ISUW 2024 Speaker

Anand Kumar is a career civil servant, who joined Indian Administrative Service in 1984 and rose to the highest level of Secretary to the Government of India heading the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in the year 2017 till 2020. He has held many significant assignments in the Government of Kerala and in Government of India. He has built expertise in the renewable energy and housing regulation sectors. He is currently the Chairman of the Real Estate Regulatory Authority of Delhi. His Achievements in the Renewable Energy Sector are Enhanced total renewable energy capacity (installed, under installation or under bidding) from 60 GW in 2017 to 155 GW in April, 2020 (with 88 GW installed, 35 GW under various stages of installation and 33 GW under various stages of bidding); For the first time, under his leadership Renewable Ministry forecasted power demand of 500 GW upto 2030 and gave trajectory for bidding & creation of new capacity till that year; Planned linking the potential solar and wind areas with main transmission lines; Prepared a road map to augment existing and add new transmission capacity of 66.5 GW to evacuate planned 175 GW of renewable power by the year 2022; Designed and implemented various short/medium/long term policies, programs and strategies for enhancing deployment and integration of renewable energy (solar, wind, bio and hydro); Planned for financial closure and implementation of Renewable Energy projects, assess tariffs considering associated risks, renewable energy auction bids and evaluated existing energy assets and power purchase agreements; Planned exploitation of potential of offshore wind & creation of new testing facilities for offshore wind turbines.