National Open Access Registry – Single Window Administration of Short Term Electricity Market in India

The Government of India (GoI) has set ambitious targets to integrate renewable energy (RE) at a scale of 175 GW by 2022 and 500 GW by 2030 to pave the way for meeting 40% of India’s energy requirement from RE sources, towards de-carbonization of the electricity sector. The National Open Access Registry (NOAR) is a single window portal for administration of short term electricity market in interstate transmission system in India. NOAR shall facilitate integration of renewable energy (RE) into the country’s national grid. The NOAR platform is a pioneering application of technology for implementation of high availability, high reliability platform with data center services, near disaster recovery and further backup through private cloud services. The main design tenets of NOAR include scalability, open standards, capacity to handle peak user loads, data security, configurability, management, reliability, availability, and fulfilling the most recent cyber security requirements. This paper presents the experience of implementation of NOAR.