GRID-INDIA Power System Awards

GRID-INDIA Power System Awards (GIPSA), formerly known as POSOCO Power System Awards (PPSA)

The GRID-INDIA Power System Awards (GIPSA) stands as a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) endeavour aimed at acknowledging outstanding research achievements in the Power System domain. It specifically targets recent doctoral and master’s research accomplishments from technical institutions offering postgraduate and PhD programs in power systems and related fields.

The aim of the GRID – INDIA’s Power System Awards-

1. Discover innovations in Power System
2. Rewards excellence in Power System & its related fields
3. Encouraging students to undertake researches in Power System & its related fields
4. Collection and dissemination of technologies for possible industry adoption

Collaboration and exchange of knowledge between Industry and Academia is of utmost importance for the country’s future. GRID-INDIA, is a knowledge-oriented organization with strong ties to academic institutions. GRID-INDIA, through the platform of GIPSA, looks to encourage research in the field of Power System, particularly Low Frequency Oscillations and its detection, analysis and mitigation, stability limits, transfer capability assessment for inter-area transfers, transmission pricing, ancillary services, imbalance pricing and Market Auction Design. GRID-INDIA also encourages and supports research in emerging areas like Renewable Energy Integration and Storage, forecasting and balancing and Big Data analytics.

As part of their research, if approached through the Institute, GRID-INDIA would share the data / relevant information with the researchers. Other things being equal, research in the above areas would be suitably considered in the evaluation process.

Award Category & Beneficiaries

The proposed award is set to distinguish two categories of award: Master and Doctoral category. Both these categories will address beneficiaries belonging to these two specific academic qualifications. The faculties can also be a part of the team but their role will be confined as a mentor/guide/adviser to student members.

Every year there will be a certain number of awards for GIPSA in Doctoral category and Masters Category, details will be announce at GRID-INDIA website.

Target Institutes & Communication

This award is open to all the student in technical institutions offering PG and PhD programme in power system and related fields in India.

Submission for the same generally starts in the month of September/October every year.

Eligibility Criteria & Submission Guidelines

In order for a nomination to be qualified for the evaluations, three main eligibility criteria must be fulfilled as follows.

1. Must be Indian Citizen
2. Applications must be relevant to power system and related fields.
3. Only recently accomplished projects/research work/innovations are eligible for entry.
4. For Master category, only those who have been awarded degree in the applying year are eligible for participation.
5. For Doctoral category, those in the 3^rd year of the program or submitted their thesis or awarded degrees in the applying are eligible for award.