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Research 20 3 Focus on decentralized generation, power electronics
scheme on application to power system, improvements in
power power generation, transmission and distribution
systems, Advanced Remaining Life Assessment
R&D under 45 (RLA) methodologies, Information & Communication
National technology applications to Power Sector and
Perspective Insulation Engineering and Technology for High
Plan temperature superconducting (HTS) based Power
Apparatus

8 New Product and Process development leading to field
implementation

Source: CPRI (2015)

In order to initiate the smart grids the Government of India has set
up the India Smart Grid Task Force along with the Indian Smart Grid
Forum that would ensure the development and demonstration of
smart grids in a cost effective, innovative, and scalable manner, by
bringing in together all the key stakeholders and enabling technologies
in a public-private partnership framework (Goel et al. 2015).
MoP (2012) also recommends that SCRD serve as an apex committee
for R&D in the power sector and look into the following issues:
• Utilities should have collaboration with research institutes so that

the problems faced by them can be taken up as research work which
will have immediate application.
• Manufacturers should also participate and sponsor the research
programmes relevant to the power sector.
• Successful R&D projects should be given wide publicity within the
power sector
• The power sector should have joint collaboration with similar
research institutes abroad to engage in exchange of know-how and
the latest methods.
The Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) is facilitating the
development of a transmission system for granting long-term access to
private producers. Nine high-capacity power transmission corridors
(HCPTCs) have been finalized to meet the evacuation requirement of
independent power producers (IPPs) coming up in Andhra Pradesh,
Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Sikkim, and Tamil
Nadu at an estimated cost of INR 580,000 million (USD 11.6 billion
approx.)—the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC)
has already given regulatory approval to two new and two existing

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