India is working toward ending imports of the SCADA systems that monitor and control its power grid, by 2030. A CEA committee roadmap targets indigenous develo…
Cascading failures over two days left an estimated 620 million people without power, exposing weaknesses in real-time grid monitoring and accelerating investment in wide…
IPDS supported IT enablement of distribution and early SCADA/DMS and metering pilots under the Ministry of Power - groundwork later schemes built on.
NSGM was created to accelerate smart-grid deployment and coordinate between central agencies and state distribution companies.
RDSS was approved with an outlay of roughly Rs 3.03 lakh crore to fund DISCOM efficiency and a large-scale smart-meter rollout, tied to measurable results.
CSIRT-Power was set up at the CEA on 5 April 2023 as an extended arm of CERT-In, coordinating cyber-incident reporting and response for the power sector.
The Power Ministry and CERT-In reported thwarting around 200,000 probing and attack attempts against power infrastructure during the tensions around Operation Sindoor -…
Constituted 16 December 2025 after a PM-led power-sector review, the committee submitted a roadmap covering 38 software modules and 25 hardware components, phased FY2026…
CEA notified its Cyber Security in Power Sector Regulations (force from 1 Apr 2027); non-fossil capacity reached 300.50 GW of India's 552 GW total; separately, 45 coal p…
The government's stated objective is to stop importing critical power-sector SCADA systems beyond 2030 - a target the roadmap is built to hit, not a completed transition.
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