IIT Roorkee receives grant for smart energy

As part of an Indo-US consortium working on a smart energy distribution system called Smart Grids, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee has been awarded a grant of Rs 417.52 lakhs under the mega project.

This $75 million five-year project, U.S.-India collaboration for smart distribution System with Storage is part of the Indo-US Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center and will work towards addressing issues related to the adoption and deployment of smart grids.

This consortium will conduct research and deploy new smart grid and energy storage technologies which will help in modernising grids. by making them smarter and increasing their reliability.

The consortium will be divided into two teams, the Indian core team and the US core team.

The Indian Core team will comprise of IIT Kanpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Delhi, IIT Madras, IIT Bhubaneshwar and New Delhi-based The Energy Resource Institute .

The US core team will comprise of Washington State University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Texas A&M University.

Under this consortium, IIT Roorkee will investigate the operation of microgrids embedded distribution system under grid unbalance, irregular switching of diverse microgrids and extreme grid conditions.

The institute also plans to implement energy management schemes in microgrids embedded distributions system to reduce peak demand and power deficit of conventional power system.

An impact analysis of rapid connection and disconnection of microgrids in the context of the Indian distribution system will also be conducted.

The prototype hybrid AC/DC microgrid test bed will be developed at IIT Roorkee.

The Indian Rural Distribution pilot project will be tested in two villages near Kanpur while being implemented and monitored by IIT Kanpur.

The India semi-urban distribution pilot project will also be deployed at the IIT Kanpur campus.