Interviews

In analysing the grid failure of 2012, it was observed that overloading and consequent tripping of 220 kV system had pushed the system to the edge. As is the case with most system failures, no single factor was responsible for the grid disturbance.

Indeed coal was started being depicted as the bad boy a few years ago, not too long ago actually. Until 2010 it was okay, and then they started to focus on environment, which culminated into the Paris Agreement in 2015.

Axon´ Interconnectors and Wires Pvt. Ltd, subsidiary of Axon´ Cable SAS France was created in 2010 in Bangalore to serve Indian customers in their project requirements. We ploy more than 100 local staff with high expertise in miniaturised interconnects. The local manufacturing harness capability consists of highly skilled operators trained to IPC/WHMA-A-620.

Tata Trusts as an institution that is interested in the area of development and what kind of initiatives in those areas where system strengthening can be done. We have identified ´data driven governance´ as one such area.

Numeric was established in 1984, and the first UPS from Numeric was launched in 1985. and by 1992 we had already completed 25,000 installations across India. In 1994, the company was ranked as the No. 1 UPS manufacturer by Soft Disk.

If you look at CLP’s Jhajjar thermal power plant, we started with raising debt in Rupee and subsequently raised foreign currency borrowing. As the operational performance of Jhajjar improved over a period of time, we looked at the debt capital markets.

With relatively younger time of 20 years in India, but a global experience of 140 years, we are one of the leading technical inspection companies in the country. Having grown consistently to meet the future business requirements, we have two major aspects of our business.

Mainly, super critical and ultra super critical (USC) technologies. Toshiba has very good experienced with ultra super critical technology. We have earlier set up a plant in Japan. So we have introduced USC technology in power generation. In India, the first example is the Harduaganj project in Uttar Pradesh.

Financial restructuring under UDAY will provide some immediate breathing space. To start with, the participating states will take over 75 per cent of discoms´ debt outstanding at end-September 2015 by FY17. The rest of the debt will be re-priced or issued as state-guaranteed discom bonds at coupon rates about 3 per cent less than the average existing interest rate (around 12 per cent).