State Level Training Workshop
March 13 to March 17, 2012, Kolkata, West Bengal

Presentations

• Overview of DREC Project - Methodology and Findings

  • Arnab Ganguly, CUTS International

• Climate Change: Causes and Effects

  • Duke Ghosh (PhD), WOTRO-NWO Fellow, Global Change Programme, Jadavpur University

• Demand Side Management: Need, Concept and Scenario in West Bengal

  • Saroj Sarkar, Engineer (Retd.), West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd. (WBSEDCL)

• Energy Efficiency: Linkages with DSM, Methods, Technologies, Role of CSOs in West Bengal

  • Dilip Samajpati, Consultant, CESC

• Group Activity on Energy Efficiency

  • CUTS Calcutta Resource Centre

• Scenario of Renewable Energy in West Bengal

  • Sushanta Biswas, Assistant Director, West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency (WBREDA)

• Case study on Renewable Energy initiatives at Community level

  • Coordinated Project on Rural Energy, Debipur by Samya Chattopadhyay, Vivekananda Institute of Biotechnology (VIB), Nimpith

  • Case of Energy Efficient Chullah by Shyamal Prasad Jana, Secretary, Alinan Ramkrishna Vivekananda Yuva Sangha

• Overview of RE Technology/Equipment’s

  • On equipment’s that run on Solar Energy, Piyush Jaju, ONergy

• Overview of Regulatory Structure for the Electricity Sector in West Bengal and scope for Consumer participation

  • C.R.Bhowmik, Adviser, West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission

• Group Activity – Drafting and Filling of Complaint

  • CUTS Calcutta Resource Centre

• Policy Advocacy

  • Prithviraj Nath, Deputy Centre Coordinator, CUTS Calcutta Resource Centre

• Components of Electricity Tariff, Role of Consumers in Tariff Determination and how to ` react to Tariff Petition

  • Prititosh Ray, Empanelled National Level Monitor, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India and Member, Governing Body, WBREDA

• Group Activity – Reacting to a Tariff Petition

  • Prititosh Ray, Empanelled National Level Monitor, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India and Member, Governing Body, WBREDA

• Group Presentations by participants on the following themes:

  • Renewable Energy: What needs to be advocated to and How? Group A

  • Policy Advocacy: Reducing Power Theft for better Demand Side Management” Group C