Mr Amit Kulshreshtha
General Manager, NTPC Limited
Mr Amit Kulshreshtha is presently working as General Manager at NTPC Limited. He is credited with starting and leading biomass co-firing initiatives in NTPC and across the country. He has worked as Head (New Initiative: Waste to Energy) for the launch of the biomass co-firing programme, aptly named the Blue-Sky Initiative, and the waste-to-energy programme. Under his guidance and leadership, the Varanasi Harit Koyala Priyojana was conceived and implemented – the first project of its kind in the world where municipal waste is converted into green charcoal.
Mr Kulshreshtha has over 35 years of experience in the power sector, of which over 18 years have been in system and process engineering of thermal power plant cycles and waste-to-energy. He currently leads research on waste-to-energy and related technologies at NTPC NETRA.
Mr Kulshreshtha has a wide spectrum of interests, ranging from science and technology to health and fitness, spirituality and the environment. He holds a patent on solar thermal integration, has written books on spirituality, and is passionate about environmental issues.
He is credited with many initiatives at NTPC, such as biomass co-firing in thermal power plants, the first hybrid solar thermal power plant at NTPC Dadri, basic engineering and cycle design for India’s first advanced USC plant with 700°C+ steam parameters, and the implementation of the first AGC (Automatic Generation Control) at NTPC Dadri. He has also been instrumental in the introduction of supercritical technology in NTPC.
He has extensive experience in cycle analysis, interface engineering, development of technical specifications and feasibility reports for supercritical thermal power plants, developing software for engineering and design applications to improve accuracy and speed, introducing new technologies such as large-scale supercritical units, technology scanning and techno-economic evaluation of emerging power plant technologies, and technology mapping for NTPC. Furthermore, he is responsible for quantifying the effects of efficiency improvement technologies on carbon emissions, benchmarking NTPC’s engineering procedures against world leaders, and suggesting and implementing ways to enhance these procedures.
Mr Kulshreshtha holds an MTech in Power Generation Technology from IIT Delhi. His MTech thesis, Some Aspects of Automatic Generation Control of a Two-Area System, explored a two-area model simulation of a power system using a new type of controller for predictive frequency control, resulting in improved time–frequency response.