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 Optimizing costs of transmission assets for wind farms.

1.The Challenges in developing transmission capacity to met the goals of 15 % power through renewable by 2020 in US 2.Prevent transmission overload that could take place with the new projects 3.Finding a least-cost and reasonable solution to capacity and operational constraints on the transmission system that will benefit all the stake holders. 4.Existing transmission capacity insufficient to meet the required reliability standards during times of emergency, such as when redundancy in transmission lines reduced. 5.Advanced Network Study and Optimization a must for siting. 6.The cost per Km of transmission lines is prohibitively expensive if met by developer alone, jeopardizing economics and growth of renewable generation. 7.All ratepayers, not just developers, would benefit from the upgrades and should help pay for them.