Shri Dhiraj Kumar Srivastava
Government Nominee Director, MoP

Dhiraj Kumar Srivastava , CPES, Qualification: B.E. Electrical Engineering 1993

Joined Central Power Engineering Services (CPES Cadre Group- A Officer) through UPSC in 1998 and served as Asst. Director in PSTI Bangalore; Asst. Executive Engineer-NERPC; Dy. Director in CEA, OSD in POWERGRID; Director, National Power Committee; Director, Transmission in Ministry of Power, Electrical Inspector to Govt. of India (Northern Region),

Presently posted as Chief Engineer, Energy Conservation and Energy Transition, Ministry of Power

Special Role performed in past:

· Implementation of Availability Based Tariff in various regions of the country during 2003-04

· Formulated the guidelines for accreditations of training institutes under Ring Fencing of Load Despatch Centre in year 2010,

· Amendments in grid connectivity regulation for Renewables, new regulation on connectivity of distributed generation resources in year 2013,

· CEA regulations on operation and maintenance of Sub-station/Lines, grid connectivity of RE Sources, Delhi islanding scheme and other islanding schemes like UP, Punjab etc., during year 2012 to year 2015-16.

· Nodal person for Grid Enquiry Committee ( historic grid failure of 30th and 31st July 2012), All grid security matters, inter regional operational and commercial issues,

· Member Secretary of Central level Task Force on study of power system under contingency for long term grid security measures.

· Amendment to Electric Supply safety Regulations, Construction of electric plant and lines regulations etc. Carried out safety audits of Thermal power plants in various parts of country – first time in country at central level comprehensive push

· Pushed grid strengthening of Renewables, facilitating record renewables capacity addition in the grid, standard bidding documents for transmission.

· Conceptualized and implemented National Mission on Biomass utilization in thermal power plant so as to reduce carbon footprint of power generation.

· Developed regulation on flexible operation of thermal power plants for RE Integrations.

He is appointed as Nominee Director Ministry of Power on EESL Board w.e.f. 26.06.2024.