The View from the Wide Side IMAGE LICENSED BY INGRAM PUBLISHING Wide-Area Monitoring Systems in India By S.K. Soonee, V.K. Agrawal, P.K. Agarwal, S.R. Narasimhan, and Mini Shaji Thomas Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPE.2015.2431216 Date of publication: 18 August 2015 september/october 2015 T THE INDIAN ELECTRICITY GRID IS AMONG ONE of the largest power grids in the world, with an installed generating capacity of 259 GW as of February 2015. The Indian power sector started its consolidation and expansion in early 1990 with the establishment of a central utility, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (PGCIL). India's power system is managed by the five regional load dispatch centers (RLDCs), one for each regional power system. The implementation of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and energy management systems (EMSs) took place from 2002 to 1540-7977/15©2015IEEE IEEE power & energy magazine 49