Vaidhyanathan Raghuraman
Full name(Last name, First name):
Raghuraman, Vaidhyanathan
Profession:
Service
Position:
Principal Adviser
Organisation/company
(including department and/or unit):
Confederation of Indian Industry, Energy Policy Department
Title of the presentation:
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Policy in India (Monday), Energy Audit Programme in India (PS1)
Presentations:
RaghuramanV_EA_Monday110906.pdf
RaghuramanV_EA_Tuesday120906_PS1.pdf
Short CV:
• Post graduate in Chemical Engineering.
• Over 35 years experience as Consultant, Trainer, Chief Executive and Primary specialization in combustion, fuel efficiency, in-depth industrial consulting and training activities in Energy Conservation, Energy Management, National Productivity Council 1966 – 1992
• Pioneered Energy Audit Methodology in the country, was involved with Inter-Ministerial working group on utilization and Conservation of Energy 1981-83 : Coordinated 200 Energy Audit for projecting potential of Energy Savings in the Indian Economy.
As Principal Adviser (Energy) to the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), Mr Raghuraman works with Policymakers, Indian Government Ministries and other National and International bodies on energy sector issues. He has over 34 years of experience in energy management, energy conservation, and industrial engineering and has served as a consultant, trainer and researcher on projects covering combustion, cogeneration and energy audits.
Mr Raghuraman has served as Deputy Director General of the National Productivity Council and subsequently Secretary General of ASSOCHAM. He was also Chairman of the World Energy Efficiency Association in Washington, DC 1994-98. He is one of the pioneers of the energy audit methodology in India and was involved with the Inter-Ministerial Working Group on the Utilization and Conservation of Energy (1983).
Mr Raghuraman helped set up the Petroleum Conservation Association after the oil crisis in 1973 and was Deputy Project Manager 1976-77 and Joint Project Manager 1981-83. His responsibilities included organising Petroleum Conservation activities such as field studies in industry on furnace oil conservation, diesel conservation in transport fleet and agricultural pumpsets.
Mr Raghuraman is the Chairman of SAREC Board and Director in the Board of Orissa Sponge Iron Ltd., Cosmos International & Suzlon Energy Ltd.
Mr Raghuraman was a member of the Energy Research & Development Advisory Committees of ICICI. He is a former member of the Research Council of the Indian Institute of Petroleum, the Board of Governors of the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, PACER, ICICI, the EMCAT Advisory Committee, IDBI and the All-India Council for Technical Education. Nominee Director of IREDA on the Board of Orissa Sponge Iron Ltd.
Mr Raghuraman organised Energy Audit studies sponsored by Adviser (Energy Conservation) Cabinet Secretariat (1990-91); led a team for Energy Code for Buildings sponsored by the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources (1991-92) ; helped identify ESCO opportunities as a member of EMCAT review committee.
Mr Raghuraman was a member of a cogeneration mission sponsored by USAID in 1988. He is also former member of the Task Force on Biomass Cogeneration constituted by the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources. Undertook a study for the Advisory Board on Energy (1987-88) on identifying and implementing “Co-generation Projects”.
As part of his work for CII, Mr Raghuraman draws up policy recommendations and convenes meetings to enhance the conservation of energy, promote the use of renewable energy and preserve the environment. He presented the Indian response to the Kyoto Protocol at the US-Japan Energy policy dialogue meeting to be held in November 1998.
