Agenda

Saturday, June 25, 2011
Regency Room, Hotel Hindustan International, Kolkata

09:00 – 09:30 Registration/Tea 09:30
09:30 – 10:45 Inaugural Session

Welcome Address

Keya Ghosh, Centre Head, CUTS Calcutta Resource Center (CRC)

Special Addresses

• Malay Kumar De, Secretary, Department of Power and NES, Government of West Bengal
• S P Gon Chaudhuri, Advisor, RE, Department of Power and NES, Government of West Bengal
• Prititosh Ray, Member, Governing Body, West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency & Empanelled National Level Monitor, MNRE, Government of India
• Prasad Ranjan Ray, Chairperson, West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission
• Natasha Bhan, Programme Associate (Power), Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation (SSEF)

Overview of the DREC Project
Udai S Mehta, National Coordinator for DREC project & Assistant Director, CUTS International

10:45 – 11:00 Tea Break

11:00 – 12:30 Panel Discussion on “Nature and Scope of CSO intervention in the context of RE and DSM”

Chair
Keya Ghosh, Centre Head, CUTS Calcutta Resource Center (CRC)
Panellists

• Joy Chakraborty, Assistant Director, West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency
• Daljit Singh, Senior Research Fellow, Prayas Energy Group
• Sunil Dhingra, Senior Fellow and Internal Resource Advisor, Biomass Energy Technology Applications, The Energy and Resources Institute
• K.K.Bagchi, Executive Director, Amrit Bio-Energy

Floor Discussion

12:30 – 13:30 Successful interventions by stakeholders in the Energy Sector in India
Chair
C.R.Bhowmik, Adviser (Engineering), West Bengal Electricity Regulatory
Commission

Presenters

• Mario Ferro, Husk Power Systems, Bihar
• Ranjit Kumar Mohanty, Programme Co-ordinator, VIKSAT, Nehru Foundation for Development, Gujarat
• B.K.Dutta, Vivekananda Institute of Biotechnology, West Bengal

Floor Discussion

13:30 – 13:50 Closing Session
Udai S Mehta, National Coordinator for DREC project & Assistant Director, CUTS International

13:50 – 14:30 Lunch