Larsen & Toubro on September 30 said the digital energy solutions unit of its power transmission & distribution (PT&D) business has received the mandate to develop and implement energy management systems in regional and state load dispatch centers in South India, the company said in an exchange filing.

This order is the latest addition to such digitally-based intelligent projects being executed by L&T DES globally, the statement said.

The digital energy solutions arm is a specialized set-up of power system experts offering advanced grid services, energy consulting services and system integration solutions to speed up the digitalization of electric grid in India, Middle East and the USA, according to the filing.

“As part of the order in Southern India, energy management system and associated software systems will be implemented for 12 set of control rooms. These systems are being implemented for main and backup configurations for the Southern Regional Load Dispatch Centre (RLDC) and the State Load Dispatch Centers (SLDC) of Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and Telangana,” the statement said.