ISUW 2022 Speaker

Anjuli Chandra, member, Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission (PSERC), brings to the table four decades of experience in the power sector. Her areas of expertise include distribution and transmission network planning, formulating standards, devising regulatory frameworks and load forecasting. Prior to joining PSERC, Chandra was principal chief engineer at the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), where she was responsible for power survey and load forecasting, power system monitoring, project appraisal and distribution planning and development. She has also served as executive director, tariff and engineering, at the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission. Chandra has been a member of various task forces and committees constituted by the MoP and the CEA. She was involved in the preparation of the 19th Electrical Power Survey report, the base document for perspective planning for the sector. She has been a part of various Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) committees. She has served as the chairman of BIS’s ET13 committee on meters and as a member of committees on capacitors, transformers, etc. Besides, she has been involved in planning the sub-transmission and distribution systems of Thimpu and Paro cities in Bhutan. Chandra is an Indian Engineering Service officer of the 1978 batch. She is an electrical engineer from the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology and has an MBA from Panjab University. She is also a Bureau of Energy Efficiency-certified energy auditor. In 2012, Chandra received the CBIP Tag Corporation Award in 2006-07 as well as recognition from the National Council of Power Utilities for her contribution to the power sector.