SLDC/RLDC/NLDC

BY SWAROJIT SHARMA
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WHAT ARE THESE?
LDC are control centers which performs dispatch and control
to ensure continuity and quality in system.

SLDC-
At state level minute to minute operation of a power system is
Co-ordinated from a LDC located in each state’s capital.

State LDC is connected to regional LDC (RLDC), where RLDC

monitors a whole region

The Indian Power System was demarcated in early sixties.

Northern, Southern, Eastern, Western and North-Eastern
Five Regional Load Dispatch Centers were also set .
 NATIONAL LDC

In accordance with section 26 of Electricity Act, 2003

• i) the National Load Dispatch Centre shall be established by the Central Government at the
national level for optimum scheduling and dispatch of electricity among the Regional load dispatch
centers.
• ii) In exercise of the powers conferred at section 176 (2) (d) of Electricity Act, 2003, Ministry of
Power, Government of India had constituted National Load Dispatch Centre at national level for
optimum scheduling and dispatch of electricity among RLDCs and the center will be located at
New Delhi with back-up at Kolkata.
• iii) Administrative approval and expenditure sanction has been accorded by the Ministry of Power,
Government of India at an estimated cost of 44.96 crores.
MAIN FUNCTIONS OF LOAD DISPATCH CENTERS

*Load generation balance and quality of supply

* Maintenance scheduling of generating units and
transmission lines
* Economic load dispatch
* Grid discipline
* Load forecasting or demand estimation
* System security and islanding facility
* Black start preparedness
* Energy distribution and load pattern study
* Communication and SCADA management
* Event analysis and preventive measures
* Coordination with neighbor grids
* Public relations and consumer interaction
 schedule becomes applicable
from 12AM.

given time for any revision up to

11PM and then finalization
Load forecasting is done based
on the previous year’s data

Day ahead
scheduling
collect information from various
The schedule is sent to the generating stations about how
generating companies at 10PM much they will be providing the
next day

outage planning, electricity

from central pool, cost of Schedule is prepared with 96
electricity from various time blocks of 15minutes each
generating companies and the by 3PM
forecasted demand
DISPATCHERS STUDY FOR LOAD PATTERNS
• Industrial category of consumers (industries working in all 3 shifts)
• Industries working in day time with high power demand.
• Commercial category consumers like shops , offices ,show rooms operates during day time (09:00 to 20.00
hrs.)
• Water works require power for pumping drinking water for urban and rural areas during early morning
hours.
• Farmers also requires power for irrigation during day time.
• Seasonal nature industries like sugar factory, cotton ginning industries, vegetable oil industries, rice mills
etc.
BEYOND THE HORIZON
With the invent of fast processing techniques and advancement like AI ,ML
LDC’s are becoming highly efficient.

Techniques like automatic control on generating units as well as important

load centers. This is for effective and timely control to avoid the major
occurrences of black out.

A challenge after large scale inclusion of RE would be figure out the modified
load patterns.