Sushil Kumar Soonee

Sushil Kumar Soonee
Born (1956-11-14) 14 November 1956
West Bengal, India
Occupation Chief Executive Officer, POSOCO
Years active 1978–present

Mr. Sushil Kumar Soonee is an Electrical Engineering Honours graduate from IIT Kharagpur class of 1977. After brief stint in Private Sector, he joined Central Electricity Authority (CEA) through Combined Engineering Services Examination. His deep interest in Power System Operation brought him to POWERGRID when the five Regional Load Despatch Centres were transferred from CEA to POWERGRID. He has more than three decades of experience covering technical, commercial, managerial, pool governance, regulatory affairs, interconnections, market development, open access, power exchange, power system technology, EMS/SCADA, settlement, Renewable Energy Certificate, Transmission Pricing etc. He has first-hand experience of grid management as RLDC head in three out of five regions in the country viz. Eastern, Southern and Northern.

He is actively involved in the GO-15 (formerly known as VLPGO i.e. Very Large Power Grid Operators in the world). He is very active in fostering the growth of Power System Operation faculty and building sustainable Institutional mechanism to support the rapidly developing Indian Power sector.

He is steering the Power System Operation of the pan-India grid as the Chief Executive Officer of POSOCO which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Power Grid Corporation of India Limited. He has worked extensively for integration of state grids to form regional grid in Eastern and North-eastern region and later contributed in the formation of the synchronous N-E-W grid. He has been closely associated with drafting of the Indian Electricity Grid Code (IEGC), implementation of Availability Based Tariff (ABT) mechanism and introduction of Open Access in India.

He is a Fellow of Institute of Engineers,(India), a Senior Member of IEEE and Member of CIGRE with a keen interest in C2, C5 and D2 committees of CIGRE. He is also an active member of IEEE PES (i.e. IEEE Power and Energy Society) and TSO comparison. He has authored several technical articles that have been presented in various forums. His current area of interest besides power system operation is electricity market design and human capacity building.

He is proficient in English, German, Hindi, Bengali and Marwari.

Education

He did his schooling from Nopany Kolkata Higher Secondary School (1964-1972). He joined IIT Kharagpur in 1972 to pursue B.Tech (Hons.) in Power System. He also did research in Power System Operation in IIT Kharagpur (1983–84).

Honors and Awards

Serial Number Honour/Award Awarded by Year
1 Distinguished Alumnus Award in the 60th Convocation of IIT KHARAGPUR IIT Kharagpur July 2014
2 Industry Excellence Award, NPSC 2014, Guwahati IIT Guwahati December 2014
3 2011 PES Chapter Outstanding Engineer by the PES-IAS Delhi chapter for outstanding leadership and contribution in Power Grid Operation, Control & Regulatory Mechanism IEEE February 2012
4 CBIP award for outstanding contribution in Power System operation Central Board of Irrigation and Power, India December 2015
5 Power Persona of the year Award- special award for Grid Management Enertia Awards November 2012
6 BEST PERFORMANCE Award for ' Planning a Regional Electricity Grid in South Asia' by SARI South Asia Regional Initiative in Energy July 2002
7 Distinction in Power Engineering Technology Central Electricity Authority (CEA) 1994
8 Distinguished Member CIGRE CIGRE 2016
9 Distinguished Performance in Chess, Patel Hall IIT Kharagpur 1975-76

Certifications

♦ Specialist Level Certificate on "Power System Reliability", National Power Training Institute, Delhi, License DELPSR1507, February 2015 – February 2018.
♦ Specialist Level Certificate on Regulatory Framework, National Power Training Institute, Ministry of Power, Govt of India, License DELRFW1323, April 2013 – March 2016.
♦ Power System Operator Certificate, National Power Training Institute, Ministry of Power, Govt of India, License DEL039, January 2012 – December 2014.
♦ CrtEVM Certificate in Earned Value Management, Institute of Project Management Certification, Project Management Associates, License CrtEVM 12 016, Starting June 2012.

