Software Trainings

Personnel’s at HPSLDC were given the appropriate operational training for using the software developed and for the system administration training on the latest technologies being adopted.

The SLDC website and software “Shakti” has been developed to meet the present needs of the organization, keeping the future scope in mind, with respect to the needs and technology advancements. Further, to make it sustainable the in-house staff has been adequately trained for operating the software. The software has been operating smoothly for over a year now.

For security and piracy, authorization and identification checks have been incorporated through passwords and role-definitions are being used. Add Your Remarks

DSS Shakti : An Overview

The manual capturing and processing of all the required data (online and off line modes from various sources) was almost impossible. When done manually, downloading and analyzing even a small amount of data was a cumbersome process. To further compound to the problem a large amount of data was available at random time points, and it was not possible to humanly track it all the time.

This data was also not available in the required form and to manually convert it into a usable form involved a lot effort on the part of the real time operators, who were already overburdened with the job of ensuring the smooth and safe operation of the Power Grid.

By the use of Shakti, the time taken to download and prepare the required reports was brought down to a minimum and with the least human effort. As soon as the data was available online, the software automatically downloads it, converts and stores it in the database in the required formats. The software also gives an audio alarm to the user to inform him that the data is ready and prepared for use.

Thus, by the use of Shakti, major bottlenecks (large amount of data, unusable formats, random time points, etc.) were removed and efficient decision making was facilitated. All stake holders, who were earlier unaware of the transactions till the reports had been prepared and compiled, can now access the data in real time. Add Your Remarks

Objective Coverage & Beneficiary of the Project

The work at SLDC Control center involves real time decision making based on capturing and analyzing large amounts of data. This was not humanly possible, and, therefore, to make better decisions based on the data available at any given time, a need was felt for an automated process that could take care of the routine tasks like downloading data, converting it into a usable form and preparing reports based on this data.


Objective of the Project: Better handling and management of the data available from various sources, and processing of this data to generate the required reports with minimum human intervention.

Coverage (Geographical): Whole Pradesh and neighbouring sates of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi constituting the Northern Region Power Committee (NRPC).

Beneficiary of the Project: Government of Himachal Pradesh and all categories of consumers of electricity in the Pradesh including the member states of NRPC. Add Your Remarks

Decision Support System : Shakti

The usage of ICT was undertaken by HPSEB by way of the development of the software “Shakti” and its utilization for High value Electrical Power transactions from Hydro-Electric project in HP, and its entitlements in various Central Sector Generating stations. This software has been provided with a seamless linkage with NRLDC, and HPSLDC for its access under public domain.

This project has been developed by State Power Controller unit of HPSEB with the association of DOEACC center (an autonomous Scientific Society of Department of Information Technology, ministry of communications & Information Technology, Government of India), Chandigarh and its branch office Shimla. Two programmers were hired from DOEACC to develop and automate the required processes. Add Your Remarks