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Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (Tata Power-DDL) announced the appointment of Ganesh Srinivasan as the company’s new CEO, with effect from December 2, 2019. Tata Power-DDL is a Public-Private Partnership, joint venture company, between Tata Power and Govt of National Capital Territory of Delhi, which distributes electricity to a populace of over seven million in North Delhi.

The installed electricity generation capacity in the country was around 364,960 MW on October 31, which is sufficient to meet the electricity demand in the country. The gap between demand and supply of power up to October during the current fiscal in terms of energy and peak is less than 1 per cent, stated Raj Kumar Singh, Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy.

Govt of India and Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a $451 million loan to strengthen power connectivity between the southern and northern parts of the Chennai-Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor (CKIC), which is part of the East Coast Economic Corridor (ECEC), in Tamil Nadu on Thursday. ADB is the lead partner for developing ECEC.

Perkins Engines Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of Caterpillar Inc., has announced the appointment of David Nicoll in the Industrial Large Engine department as Product Manager. Nicoll will lead global strategy, product introductions and lifecycle management for industrial 9.3-18 litre engines at the Mossville facility in Illinois, US.

The 21st edition of the LED Expo was successfully held in New Delhi from November 14-16. Often described as India’s most influential platform to source and trade lighting technologies, the exposition featured nearly 400 exhibitors from nine countries, several product launches and a future zone.

Schneider Electric on Wednesday announced the launch of its Smart Factory in Bengaluru. This is the second such facility by the company in the country.

Legrand India, a global leader in electrical and digital building infrastructure inaugurated their first voice-enabled state-of-the-art experience centre Innoval in the tech city Bangalore.

This is one industry which definitely has to grow because despite the size of our population, we have very low electricity consumption. Although industrialisation has proceeded at a slow pace here, there is no way it can be reversed; it can only go up.