Bhubaneswar, February 10 IIT-Bhubaneswar has developed an advanced digital substation equipped with a centralized monitoring and protection system.
Additional Chief Secretary of the Energy Department, Vishal Kumar Dev, inaugurated the system at the 33/11 kV campus substation in the presence of IIT-Bhubaneswar Director, Shreepad Karmalkar, on Tuesday.
The system will enable real-time monitoring and protection of the institute's entire electrical distribution network, according to a statement.
The project was undertaken as a demonstration initiative under the National Perspective Plan (NPP) of the Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), Bengaluru, it said.
The objective of the project was to design, develop, and demonstrate a centralized protection and monitoring (CPM) system for a distribution substation, including the integration of distributed energy resources, it added.
This is one of the domestically developed digital substation frameworks in the country, leveraging intelligent merging units that eliminate the need for conventional physical Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) within the substation, the statement said.
