{"id":158622,"date":"2022-01-05T20:36:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=158622"},"modified":"2022-01-05T20:36:02","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T15:06:02","slug":"automatic-generation-controlagc-union-minister-of-power-and-nre-dedicates-automatic-generation-control-to-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/automatic-generation-controlagc-union-minister-of-power-and-nre-dedicates-automatic-generation-control-to-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Generation Control(AGC): Union Minister of Power and NRE dedicates Automatic Generation Control to the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n

The Union Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy has launched the Automatic Generation Control(AGC).<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the need for Automatic Generation Control(AGC)?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Renewable energy (RE) generation in India has been on a steady rise. <\/span>However, the fluctuating nature of energy from renewables requires power balancing in real-time to keep supply and demand in sync. H<\/span>ence, the AGC has been launched.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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How will Automatic Generation Control(AGC) help?<\/b><\/h5>\n

Operated by<\/b>: AGC is being operated by Power System Operation Corporation (POSOCO) through the National Load Despatch Centre (NLDC).<\/span><\/p>\n

Function<\/b>: Through AGC, NLDC can send signals to more than 50 power plants in the country every 4 seconds to maintain the frequency and reliability of the Indian Power System. This will ensure more efficient and automatic frequency control for handling variable and intermittent renewable generation.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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What is the significance of this launch?<\/b><\/h5>\n

This is expected to facilitate <\/span>a<\/span>chieving the government\u2019s ambitious target of 500 GW non-fossil fuel-based generation capacity by 2030<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Source: <\/b>T<\/span>his post is based on the article <\/span>\u2018<\/b>Union Minister of Power and NRE dedicates Automatic Generation Control to the nation<\/b>\u2019 <\/b>published in<\/span> PIB <\/b>on 4th Jan 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is the News? The Union Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy has launched the Automatic Generation Control(AGC). What is the need for Automatic Generation Control(AGC)? Renewable energy (RE) generation in India has been on a steady rise. However, the fluctuating nature of energy from renewables requires power balancing in real-time to keep… Continue reading Automatic Generation Control(AGC): Union Minister of Power and NRE dedicates Automatic Generation Control to the nation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-158622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1700547386},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}