Tata Power pilot project may protect Delhi from grid failure
New Delhi: In what may help protect the national capital’s critical and strategic infrastructure from a electricity grid failure, Tata Power Delhi Distribution (Tata Power-DDL) is working on a pilot project that can be scaled up for isolating such important installations and services, said a top company executive.
The European Union funded pilot project in the works by Tata Power-DDL is in collaboration with French utility Enedis, Schneider Electric, data analytics firm Odit-e and Helsinki based VaasaETT for setting up defence mechanisms such as ‘islanding’ by leveraging solar power and battery storage.
Such islands would isolate the fallout of a grid disturbance, restricting it to a particular region and also allow essential service such as water-supplies, telecom infrastructure, hospitals, airports or metro rail network to function.
