Prof Seethalekshmi K and Dr Nitin Anand Srivastava of electrical engineering department of Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Lucknow, have been granted a project funding of ₹49 lakh from the Union ministry of power under the Research Scheme on Power (RSOP) of Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bengaluru.
“The project is entitled ‘Adaptive Control and Energy Management for Electric Vehicle Integrated Stand-alone Micro-Grid Operations’,” said Prof Seethalekshmi K. The objective of the project is to ensure quality power supply to masses, without depending on the normal grid supply, utilising locally available green energy resources, like, solar/wind resources in a Microgrid.
The government of India is actively working on smart cities project.