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The Power Grid Corporation of India Limited, is an Indian state-owned Maharatna company headquartered in Gurugram, India and engaged mainly in Transmission of Power.

POWERGRID transmits about 50% of the total power generated in India on its transmission network.

Storage details:

The power grid traditionally doesn't store electricity.

Electricity is a real-time on demand product that is supplied when it is needed.

Generators store energy as fuel to produce electricity when needed but the electricity itself isn't stored.

Requirements and processes by POWERGRID:

Condition assessment and monitoring techniques are used to help optimise maintenance intervals and reduce system outages

POWERGRID has developed flexible working practices to take advantage of the system conditions for day-to-day maintenance work and also modify their annual maintenance programme according to generation maintenance schedules

Techniques such as live-line working are also used to enable certain types of maintenance to be carried out without taking transmission lines out of service

Emergency restoration systems ("ERSs") are used for early restoration in case of natural disasters and other exigencies

POWERGRID has achieved an availability of more than 99.7% per year.

POWERGRID adoptsHot line maintenance of transmission lines and Substation equipment to ensure this high availability.

Contact:

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