11 ‘REMCs’ to be commissioned today
In what would be a milestone event for the renewable energy industry, eleven ‘Renewable Energy Management Centres’ (REMC) are to be inaugurated on Friday by Union Power Minister RK Singh.
These REMCs, built at a cost of ₹409 crore, will make it possible for the country to have more of renewable energy, particularly wind. Without these, absorption of large packets of intermittent electricity from wind and solar plants would not be possible.
Public sector major Power Grid Corporation of India is overseeing the setting up of these REMCs on behalf of the Ministry of Power. One REMC will come up in the National Load Dispatch Centre, three in as many Regional Load Dispatch Centres and seven in the State Load Dispatch Centres of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan.