Career

He started his career as Factory Incharge in Techno Electric Company in August 1977 and left the job in September 1978 after getting selected in Central Electricity Authority (CEA) as an Executive Engineer. He worked in CEA for 16 years and 4 months.

He was later transferred to Powergrid Corporation of India Limited after the Load Despatch functions were taken from CEA and given to POWERGRID. He joined as a Deputy General Manager at ERLDC, Kolkata in 1995.

He was promoted to the post of General Manager, SRLDC, Bangalore in October 2001.

In November 2004, he was given the designation of Executive Director, NRLDC. In January 2006, he got additional responsibilities of System Operation department of POWERGRID.

In June 2010 he was appointed as CEO, POSOCO and was made responsible for entire system operation related activities of RLDCs and NLDC. The Corporate Centre of POSOCO is at B-9, Qutab Institutional Area, Katwaria Sarai, New Delhi-110016, INDIA.
POSOCO mainly comprises -

  1. National Load Despatch Centre (NLDC)
  2. Five Regional Load Despatch Centres

Publications

Mr. S.K. Soonee has published hundreds of papers in various journals and conferences. Some of the papers are listed below -

Serial Number Paper Title Published By Year Co-authors Description Web-link
1 Reliability - from Load Forecasting to System Operation in Indian Power System IEEE Conference 2007 Subrata Mukhopadhaya In this paper, in the background of evolution of power grids in India, establishment of regulatory framework and operational philosophy in vogue, first reliability aspect of long term, mid term as well as short term (operational / outage) planning has been dealt with. Thereafter issues on the day ahead scheduling of generation as associated with real time operation (linking frequency in particular) for implementation through unique real time pricing mechanism has been highlighted. It has been shown how effectively markets could take care of reliability with self-healing mechanism, particularly in a country like India having power shortages. At the same time important parameter like grid voltage too has figured in, although a lot more is expected in the time to come. Though immediately not tagged with pricing in the power market directly, finally grid security, restoration, mock trial for black start, etc. from reliability angle are the other pertinent aspects that have been touched to conclude. As such reliability coordination in every aspect is playing an important role right from load forecasting to system operation under the changing scenario with the development of power market in India. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4275619/
2 Development of power market in India IEEE Conference 2006 S. Mukhopadhaya, S.K. Dube This paper presents the status of development of power market in India with the creation of opportunities consequent to restructuring of the sector through unbundling, opening up for private sector participation, positioning of regulatory mechanism through commissions at state and central level and appellate tribunal, allowing open access, etc. Starting with the background, it aims at giving a clear picture of achievement till to date and issues to be resolved to reach the goal. In this context opportunities that exist for power and energy trading with neighboring countries too are highlighted. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1709056/
3 An Indian experience of defense against blackouts and restoration mechanism followed IEEE Conference 2008 S. Mukhopadhaya, S.R. Narasimhan, R.K. Porwal In this paper with the background of evolution of regional electricity grids in India aiming at the formation of National Grid, Indian experience of running the electricity grid with the procedure established to safeguard the system against possible blackouts has been detailed. This has been followed by the restoration measures adopted earlier in the event of such occurrences and as envisaged for future, particularly in the context of four out of five regional grids operating in synchronism and the remaining one connected asynchronously with the rest. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4596684/
