ISUW 2021 / Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering Bd.843 (PDF)

and USAID. A recognized thought leader in clean energy, smart grid technologies, smart cities and electric mobility, Reji is a popular key-note speaker at international symposiums and conferences on these domains. He has also contributed to several articles, books, research reports and white papers on variety of topics. B.P. Singh is a graduate in Mining Engineering from IIT (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, and has over 45 years of experience in the power & energy sector. He was Member in DERC (Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission), till Sept 2018. He has issued four successive Tariff Orders for the period 2014 to 2018, being consumer friendly, and was highly acclaimed at all levels. As a part of power sector reforms, he formulated progressive Regulations on Tariff, Net Metering, Demand-Side Management, and Modified SOP to make it more consumer friendly. Efficacious remedy for redressal of consumer's grievance has been enhanced by making the regulations consumer friendly and made them easily understandable for their benefit. Prior to taking up the assignment as Member DERC, he rose to the position of Director (Projects) in NTPC, where he additionally had also held assignments, viz Chairman, BRBCL; Chairman NTPC SCCL Global Ventures Pvt. Ltd; whole time Director of NTPC Hydro Ltd.; BFSNL Ltd., etc. He has to his credit an unmatched record capacity addition by NTPC using innovative techniques in project monitoring and implementation. He has been part of numerous high level committees constituted by the Government of India for formulation of plan proposals and policies including energy policy, pricing of coal, etc. He has actively participated in formulation of policies for the Regulatory Commissions under the aegis of Forum of Indian Regulators. He had been associated with numerous professional institutions, viz "Institute Senate Member'-Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar; Member of General Body & Peer Review Committee of National Institute of Rock Mechanics under Ministry of Mines; Member of the Board of Construction Industry Development Council, Joint Council by Indian Construction Industry and Planning Commission.He is presently associated with ISGF and ICF as Advisor.
N. Murugesan holds M.Sc. (Eng.) and MBA. He has more than 39 years of experience in the area of Smart Metering, Smart Grid, Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Power Systems, Transmission & Distribution system, SCADA, Substation & Distribution Automation, Switchgear Testing, & Certification (Low- & High-Voltage Equipment) as per National & International standards. He has managed one of the largest Power Engineering Research Institute in the world as Director General. He added many infrastructures to carryout research and for certification of electrical equipment from low voltage to EHV class equipment to meet international and national standards; managed various laboratories located in seven cities across India (Bangalore, Hyderabad, Nagpur, Bhopal, Noida, Kolkata, and Guwahati); organized more than 400 workshop/training/conferences in the area of power engineering; supervised varieties of consulting works covering generation, transmission, and distribution; and managed various research & development projects in the above areas. He established communication protocol conformance laboratories for the first time in Asia in 2003 and 2008 for energy meter and substation automation as per IEC 62056 and 61850, respectively; established other laboratories as per IEC 60870 series, Modbus, etc.; certified largest number of products as per above IEC and helped to produce in India; played an active role in drafting specification under RAPDRP. He was Chairman to bring Smart Meter standard -BIS 16444 and CBIP Manual for energy meter.