MINNEAPOLIS, May 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell
(NYSE: HON) and Tata Power Delhi Distribution (TPDDL) today
announced that they have successfully implemented the first ever
automated demand response (ADR) project for commercial and
industrial facilities in India.
TPDDL is using Honeywell technology and services to link more
than 160 buildings in its distribution network, and call for
temporary reductions in energy use when demand threatens to outpace
supply. This includes power management during periods of peak
consumption, as well as other grid emergency situations. ADR gives
the grid operator a new, domestic resource to help alleviate stress
on transmission and distribution lines, and improve supply
efficiency.
Given the gap between the power required for homes and
businesses in India, and what
utilities can produce, many cities across the country face severe
brownouts and blackouts. The demand for electricity in Delhi, for example, has almost doubled over
the past decade.
With nearly 50 percent of the country's peak load tied to
commercial and industrial sites,
the ability to adjust related energy use is critical. Grid
operators like TPDDL can use ADR to help reduce peak load in a
facility 15 percent on average, creating a "virtual power plant"
that generates "negawatts" or reduced demand.
The project will give TPDDL the ability to reduce approximately
11.5 megawatts of peak demand. However, if the same technology were
deployed in all buildings in India, electricity consumption could drop an
estimated 10.5 gigawatts, close to 7 percent of the peak energy
currently required nationwide.
"This is a significant initiative — one that supports our
mission to build a resource-efficient, environmentally friendly
electrical grid," said Mr. Praveer
Sinha, CEO & ED of Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd.
"We are committed to making this deployment a success, and finding
new opportunities to extend ADR to other customers, thus playing a
role in helping to meet Delhi's
energy needs. We believe our steps in this direction will also
encourage other Indian utilities to adopt smart grid technology for
efficient operations"
High-end commercial and industrial consumers in the TPDDL
territory with individual connected load of more than 100
kilovolt-amps (kVA) volunteered for the project. As they signed up,
Honeywell and TPDDL conducted site audits, and worked with the
building owners and operators to identify and implement changes to
help temporarily trim consumption. Conservation measures include
turning off commercial and industrial loads like banks of motors,
pumps, fans and condensers for a short period.
TPDDL is using Honeywell's Akuacom software as a service (SaaS)
and smart
meters to communicate with the building systems at the
participating sites, and automatically apply the load-shed measures
when the grid is overburdened.
By participating, commercial and industrial customers can cut
their energy use and costs without compromising operations. The
collective decrease in consumption gives the grid operator more
tools to balance supply and demand, and help avoid power
disruptions.
In addition, ADR helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the
need to run expensive peaking plants, which typically sit idle
until customers require more electricity than the utility is able
to provide using its primary, base-load generators.
"TPDDL is steering the country toward a smarter, more dynamic
electrical grid where utilities and their customers collaborate to
solve broad challenges," said Anant
Maheshwari, president of Honeywell India. "This project
will help support the development and expansion of smart grid
solutions in India. Honeywell is
also committed to provide a simplified ADR solution for companies
with less of a connected load to boost participation."
Honeywell is a pioneer and leader in ADR with 20 programs
underway in the United States and
around the world, including groundbreaking projects in Australia, China, India
and the U.K. In addition, Honeywell has managed demand response and
energy efficiency programs for more than 100 utilities. With
controls in more than 150 million homes, 10 million buildings and
thousands of industrial sites across the globe, Honeywell has the
technology and expertise to empower smart energy producers and
users.
TPDDL has also successfully demonstrated the ADR-enabled smart
grid solution at the India Smart Grid Week 2015 conference in
March. The company is also a pioneer in adoption and implementation
of other smart grid technologies like SCADA, AMR, DMS, DA, SAP,
GIS, OMS and AMI.
For more information, visit honeywellsmartgrid.com or follow
Honeywell Grid on Twitter.
Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 diversified
technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide
with aerospace products and services; control technologies for
buildings, homes, and industry; turbochargers; and performance
materials. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit
www.honeywellnow.com. It also has a significant presence in
India — with five state-of-the-art
manufacturing and engineering operations for its automation,
turbocharger, and refining businesses, and five global centers of
excellence for technology development and innovation. Honeywell
employs more than 13,000 people across 50 locations, including
Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Gurgaon and Madurai. For more news
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Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL) is a joint venture
between Tata Power and the
Government of NCT of Delhi. TPDDL
distributes electricity in North & North West parts of
Delhi and serves a populace of 7
million. The company started operations on July 1, 2002 post the unbundling of the erstwhile
Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB). With a registered consumer base of 1.40
million and a peak load of around 1704 MW, the company's operations
span across an area of 510 sq kms. TPDDL has been the frontrunner
in implementing power distribution reforms in the capital city and
is acknowledged for its consumer friendly practices. Since
privatization, the Aggregate Technical & Commercial (AT&C)
losses in TPDDL areas have shown a record decline. AT&C loss is
a measure of overall efficiency of the distribution business which
is the difference between units input into the system and the units
for which the payment is collected. Today, AT&C losses stand at
10.5% which is an unprecedented reduction of around 80% from an
opening loss level of 53% in July
2002.
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