Posts by Venugopal Pillai

Siemens

Digitalization is the way forward

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

TBCB

Consolidation phase for private power transmission

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

We see huge potential for energy storage in India: Fluence

Fluence, an energy storage technology company jointly owned by Siemens and AES, was in the news recently as it supplied its “Advancion” technology to India’s first grid-scale battery-based energy storage system. This Read more

We are looking at adding more manufacturing facilities: CTC Global

US-based CTC Global Corporation has developed and owns the rights to the highly efficient ACCC (aluminium conductor composite core) technology. With a presence in India for the past six years, CTC recently Read more

Tata Power has been a benchmark performer in power distribution

  Tata Power is India’s oldest power utility present in the entire value chain – generation, transmission and distribution. It has successfully formed landmark public-private partnerships in Read more

distribution

Reforming power distribution

IEEMA recently organized “DistribuELEC 2019” event in Mumbai. The event had a series of covenant conferences and panel discussions where extensive deliberations on the Indian power distribution sector took place. This story by Venugopal Pillai, based on views Read more

Microgrids are at the nexus of the growth in renewables: Black & Veatch

Black & Veatch is a global leader in building critical human infrastructure in energy, water, telecom and government services, catering to over 100 countries Read more

Electric vehicles are going to be the future: Olectra Greentech

Olectra Greentech, formerly known as Goldstone Infratech, is part of the highly diversified Goldstone Group. Olectra Greentech, a major supplier of composite insulators, has ventured into manufacturing Read more

TBCB

TBCB power transmission projects dwindle

Over the past one year, there has been no appreciable movement in interregional power transmission projects awarded under the tariff-based competitive bidding (TBCB) mechanism, as gauged from official statistics released by Central Electricity Authority. Given that the TBCB Read more

Tata Power

Tata Power aims at trebling distribution business

Tata Power is keen to substantially grow its power distribution business, according to the company’s MD & CEO Praveer Sinha. Its current customer base of around 2.2 million consumers is likely to grow to 10 million in the Read more