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The Power MegaWhat
ASAPP Media Information Group’s latest offering is
aimed at switching on your ‘power’ downloads.
After successfully publishing ‘Construction World’
for the past twelve years and then ‘Infrastructure Today’
for the last five years, we feel the time is ripe for some
high voltage information.
India is on the threshold of a power revolution just as it
was on a similar inflection point twelve years ago in telecom.
If India does a telecom on power, the whole country’s
cash registers will start ringing!
India’s power sector is undergoing a revolution on
all fronts; because the people who run our country have realised
that abundant power will be the wheels on which the economy
can hope to carry on achieving the exponential growth of the
recent past.
Power developers from across the board want a bite of the
capacity addition target of 78,500 MW by 2012, and the government
on its part is making all attempts possible to provide a favorable
policy environment to them.
However, many questions remain on how the country can pull
it self from the shortfall abyss, even as the power sector
investors’ eye is trained on India. Regulatory, economic
and political hurdles remain to be completely clear for industry
players, while they chart out their path towards being part
of the country’s power sector.
POWER TODAY hopes to help them navigate these waters with
editorial content that will encompass all facets of the power
sector: generation, transmission, distribution and electrification,
while keeping an eye on top-level policy making.
In our first issue, we have focused on the buzzword in the
power sector today - the Indo-US Civilian Nuclear Agreement.
As part of this cover theme, we bring to you exclusive interviews
from John Ritch, Director General of the World Nuclear Association,
and Kameswara Rao, Industry Leader, Energy at Pricewaterhouse
Coopers on the viability of nuclear energy and what the deal
means for the industry.
In addition, we also have exclusive interviews with Anil Razdan,
Secretary, Ministry of Power and K Ravi Kumar, Chairman and
MD, BHEL, undoubtedly, the two most important men for achieving
that mammoth capacity addition target.
All this and more packs a power punch. We’re plugged
in and await your feedback on PowerToday@asappmedia.com to
recharge us.
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