India Smart Grid Roadmap: 2016 Update
Shalabh Srivastava
Principal
Accenture
Role of Smart Cities in New Programmes of Govt. of India
Background: Why Update?
2013
2016
NSGM
UDAY
Tariff
Policy
LED
Smart
City
Smart
Grid
India Smart Grid
Vision and
Roadmap
National
Electric
Mobility
Mission
175GW
100GW Solar
40GW DRE
Urban - Rural
100 Smart
Cities
Smart
Meter
Smart
Home
2
Local Indian Context
Europe/ America
Supply Chain /
Competition
Single vs Multi
Utility
Socio-Economic
Environment
Transmission
& Distribution
Electricity
Distribution
City Gas
Distribution
High
Manpower
Cost
+
+
Retail
Retail
Low
Theft
India
Transmission
Electricity
Distribution
& Retail
High
Theft
+
Distribution
& Retail
Gas
Distribution
& Retail
Drivers for Growth of
Smart Grids in India
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Loss Reduction
Lifeline Power
TOU Tariff
Rooftop Solar
Smart City
Electric Vehicle
Low
Manpower
Cost
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Roadmap Features based on
Smart Grid Drivers for India
Smart Grid Driver: Loss Reduction
Smart Metering of
entire Network,
down to transformer
Smart Metering of all
consumers under a
transformer
Energy Audit:
• Granular
• Near Real Time
Policy Change to
enable instant
disconnection on
red-handed theft
Technology Enablement
+
Disconnection /
Reconnection to
enforce
Recovery
Policy Change:
Auto-disconnect
on exceeding
Sanctioned Load
by some margin
Policy Changes
=
Business Outcome
Policy Change:
Load Curtailment
at Locality Level
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Roadmap Features based on
Smart Grid Drivers for India
Smart Grid Driver: Lifeline Power Supply to Bottom of Pyramid
Smart Metering of
entire Network,
down to transformer
Smart Metering of all
consumers under a
transformer
Technology Enablement
+
Policy Change:
Auto-disconnect on
exceeding
Sanctioned Load by
some margin
Policy Changes
=
Business Outcome
Policy Change: Load
curtailment at
transformer Level
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Roadmap Features based on
Smart Grid Drivers for India
Smart Grid Driver: TOU Tariff
Smart Metering of all
consumers
Model
Regulations for
TOU Tariff
Reduce Peak
Load
Elastic Demand
Inelastic Demand
Increase in
Peak-time
Revenues for
Discoms
Model
Regulations for
Demand Response
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Roadmap Features based on
Smart Grid Drivers for India
Smart Grid Driver: Distributed Renewable Energy
Rooftop
Solar in
Cities
Net Metering:
 Policy
 Technology
Smart Metering with
Dual Energy Source
and Bidirectional Flow
DRE in Cities
+
DRE in Villages
=
Solar
Minigrids in
Remote
Villages
Offgrid Minigrid:
 Policy
 Technology
Future integration of
Offgrid Minigrid with
Discom Grid
Renewable Growth
riding on
Smart Grids
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Roadmap Features based on
Smart Grid Drivers for India
Smart Grid Driver: Electric Vehicles
Policy
framework for
V2G
Charging Infrastructure:
 Physical Infra
 Remotely Managed
Operations
 Online Payment Settlements
Technology Evolution leading to
Reducing Prices:
 Electric Vehicles
 Energy Storage (LIB)
 Renewable Energy (Solar)
Energy Storage
+
Charging Infrastructure
=
Vehicles as
Transport
Vehicles as
Energy Storage
Electric Vehicles’
takeoff in India
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Roadmap Features based on
Smart Grid Drivers for India
Smart Grid Driver: Cost of Smart Meters
LED
“Model”
Metering Standards
Standardization of Specs
+
Testing & Certifications
Bulk Sourcing by a
nodal body
=
Entry of new meter
manufacturers,
especially SME
Pan India Smart
Metering Rollout
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Roadmap Features based on
Smart Grid Drivers for India
Smart Grid Driver: Foundation for Analytics & Digital Technologies
Utilities need to
mobilize Analytics
capability…
…through right mix
of external
collaboration…
…and in-house
capability
development
+
Power Purchase
Portfolio Optimzation
A High Priority Area of Applying Analytics:
Day-ahead
Load Forecast
Accurate Demand
Forecast
=
Short to Medium Term
Demand Forecast +
Price Forecast
Very Long Term Demand
and Supply Forecast
from various sources
Cost Savings for
Discoms
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Roadmap: Smart Grid / Smart
City Interplay
Globally, TELCOs are
taking lead in becoming
an Anchor for smart city
Data Backbone
In India, we believe
Electricity Discoms are
best suited to take up
this role
Discoms could best serve
as the Public Partner of
PPP Model
Wherein Private Players
could bring in the much
needed investment into
Smart Cities market
Benefits to the
Citizen?
Facilitate
Governance?
Return for the
Investor?
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Roadmap: Smart Grid / Smart
City Interplay
How Discoms can serve as the Anchor for sharing their pre-existing Data Backbone
Database of City’s Infrastructure:
Customer Data: Consumer = Citizen
Customer and Meter Data on GIS: Premises = Property
Customer and Billing Data: Bill = Proxy for Income
Customer, Billing and Payment Data: Payment = Creditworthiness
 Streetlights, Traffic Lights, Toll Plaza (Roads)
 Petrol Pumps, Police Stations, Fire Stations… (Public
Facilities)
Organisational Wherewithal:
 Manpower with intimate knowledge of last mile
Discom’s Billing Database is the only pre-existing
database that exhaustively links for entire cities:
LT Poles mapped on GIS: Huge Upside waiting to be tapped
Property  Citizen  Income  Creditworthiness
 Streetlight, Solar, Battery, Video Surveillance,
Advertisement, Telecom Equipment…
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Roadmap: Smart Grid / Smart
City Business Model
Institutional
Buyers
Industries
Customer
Database
PPP SPV
Commercial
Establishments
Poles
SPV ~ = “UBER” with
Poles and Customer
Leads available on call
Households
Consumers: Target Market
Discom ~ = “Google”, with
huge database
Solar
Vendors
5 * Rated
Electric
Appliances
LED
Vendors
Advertisers
Vendors of Green Energy Solutions (Illustrative; Not Exhaustive)
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Roadmap: Smart Grid / Smart
City – How to Operationalize?
Gas
MIS
Integrated Analytics
Specialized applications
for eGovernance, Utilities,
Safety, etc.
Generic Applications
Water
Electric
Step 1. Use Electric Utility to serve as the first Smart Utility
Step 2. Use water as the add-on Smart Utilities, to reuse
the people-&-property database created for electric Utility
Step 3. Piggyback CGD on top of electricity applications
Common Database of
Citizens, Premises, etc.
Common ICT Infrastructure &
Telecommunication Database
Layer 1. Common Foundation: (i) Infrastructure, (ii) Database
and (iii) Generic Applications
Layer 2. Specialized Applications for specific services
Layer 3. Integrated Analytics
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“THANK YOU”
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