4 Plant operation and control within smart grid concept: Indian approach IEEE Conference 2011 S. Mukhopadhaya, R. Joshi With smart grid typically characterized by attributes like, reliable and secure, efficient and economic, environment friendly and safe to the extreme extent as feasible, it calls for quality transmission and distribution operation backed by generation with optimum utilization of assets considering expected level of commitment from all stakeholders. Latter encompass investors, owners, traders, service providers, operators, and consumers of different categories. Such being the concept plant operation and control assumes an important, but difficult task at every instant of time to go. With Indian grid still growing to meet demand along with expansion of network whether from new generation or strengthening intermediate power systems, stabilization of the process would definitely take some more years. But aspiration of consumers nevertheless is not going to stop from the point of view of quality, besides quantitative adequacy at every instant of time. This calls for on the one hand smart grid to adjust with generation and its possible storage with availability whenever and wherever called for, self-healing mechanism in the face of disturbance, optimum utilization of assets achieving high level of efficiency in operation, while at the other hand consumer getting quality electricity as per quantitative requirement, through successfully enabled provision of services, products marketed, etc. Extensive usage of digital technology in terms of communication and information technology on real-time basis is an essential feature for achieving success in the matter considering the demand-supply scenario accurately at every instant. Depending upon the same means of automatic or intelligent operation and control within smart grid concept has been deliberated in the paper. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6039385/
5 Application of phase angle measurement for real time security monitoring of Indian Electric Power System- An Experience CIGRE, C2-107 2008 Sunil Kumar, Vivek Pandey, Rajesh Kumar The phase angle differences across different nodes are a measure of static stress across the grid and its proximity to instability and therefore can be monitored with respect to predetermined stability threshold limits. These threshold limits are being put based on the past experiences of system separation and off line simulations. The novel approach has improved system visualization and situational awareness of the system operators in the "NEW-grid." The paper describes the deployment of direct phase angle measurement for monitoring the security of a large grid and would be a precursor to the deployment of Synchrophasor technology in the Indian electric power systems. http://www.nrldc.org/docs/Documents/Papers/CIGRE2008_C2-107.pdf
6 In praise of Unscheduled Interchange Mechanism Transica, Powergrid 2005 Vivek Pandey A poetry on the unique balancing mechanism adopted in Indian Electricity Market. http://www.nrldc.org/docs/Documents/Articles/PoetryUI.pdf
7 Unscheduled Interchange- A Story in Quotes Transica, Powergrid 2006 S.R. Narasimhan, Vivek Pandey This is a compilation of remarkable quotes on energy balancing in Electricity Market. http://www.srldc.org/Downloads/Astoryinquotes.pdf
8 Multiple power exchanges in India – a case study CIGRE, C5-107 2010 S.S. Barpanda, S.C. Saxena http://www.cigre.org/gb/publications/papers.asp
9 Significance of Unscheduled Interchange Mechanism in the Indian Supply Electricity Supply Industry Banaras Hindu University (BHU) 2006 S.R. Narasimhan, Vivek Pandey The Unscheduled Mechanism (UI) enforced in the interstate sale-purchase of power has succeeded in transforming the fabric of the Indian power system operation in a manner unparallel. Nonetheless, categorizing the scheme as a disciplinary and penal mechanism would be like missing bull's eye wide off the mark. UI rate is much more than what meets the eye. The paper argues that the mechanism is primarily a real-time balancing mechanism and an instrument to achieve economy and efficiency at the macro level. http://www.wrldc.com/docs/Significance_of_UI.pdf
10 Visualization and Human Factors in Electric Power System Operation IT-Banaras Hindu University 2006 Devender Kumar, S.C. Saxena http://nrldc.in/docs/documents/Papers/VHPSO_FINAL.pdf
11 A Power System Operator's Tribute to Power Systems Guru – Charles Concordia Transica, Powergrid 2007 S.C. Saxena http://ww2.hpsldc.org/?folio=7POYGN0G2
