ISUW 2022 Speaker

Sanjay Kumar Banga is the current President of Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited(TPDDL).A power sector veteran with Twenty-seven years of experience in power Generation andDistribution. Mr. Sanjay Kumar Banga has been with TPDDL since July 2003. He brings withh in extensive learning in Generation and Distribution operations, Selection and deployment of automation technologies for strengthening of electricity utilities to enable them to meet reliability and AT & C loss reduction target under regulatory controls. This learning, garnered through association with leading power electricity utilities in India equips him well to tackletheenormous challenges of electricity business at Delhi. As,Vice president & Chief of Business development,Power System control,Power management,and contracts his core responsibilities are business development,Power procurement,Network Planning and Management,Engineering,Contracts & Materials Management, etc. He is Part of initial group who transformed ailing Distribution Company and now intimately involved in transforming TPDDL to be come a benchmark utility by leveraging smart grid technology. The tasks at hand are optimization of CAPEX by efficient network planning & engineering, improving project Engineering and contract management by setting in place world class systems & processes. Mr.Banga firmly believes that difference between a company and competitor is the ability to execute and leader should be involved in execution as much as he involves himself in strategy planning. Prior to joining TPDDL, Mr. Banga was with Reliance Energy (earlier known as BSES Ltd) from1996 to July 2003, he was associated with almost the entire spectrum of Generation activity which includes Operation,Maintenance and project engineering at increasing levels of responsibility. He started his career with NTPC after graduation as engineering trainee andwas in Operation & commissioning of super thermal power project from 1989 to 1995. Hisdeep knowledge of technology & operational issues of Power sector makes him a regular speaker inseminars/workshops/panel discussions in India and abroad. Mr. Banga is an alumnus of the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra. He has done Management in Business administration from Faculty of Management studies (FMS), Delhi.He is Member of Bureau of Indian standard(BIS) LITD 10 core committee for defining standards for power system control and communication and he is Member of India Smart grid Taskforce.