Posts by Venugopal Pillai
Our vision is to become the most admired yield vehicle in Asia: IndiGrid
- Jan 18, 2020
The India Grid Trust (IndiGrid), sponsored by Sterlite Power Grid Ventures Ltd, one of India’s leading private power transmission companies, is India’s first infrastructure investment trust (InvIT) in the power Read more
India already holds one of the top spots for Terra Drone’s current business
- Dec 1, 2019
Terra Drone Corporation, the world’s largest provider of industrial drone solutions, recently launched a new UAV and AI-based solution set for the maintenance of power transmission and distribution equipment. Read more
Harmanjit Nagi, Director and Country Head, EDF India
- Nov 15, 2019
Smart metering is crucial to India’s energy policy as it helps real time monitoring of energy consumption, help discoms in load curtailment and improving the billing cycle, help customer to plan the consumption smartly and efficiently, and enables Read more
TBCB-based Green Energy Corridor projects taking off
- Sep 15, 2019
Power transmission projects, structured on the tariff-based competitive bidding (TBCB) mechanism and associated with large-scale evacuation of renewable energy, are seen to be taking off, after a sustained period of lull, recent developments suggest. Sterlite Power recently won its Read more
Power will be a big business driver for Atlas Copco
- Aug 10, 2019
Atlas Copco recently launched five new air compressors for applications across diverse industry segments. T&D India caught up with Conrad Latham, General Manager, Compressor Technique, Atlas Copco India, at Read more
Mega transmission projects see slowdown in FY19
- Jul 15, 2019
Large power transmission projects being developed under the tariff-based competitive bidding (TBCB) route appear to be progressing very slowly. During FY19, not a single new project was awarded. This inference is based on an analysis done by T&D Read more
We are expecting participation from over 120 countries: ELECRAMA 2020
- Jun 28, 2019
ELECRAMA—the world’s largest show in the electrical equipment industry, brought by industry body IEEMA—will be hosting its 14th edition in January 2020. We have Anil Saboo, Chairman, ELECRAMA 2020, discussing the Read more
We are continuously innovating and developing smarter products: HPL Electric
- Jun 20, 2019
Incorporated in 1992, HPL Electric & Power Ltd, popularly known as HPL, is a diversified electrical equipment manufacturer with seven manufacturing facilities and a truly pan-India distribution network. Though HPL Read more
Digitalization is the way forward
- Jun 17, 2019
Siemens recently held its “Innovation Day 2019” in Mumbai where top management personnel as well as technical experts gave detailed presentations on digitization, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence and related topics. It was very clear that digitalization—as Read more
Consolidation phase for private power transmission
- May 18, 2019
Independent power transmission line concessions, both at the regional and state level, are witnessing a phase of consolidation, notes Venugopal Pillai, in this special study. Recent media reports suggest that Mumbai-headquartered Kalpataru Power Transmission Ltd, a leading EPC contractor Read more