POWER SCENARIO OF DELHI

Delhi has total installed electricity generation capacity of 7,163 MW (as on 30st April, 2013).
As part of reforms, Delhi Vidyut Board was unbundled into six companies in July 2002. These are

Delhi Power Supply Company Limited (DPCL) Holding Firm.

Delhi Transco Limited (DTL): It is the State Transmission Utility for the Delhi. It is
responsible for the transmission of power at 220 kV and 400 kV level and for
upgrading, operating and maintaining the high voltage network. DTL has also been
assigned the responsibility of running the State Load Dispatch Centre which is an apex
body to ensure integrated operations of power systems in Delhi.

Indraprastha Power Generation Company Limited (IPGCL): It operated at Rajghat

Power House with an Installed capacity 135 MW +1 natural gas based power plant (Gas
Turbine Power Station) of capacity 270 MW.
BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL).
BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL)
Tata Power-Delhi Distribution Limited(TPDDL).

ABOUT TATA POWER DELHI DISTRIBUTION

LIMITED:
Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited
[TPDDL] is a joint venture between Tata Power
and the Government of NCT of Delhi with the majority stake being held by Tata Power
(51%). TPDDL distributes electricity in North & North West parts of Delhi and serves a
populace of 6 million. The company started operations on July 1, 2002 post the unbundling
of the erstwhile Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB). With a registered consumer base of 1.35 million
and a peak load of around 1573 MW, the companys operations span across an area of 510
sq kms.
TPDDL has been the frontrunner in implementing power distribution reforms in the capital
city and is acknowledged for its consumer friendly practices. Since privatization, the
Aggregate Technical & Commercial (AT&C) losses in TPDDL areas have shown a record
decline. Today, AT&C losses stand at 11% which is an unprecedented reduction of around
79% from an opening loss level of 53% in July 2002.
On the power supply front too, TPDDL areas have shown remarkable improvement. The
company has implemented high-tech automated systems for its entire distribution network.
Systems such as SCADA, Geographical Information System [GIS], Outage Management
System [OMS], DMS and OTS are the cornerstone of the companys distribution automation
project. To fight the menace of power theft, modern technologies like High Voltage
Distribution (HVDS) System and LT Arial Bunch Conductor have been adopted.
TPDDL has to its credit several firsts in Delhi: SCADA controlled Grid Stations, Automatic
Meter Reading, GSM based Street Lighting system and SMS based Fault Management
System. To ensure complete transparency, TPDDL has also provided online information on
billing and payment to all its 1.35 million consumers. As a step towards captive generation,
TPDDL has also established a new 108MW gas based combined cycle power generating
facility at Rithala, North Delhi.
TPDDL is also a member of a global Intelligent Utility Network (IUN) coalition which is
working towards accelerating the development of common standards, technology solutions
and processes for intelligent networks. TPDDL is the first Indian utility to join the IUN
Coalition which also includes utilities from North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific regions.
TPDDL is the only Utility in the Country to have been empanelled by the Power Finance
Corporation, Govt. of Indias nodal implementation agency for its Restructured Accelerated
Power Development and Reforms Program (R-APDRP), as IT Consultant, IT Implementation
Agency (for all four roles i.e. System Integrator, Network solution Provider, GIS Solution
Provider and Meter Data Acquisition Service Provider) and SCADA Consultant. TPDDL is also
empanelled with the Rural Electrification Corporation as System Consultant/IT and Energy

Auditing and is currently providing consultancies to various National and International

utilities on IT/ SCADA implementation e.g. Haryana, Uttar Pradesh etc.

TPDDL is sensitive to the aspect of Climate Change and is committed to introduce energy
efficient and greener technologies. Also, Tata Power Delhi Distribution also works on various

projects to preserve and regenerate the environment. It is a member of the Greening Agency within the
Department of Forest & Wildlife, Government of Delhi and is committed to promote tree plantation.
TPDDL has created several milestones in its journey so far; it is now focused and committed to the road
ahead and is exploring new opportunities to replicate its experience of distribution reforms both in India
and abroad. It is leveraging its unique learning and skillsets solely and in collaboration with leading
utilities and technology providers in the areas of communications & technology, change management,
consumer service delivery and business process re-engineering
COORPORATE PHILOSOPHY:
Vision:
To be the most trusted and admired provider of reliable & competitive power and services, and to be the company of
choice for all stakeholders.

