Power Today - April 2018

In this issue

COVER STORY
Electrifying Opportunities!
If numbers speak for themselves, over Rs 65 billion of business queries, footfall of around 298,000 and 1,200 exhibitors, refl ected the gleeful sentiment that prevailed at the recently-held Elecrama 2018.

Interviews

Ashish Chaturvedy, Marketing Manager, Ducab

Atul Arya, Head, Energy System, Panasonic India

Ashish Tandon, Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Landis+Gyr India

Dalip Sharma, Managing Director, Delta Electronics India

Karen Ravindranath, Program Head, WebNMS IOT

Manish Agarwal, CEO – Solution Business, Sterlite Power Transmission

Sanjeev Arora, Senior Vice President—Local Business Unit

Head, Motors and Generators, ABB India

SC Bhargava, Member – Executive Committee & Sr. Vice President

(Electrical & Automation), Larsen and Toubro

Vimal Kejriwal, Managing Director and CEO, KEC International

Richard Dick, Executive Group Chairman and CEO, Lucy Group

Sushil Virmani,Managing Director,Socomec Innovative Power Solutions

Th omas Zimmerman, CEO, Digital Grid, Energy Management Division, Siemens AG

RENEW COVER – GREEN CORRIDOR
Step in the right direction
While Green Energy Corridor may enhance transmission grid to a greater extent, the evacuation issues faced by the renewable energy segment
may not get fully resolved in the near future.

SOLAR COVER – SOLAR TRACKER
Following the sun
Being widely adopted on account of increased generation and improved internal rate of return (IRR), solar trackers are gaining prominence
across the globe.

Power Today Magazine Description:

Cover Story: Will the “black” magic work, again?

BRIEF: Will the process of e-auction of the cancelled coal blocks prove to be a game-changer for the coal industry? Or, is the lack of focus on attracting more serious players into the coal industry the actual hurdle in development of this sector?

Feature: Powerful PSUs -- Fundamentally strong!

BRIEF: Strong fundamentals, strong order book as well as execution record, and of course, a strong pipeline of new projects has made public sector enterprises the most powerful companies amongst peers. With some contributing more than 30 per cent in terms of generation, some financing close to 25 per cent of power finance and a few with orders worth more than Rs 60,000 crore on the anvil, the PSUs in the power sector are by virtue the most sought-after companies to look up to.

Feature: Power Equipment -- The Turn of the Tide

BRIEF: With a new slew of orders in the offing, India’s Rs 1.30 lakh crore electrical equipment industry has shown a positive trend after four consecutive quarters of negative growth.

Renew
Cover Story: The 10,000 MW challenge

BRIEF: The government has set an annual capacity addition target of 10,000 MW for wind energy. As all the stakeholders involved in this industry gear up for this ambitious target, we examine the challenges that lie ahead.

Other Sections

• Finance: “IEX plans to facilitate power trading in South Asia”

BRIEF: IEX has already approached the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) to seek in-principle consent to facilitate Cross-Border Trade on its platform, says
* Rajesh K Mediratta, Director (Business Development), IEX. – Email

• Renew Lead - Analysis: Taking wind energy to the next level

BRIEF: Here’s a look at the key parameters that will influence the growth of wind energy in India over the next few crucial years. (1 page)
* Author: Abhijit Kulkarni, Head of Sales - Renewable Energy Segment, SKF India.

• Renew Lead – Technology: Wind turbines Optimised for India

BRIEF: Here are some of the key design criteria of wind turbines designed for low wind speed sites and technology options available to improve energy capture on wind farms.
* Author: Renjith Viripullan, Engineering Manager and Nitin Bhate from GE