accomplished by subsequent 12 months,” the assertion stated quoting Singh.
Supply: Live Mint