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Organised by the Indian Electrical & Electronic Manufactures Association

(IEEMA), the Biennial Electronics Congregation is the biggest showcase of electrical and electronic innovations, with exhibitors from 60 and participants from 120 countries. ELECRAMA 2020 has a strong focus on renewable energy, next generation technologies, automation, digital solutions, and buyers and sellers

meets. Encouraging women in power sector, building electrical systems for safer indoor spaces and electrification of railways have been the key highlights of this year’s edition.ELECRAMA 2020 has shown what it takes to organise the largest public showcase yet of industry innovations by over 1370 exhibitors from India and abroad in a five day show packed with

industry experts, exhibitors and buyers.What is more, there, Mr. R K Chugh, President, IEEMA says, they expect business inquiries of Rs 30,000 Cr at the end of the event. “IEEMA cuts across verticals in electrical and electronic and it comprises of 55% capital goods and $42 billion of top-line products in the country. We aim that our top-line should reach the target of $1 billion by 2024-25,” he added.

And the 30 year journey has been fascinating to say the least. Like Mr. Anil Saboo, Chairman, ELECRAMA put it, “The journey of from 1990 to 2020 is exponential as the exhibition has expanded from 9000 to over 1.10 Lakh sq. meters. Also exhibitors grew from 100 to over 1370 in 2020. ELECRAMA has been a matchless platform to Indian electrical industry to

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increase horizon worldwide.”Like past President ELECRAMA Mr S Ramaswamy put it, “I have been a part of ELECRAMA from the very first show in 1990 in various capacities. And I must say it is very gratifying. It is almost like seeing your child all grown up. Today the child has grown and almost reaching the shoulder.

We’ve grown by leaps and bounds in every aspect. Today the show is well known not just nationally but also internationally.” The five day congregation has also seen national and international industry experts and policy makers deliberate upon industry challenges, innovations, and business models through a

series of leadership summits and meetings. Also, the premier showcase hosted world’s largest confluence of power transmission and distribution community at the 5 th Reverse Buyers Sellers Meet and Domestic Buyers Sellers Meet.Completing 30 years of being the only industry platform of the kind, LECRAMA 2020 is supported by the

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Ministry of Power, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, and Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises. While Uttar Pradesh is the host state partner, Germany is the country partner to the14 th edition of the initiative.www.forevernews.in

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Utilities: The changing canvasThe electricity ecosystem is

undergoing a sea change.The changing consumer

demands and expectations, evolving business models and upcoming players are expected to transform the utilities entirely. The plenary session in World Utility Summit discussed the changing canvas of the Utilities.In his keynote address- Mr. Allen Eisendrath, Director, Utilities Services, Corelli Systems and former Director of Global Climate Change, Energy & Infrastructure, USAID/Washington, drew attention to the need to modernise grids. He also spoke on how operational planning aspect needs attention.The session was moderated expertly by Mr. Vikas Gaba, Partner, KPMG India.Mr.Vibhu Kaushik, Director, Grid Technology & Modernization, Southern California Edison, USA gave some very interesting examples from California and spoke on how they “100 per cent committed to decarbonise.”If we were to look at emission reduction, three things, he pointed out, it is very important to strengthen and modernise grid and also mordernise the distribution process,Giving the perspective of Island countries, Mr Mr.Ajwad Musthafa,

Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Government of Republic of Maldives, said, “When we talk of evolving situation we

have to see where we work. We for example have to interconnect islands. ”Old legacy system in Maldives he said had been a challenge but now they have new systems in place. Some other changes are smart meters and focus on LED lights. “We are focusing on LED street lights; we are planning to install energy, management systems in ware houses. In future we hope to also hope to see more power distribution companies.”Ms.Wasantha Perera, Secretary, Ministry of Power & Energy, Government of Sri Lanka pointed out how the entire world is energy trilemma.Sri Lanka’s energy, she shared is at the announcement of major energy

transitions. Currently for example, 40 per cent energy is supplied by biomass.“Electricity prices are high and what

we need are optimisation of urban space, utility duct in service access corridor and smart metering.”Dr.Arbind Prasad, Chairman, Jharkhand Electricity Regulatory Commission, India spoke on the role of regulators and how the idea should be to make cities accessible.“Expansion and tariff restructuring are the most crucial. Utilities don’t get subsidies, they are facing maximum challenge. There are huge cash flow issues”, he pointed out.Talking of global learning, he said, they are great but should be suitable to local challenges.Dr.Arindam Maitra, Senior Technical Executive, Electric Power Research Institute, USA, pointed out how changes in landscapes are opening new business opportunities.

