IIT Bhubaneswar gets Rs 1.93 cr funding for research on power grid automation – Times of India

BHUBANESWAR: IIT Bhubaneswar has received Rs 1.93 crore funding from the Central Power Research Institute (CPRI) Bangalore for the proposal entitled ‘Design, Development and Demonstration of a Centralized Protection and Monitoring (CPM) System within a Distribution Substation including DER’.
SR Samantaray, head of the School of Electrical Sciences and professor of the Odisha Power Transmission Corporation (OPTCL) Chair received this funding. Powergrid Corporation of India is the industry partner for the project implementation. The project is supported under the National Perspective Plan (NPP) scheme of CPRI Bangalore.
Official sources said the IIT Bhubaneswar is focussing on some of the emerging areas including energy, environment, manufacturing and computing as major research thrusts supported by many national and international research funding.
Samantaray, the project investigator, said the project will be a paradigm shift in the distribution system automation technology and will bring significant changes in the monitoring, operation and management within the substation integrated with distributed energy resources (DERs).
This project aims to develop and demonstrate distribution substation automation technology which will replace the large number of physical IEDs in the existing systems, providing state of the art monitoring, operation and control function within the substation.
The comprehensive framework includes a centralized monitoring and protection system including Distributed Energy Resources Management Systems (DERMS) considering a microgrid environment. The developed technology will be demonstrated on the 132/33 kV substation at IIT Bhubaneswar campus and the same will be extended to the substations of distribution utilities, said the official statement of the IIT Bhubaneswar.