PowerGrid Corporation of India

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This article is about an Indian power corporation. For the board game, see Power Grid (board game).

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL), a Navratna Public Sector Enterprise, is one of the largest transmission utilities in the world. Power Grid wheels about 45% of the total power generated in India on its transmission network. Power Grid has a pan India presence with around 71,500 Circuit-km of Transmission network and 120 nos. of EHVAC & HVDC sub-stations with a total transformation capacity of 79,500 MVA. Power Grid has also diversified into Telecom business and established a telecom network of more than 20,000 km across the country. Power Grid has consistently maintained the transmission system availability over 99.00% which is at par with the International Utilities.

The Present Chairman & Managing Director(CMD) of PGCIL is Mr.S.K.Chaturvedi. The other full time Board of Directors after CMD includes I.S.Jha(Projects),J.Sridharan(Finance),R.N.Nayak(Operations) and V.M.Kaul(Personnel). The Corporate Centre of POWERGRID is at IFFCO Chowk,Gurgaon(Haryana).

Registered Office: B-9, Qutab Institutional Area, Katwaria Sarai, New Delhi-110016 EPABX : 011-26560112, 26560115, 26560193, 26564892

Corporate Office Postal address: Saudamini, Plot No.2, Sector 29, Near IFFCO Chowk, Gurgaon (Haryana) - 122001, INDIA

POWERGRID has enhanced the inter-regional capacity of National Grid to 18,700 MW.India is divided into 5 Regions - Northern Region(NR),Eastern Region(ER),Western Region(WR),Southern Region(SR) and North East Region(NER). Out of all these Regions the NR,ER,WR and NER is synchronised which is known as NEW Grid. Whereas SR is not synchronised with the rest of the regions with AC lines and hence runs on a slightly different Frequency. SR is connected with WR and ER with HVDC links only. When PGCIL was formed then the responsibility of Regional Load Despatch Centres(RLDCs) was handed over to POWERGRID by Central Electricity Authority(CEA). On 25th February,2009 the National Load Despatch Centre(NLDC) was also inaugurated by Hon'ble Power Minister Sh.SushilKumar Shinde and Chief Minister of Delhi Smt.Shiela Dixit at Katwaria Sarai,Delhi. Now these Regional Load Despatch Centres(RLDCs) and National Load Despatch Centre(NLDC) is a separate Organisation named POSOCO(Power system Operation Corporation), a 100% owned subsidiary of POWERGRID.

The Business of POWERGRID comes from the following activities:
1) Transmission (which includes Grid Management,Construction,Operation and Maintenance of Transmission lines and Sub-stations)
2) Telecom (handled by a separate department of POWERGRID known as Telecom Deptt. or POWERTEL)
3) Consultancy

POWERGRID is also carrying out projects related to distribution, sub transmission and rural electrification works in some of the states.

[edit] Mission

The mission of the corporation is establishment and operation of regional and national power grids to facilitate transfer of electric power within and across the regions with reliability, security and economy, on sound commercial principles.

Power Grid is committed to:
a)establish and maintain an efficient and effective "national grid " with due regard to time, cost, technology, and value additions.
b)sustainable development through conservation of natural resources and adopting environment friendly technology on principle of avoidance,minimization and mitigation
c)ensure safe,occupational hazard free and healthy work environment ,to the satisfaction of stake holders in all areas of its activities and shall endeavor to continually improve its management systems and practices in conformity to legal and regulatory provisions.

[edit] Awards

Power grid has been conferred with various awards listed below:

  • 2008 : CIO THE BOLD 100-2008 Award conferred by International Data Group ,USA
  • 2008: National Award for e-Governance conferred by Deptt. of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances,Govt. of India.
  • 2007: Certified the PAS 99:2006 integrating the requirement of ISO 9001:2000 for quality, ISO 14001:2004 for environment management and OHSAS 18000:1999 for health and safety management systems.
  • 2006: The Eastern and North Eastern region were awarded for the best transmission system availability under Category I and Category II.
  • 2006: Green Award by the World Bank for commitment in the field of environmental sustainability.
  • 2005-2006: The MoU Excellence Award
  • 2004: POWERGRID was certified to operate an integrated management system which complies with the requirements of BS EN ISO 9001:2000, BS EN ISO 14001:1996 and OHSAS 18001:1999 standards in relation to quality, environment and occupational health and safety standards respectively with respect to design, engineering, procurement, construction, operation and maintenance activities for transmission systems up to 800 KV, HVDC, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Energy Management Systems and Communication Projects.
  • 2004: CSI-TCS Award conferred by Conputer Society of India for Best IT Usage
  • 2003: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Challenge Winner conferred by Microsoft
  • 2002 –2003: MoU Excellence Award
  • 2000-2001: Indo-German Greentech Environment Excellence Award for implementation of Environment and Social Policy and Procedures.
  • 2000-2001: MoU Excellence Award
  • 1998: National HRD Award in recognition of excellent human resource development and management programmes.
  • 1998-1999: MoU Excellence Award
  • 1996: ARTDO (Philippines) award
  • 1993-1994 to present: POWERGRID has continuously received the ‘Excellent’ rating under the memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Power, Government of India


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