HIMADRI BANERJI Bio

Himadri Banerji, an ex IITan is presently Project Director (Earlier CEO) at Reliance Energy,largest private sector energy company in India.A BTech Hons IIT Kharagpur, MBA XLRI Mr. Banerji has over 30 years of diverse experience in power sector spanning from equipment manufacturing, operations and EPC projects. He has headed as CEO,and Executive Director Operations, generation, transmission, and distribution businesses in public and private power sector companies in India. Mr. Banerji's experience includes adding value across operations, fuels (oil, gas, coal) and power procurement, tariffs applications, regulatory affairs, loss reduction,CDM,network optimization, system planning and construction, across the verticals of electricity generation, transmission, and distribution businesses. He has worked with multinationals like Rolls Royce IPG, and in private investor owned and public companies in India like the Tata, Torrent Power, and GIPCL.

About Mind your Carbon Footprint:Coal To Liquid or Coal Gasification?

Over the next thirty years, the most rapid increase in energy demand is expected to come from the transport sector (+2.1%/yr versus 1.7%/yr for total demand). At present, this sector relies almost exclusively on petroleum products, which brings up two key problems: oil dependence and the reduction of greenhouse gases. CTL has been touted as an alternative for reducing overdependence, and there is a considerable amount of support being dished out for accelerating the commercialization of the technology. The latest is to rekindle the market with subsidy for a risk free assured contract for US military. However, with the carbon emissions from the CTL technology being high,and unmanageable, CTL is definitely out of place in the present greenhouse-gas constrained world.