“All Power Grid substations will be unmanned and remotely managed by 2013”

By admin December 17, 2012 10:47 am IST

“All Power Grid substations will be unmanned and remotely managed by 2013”RN Nayak, CMD, POWERGRID & Prof. Volker Hinrichsen, Chairman of the Surge Arresters Technical Committee of the International Electrotechnical Commission, Geneva, inaugurating IEEMA conference on SURGEPROTECH while JG Kulkarni, President, IEEMA looks on.
Central transmission utility Power Grid said all its substations will be unmanned and would be managed remotely by next year.
“By 2013 all substations of Power Grid will be unmanned. There will be cameras observing the functioning of the devices and equipment and the stations will be totally virtually managed remotely by the National Transmission Asset Management Centre at Manesar,” informed RN Nayak, CMD, Power Grid while speaking at IEEMA’s Surgeprotech – an international conference on HV surge arresters technology and applications. He added that having 8 persons per substation was a waste of human resources.

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