There is a need for measuring smart grid progress in India

Creation of basic infrastructure Major capital investment – Paradigm shift in business

(AMI, SCADA, DMS, sensors Smart meter investments alone operations of power utilities – higher
etc.) for enabling smart grids crosses $ 9 billion automation and intelligence

Necessary to gauge the pace of transformation and throughput of

efforts at key milestones
 Current state of smart grid maturity assessment in India..

Smart Grid Maturity Model

(SGMM) was released by
Software Engineering Institute
(SEI) of CMU in 2010 for the
purpose of assessing smart grid
maturity of power utilities in USA

Blatant Utilities fooled

Mushrooming
application of into inept
of private
SGMM in maturity
consultants
Indian context assessments

In the absence of any India specific At least 13 SGMM assessments conducted for IT MNCs built capacity for
model, SGMM is being directly applied for Indian utilities such as APCPDCL, BESCOM, SGMM such as TCS, Accenture,
utilities in India. BSES, MSEDCL, Tata Power, UGVCL etc. Enzen, IBM, and Infotech.
 Indigenous model is required for assessing smart grid progress in India
Problems with extant maturity assessment models Thus, taking into account
the difference in SG
goals and deployment
progress, the SGMM
assessments of Indian
Built for foreign utilities Years of R&D has gone Ultimate goals are optimization utilities are not a true
with decades of into building their and pioneering – not indicator of level of SG
experience operations immediately relevant to India
progress in India.

Key characteristics of India centric assessment model

Focus: The Approach & Support: Development Accessibility: The

primary focus of Methodology: A holistic process of the framework should The indigenously
the framework approach must be framework should be deployed in the developed model would
should be followed by this include discussions with form of a give considerations to
measuring framework and the key stakeholders from mobile/web based
prevalent organization
incremental assessment NSGM, MoP and application to
set-up in India and build
progress in methodology should be utilities. Also, the final ensure maximum
in-house capabilities for
deployment of SG quantitative driven with framework should be reachability and
SG maturity assessment.
systems rather well-defined measurable vetted by all real-time monitoring
than just parameters at each stakeholders for cum updation of
functionalities level of maturity. maximum acceptability. assessments.
Workflow of SG maturity assessment framework and its benefits…
1 2
Training and capacity Framework has the
Development of Tool
based on SG maturity
building of designated potential to become
personnel of utilities 3 key element in M&V
assessment framework
and other stakeholders of SG sector in India.
Completion of online
assessments by Developed framework
designated personnel of can be licensed to
5 4
utilities other developing
Gap analysis and Scoring and
improvement plan benchmarking of results nations for SG
based on “To-Be” state with other utility maturity assessment.
of utility assessments

1 2 3 4 5
Maturity of utility Business case SG projects may Benchmarking of Based on the TO-
will be assessed will be be regulated for assessment BE state a
in project strengthened for creating support results will help customized
conceptualization accessing debt/ for advanced in performance implementation
stage itself equity funding functionalities improvement strategy is drafted