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Smart Development of Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar Twin City Metropolitan Region, Gujarat, India

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Abstract

With India transforming as matured democracy, the government is focusing upon improving quality of life of citizens by urban renewal and infrastructure development vide ambitious smart cities project. Energy, the electrical power in particular, has been the most crucial and the resource always in scarcity in India and proving itself as a major bottleneck. Therefore, India has been transforming legacy conventional non-smart non-intelligent unidirectional electrical power grids into modern smart grids which are bidirectional and intelligent in nature by leveraging ICT, IoTs, e-Governance and e-Democracy. Smart grids are likely to serve as energy backbones of smart cities and involve high interactive participation of citizens in energy management, based on humanitarian and customer centric approach. Different types of Prosumers (Producers + consumers), their different energy requirements at different timings, different types of energy resources and their switching feasibilities considering different aspects have been integrated. The Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar twin city metropolitan region (Naroda area) has been considered as region of interest and study. The region is surrounded by reputed industrial, commercial, educational-research organizations, heritage monuments and demonstrates extremely encouraging potential for creative research and technological developments with variety of Prosumers in particular. To study existing economic and spatial strategies and recommend suggestions for smart metropolitan region development have been main objectives of the work presented. Useful approach for smart metropolitan region development has been presented by effective energy management, active citizen participation and e-governance by proposing deployments of smart grid and smart buildings with integration of renewables, ICT and IoTs. Ensuring 24 × 7 electricity with limiting carbon footprint has been the major challenge.

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Abbreviations

AMI:

Advanced Metering Infrastructure

AT&C:

Aggregate Technical and Commercial

BAS:

Building Automation System

BPO:

Business Process Outsourcing

CCTV:

Closed Circuit Tele Vision

CO2:

Carbon Dioxide

CT:

Communication Technology

DDU:

Dharmsinh Desai University

DISCOM/DisCom:

DIStribution COMpany/Distribution Company

DR:

Demand Response

DSM:

Demand Side Management

GAV:

Gandhinagar-Ahmedabad-Vadodara

GDP:

Gross Domestic Product

GEDA:

Gujarat Energy Development Authority

GERMI:

Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute

GHG:

Green House Gas

GIDC:

Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation

GIFT:

Gujarat International Finance-Tec city

GoG:

Government of Gujarat

GoI:

Government of India

GUI:

Graphical User Interface

HAN:

Home Area Network/Home Automation Network

ICT:

Information and Communication Technology

IMRB:

Indian Market Research Bureau

IOT/IoT:

Internet of Things/Internet of Things

ISGF:

India Smart Grid Forum

IT:

Information Technology

ITES:

Information Technology Enabled Services

M2M:

Machine to Machine

MRD:

Metropolitan Region Development

NAN:

Neighborhood Area Network

NASSCOM:

National Association of Software and Services Companies

NCR:

National Capital Region

NCRB:

National Crime Record Bureau

NITC/NIT-C:

National Institute of Technology Calicut

NRI:

Non Resident Indian

O&M:

Operations and Maintenance

PDPU:

Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University

PHEV:

Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle

PLCC:

Power Line Carrier Communication

Prosumer:

Producer + Consumer

PV:

Photo Voltaic

R&D:

Research and Development

RAPDRP/R-APDRP:

Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme

RBI:

Reserve Bank of India

RCP:

Representative Concentration Pathway

RF:

Radio Frequency

RTP:

Real Time Pricing

SCADA:

Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition

SEZ:

Special Economic Zone

SG:

Smart Grid

SGCT:

Smart Grid Communication Technology

SPV:

Special Purpose Vehicle

STPI:

Software Technology Parks of India

SWOC:

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Challenges

T&D:

Transmission and Distribution

TCS:

Tata Consultancy Services

TOU:

Time Of Use

UGVCL:

Uttar Gujarat Vij Company Limited

UNESCO:

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

V2G:

Vehicle to Grid

WAN:

Wide Area Network

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The authors take this opportunity to express their sincere thanks to Editor Prof. TM Vinod Kumar and his entire team, bulletin editors and Springer staff members for their valuable guidance, excellent cooperation and timely help extended.

Cooperation received in development of this book chapter from the faculty members, management and office bearers of GERMI, PDPU and DDU, India is acknowledged with thanks. Useful contributions and cooperation received from ISGF, UGVCL, GEDA, Govt. of Gujarat, Govt. of India and all the cited sources of references are also gratefully acknowledged.

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    Jignesh G. Bhatt

  2. Solar Energy Division, Gujarat Energy Research and Management Institute (GERMI), Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) Campus, Gandhinagar, 382 007, Gujarat, India

    Omkar K. Jani

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Bhatt, J.G., Jani, O.K. (2019). Smart Development of Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar Twin City Metropolitan Region, Gujarat, India. In: Vinod Kumar, T. (eds) Smart Metropolitan Regional Development. Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8588-8_5

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