Carnegie Mellon University
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Dr. Rahul Tongia
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Draft – Subject to Change
IT and India’s Power Sector
–IT Task
Force Report for Power Sector (2002)
–Good
introduction but incomplete vision
–Recommendations
–2 “quick win” pilot projects
–Integrated billing system for
Commercial & Industrial consumers
–Energy accounting system – mainly for MV distribution
–“Advanced technologies” mainly looked at tamper-proof Automated
Meter Reading (AMR)
–Solutions seem expensive, and
limited in potential
–Can we
consider a new paradigm?
–Don’t simply extrapolate
–Leapfrogging
Opportunity