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Grid scale battery systems for rE balancing opportunity for Private players
to become retail suppliers

E.g. automated public lighting,
Coordination between prosumers and grid storage retail supply smart home management etc.
solutions Companies
behind
Digital Grid the Meter
With increasing rE in the grid the scope Companies E.g., battery-as-a-service or
for providing ancillary services has charging stations
developed

eMeRGING
Ancillary OPPORTUNITIeS IN
Network Side services EV Charging Supply Side
POWeR DISTRIBUTION

smart Metering as a service Metering Value Added
services services
Assist consumers with energy
rural DFs conservation, efficient appliances,
infra sharing
with telecom or service consumption analytics etc.
Contracts
sharing of spare capacity over the cables or DFs or service contracts in rural
co-locating telecommunication devices areas to improve supply reliability

• Government of India launched the SAUBhAGYA scheme with sumers in the urban areas;IT enablement of distribution sec-
an objective to provide free electricity connections and low- tor and strengthening of distribution network. The scheme
cost power supply to households, and initially targeted uni- has helped in reduction in AT&C losses, establishment of
versal household electrification. IT enabled energy accounting / auditing system, improve-
• Bureau of energy efficiency (Bee) has launched a pro- ment in billed energy based on metered consumption and
gramme for capacity building of DISCOMs which would help improvement in collection efficiency.
in integration of energy efficiency measures with the activi- • Government of India has set up the National electricity
ties managed by DISCOMs for demand side management. Fund (NeF) Interest Subsidy Scheme to promote the capital
• Government of India launched “Integrated Power Develop- investment in the distribution sector by providing interest
ment Scheme” (IPDS) with the objectives of strengthening subsidy, linked with reform measures, on the loans taken by
of sub-transmission and distribution network in the urban public and private power utilities for various capital works
areas; metering of distribution transformers /feeders / con- under Distribution projects.
• India’s National Smart Grid Mission (NSGM) with the help of
Government is drafting a national USAID (The United States Agency for International Develop-
ment) has initiated training programs to develop capacity
level distribution plan for making the and skills of utility personnel to develop India’s Smart Grid

power sector robust and resilient. infrastructure. National Smart Grid Mission has been estab-
lished to accelerate Smart Grid deployment in India.

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