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KEY TRENDS AND PROJECTIONS
Questions/Topics:
What are the key trends in coal-based generation?
(capacity, output, plant size, technology, etc)
What are the future projections? (private/public,
planned/otherwise, etc)
What are the key issues and challenges?
Presentation by Gyanendra Thakur, Team Leader, M&A
and Private Sector Solutions Group, CRISIL Infrastructure
Advisory
plus Q&A
SPECIAL SESSION: GOVERNMENT PERSPECTIVE
Questions/Topics:
What is the Ministry of Powers perspective
on coal-based power development? (key issues/challenges)
What policy measures or other actions is the government
contemplating to help coal-based power development?
Special Address by I.C.P. Keshari, Joint Secretary,
Thermal, Ministry of Power
plus Q&A
KEYNOTE SESSION: INDUSTRY PERSPECTIVE
Questions/Topics:
What is the industry perspective on key issues, challenges
and constraints? (fuel supply, manufacturing capacity, human
resource, etc).
How much capacity addition can be realistically expected
over the next few years?
What measures does the government need to take, if
any?
Audio address by R.S. Sharma, Chairman and Managing
Director, NTPC (from London)
KEYNOTE SESSION: MERCHANT POWER PROSPECTS
Questions/Topics:
What can we expect in terms of merchant power capacity
creation?
What can we expect in terms of costs and tariffs?
Is the transmission system in India geared to handle
merchant power?
How will the merchant power marketplace evolve in
the next five years?
Baseline presentation by Satyajit Ganguly, Head,
Operations, Power Exchange India Limited
Panel discussion amongst (in alphabetic order):
Ranjit Gupta, Chief Executive Officer, Indiabulls
Power Limited
Rakesh Kumar, Executive Vice-President, PTC India
Limited
Pradeep Lenka, Chief Executive Officer, Thermal,
LANCO Infratech
Another leading merchant power producer
plus Q&A
FUEL SUPPLY OUTLOOK
Questions/Topics:
What is the outlook for coal demand and supply (domestic)?
What are the key global trends with respect to demand,
supply and price?
What are the key fuel-related issues and concerns?
What has been the progress on captive mining projects
for power producers?
Presentation by Charudatta P. Palekar, Principal
Consultant, Power and Mining, PricewaterhouseCoopers
plus Q&A
FINANCING AND INVESTMENT
Questions/Topics:
What are the investment requirements?
What are the likely sources of funding? What is the
investor perspective?
What are the key features and trends in financing
so far?
Panel discussion amongst (in alphabetic order):
Kishore Babu, Vice-President and Head, Energy, Axis
Bank
Manjul Chawla, Principal, Energy, IDFC Limited
Sanjay Mandavkar, Senior Director, Infrastructure
Banking Group, YES Bank
plus Q&A
FOCUS ON SUPERCRITICAL
Questions/Topics:
What are the key benefits of supercritical technology?
What are the issues?
What role will supercritical technology play in India
going forward?
What are the technology trends in boiler-related
applications in supercritical power stations?
Presentations by:
S.C. Mittal, General Manager, Marketing, Bharat Heavy
Electricals Limited
Vogt Norbet, Voith Turbo, Germany
plus Q&A
REDUCING IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT
Questions/Topics:
What will be the environmental impact of new coal-based
capacity creation?
How can we mitigate this impact?
What are the most promising and relevant clean coal
technologies in the Indian context?
Presentations by:
D.K. Agrawal, General Manager In Charge, Centre for
Power Efficiency and Environmental Protection, CenPEEP,
NTPC
Kavita Sinha, Senior Vice-President and Head, India
Infrastructure Research
plus Q&A
SPECIAL SESSION: POTENTIAL FOR R&M
Questions/Topics:
How can India coal-based power plants improve their
performance?
What is the R&M potential? How should we realise
it?
Presentation by R.N. Sen, Managing Director, NTPC
ALSTOM Power Services
plus Q&A
BEST PRACTICES IN O&M
Questions/Topics:
How can India coal-based power plants improve their
performance?
What are the best practices in O&M?
Presentations by:
Somenath Banerjee, Executive Director, Operations,
NTPC
Anoop Kundu, Associate Vice-President, or Amit Gupta,
Senior Manager, Wärtsilä India on Outsourcing
O&M-Key to enhancing Productivity
plus Q&A
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