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As head of EPC operations, solar, at Anchor Panaso-nic, A.R. Kumar’s responsibilities include driving profits and revenue for the solar projects division in India. This entails a thorough understanding of customer needs and working with […]

Shyam Ragupathy, director, strategy, Customised Energy Solutions (CES), has over 20 years of experience in the power sector. He has been a part of several large projects such as the DFID-funded reforms for discoms in […]

  Vikram Aggarwal is managing director of Virtuaal Infra Power Private Limited, a company dedicated to developing small-hydroelectric projects (HEPs) in the country. In this role, Aggarwal spearheads the development of the company’s upcoming HEPs […]

After working across several infrastructure sectors, I realised that power is by far the most exciting and challenging,” says Anoop Seth, deputy MD, IL&FS Energy Development Company. “It has the most complexities and the attraction […]

As the founder and chairman of Mytrah Energy, Ravi Kailas’s focus is on pursuing innovative ways of doing business in order to grow his company… Ravi Kailas’s approach to business is distinctive. Mytrah Energy is […]

As the Renewable Energy Corporation’s (REC) head of the Indian subcontinent, Rohit Kumar is responsible for building its India operations, growing its module sales in the region and ensuring it acquires a substantial share in […]

The renewable power sector is a sunrise sector right now,” says Ravi Seth, chief financial officer (CFO), ReNew Power Ventures Private Limited. He adds further, “The sector is continuously evolving and there is ample opportunity […]

Accept what comes to you”, says Syed Bilal Basha, director, finance, Southern Power Distribution Company of Andhra Pradesh Limited (APSPDCL). Basha joined Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board in 1986 as junior accounts officer and worked at […]

Prem Prakash Srivastava, chief executive officer of PFC Consulting Limited (PFCCL) and PFC Capital Advisory Services Limited (PFCCASL), wholly owned subsidiaries of Power Finance Corporation Limited (PFC), comes with nearly four decades of executive experience […]

Human capital, when guided with clarity and given freedom of action, seldom requires the use of spurs,” observes R.M. Radhakrishnan, general manager, commercial, NTPC. He joined the company in 1980 after completing his mechanical engineering […]

Shriprakash Rai joined Hero Future Energies (HFE) in 2013, one of the first to join the company’s solar vertical. In his current role as head, rooftop solar division, he is in charge of the company’s […]

Ajit Kumar is an industry veteran, with a long, 35-year stint with NTPC Limited, the company where he started his career and worked in several key positions before moving to power trading major, PTC India […]

A 2002 batch IAS officer, Dr Dinesh Arora  took charge as executive director, Rural Electrification Corporation, in May 2016. He is also chief executive officer of REC Power Distribution Company Limited, Ministry of Power. In […]

K.M. Singh, chairman and managing director, NHPC Limited, is pushing to make the hydro major into a 10,000 MW company and also grow its renewable energy footprint… As the power industry moves ahead, K.M. Singh, […]

S.D. Dubey, chairperson of the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), accords high priority to wiping out the demand-supply gap in the country and ensuring grid stability in the wake of renewable energy integration. With the government […]

Abhay Raina began his solar journey in 2010, the year India’s National Solar Mission was launched. Attracted by the prospects that the solar segment offered, he switched from financial services to Sterling and Wilson and […]

Vivek Sharma has over 15 years of experience in the area of energy and natural resources. He has worked closely with the central and state governments on power sector reforms, restructuring, regulations, policies and programmes, […]

The renewable energy sector is going to grow by leaps and bounds in the short as well as long term,” says Lt Colonel Monish Ahuja (Retd), managing director, Punjab Renewable Energy Systems Private Limited (PRESPL). […]

A  postgraduate in economics from the University of Kashmir, Basharat Ahmad Dhar joined the state civil services in 1976. In his over four-decade-long career, he has held key positions in various departments of the state […]

Manoj Kumar Upadhyay, founder, chairman and managing director, ACME, is still lean, hungry and restless because he wants his company to leave an imprint on society… A brilliantly inventive mind can often be glimpsed in […]