12 Reactive Power and System frequency Relationship - A case Study CBIP 7th International R&D Conference 2009 Vineeta Agarwal, Suruchi Jain This paper describes the impact of System frequency on Reactive power. The discussion is based on the study of these two important parameters on generator, urban radial load and SVC. In Northern India wide variation in frequency, in the range of 48.5 - 50.2 Hz, is observed against the permissible limit of 49 - 50.5 Hz in the absence of free governor mode of operation (FGMO). Studies show that relation of Reactive power with respect to frequency is negative. One percent increase/decrease in frequency causes 6-12 % decrease/increase in Reactive power. To minimize this variation in Reactive power, for better Reactive power management, system stability and voltage control, a tighter frequency band is an urgent need today.http://nrldc.in/docs/documents/Papers/Reactive%20Power%20&%20Freq_relationship_CBIP.pdf
13 Energy Conservation by Electrical Load Management through Day Light Utilisation Institute of Engineers, Kolkata 1991
14 Trans-National Power Exchange – An Essay on Costs & Benefits FEISCA, Dhaka, Bangladesh 1998 S.K. Sinha, B.K. Banerjee
15 Importance of Traction Supply in Eastern region- A system Operator's view Institute of Engineers, Kolkata 2001 http://erldc.org/TractionSeminar/
16 Point of Connection Transmission Pricing in India International Journal of Emerging Electrical Power Systems 2013 S.S. Barpanda, Mohit Joshi, Nripen Mishra, Vaishally Bhardwaj The National Electricity Policy (NEP) [1], issued by the Government of India, mandates transmission prices to be distance and direction sensitive and capture utilization of the network by each network user. In line with the mandate, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) [2] has issued Sharing of Interstate Transmission Charges and Losses Regulations, 2010 [3], to introduce point of connection (PoC)-based transmission pricing methodology in India. The methodology under the above regulations introduces one of the major reforms of its kind in the Indian power sector and seeks to share the total transmission charges in proportion to respective utilization of the transmission system by different entities. In this paper, the authors have enumerated their experience gained from the implementation of PoC-based transmission pricing regime in India. Authors have also discussed various issues encountered in the process of implementation and the methodology adopted. Keywords: point of connection (PoC); transmission pricing; min-max fairness; marginal participation; average participation. https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ijeeps
17 On the progress of renewable energy integration into smart grids in India IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting 2012 Subrata Mukhopadhyay, R. Joshi, A.K. Rajput With more than 21,000 MW installed capacity of renewable energy sources as of now out of an estimated potential of about 189,000 MW, in the years to come it is really a challenge to integrate the same into the smart grids in a country like India. This is basically on account of unevenly distributed renewable resources. With 5 regional grids gradually getting connected, formation of national grid in totality is a reality. Of course with major sources of generation being thermal with availability up to certain distant future, entire thrust has been put in recent years on the development of renewable resources that would be the source of energy to run side by side to the conventional ones. At the same time vast assets created in transmission and distribution will also continue to be gainfully used, may be in conjunction other form of value addition to the same for proper functioning. Under this condition, keeping in mind the eventualities, regulations have been framed and so also the certification process has been made effective to handle the situation particularly on grid connectivity front. Expectations from smart grids by the consumers and suppliers as well of course may lead further refinement to the existing protocols in the process in the years to come as and when harnessing of renewable resources progresses to attain a very high level. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6344933/citations?tabFilter=papers
