Central Power Research Institute (CPRI) is a research institute originally established by the Government of India in 1960, with headquarters in Bangalore. The Institute was re-organized into an Autonomous Society in the year 1978 under the aegis of the Ministry of Power, Government of India. The main objective of setting up the Institute is to serve as a national Level laboratory for undertaking applied research in electrical power engineering besides functioning as an independent national testing and certification authority for electrical equipment and components to ensure reliability in power systems and to innovate and develop new products.

Research and development

CPRI has been taking programs in various areas of electrical power generation, transmission and distribution in the endeavor to assist utilities to supply reliable, uninterrupted and quality services to the consumers. The broad objectives with the research projects are taken up in CPRI are While some of the programme are undertaken in collaboration with industries and utilities, other are taken up in-house to develop the expertise and infrastructure the power sector. The project proposals are planned well in advance keeping in mind the needs of the industry /utilities and are cleared by the committee on Research. In CPRI, research and development projects of different dimensions are taken up under 4 schemes namely

Testing and certification

The performance of the institute in the field of testing and certification during the year 2009-2010 is very good as compared to 2008-2009. A total of 66347 tests on 22256 samples were conducted for 6127 organizations. The revenue realized from testing, certification and consultancy services rendered during this year increased to Rs.9600 lakhs as against Rs.7741 lakhs during 2008-2009. New Testing Facilities Other important tests

Consultancy services

Consultancy is one of the major activities of the institute. The following are some of the important consultancy services rendered by the institute in various areas during the year under report Distribution System

Quality accreditations

The facilities of the Institute are accredited as per ISO/IEC 17025 quality norms and the Institute has acquired international accreditations like Short Circuit Testing Liaison for its global acceptance. Certification of the Institute is gaining acceptance in the countries of Middle East, Africa and South East Asia.

CPRI network

CPRI has its head office in Bangalore and the Institute has six facilities at Bhopal, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Noida, Kolkata and Guwahati.