Western Regional Experience of Renewable Energy Integration: First Time Energisation & Integration - Regulations & Compliances

Smooth integration of renewable energy (RE) resources to the grid and speeding up their integration while ensuring compliance with technical standards and other statutory and regulatory requirements is a vibrant area across the globe. First-Time Energisation and Integration (FTE&I) of RE generators along with their Associated Transmission System (ATS) has a significant operational impact on the electric grid. More so, the grid operators need to perform several compliance checks of various technical standards and regulatory norms for it. To ensure smooth and swift RE integration certain steps and procedures followed by the Western Regional Load Despatch Centre (WRLDC), Mumbai, are described in this paper. In addition, for attaining the ambitious renewable integration goals, the way ahead is described in brief.