IEEE-SA to hold smart grid workshop in Delhi

NEW DELHI, INDIA: The Standards Association of IEEE today announced that it is holding a Smart Grid workshop in association with IEEE-Delhi chapter on 10th February at Jamia Millia Islamia University, Jamia Nagar, between 02:00–05:30 p.m. The workshop is part of IEEE-SA’s growing interest in getting engaged with the fast growing Indian SmartGrid market.

Satish Aggarwal, NRC representative, IEEE Standards Board and Senior Program Manager, United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission would provide an overview of IEEE, IEEE-SA, and IEEE Activities in Smart Grid followed by SK Soonee, Chief Executive Officer, Power System Operation Corp. and N.S. Sodha, General Manager Incharge (Load Despatch & Communications), Power Grid Corporation of India who will speak on Smart Grid from the transmission perspective. Smart Grid from the distribution perspective will be presented by Arunabha Basu, Head Technical, North Delhi Power Limited, while, Sanjay Verma, SWAT Leader–Smart Grids, India Region, GE Energy will cover the vendor perspective.

These presentations will be followed by a panel discussion titled, “How can India get more involved and leverage IEEE to address their key issues in Smart Grid” that would be led by James Wendorf, director-Industry Connections, IEEE-SA.

According to James Wendorf, Director-Industry Connections, IEEE-SA, said: "India is a key market for smart grid globally and IEEE-SA, being a leader in global smart grid standard efforts brings much to the table for India, which is a nascent market and quite unique in nature. Policies are a key ingredient in the development of standards and New Delhi being the seat of decision making in India, we look forward to understanding the current policy status and challenges in the Smart Grid area.

"We keenly look forward to meeting with various stakeholders at the workshop and actively explore ways to get more involved in driving solutions and standards in partnership with IEEE.”