India’s Smart Grid Comes Alive

India’s state governments are starting to roll back the curtain on the country’s first big round of smart grid investments.

Earlier this week, several Indian state governments reportedly laid plans for smart grid projects, ranging from smart meter rollouts in the Indian territories of Puducherry and Bangalore, to a nationwide deployment of phasor measurement devices across the nation’s five independent grid systems — a first step in synchronizing them to share power — at an estimated cost of 239 rupees crore ($48 million).