“It is not just about solar and wind, it is about integrating everything. The challenge is that resource mix is changing,” he said.

“We need to identify t e c h n i c a l challenges and also identify reliability and e c o n o m i c barriers and address them at appropriate level.”Speaking of c o n s u m e r s , he said, they are the new resource. “If c u s t o m e r putting solar, he needs incentive.”Must needed now, he said, are

communication (from unconnected to connected), controls (from inflexible to flexible DER operation) and from local impacts to wide area impacts.Mr. Paul Nelsen, Vice President, Sales, Commercial and Customer Enablement APAC, ITRON, APAC Region, Paul Neison drew on a personal example of how he remembered his phone came home, how it had a wire and how there was just one provider.He compared it the mobiles now. “Digital utility is not becoming wire in the defunct phone. A multipurpose connected network will be the way forward. Smart grid is about making the grid open to all the new technologies.”www.forevernews.in

‘Power Utility Leaders’ Dialogue’ a session during the 3rd edition of the World Utility Summit at the ELECRAMA - 2020, at Greater Noida, BYPL CEO

P.R. Kumar and team participated. He emphasized, that contrary to the tradition, the power sector today is being reshaped by elements that are

evolving and converging.

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Enabling Technologies: Digitalization & Cyber securityDigitalisation is now an integral part of our lives. And if one goes by the current indicators, it is only poised to become much more vital.Are we ready, if yes, how much and what is it that we can do better are some of the key questions that were answered at World Utility Summit’s plenary session ‘Enabling Technologies - Digitalization & Cyber security’ on Tuesday morning.Digitalisation will generate substantial amount of data and connect all assets & operations allowing higher efficiency. While digitalising the grids, cyber secu-rity need to be enhanced to reduce sys-temic risks. This session discusses trends in digitalisation, threats from cyber-at-tacks and way forward.

While the keynote address was given by Mr. Praveer Sinha, CEO & Managing Di-rector, Tata Power, India, setting the tone of the discussion, Mr. Ketan Shah, MD, Accenture, India, took over the discus-sion, maneuvering it perfectly.Speed and responsiveness, he said are the new battlegrounds. “How do we be-come sustainable partner in eco system, what is our consequential responsibility, are questions we must ask,” he added.While flexibility is very nice but we have to also talk about the greed on grid. Are we really modernising to the extent we need to. How much investment does a country need, what are the kinds of charging stations really required. As an industry are we disrupting or are we get-ting disrupted, he said are some perti-nent questions.Mr. Rajesh Bansal, Head Network Op-erations, BSES Rajdhani Power Limited,

India shared the company’s journey. “We were formed in 2002 when power situation in Delhi was bad, losses were about 53 per cent, about 4-5 hour out-ages were the norm, technology was ob-solete.”From bringing down the losses from 53 per cent then to 7.5 per cent now, the journey he shared has been a learning experience. “Business of power distribution is per-ceived differently by different people. For me power distribution is to give each consumer safe, sufficient, quality pow-er.”Some operational parameters they like to focus on, he shared are reliability, maximum optimization, low failures, and demand .He underlined the role of uniformity on asset management. “Uniform demand curve means higher efficiency, “ he said. Of course it comes with its own share of challenges given the fact that tem-peratures in Delhi can vary from above 40 degrees in summers to 2 degrees in winters. “Summer demand is four times the winter demand. The challenge is de-mand varies drastically. Even consum-er doesn’t know how much they will use. Sometimes we end up with over planned or under planned network. To deal with this, we came with the con-cept of uniformity,” he shared.Prof. Sebastian Lehnhoff, Full Professor, Energy Informatics, Carl-von-Ossietz-ky-University of Oldenburg, Germany, spoke on cyber security in distribution networks. Security, he said, needs some classic rules of plan, act, plan and adjust.