18 Institutional capacity building of the Load Despatch Centres in India CIGRE India Journal 2013, Volume 2 2013 S.R. Narasimhan, Vivek Pandey, Lokesh Chnadra In India there are close to forty (40) Load Despatch Centres . In order to assess capabilities of these Load Despatch Centres (LDCs), a nationwide survey was conducted . It emphasizes that institutional capacity building of the LDCs in India is highly relevant in view of the ongoing reforms and restructuring, increasing vulnerabilities of the interconnected grid, rapid growth in the interconnection size, generation capacity addition, equipment/human failure, cyber attacks, environmental threats and fast changing regulatory framework in India. The paper argues that the effective coordination amongst the system operators can come by establishing functional and financial autonomy of the LDCs as well as by strengthening the capabilities of the human resource working in the LDC. The paper provides an overview of the recent initiatives being taken by the policy makers, regulators and the utilities in India for institutional capacity building of the LDCs. Most significant amongst these are the recommendations of the committee constituted by the Union Ministry of Power (MoP), Government of India (GoI) on manpower, certification, and incentives for system operation and ring fencing of LDCs; the report of the various task forces set up by the MoP for implementation of the recommendation of the committee; the Regulations on fees and charges of the LDCs notified by the Electricity Regulatory Commission; the formation of Forum of Load Despatchers (FOLD); the creation of ISO structure for operation of the National and Regional LDCs; and the programme for training and certification of power system operators in India being undertaken. It argues that institutional capacity building of the LDCs in India would be instrumental in synergizing the benefits of the various reform initiatives in the sector. The paper also highlights the various issues being faced in the implementation of the various initiatives and provides a future outlook. http://ijsr.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:cigre&volume=2&issue=2&article=003
19 Impact of super-cyclone Phailin on power System operation — Defense mechanism and lesson learned PES General Meeting, Conference and Exposition, IEEE 2014 Subrata Mukhopadhyay, V.K. Agarwal, S.R. Narasimhan, S.C. Saxena On October 12 and 13, 2013 devastating super-cyclone (also known as hurricane) Phailin struck the east coast of peninsular India, mainly the state of Odisha and then to some extent Andhra Pradesh lying on the western side of Bay of Bengal. With accurate forecast by the Indian Meteorological Department, wide-scale damage to properties and loss of life could be prevented by timely massive evacuation. Adequate preventive measures were taken for the power supply system as a whole with the availability of online monitored data including those received from Phasor Measurement Units. Even deployment of large-scale portable Diesel-Generating sets on the power generation front and Emergency Restoration System for the transmission system helped to minimize supply disruption time and in post-super-cyclone period in coming back to normalcy http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6939338/?tp=&arnumber=6939338&queryText%3DSoonee
20 Experiences of Synchrophasors Initiatives in India CIGRE 2014, C2-109 2014 V.K. Agarwal, P.K. Agarwal, S.R. Narasimhan, Rajiv Porwal, Vivek Pandey Paper C2-109 summarises the experiences of the Power System Operation Corporation in India, using synchrophasor data for several purposes both online, offline, and for improving the performance of the grid. In this paper several events are presented. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299231827_Experiences_of_Synchrophasor_Initiative_in_India
21 Challenges in assessment of Transfer Capability under high growth high uncertainty restructured scenario in India CIGRE 2014, C2-108 2014 V.K. Agarwal, Prithwish Mukhopadhyay, S.R. Narasimhan, Pradeep Reddy Paper C2-108 describes the challenges to compute TTC in the fast growing Indian transmission system with still a large expansion foreseen, where the delicate balance between network security and market facilitation has to be dealt in a transparent manner. http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspX?target=ijor:wei&volume=57b&issue=5&article=abs008
22 Implementation of point of connection tariff in India CIGRE 2014, C5-106 2014 V.K. Agarwal, Mohit Joshi, Vaishally Bhardwaj Paper C5‐106 highlights for one of the largest electricity market in the world, India, the introduction of a transmission tariff, several steps were necessary to get to the present situation. This introduction has been a major step for the development of the market and implied to adapt some practices as the transmission planning.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278414479_IMPLEMENTATION_OF_POINT_OF_CONNECTION_TARIFF_IN_INDIA