Mission:

Supply quality power and deliver value for services

Maximize and excel in customer services
Achieve excellence through safety, technology adoption, benchmarking and innovation
Reach out to communities we operate in
To meet and exceed stakeholder expectations

Tata Power-DDL Core Values

Tata Power-DDL is a value driven organization and these values have continued to direct the company's growth and
business. The six core values underpinning the way they do the business are:
Integrity ;Understanding; Excellence; Unity; Responsibility ; Agility

ENERGY AUDIT DEPARTMENT:

Energy loss in any industrial process or plant is inevitable; it is a foregone conclusion. But its economic
and environmental impacts are not to be taken lightly, thus explaining the growing need for industrial
energy efficiency. Put simply, the level of energy efficiency a plant or process can achieve is inversely

proportionate to the energy loss that occurs; the higher the loss, the lower the efficiency. The losses in
Indian Power Sector are about 20 40 % or even more as against 8 12 % in the developed countries.
Overall energy losses in a plant can result from losses due to designs that do not incorporate energy
efficient specifications such as heat recovery option; operations that run on inefficient methods; and
poor or non-energy efficiency-conscious maintenance programme. Reducing these losses will
substantially increase the plant's efficiency, but we need data to identify and quantify the losses and
subsequently suggest suitable techno-economic solutions to minimize the losses. This data can be
acquired through energy audits.

Energy audit: Definition and Types

Energy audit is a systematic study or survey to identify how energy is being used in a building or plant,
and identifies energy savings opportunities. Using proper audit methods and equipment, an energy
audit provides the energy manager with essential information on how much, where and how energy is
used within an organization (factory or building).
This will indicate the performance at the overall plant or process level. The energy manager can
compare these performances against past and future levels for a proper energy management. The main
part of the energy audit report is energy savings proposals comprising of technical and economic
analysis of projects. Looking at the final output, an energy audit can also be defined as a systematic
search for energy conservation opportunities.
This information can be transformed into energy savings projects. It will facilitate the energy manager to
draw up an action plan listing the projects in order of priority. He will then present it to the
organization's management for approval. Providing tangible data enables the management to be at a
better position to appreciate and decide on energy efficiency projects. Adopting this activity as a routine
or part of the organization's culture gives life to energy management, and controlling the energy use by
energy audit is what we refer to as Energy Management by Facts .

Advancement made by TPDDL in the field of Energy metering :

Earlier conventional meters were used to measure energy which had a very limited functionality.
Now the modern electronic meters used have a great deal of increased reliability, and flexibility in terms
of performance over the conventional types. These benefits can be summarized as :

o Memory: Electronic Meters are equipped with inbuilt memory to store data for a period
of 30 to 60 days depending upon the manufacturer. EEPROM backup is used to store the
meter data which ensure data safety in case of power failures.
o Display: Different parameters can be viewed on a LCD based display panel.
o Logged Parameters: Modern meters show various parameters which can be utilized for
analysis, these include

Instantaneous parameters: phase wise voltages & currents, power,

frequency, rising demand, phase sequence, power factor and date & time.
Powers: The meter records active(KWh), reactive(KVArh) and
apparent(KVAh) energies in all quadrant. The meter also operates in both
forward and backward direction.
o Accuracy: these meters are highly accurate than there conventional counterparts.
Therefore they are less prone to errors.
o Other parameters include billing information, load survey, events and transactions

IT INITIATIVE BY TATA POWER DELHI DISTRIBUTION LIMITED:

