REMC Ltd sets up National Energy Management Centre

New Delhi : REMC Ltd, a subsidiary of RITES Ltd., has set up a National Energy Management Centre (NEMC) at its office. Shri Naveen Gulati, Member Traction & Rolling Stock, Railway Board, today inaugurated the state-of-the-art NEMC in the presence of Shri Rahul Mithal, CMD RITES & Chairman REMC Ltd, and Additional Member, Traction, Railway Board. Shri 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:

v  Single Window Service to Indian Railways

v  Optimised Scheduling & Forecasting

v  Integration of Generation profiles of Generators of Conventional/Renewable Power

v  Advising Real Time Schedule, Declared Capacity Revision and Exchange Power

v  Optimisation of Un-Requisition Surplus Power to Indian Railways

Shri V.P. Singh, Addl. Member Traction, Railway Board; Shri Manish Gupta, ED, Railway Board; Shri B.P. Nayak, Director (Finance), RITES; and Shri A.K. Singh, Director (Projects), RITES, were among the dignitaries present on the occasion.