#GoodNews: India’s 1st Smart Grid Project To Be Inaugurated Soon

The smart grid will be synchronized to generate power from solar, wind and vegetable waste resources.

Representational image of a solar panel. (Photo: Reuters)

The Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) has successfully created the country's first smart grid project, which will generate power from renewable sources of energy.

President Pranab Mukherjee is expected to inaugurate the project – the first of its kind in the country – soon.

IIEST Director, Prof Ajoy Kumar Roy, said:

The smart grid will be synchronised to generate power from solar, wind and vegetable waste resources, depending on the weather conditions and availability of waste products. 

Renewable Energy Sources

"The power to be generated from solar energy depends on the availability of sunlight while wind energy will be produced during nor’wester and tropical storm. The power from biogas will be generated from vegetable waste collected from the campus kitchen and outside markets," the professor said.

In the integrated project, by the Centre for Excellence for Green Energy and Sensor Systems (CEGESS) of the institute, we are aiming to generate 32 kW of power from whichever resource available and synchronise the smart grid to take the power in the system for use. Thus we will not be depending on one resource.

Roy added that the world will be faced with serious situation with the depletion of hydrocarbon source.

"Since coal-hydrocarbon based energy technology leads to environmental degradation, the future lies in renewable energy based technology," he said.

"The government planners and academicians should be involved in big way as technology is changing very very fast. The next 50 years will witness unimaginable change in technology, which cannot be static," he added.

(With inputs from PTI)