TPDDL has adopted various world class technologies and implemented in unique way to meet our
requirements. Such technologies include Integrated Geographical Information System, SCADA, DMS, DA,
OMS, AMR and now AMI, Integrated Call Centre with BCM Support, SAP-ISU an Integrated CRM Module
etc and is now moving towards Smart Grid. With the successful implementation of these technologies
TPDDL has come at par with some of the world's best power distribution utilities in terms of technology.
Some of the TPDDL IT technologies used are:
SAP is a INTEGRATED business software to process all functionalities of an organisation in order
to obtain a UNIFIED solution. The SAP R/3 enterprise application suite for open client/server
systems has established a new standards for providing business information management
solutions. The original SAP idea was to provide customers with the ability to interact with a
common corporate database for a comprehensive range of applications. Gradually, the
applications have been assembled and today many corporations, including IBM and Microsoft,
are using SAP products to run their own businesses..
SAP applications, built around their latest R/3 (The "R" was for "Realtime data
processing") system, provide the capability to manage financial, asset, and cost accounting,
production operations and materials, personnel, plants, and archived documents. The R/3
system runs on a number of platforms including Windows 2000 and uses the client/server
model. The latest version of R/3 includes a comprehensive Internet-enabled package.
SAP is a table drive customization software. It allows businesses to make rapid changes in their
business requirements with a common set of programs. User-exits are provided for business to
add in additional source code. Tools such as screen variants are provided to let you set fields
attributes whether to hide, display and make them mandatory fields.
In order to minimized your upgrading costs, the standard programs and tables should not be
changed as far as possible. The main purpose of using a standard business application software
like SAP is to reduced the amount of time and money spend on developing and testing all the
programs. Therefore, most companies will try to utilize the available tools provided by SAP.
SAP use ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) which can be classified as 4th
Generation Programming Language. SAP...ABAP (Advanced Business Application
Programming) is a high level programming language created by the German software company
SAP. Its syntax is somewhat similar to COBOL. It has many of the features of other modern
programming languages such as the familiar C, Visual Basic, and Power Builder.

SAP implementation project at NDPL wasnamed as "SAMANVAY". As the name signifies, it

means 'INTEGRATION OF END TO END WORK FLOW IN BUSINESS PROCESSES'. The objective of
SAP implementation in NDPL was to assimilate key support processes such as Human Resources,

Finance & Controlling , Plant Maintenance ,Project system, procurement , Inventory

managment,etc.
The project targets were defined & individual milestones were specified.The implementation of
SAP at NDPL started with clear mandate of Top Management "To adapt SAP Best Practices with
least developments". This became a key factor for such full fledged implementation in a short
span of time, which qualifies them to be one of the fastest implementation in the history of SAP.
//SAP KA SCREENSHOT

GIS:

In the nationwide implementation of IT-enabled power reforms in Indian distribution utilities, under the
prestigious R-APDRP project, Geographical Information System (GIS) has gained importance as an
effective tool for improving customer services, enhancing operational and energy efficiency and
optimizing costs.
Lot of emphasis is given by the state utilities on the leveraging GIS for creating an energy balance sheet
and take effective measures to plug the revenue leakages. The geo-referenced electrical network

overlaid on area base map is handy for the utility not only for managing assets and their maintenance,
but also being used for mapping the electrical consumers to its source of supply for energy audit
applications. Moreover, by integrating electrical GIS with network analysis application, various analytical
studies are possible for load flow analysis, short circuit analysis, efficiency calculations and load
planning.
NDPL has used GIS (Geographic Information System) to capture ground maps. After implementing GIS, it
became a communications platform for various operations of NDPL. GIS has enabled NDPLs employess
to know the details of each district, zone, grid station, and even of each consumer, at the click of a
button. For instance, if a consumer faces a power cut problem and brings it to the notice of the NDPL
authorities, they can trace it out sitting their desk. They can ascertain the power grid from which the
consumer is connected and can also determine the exact transformer from where he/she gets power.
This helps in resolving problems faster than ever before. Similarly, if a customer wants to increase the
power load for their residence, GIS helps NDPL employee to determine whether it can be done from the
same transformer or whether they need to get another line from a different transformer. Another
interesting feature enables NDPL to determine the shortest route to plant a new electrification network.
Also, if NDPL wants to expand their existing electricity network, they can determine the shortest route
between two end points through the system, without actually going out to the field, which was the case
earlier. This has improved the efficiency of NDPL and has also helped them to cater to the needs of the
consumers faster. These benefits helped NDPL to save a huge amount of money, a whopping 1.26 crore
in the very first year of GIS implementation.
IT Solution Using a combination of GIS maps and GE small world solution suite, they were able to get
extensive details about their distribution networks.

GIS also provides a detailed list of all NDPL consumers. Hence, if there is a scheduled power cut at a
specific location, they can get the data about affected consumers within that specified location and
inform them in advance. All NDPL users have access to it and it can serve 200 concurrent users. They
have used a software called GE SmallWorld and the data is stored in the GE small world application
server.

