Manju Gupta, Government Director, Energy Grid Company of India Restricted (POWERGRID), brings over 37 years of in depth expertise in India’s energy sector. Her experience spans energy system planning, open entry, transmission pricing, cross-border interconnections, business operations and regulatory affairs. She has additionally served as deputy chief working officer at Central Transmission Utility of India Restricted and at the moment heads POWERGRID’s Business and Regulatory Cell.
Gupta has performed a pivotal function in shaping India’s transmission panorama. She contributed considerably to the achievement of the “One Nation, One Grid, One Frequency” imaginative and prescient, enabling seamless energy switch throughout areas and optimised utilisation of technology assets. She has additionally been intently related to the event of inexperienced power corridors, supporting the large-scale integration of renewable power into the grid.
A powerful advocate of know-how adoption, Gupta has pushed the deployment of superior methods akin to versatile alternating present transmission system options (FSC, SVC, statcom and TCSC), 765 kV AC networks, and ±800 kV excessive voltage direct present methods, together with voltage supply converter applied sciences, high-temperature low-sag conductors and dynamic line loading.
As head of the sphere high quality assurance and high quality assurance and inspection departments, she launched digital initiatives akin to digital inspections, contributing to improved operational effectivity and well timed capex execution.
Within the regulatory area, Gupta has performed a key function in coverage growth, contributing to the Electrical energy Act of 2003 and tariff coverage amendments, in addition to frameworks for transmission pricing, open entry and common community entry. She has additionally supported regional power cooperation via grid interconnections with neighbouring international locations, together with Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Recognised for her thought management, Gupta has authored technical papers for international platforms akin to CIGRE and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and actively participates in trade boards. She can be a robust advocate for ladies’s empowerment and office inclusion.
{An electrical} engineering graduate from the Delhi Faculty of Engineering, she has additional strengthened her management abilities via govt programmes on the Harvard Enterprise College and the Indian College of Enterprise.
