Regional grid coordination meeting: outage persistence and scheduling conflicts dominate reviews
The latest regional grid coordination meeting proceedings across ERPC, WRLDC and SRLDC demonstrate rising coordination challenges inside India’s regional grid-management framework. Operational reviews covered system protection schemes, transmission reliability, scheduling disputes and long-duration outage conditions.
One of the key developments in this regional grid coordination meeting was ERPC’s 239th OCC review covering 13 separate agenda items including the Godda TPS SPS finalisation and restoration of the 400 kV PVUNL-Tenughat corridor. Meter replacement delays and Vedanta line-encroachment concerns were also flagged.
The regional grid coordination meeting further highlighted serious transmission outage monitoring concerns. PowerGrid WR1’s Wardha-Warora line remains out since May 2018 due to ferroresonance exposure, while Southern Region recorded simultaneous tripping of KPTCL’s Kaiga-Guttur circuits on May 14.
Another major issue inside this regional grid coordination meeting was the escalation of grid scheduling disputes linked to Talcher Stage-I scheduling revisions and Patratu STPP start-up power settlement methodology.
EnergylineIndia.com observes that the ERPC operational review mechanism is increasingly becoming a critical platform for resolving both technical coordination issues and commercially sensitive regional scheduling disputes.