GIS also acts as an input to other enterprise software such as SAP and SCADA. But the extensive use of
information makes it a unique project in itself. For people going to the field to lay a network or to check
faults in any of the transformers, the system provides invaluable help. They can download the GIS map
of the area to a PDA and carry it with them, hence making their life much simpler and work much faster.
One of the key challenges for them was data creation. With no prior knowledge and lack of availability
of a good consultant or agency, it was a challenge to gather such extensive data. The key benefits of this
project were faster service to consumers and faster and more cost-effective new network layouts.
Senior management can also monitor the development sitting right at their desks. All this has reduced
costs to a great extent, which indirectly benefits consumers too.
In the next phase, NDPL plans to integrate the GPS system in their recovery van so that they can monitor
it on the GIS map itself. This will help them provide faster and planned solutions to power failure
problems. They also plan to integrate other applications such as remote meter reading into a single
application, which will help them get more productive results.

//GIS photo or screenshot for site

SCADA

SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) is monitoring and controlling industrial and
manufacturing processes, and facilities. Several subsystems combine to make up an entire ICONICS
SCADA solution. A HMI (Human Machine Interface) presents data to a human operator who can then
monitor and control the process. Data acquisition is made possible through sensors placed throughout
the process or facilities. To relay data from the remotely located sensors, different hardware and
software systems utilize various open communication protocols, such as OPC, to communicate data to
the HMI.

Elements of SCADA Systems

SCADA monitors, controls and alarms the plant and/or regional facilities operating systems from a
centralized location. It includes the communication of information between a SCADA central host
computer, many scattered units and/or Programmable Logic Controllers. For example, in a water filtration
plant, the remote units measure the pressure in pipes and report the readings to the central computer
located somewhere in the control tower. In case of any anomaly, the SCADA system would alert the main
station of the problem apprising it of other details like the severity of the anomaly and measurement

values in an organized fashion. The systems may vary from simple, like temperature reporting in a
building to complex like monitoring the traffic on many traffic lights. The system consists of the following
elements:

1.

SCADA Master Station Computer Systems: It is the repository of the real-time or near real-time

reported data collected from the remote terminal units connected to it. It is generally standard computer
hardware equipment and very few SCADA system suppliers have ventured out to make their own
computer equipment. A few companies like IBM and CDC did try making hardware for it, but the effort
was short lived and commercial off-the-shelf computer products continue to be the main stay. The back
end SCADA software must be able to repeatedly poll the RTUs for data values, should have software for
their retrieval, storage and processing. The processing may include unit conversion, cataloguing into
tables etc.

2.

Human-Machine Interface: This is the eye candy part on the host station. The values that have

been stored in the host computers are presented to the human operator in an understandable and
comprehensible form using HMIs. These may provide trending, diagnostic or management information
and detailed schematics and animations representing the current states of the machines under its control.
Pictorial representation being more understandable to humans is the preferred form in SCADA HMIs.

AUTOMATIC METERING READING FOR CENTRALISED POWER MONITORING :

Automatic meter reading, or AMR, is the technology of automatically collecting consumption,

diagnostic, and status data from energy metering devices and transferring that data to a central
database for billing, troubleshooting, and analyzing. This technology mainly saves utility
providers the expense of periodic trips to each physical location to read a meter. Another
advantage is that billing can be based on near real-time consumption rather than on estimates
based on past or predicted consumption. This timely information coupled with analysis can help
both utility providers and customers better control the use and production of electric energy.
This System provides the following features:

1. Monitoring and logging of the following parameter is respect of all incoming and outgoing
feeders integrated on 15 minute basis:
2. Alarm feature to draw attention of the operator to any breach of various parameters beyond
specified limits.
3. Facility to generate spread sheet and MIS reports for the following
a. System Outage / Down time of the feeders
b. Energy Audit
c. Daily Peak loads
d. Voltage Profiles
e. Daily Log Sheets
4. The system to have capability for time synchronizing for each and feed meters from the
centralized base station.
5. Event information e.g. voltage failures, exceeding of threshold, error message or be made
available.
6. The availability based Tariff (ABT) based reports consisting of demand and frequency average
for 15 minutes.