Agarwal associated with the Indian power system and Grid operation and control for more than four decades. During the course of service headed the grid operation in Northern and Southern regional grids in India, followed by the National Grid, in the capacity of Executive Director at National Load Despatch Center (NLDC), POSOCO. The responsibilities rendered include, interconnection and synchronizations of large grids, power system market operations in the Indian grid including work on transmission pricing and losses, scheduling, deviation settlement, and ancillary services. Also closely associated towards integration of large renewable energy capacity with the grid and addressing the issues of intermittency and balancing.