Power Minister RK Singh inaugurates India’s first Virtual Smart Grid Knowledge Centre in Manesar

• The Union Minister for Power, Shri Raj Kumar Singh virtually launched the first of its kind Virtual Smart Grid Knowledge Center (Virtual SGKC) and Innovation Park, as part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav Programme..
• The Virtual SGKC will give a digital footprint of the physical setup of SGKC, established by POWERGRID in 2018 at its centre in Manesar, Haryana.
• Virtual SGKC is housed within the POWERGRID centre in Manesar and the solutions which are physically present at SGKC premises will also be hosted on this platform.
• The Virtual SGKC is conceptualized and developed by POWERGRID with support from Ministry of Power and technical supoort from USAID.
• The new initiative will prove to be one of the leading Centers of Excellence globally to foster innovation, entrepreneurship and research in smart grid technologies.