Power supplier ramps up smart tech applications

State Grid Corp of China is focusing on building a new power system and launching smart transformations to usher in safer, more reliable, efficient and economical power supply and consumption models.

The aim is to let these new models gradually become a reality within the world's largest and most complex power system, said State Grid.

Zhang Yanyan, director of the Jiangbei centralized control station under State Grid Xiangyang Power Supply Co, said the smart transformation of Niushou substation was successfully completed last month, making it the first smart substation in northern Hubei province.