ISUW 2023 Speaker

Dr. Jayant Kumar is Vice President at L&T Power Transmission & Distribution (PT&D). At L&T PT&D, he is business unit head for digital energy solutions, a global BU with presence in United States. In that capacity, Dr. Kumar is also USA country head for L&T PT&D. Dr. Kumar’s engagement during last decade has been in incubating and growing new businesses in the domain of electric power generation transmission & distribution. Before joining L&T, Dr. Kumar was senior director at GE Renewable where he was responsible for Smart Utility Control Rooms, Grid Automation Systems & Services, Electric Market Systems, Microgrids and Smart City. Prior to GE, Dr. Kumar worked for Alstom and Areva where he developed and delivered multiple multi-million dollar projects for most of the leading utilities in United States. In late 90s and early 2000s, Dr. Kumar was engaged in design and development of most of the electric power markets across globe. Dr. Kumar’s role at Alstom included worldwide regions including Europe, Middle East, India and China. Dr. Kumar has been USA country representative in multiple forums; such as USA China Collaboration – Climate Coordination Working Committee (CCWG) and USA-India collaboration jointly led by USA DoE – India MST (Ministry of Science & Technology), a $30M project for defining and developing next generation T&D operation with high penetration of solar, storage. During his tenure at Alstom and GE, Dr. Kumar has had numerous engagements with US DoE (Department of Energy) and US Department of Defense (DoD) for $100M+ grant projects.