Alstom T&D India wins smart grid contract from Power Grid

As part of its commitment to protect the Indian transmission grid, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. has selected Alstom T&D India to deliver its latest generation of grid security technologies for a critical energy management programme, entitled ‘The Unified Real-Time Dynamic State’. In what will be the world’s largest grid-wide area monitoring system, this game-changing development will enable nation-wide monitoring of power flows across the grid, responding to fluctuations within a fraction of a second. Real-time data ensures that PGCIL can intervene immediately to adjust and match electricity supply to demand.
Valued at ` 3,817 million, the contract covers the supply of a cutting-edge hardware and software solution. For the hardware, Alstom will provide more than 1,300 MiCOM P847 Phasor Measurement Units (PMU), to collect over 18,000 real-time synchronised measurements from 351 substations across the country.

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