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/278414479_IMPLEMENTATION_OF_POINT_OF_CONNECTION_TARIFF_IN_INDIA
23 India-Bangladesh cross border exchanges through High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) back-to-back station-a success story CIGRE Symposium Lund 2015 2015 V.K. Agarwal, S.R. Narasimhan, Premendra Roy, Tapan Kumar Roy The paper describes the framework of scheduling, metering, accounting and imbalance settlement put into place which has facilitated the cross border exchange to a large extent. This robust framework facilitates Bangladesh to access any seller within India through open access. The Point of Connection (POC) mechanism for transmission charges and losses facilitates access to a competitive market. The NLDC India is also posting the transfer capability for power export from India to Bangladesh under various network conditions. Constraints that have arisen in transfer of full 500 MW to Bangladesh during certain hours of the day and certain seasons have been identified and addressed through network augmentation on the Indian side. In the interim period, System Protection Schemes (SPS) were put in place on either side to take care of any AC network depletion. The success story so far has spurred further interest in augmenting the 500 MW HVDC back to back station capacity from 500 MW to 1000 MW. Besides this, feasibility studies are also on for radial exchanges between North Eastern part of India and the Eastern part of Bangladesh. http://www.malmokongressbyra.se/cigre
24 Ramp Management and Integration of Renewables International Seminar on "Impact of Generation from Renewable Sources on Conventional Power Generation and Grid", 31 January 2014, New Delhi 2014 S.C. Saxena, Harish Kumar Rathour The ramp management, specially in the context of higher penetration of renewable sources poses a challenge to the system .The paper presents the experience of ramping in the Indian context along with the regulatory provisions and discusses the requirement for more and more flexible generation.
25 Flexibility in 21st Century Power Systems http://www.21stcenturypower.org 2014 Jaquelin Cochran, Michael Milligan, Mackay Miller Flexibility of operation—the ability of a power system to respond to change in demand and supply—is a characteristic of all power systems. Flexibility is especially prized in twenty-first century power systems, with higher levels of grid-connected variable renewable energy (primarily, wind and solar). http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy14osti/61721.pdf
26 Detecting Low Frequency Oscillations Through PMU-Based Measurements for Indian National Grid IEEE PES GM 2015 2015 Subrata Mukhopadhyay, V.K. Agarwal, P.K. Agarwal, A. Rajkumar, Chandan Kumar
27 The View from the Wide Side: Wide-Area Monitoring Systems in India Power and Energy Magazine, IEEE (Volume:13, Issue:5 ) 2015 V.K. Agarwal, P.K. Agarwal, S.R. Narasimhan, Mini Thomas The Indian electricity grid is among one of the largest power grids in the world, with an installed generating capacity of 259 GW as of February 2015. The Indian power sector started its consolidation and expansion in early 1990 with the establishment of a central utility, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (PGCIL). India?s power system is managed by the five regional load dispatch centers (RLDCs), one for each regional power system. The implementation of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and energy management systems (EMSs) took place from 2002 to 2006. The national load dispatch center (NLDC), which coordinates operations of the five RLDCs, started operations in 2009. Interconnections among the five Indian regional grids started in the early 1990s, and all regional grids have been synchronized since 31 December 2013. Currently, the five RLDCs and the NLDC are managed by the Power System Operation Corporation (POSOCO), a subsidiary of PGCIL. The Indian grid has been able to maintain a reasonable degree of stability over the years, despite the exponential expansion of loads and renewables integration. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7203270/
28 Power Exchange Implementation in India and Congestion Management in Multi-Exchange Scenario CBIP 7th International R&D Conference, Bhubaneshwar, India 2009 V. Mittal, Ashwini Jain, Awadhesh Mani, S.S. Barpanda, M.K. Agarwal, S.C. Saxena In line with the mandate provided by the Indian Electricity Act 2003 and the ?ational Electricity Policy the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has issued a number of Regulations to facilitate trading and introduction of competition in the Electricity Sector in the country. Open Access in inter-state transmission was introduced in May 2004 which facilitated the development of the bilateral market in the country. In order to further streamline the bilateral transactions and to facilitate the implementation of Power Exchange in India, CERC issued the Open Access Regulations 2008. These regulations provided for two categories of Short Term Open Access Transactions namely bilateral and collective (discovered on a power exchange). The paper presents salient features of Power Exchange implementation in India and the experience gained. Indian power grids are well meshed network and congestion occurs in some cases of skewed load generation balance. Congestion management techniques in a single exchange are discussed. Multiple Exchanges have been implemented in the country and sharing of available margins between the Exchanges becomes an issue of crucial importance with reference to achieving overall economy and efficiency. The paper discusses the various possibilities for sharing of the total available margins between the Power Exchanges and the Indian experience in this regard.
29 Renewable Energy Integration Practical Management of Variability, Uncertainty, and Flexibility in Power Grids ISBN 9780124079106 Academic Publisher, Elsevier 2014 Lawrence Jones, V.K. Agarwal Book is edited by Dr Lawrence Jones with wide coverage. A humble contribution from India in "16. Case Study: Integration of Renewables - Indian Experience". http://store.elsevier.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780124079106&pagename=search

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