Interviews

"Our focus has been on renewable energy generation projects and exports. We continue to strive forward in the same areas and are preparing ourselves to meet with the changing demands of these sectors," says Shivam Talwar, Director, Danish Private Limited

"We have developed copper components which can be useful for power industries. Our components are up to the latest industry standards and are innovative," shares Jayesh Shah, Managing Director, Citizen Metalloys Ltd.

"The Fuji Electric India 2.0 plan envisages the revenues from the India market to reach Rs 1,500 crore by the year 2023-24," Sriram Ramakrishnan, Managing Director, Fuji Electric India.

"We have recently expanded our offering to Philippines market and planning to expand BPE products’ reach to all over the world by the end of 2025," says Amitansu Satpathy, Managing Director, Best Power Equipments (BPE)

Beckhoff focuses on technology promotion and ensures end-customer benefits form the new automation technology for profitability of his business - Ajey Phatak, Head Marketing, Beckhoff Automation Pvt Ltd

"With L&T’s E&A division, India will become one of the key innovations and manufacturing hubs for Schneider Electric, globally," Anil Chaudhry, Zone President & Managing Director, Schneider Electric India.

Our main focus shall be on international business and accordingly we are designing our executable team. Our target is to have more than 60 per cent of our business share from international domain. Pradeep Kumar Verma, MD and CEO, Accord Transformer & Switchgear Pvt. Ltd.

"Future seems to be very promising as well as challenging. In 2020, we are further approaching for implementation of new version of ISO/IEC 17025 and testing facilities to meet the requirement of newly amended IS 335: 2018," says Narinder Kumar, Founder, Ktec Oil Laboratories.

Nilay Ray, Assistant General Manager - Product Specialist, SCOPE gives a glimpse of testing & measurement sector during last year, products offered by the company, demand for its products and much more in an interaction with Electrical India.

Electrohms is a leading provider of current and voltage sensing solutions for today’s connected world. Gautham Krishnan, Managing Director, Electrohms outlines evolution of Electrohms, solutions and products offered by the company, Electrohm’s First EV specific Product and its demand and many more in an email interaction with Electrical India.

Rising government initiatives, increasing awareness among customers regarding lower power consumption of LED lighting products and innovative product offerings like usage of smart lighting controls will support growth of lighting segment, asserts Anuj Dhir, Vice-President & Business Head, Wipro Lighting in an interaction with Electrical India.

Upgradation and capacity enhancement especially in the rural areas will be one factor that will surely assist in growth. Vivek Yadav, Senior Vice President, Havells India.

Palka Sahni, an IAS officer of 2004 batch from Bihar cadre is spearheading Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS), a priority scheme of Government of India in the Urban Power Distribution Sector as Executive Director (IPDS), Power Finance Corporation. She gives a glimpse of status of IPDS projects, assessment of power transmission and distribution sector, policy measures taken by IPDS to curtail distribution losses, challenges in the power T&D sector that need urgent policy attention and many more in an interaction with Supriya Oundhakar.

The foremost concern is the financial sustainability of the sector itself because there is a lot of outstanding payments of generating companies pending with state DISCOMs. Sanjiv Nandan Sahai, Secretary, Ministry of Power.

As electricity is core for all developments, therefore without distribution reforms in respect of market conditions, desired economic development may not be achieved. Manoj Kumar Upadhyay, Deputy Adviser (Energy & International Cooperation Vertical), NITI Aayog.

On the sidelines of the ABB Electrification Media Day event held in Bergamo, Italy, Tarak Mehta, President - Electrification business, ABB speaks to Subhajit Roy and highlights the trends that will drive the company’s electrification business in India.

The Deming Prize is an award that carries great prestige in the industry sector. It is considered as the last word in the world on ‘total quality management”. Of late, the Electrical Standard Products (ESP) business unit and the New Product Development (NPD) function of L&T Electrical & Automation (E&A) have been awarded with this prestigious prize. Dr. Hasit Joshipura, Member – Executive Committee, Larsen & Toubro and Senior Vice President & Head of L&T E&A and Mr. Girish Tiwari, Vice President & Head - Electrical Standard Products at L&T E&A talk to us about this achievement and give us an insight into the company’s roadmap - Subhajit Roy, Group Editor

Venkatesh Dwivedi, Director (Projects), Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) gives update on EESL’s initiatives for achieving energy efficiency through its programs for LED lighting, proposed roll-out of electric vehicles (EVs) and charging infrastructure, procurement of smart meters performance, and outlook for the sector in an email interaction with Electrical India.

Akil Electronics Systems is a proprietorship firm, renowned as a prominent manufacturer, exporter, importer and retailer of a comprehensive range of high voltage testing equipment, automatic controller. Kamarajan Jagadeesan, Proprietor, Akil Electronics gives a glimpse of company, its products applications, opportunities generated due to momentum in renewable energy in an interaction with Electrical India.

Currently our production capacity is around 5,000 metric tonne per month and we are planning to cross 15,000 metric tonne per month by 2022. Dilip Dev, Chairman, HD Wires