Mr. Sanil C. Namboodiripad, the Chief Operating Officer of IndiGrid, manages the operational portfolio of 10,000 km EHV Transmission lines, 16 EHV Substations, 1500 MW Solar Power Plants and 900 MWh Battery Energy Storage Systems.
He holds BTech. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering with MBA in Finance. He is a fellow of Institution of Engineers (India), a Chartered Engineer (India) and a fellow of International Society of Engineering Asset Management, Brisbane, Australia. He is also a registered Independent Director.
He has over 35 years of rich experience in Operation & Maintenance (O&M) of Gas based combined cycle power plants, Coal fired power plants and Extra High Voltage (EHV) Transmission Systems. He started his career with NTPC Ltd. where he worked for 18 years in large gas turbine power plants at Kawas and Dabhol. Later he worked with Reliance Power in the Corporate Operations Group with main focus on establishing O&M strategies, Systems and Processes and Monitoring & Diagnostic systems for the power stations being setup by Reliance. He has also worked with Sterlite Power as Head – Asset Management of the pan India EHV transmission assets of Sterlite. He was also associated with Adani Transmission where he was managing the portfolio of 25 EHV substations and more than 11000 circuit kms of EHV Transmission lines including HVDC systems.
Prior to joining Indigrid, he was the Managing Director of ONGC Tripura Power Co. (OTPC – a Joint Venture of ONGC, GAIL and Tripura Govt.) OTPC owns and operates a 726 MW combined cycle power plant near Agartala and serves 25% of the electricity requirement of the North Eastern States. He was also holding the additional charge of MD of NETC, a JV company of OTPC and PGCIL which owns and operates a 400 kV transmission network for evacuation of power from OTPC. During his tenure at OTPC, he also led the growth of OTPC by venturing into 200 MW Wind power plants in Odisha and formation of NGEAL ( New and Green Energy of Assam Ltd.), a JV of OTPC and Assam Power Discom for setting up 250 MW/500 MWh Battery Energy Storage Projects in the state of Assam.
