IElectrix Project – Results and lessons learned from the Indian demonstration in Delhi

IElectrix is a response to the Horizon 2020 Call of the European Commission: “Integrated local energy systems”, which experiments 1 demonstration in India and 4 demonstrations in Europe. “Local energy systems” is a mix of locally generated power and consumption, thereby addressing the challenges of Renewable Energy Sources penetration and network associated challenges in case of reverse power flow back to the grid.
The Indian demonstration is the first pilot project co-financed by the European Commission to physically implement an urban Low Voltage (LV) Microgrid in Delhi.
Most of the equipment and software have been designed and manufactured in Europe. Therefore, after having shipped the configuration to Delhi, all the different equipment and systems have been installed and commissioned in March 2022 at the demonstration site, which is the St. Xavier Sr. Secondary School substation in Delhi operated by Tata Power-DDL.
After resolving several technical issues encountered during the summer period, the experimental phase of the Indian demonstration was carried out in the second half of 2022. The objective of this phase was to test the microgrid with its islanding capability in order to assess the potential improvements in terms of quality and continuity of the LV distribution power supply at the secondary substation of St. Xavier School.
The paper presents a technical description of the results obtained as well as the lessons learnt from this smart grid project.