New Delhi: REMC Limited, a subsidiary of RITES Ltd., has set up a National Energy Management Centre (NEMC) at its office. Naveen Gulati, Member Traction & Rolling Stock of Railway Board inaugurated the state-of-the-art NEMC on Saturday in the presence of Rahul Mithal CMD RITES and Chairman REMC Ltd, and Additional Member, Traction, Railway Board. Gulati appreciated the efforts of REMC Ltd. for the installation and commissioning of NEMC. He emphasised the importance of NEMC for the overall power utilisation by various Zonal Railways.
The NEMC will be pivotal for energy data collection from the 17 State Energy Management Centres (SEMCs) operating across the Railways. Highlighting features of the NEMC, Shri Ajay Kumar Singhal, Chief Executive Officer, REMC Ltd, stated that the centre has been developed for monitoring and managing procured energy for the Railways at a national level.
Other features of the NEMC are:
Single Window Service to Indian Railways
Optimised Scheduling & Forecasting
Integration of Generation profiles of Generators of Conventional/Renewable Power
Advising Real Time Schedule, Declared Capacity Revision and Exchange Power
Optimisation of Un-Requisition Surplus Power to Indian Railways
VP Singh, Additional Member Traction, Railway Board; Manish Gupta, ED, Railway Board; BP Nayak, Director (Finance) of RITES; and AK Singh, Director (Projects) RITES, were among the dignitaries present on the occasion.
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