HCL Technologies signed its first $100-million contract in the country for implementing smart grid solutions in the power sector. Smart grids are a part of the company’s newly formed Ecosystem and Business Incubation initiative under which it will incubate five ideas in different technologies. HCL signed the largest IT contract for power distribution reforms in the country, which will enable smart grid deployment for a power distribution agency.
A smart grid uses a two-way digital technology to deliver electricity to customers’ homes and to control appliances to increase energy efficiency and reduce power use. Under the contract, the company will set up an electricity network that can intelligently integrate generators and consumers to balance supply and demand, and allows greater robustness, efficiency and flexibility than today’s power systems.
The company has set up two smart grid labs in India and one in North Carolina, US, and intends to initially penetrate five per cent of the smart meters. It has already won the power ministry’s Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme in almost five states including the one in Uttar Pradesh.
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TCS | 4348.20 |
Infosys | 1978.90 |
HCL Tech. | 1959.20 |
Wipro | 312.65 |
Tech Mahindra | 1778.30 |
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