Honeywell And TPDDL Deploy First-of-its-Kind Smart Grid Project To Improve Energy Reliability

- Project Connects More Than 160 Commercial and Industrial Facilities to Trim Energy Use and Costs, and Help further Improve Supply Efficiency

- Broad Adoption of Technology Could Cut Peak Electricity Consumption in India by Almost 7 Percent

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May 27, 2015, 09:00 ET

MINNEAPOLIS, May 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) and Tata Power Delhi Distribution (TPDDL) today announced that they have successfully implemented the first ever automated demand response (ADR) project for commercial and industrial facilities in India.

TPDDL is using Honeywell technology and services to link more than 160 buildings in its distribution network, and call for temporary reductions in energy use when demand threatens to outpace supply. This includes power management during periods of peak consumption, as well as other grid emergency situations. ADR gives the grid operator a new, domestic resource to help alleviate stress on transmission and distribution lines, and improve supply efficiency.

Given the gap between the power required for homes and businesses in India, and what utilities can produce, many cities across the country face severe brownouts and blackouts. The demand for electricity in Delhi, for example, has almost doubled over the past decade.

With nearly 50 percent of the country's peak load tied to commercial and industrial sites,
the ability to adjust related energy use is critical. Grid operators like TPDDL can use ADR to help reduce peak load in a facility 15 percent on average, creating a "virtual power plant" that generates "negawatts" or reduced demand.

The project will give TPDDL the ability to reduce approximately 11.5 megawatts of peak demand. However, if the same technology were deployed in all buildings in India, electricity consumption could drop an estimated 10.5 gigawatts, close to 7 percent of the peak energy currently required nationwide.

"This is a significant initiative — one that supports our mission to build a resource-efficient, environmentally friendly electrical grid," said Mr. Praveer Sinha, CEO & ED of Tata Power Delhi Distribution Ltd. "We are committed to making this deployment a success, and finding new opportunities to extend ADR to other customers, thus playing a role in helping to meet Delhi's energy needs. We believe our steps in this direction will also encourage other Indian utilities to adopt smart grid technology for efficient operations"

High-end commercial and industrial consumers in the TPDDL territory with individual connected load of more than 100 kilovolt-amps (kVA) volunteered for the project. As they signed up, Honeywell and TPDDL conducted site audits, and worked with the building owners and operators to identify and implement changes to help temporarily trim consumption. Conservation measures include turning off commercial and industrial loads like banks of motors, pumps, fans and condensers for a short period.

TPDDL is using Honeywell's Akuacom software as a service (SaaS) and smart
meters to communicate with the building systems at the participating sites, and automatically apply the load-shed measures when the grid is overburdened.

By participating, commercial and industrial customers can cut their energy use and costs without compromising operations. The collective decrease in consumption gives the grid operator more tools to balance supply and demand, and help avoid power disruptions.

In addition, ADR helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the need to run expensive peaking plants, which typically sit idle until customers require more electricity than the utility is able to provide using its primary, base-load generators.

"TPDDL is steering the country toward a smarter, more dynamic electrical grid where utilities and their customers collaborate to solve broad challenges," said Anant Maheshwari, president of Honeywell India. "This project will help support the development and expansion of smart grid solutions in India. Honeywell is also committed to provide a simplified ADR solution for companies with less of a connected load to boost participation."

Honeywell is a pioneer and leader in ADR with 20 programs underway in the United States and around the world, including groundbreaking projects in Australia, China, India and the U.K. In addition, Honeywell has managed demand response and energy efficiency programs for more than 100 utilities. With controls in more than 150 million homes, 10 million buildings and thousands of industrial sites across the globe, Honeywell has the technology and expertise to empower smart energy producers and users.

TPDDL has also successfully demonstrated the ADR-enabled smart grid solution at the India Smart Grid Week 2015 conference in March. The company is also a pioneer in adoption and implementation of other smart grid technologies like SCADA, AMR, DMS, DA, SAP, GIS, OMS and AMI.

For more information, visit honeywellsmartgrid.com or follow Honeywell Grid on Twitter.

Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) is a Fortune 100 diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes, and industry; turbochargers; and performance materials. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywellnow.com. It also has a significant presence in India — with five state-of-the-art manufacturing and engineering operations for its automation, turbocharger, and refining businesses, and five global centers of excellence for technology development and innovation. Honeywell employs more than 13,000 people across 50 locations, including Delhi, Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Gurgaon and Madurai. For more news and information on Honeywell, please visit www.honeywellnow.com.

Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL) is a joint venture between Tata Power and the Government of NCT of Delhi. TPDDL distributes electricity in North & North West parts of Delhi and serves a populace of 7 million. The company started operations on July 1, 2002 post the unbundling of the erstwhile Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB). With a registered consumer base of 1.40 million and a peak load of around 1704 MW, the company's operations span across an area of 510 sq kms. TPDDL has been the frontrunner in implementing power distribution reforms in the capital city and is acknowledged for its consumer friendly practices. Since privatization, the Aggregate Technical & Commercial (AT&C) losses in TPDDL areas have shown a record decline. AT&C loss is a measure of overall efficiency of the distribution business which is the difference between units input into the system and the units for which the payment is collected. Today, AT&C losses stand at 10.5% which is an unprecedented reduction of around 80% from an opening loss level of 53% in July 2002.