“Accept responsibility, you must plan and document, act by implementing measures and validate by a third party. You have to un-derstand once you install a sys-tem, you need to know it is vulner-able and needs protection. You have to build re-silient systems. We cannot as-sume any system to be 100 per cent secure. So you have to be pre-pared for attacks, outages and to have the system up and running again,” he said.Mr. Ian Mcleod, Di-rector, Smart Ener-gy, Enzen, Australia, spoke on creating a digital utility for community growth and resilience. “Building a digital 3d virtual world can improve a host of things like, an-alytics/scenario modelling, process automation, decision making, risk management, network adaption and resiliency planning disaster response and community recovery, customer service and works planning and re-source management” he shared from an informative presentation of his.Mr. P.K. Agarwal, CIO, Power Systems Operation Corporation Ltd, India said, digital utility must have smart sensors and IOT infrastructure, active

communication, interactive resourc-es and finally interactive consumers.Key drivers for digitalization, he

pointed out are shift from fossil to green fuel , electrification of trans-portation, energy efficiency and mutating all aspects of energy from power generation to usage to low carbon signatures.The way forward, he said, was utili-ties need to transform their business.Ms. Sanna Öörni, Co-creation Man-ager, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland ended with saying “En-ergy efficiency is the first green fuel. Also to be energy efficient you need to know consumption. The solutions need to be scalable and flexible.”www.forevernews.in

Dignitaries lighting the lamp at the Indian Railways Emerging Smart conference during ELECRAMA2020.

Mr. Anil Saboo, Chairman ELECRAMA 2020 welcoming delegates at Indian Railways Emerging Smart conference

during ELECRAMA2020.

Indian Railways Emerging Smart conference at the ELECRAMA 2020 opened new vistas

Mr. Robert Klaffus, CEO, Siemens Digital Grid, Germany:” We need to adopt dynamic grid controls moving from reactive to proactive grid management in real-time.

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Fire safety: Disruptive innovationsSome recent fires have brought

to fore, once again, the little importance given to electric

equipment quality.A discussion on ‘Disruptive innovations in electric fire safety, security and surveillance at the days three of ELECRAMA, once again underlined the importance of quality when it comes to electrical parts.Since ELECRAMA brings together complete spectrum of solutions that powers the planet, featuring equipment and technology and peerless thought leadership platforms for technical conferences and industry summits, it was imperative to have a discussion on this crucial subject.The session was mediated by Mr Debdas Goswami, ICA India who pointed out how electricity an integral part of our lives. Safety, he underlined should be of utmost concern. “Poor design, quality, undersized cable, oversized cable, ignorance of rules and regulation. Cost cutting can have disastrous effects.”Mr Pankaj Dharkar of FSAI, said, “People have to understand the dangers due to quality compromise. Change in mindset and awareness towards disasters is another must. Unless awareness and passion grow, we are sitting on huge problems.”Lack of awareness and apathy, he added, is dangerous. Earthing is another ignored area, he pointed out. Drawing on the example of Mumbai where lightning striking

is common, attitude of d e v e l o p e r s , sadly is very casual. The losses can play havoc. Biggest thing that BIS can do is draw stringent rules

and regulations. Thermo graphic test of a property, he shared should be a must. “It can help bring out problem areas, if any.”Ravindra Gupta of CEA shared how in 2019, they conducted more than 20 workshops in electrical safety which saw participation from more than 100 technicians, engineers and members from industry. At CEA, he said, to spread awareness of safety regulation is our focus area and we also have Electrical safety week in June, every year. “We also have

a handbook on electrical safety called ‘Sachet’, which has a pictorial representation of what to do and not to do. Death due to lightning is also highlighted.”Mr Rajeev Sharma of BIS shared how BIS has 16 technical departments and it is their endeavor to be in tandem with international standards. BIS website, he shared also has a comments link and they actively invite suggestions. “Comments of general public are important and an active committee looks at

addressing the issues”, he said.Talking of National building code of 2016, he said, it is their pride and they do their bit to popularise it. Complete compliance to national building code takes care of all the requirements.But updation is a must and they don’t want to be left behind. “We also have national electrical code which is being updated. So soon we will have 2020 National electrical code,” he shares.

