V S Venkatesan

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.

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)

M.Tech - Power Generation - IIT Delhi (2005 - 2007)

PG Diploma - Financial Management - Pondicherry University (2001 - 2002)

B.E - Mechanical Engineering - NIT Durgapur (1984 - 1988)