V S Venkatesan
CHIEF GENERAL MANAGER Retired, NTPC LTD., NEW DELHI
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Senior Power Sector Executive with 37 years' experience in Thermal, Renewable and Nuclear areas. @ NTPC Limited - Leading Power Utility in India. Leadership experience in Project Management, Engineering and Contracts Management, Erection, Commissioning and O&M.
Experience
Chief General Manager - Engg & Project Management - NTPC SAIL JV Company - New Delhi
(2024-08 - 2026-07)
- Commissioning of 15 MW Floating Solar project in Bhilai
- Other Solar projects in SAIL premises (400 MW) - Preparation of DPR
- Blast furnace (BF) Gas firing in older units of SAIL replacing coal firing
- Setting up of 1 X 800 MW Thermal Project in Bhilai
Business Unit Head - NTPC Renewable Energy Limited - Bikaner/Jaisalmer
(2021-03 - 2024-07)
Directed full lifecycle of multi-site solar projects in Rajasthan of approx. 1 GW located in Bikaner and Jaisalmer Rajasthan.
- Commissioning of 1GW Solar projects in Rajasthan located in Bikaner, Phalodi and Jaislamer
- Liasonning with Govt of Rajasthan for Land acquisition/Connectivity for the above projects
General Manager - Patratu Vidyut Utapadan Nigam Limited - Patratu
(2020-08 - 2021-03)
- Project implementation of 3 x 800 MW units
Additional GM (Renewable Energy) - Engg/PP&M - NTPC Limited - New Delhi
(2014-08 - 2020-08)
- Setting up of small capacity (5-10 MW) Solar projects in NTPC sites
- Setting up of 250 MW Solar project in Anantpur (Rajasthan), Bhadla (Raj) & Mandsaur (MP) in Solar parks and 50 MW Wind project in Rojmal (Gujarat)
- Finalization of strategy for NTPC participation in Tariff based bidding
- Finalization of Roadmap for Capacity addition in Renewables
- Policy advocacy with MNRE
- Coordinating Developer Mode projects under National Solar Mission (NSM)
- Green Hydrogen
Additional GM (Nuclear/Task Force) - NTPC Limited - New Delhi
(2007-08 - 2014-08)
- NTPC Foray into Nuclear Power
- Preparation of Concept Paper/Roadmap
- Visit to Nuclear stations in India
- Scouting of Potential Nuclear sites for NTPC
- Recruitment and deployment of ETs in NPCIL for operator license
- Engineering Task force of Mouda and Solapur - Ensured timely engineering inputs
- Finalised Revised engineering and quality coordination procedure
Senior Mgr - Proj Planning and Monitoring - NTPC Limited - New Delhi
(2004-04 - 2007-08)
- Corporate Project Monitoring of Sipat 2 x 500 MW project
- Pursued Full time MTech in Power Generation Technology (2005-2007)
Manager - Mechanical Erection - NTPC Limited - Ramagundam, Telangana
(2003-04 - 2004-04)
- Project construction of 1 x 500 MW in Ramagundam, Telangana
Manager - Quality Assurance - NTPC Limited - Chennai
(2001-04 - 2003-04)
- Quality Assurance and Pre dispatch inspection
- Obtained NDT-Ultrasonic certification from ISNT Chennai
Dy Manager - Engineering - NTPC Limited - Noida
(1997 - 2001)
- Project Engineering Management (Mechanical)
- Special Technical Assistant to ED (Engineering)
Engineer/Sr Engineer – Project Construction/O&M - NTPC Limited - Talcher Kaniha
(1990 - 1997)
- Concept to Commissioning of 2 x 500 MW units
- O&M of 2 x 500 MW units
Executive Trainee - NTPC Limited
(1989)
Education
M.Tech - Power Generation - IIT Delhi (2005 - 2007)
PG Diploma - Financial Management - Pondicherry University (2001 - 2002)
B.E - Mechanical Engineering - NIT Durgapur (1984 - 1988)