Ms. Manju Gupta, Addl. Member (Electrical), Railway Board, Minis try of Railways, commended that, Indian Railways will become the growth engine

of Nation’s Vikas Yatra during the Elecrama2020.

Mr. R.K Chugh, President-IEEMA addressing the audience during the Indian Railways Emerging Smart conference during at the

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Mr. Anil Saboo, Chairman ELECRAMA 2020 welcoming delegates at Indian Railways Emerging Smart conference

during ELECRAMA2020.

Indian Railways Emerging Smart conference at the ELECRAMA 2020 opened new vistas

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ELECRAMA 2020 Rolls Out Multiple Next Gen Tech Initiatives

A host of firsts have helped make ELECRAMA 2020 the huge success it is has turned out to be.Besides the much acclaimed World Utility Summit and the newly introduced and much appreciated Women Empower initiatives, it also rolled out a host of key initiatives, including eTechNxt, buildELEC, Renewable Energy and NSIC. With some of the best minds in the respective industries sharing best practices and their experiences, the various sessions and talks were deeply engaging to say the least. eTechNxt , proved to be a unique initiative under ELECRAMA 2020 which powered deliberations on pertinent challenges of next generation technologies, including

e-mobility, energy storage, start-up forum, and u p s k i l l i n g for new t e c h n o l o g i e s . The four day i n i t i a t i v e covered a range of subjects, e - M o b i l i t y trends and policies and e m e r g i n g technology and storage.buildElec which took place on 20 th and 21 st January, had a deep focus

on the evolving roles of artificial intelligence and IoT, Smart Tech, energy efficiency, security, power quality,covering rooftop solar, security and surveillance, and lighting.It also showcased latest technologies to build electricity smarter and safer buildings through H3O (homes, hospitals, hotels) is which is of urgent importance considering short-circuits being one of the leading cause of fires in India.

Three dedicated pavilions of

Renewable Energy, National Small Industries Corporation (NSIC), and Rail Urja displayed various technologies and developments towards meeting major national objectives. If the Railway Conference debated India’s roadmap towards 100% electrification of Indian railways. NSIC pavilion showcased why SMEs are called “India’s engine of growth”, while providing business recharging opportunities for SMEs. Renewable energy pavilion drove the spotlight towards the need for integrating the growing renewable energy sector with existing electrical ecosystem.www.forevernews.in

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“I am from the power sector and am very happy to be here. There are lots of

i n n o v a t i v e techniques and

products to be seen. It is an interesting experience.”

Sobo Omobola Oluwasen, Transmission, Company of Nigeria

“I have earlier s e e n

E L E C R A M A in Bangalore and I must say, this one

is far better organised in

terms of ease of locating halls, companies. I am very happy to be here.”

Brij Bandhu, Hyderabad

“I am extremely impressed to be

here, to say the least. The way it has been o r g a n i s e d ,

the displays, the products,

everything is top notch.”

Arun Garg, Punjab Transmission Company Ltd.

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Active participants at the WUS session

Women: The multi tasker professionals

Taking forward the Women Empower initiatives, Ms Palka Sahni, Executive Director, Power Finance Corporation Ltd, delivered a powerful lecture.Speaking on STEM, “I want girls to do more of engineering. Once they are educated in it, they are at power with their male counterparts.”She also spoke on the need to grooming and sensitise men to understand that there is woman who knows her job.There need to be systemic interventions, she stressed that can be made to lay down parameters first to recruit women, then train and then to retain them.We should also ask how we can help a lady to come up to her own expectations.She also placed responsibility on women to promote each other. “We need to be supportive of each other rather than pull each other down.”

Office policies, she stressed need to be updated as well. Men are never questioned when they have a child, women are. “We need to drive home the fact that we need to be given the opportunity. How can we groom institutions to help reinvent women if they fall out? “She also said she doesn’t want to see women as front desk officers. “Women have the

power to take an organization ahead. Nine out of ten times when a woman tells me a work will be done, it is done. In my experience they are far less corrupt and more empathetic.” We need to spread the message around that we need more women around. “This is not samaj sewa. We can work better than men.”www.forevernews.in