The Digital Energy Solutions arm of L&T Power Transmission & Distribution business has significantly expanded its presence across India, Middle East, and North America, L&T said in a release.
In India, the business is implementing a key order to upgrade SCADA and associated systems in the National and Regional Transmission Asset Management Centers.
Controlling one of the largest substation and transmission line networks in the world, the Power Transmission Asset Management Centers in India undertake sophisticated monitoring and control of the country’s vast electric grid of more than 270 EHV Substations. With real time monitoring of system parameters and visualization of assets, several objectives such as early detection of anomalies, faster interventions, effective coordination, advanced analytics, and efficient operations are achieved. The mission critical upgradation will involve parallel operation of the existing systems deploying upgraded systems such as Transmission Remote Access System (TRAS), Automatic Fault Analysis System (AFAS), and Power Transmission Asset Cybersecurity solution (PTACS).
In recent months, the business has secured orders to implement Advanced Distribution Management Systems in Maharashtra and Gujarat.
RE Integration
In North America, the business is involved in implementing a slew of clean energy integration, utility operations and grid research projects.
With increasing penetration of renewable energy in the grid, the business is engaged worldwide in providing commercial utility control room solutions for grid integration in collaboration with world’s leading EMS-DMS suppliers to build next generation energy power management systems (EPMS). Having successfully completed the first phase of a project to integrate generation plants with utility T&D control room using OSI PI system, the Middle East team of L&T Power T&D’s DES business has been entrusted with the second phase of the project, by a large energy utilty in the region.
Such worldwide project engagements reflect the endorsement of capabilities built by the business for delivering advanced technology integration solutions for both in front-of-meter (IFM) and behind-the-meter (BTM) utility operations.
L&T-Spark
The offerings of the Digital Energy Solutions business are centered around L&T-Spark™, a high-end technology integration platform for utility grid control room operation, especially designed to work in conjunction with field proven EMS-DMS products of leading OEMs. The platform facilitates integration between tertiary controls from T&D control room and grid automation controls at substation and/or plant control rooms.
L&T-Spark™ consists of L&T-Spark-HECS™, L&T-Spark-CSMR™ and L&T-Spark-SHEMS™, designed for integration of renewable hybrid plants, substations, and electric vehicles respectively.
L&T-Spark-CSMR™ for Utility & Merchant Energy (UME) substation integration: L&T’s Spark Common Substation Middleware & Reporting (CSMR) System is a substation data integration platform for grid operator’s situational awareness powered by real-time data analytics and visualization to ensure grid reliability and maximum system availability.
The product has been deployed in Odisha, India integrating more than 130 substations equipped by different substation technology OEMs.
Also, the L&T-Spark-CSMR™ has been fully tested for its capabilities through real-life integration validation with substation IEDs (Intelligent Electronic Devices) of multiple OEMs deployed as part of Digital Substation project in L&T Construction’s Manapakkam Campus, Chennai, India.
Grid resilience is crucial
According to S.N.Subrahmanyan, Chairman & Managing Director, Larsen & Toubro, “The intelligent and resilient electricity grids are crucial to ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. We are glad that the digital energy solutions built upon our ethos on ‘technology led sustainable growth’ help customers and countries accelerate the clean energy transition in India and overseas.”
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Featured photograph (source: PGCIL) showing transmission asset monitoring underway at PGCIL’s NTAMC (National Transmission Asset Management Centre) located at Manesar in Haryana, is for representation only.