NDPL Puts India on World Power Sector Map
The Tata Power Company Limited, India's largest private power company, today announced that its subsidiary North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL), a JV between Tata Power Co. Ltd and the Government of NCT of Delhi, has become the first power distribution utility from India to have received the prestigious honor in the international category by winning the Edison Award.
The award was presented to NDPL, in recognition of its operational excellence in the electric industry, for innovatively utilizing and integrating its Geographical Information System (GIS) with other applications for network planning, operations, commercial and asset management.
The prestigious award is given annually by the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) to honour both international and U.S. electric companies for outstanding contributions to the advancement of the Power industry. A panel of academics and past and current EEI Chairmen select the finalists and ultimate winners.
Said, Adi Engineer, Chairman, North Delhi Power Limited, "Distribution reforms are most critical for transformation of the Power sector in India. NDPL's trailblazing achievements over the past 6 years in North Delhi have finally won international recognition by way of the coveted Edison Electric Award. For the first time, an Indian utility has been so acclaimed. We humbly accept it on behalf of team NDPL. We now look forward to playing a larger role in improving power distribution in other cities of India."
Said Sunil Wadhwa, Chief Executive Officer, North Delhi Power Limited, while receiving the award at Toronto, "It's a tremendous achievement for team NDPL to have won the prestigious international Edison award and a testimony of commitment and dedication of our team at NDPL to provide world class services to our consumers using latest technology. GIS has been of immense help in our achieving several milestones in the power distribution operations for the benefit of all our stakeholders. "
This year's award, the 81st, was given to North Delhi Power Limited at EEI's annual convention, "Celebrating 125 Years of Innovation" in Toronto, Canada on June 16th, 2008.
Innovative Utilization of GIS by NDPL
NDPL innovatively utilized and integrated GIS with other applications for managing network planning, operations, commercial and asset management processes. NDPL's asset base comprising of over 10 lakh consumers spread over a distribution area of 510 Sq Km were geospatially captured and digitized.
NDPL's GIS was integrated with Customer Relation Management (CRM) processes which enhance stakeholder value with better connection, metering, billing and collections management.
The application was also integrated with the company's Enterprise Resource Package (ERP) for planning and execution of capital investment schemes for augmentation/ extension of the distribution network.
The GIS initiatives have resulted in improvements in NDPL's Consumer Satisfaction Index, overall system reliability, and significant reductions in aggregated technical and commercial (AT&C) losses.
About Tata Power
The Tata Power Company Limited is India's largest private sector power utility with an installed generation capacity of over 2300 MW. The company has emerged as a pioneer in the Indian power sector, with a track record of performance, customer care and sustained growth. Tata Power has a presence in all the segments of the power sector viz generation (thermal, hydro, solar and wind), transmission and distribution. The Company won the bid for the first 4000 MW Ultra Mega Power Project at Mundra (Gujarat) and has successful public-private partnerships in generation, transmission and distribution- North Delhi Power Limited with Delhi Vidyut Board for distribution in North Delhi, ‘Powerlinks Transmission Ltd.' with Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. for evacuation of Power from Tala hydro project in Bhutan to Delhi and ‘Maithon Power Ltd.' with Damodar Valley Corporation for a 1000 MW Mega Power Project.
About EEI
The Edison Electric Institute (EEI) is the association of U.S. shareholder-owned electric companies. Its members serve 95 percent of the ultimate customers in the shareholder-owned segment of the industry, and represent approximately 70 percent of the U.S. electric power industry. It also has more than 70 International electric companies as Affiliate members, and more than 185 industry suppliers and related organizations as Associate members.
