The government plans to develop homegrown control systems and equipment for critical power infrastructure, including the national grid, as the government seeks to end reliance on foreign technology and strengthen energy security by 2029.
The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has laid out a roadmap to localise the production of systems that enable real-time monitoring and supervisory control of the electricity network. The plan covers both the software and hardware used in Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition, or SCADA, systems.