The Chandigarh administration has invited application for the post of Consultant for the smart grid project. This came after failure to appoint the consultant by themselves.

The project has already missed several of its deadlines with even pilot project to install 30,000 smart meters stands incomplete.  

It was in July when the UT power department had invited firms to provide consultancy for the project. The ‘Project Design and Management Agency’ is to be appointed for the implementation stage and for the post-implementation handholding, capacity building and vendor management support.

The smart grid project entails full automation ranging from power distribution to bill generation. Under it, all ordinary electricity meters in the city will be replaced with about 2.25 lakh smart meters, the existing grid substations will be renovated and upgraded with equipment which is compatible with the Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) centre, besides modernising power lines and transformers.

The Centre had sanctioned ?241 crore in March this year after several rounds of meetings spanning over last one year.

Currently, the UT electricity department is undertaking a pilot smart grid project covering city’s 30 sq km. But after failing to complete the project by June this year, the department has now set a fresh deadline of December-end.

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