PROFILE OF SHRI PRAKASH MHASKE

 Shri Prakash Mhaske is Chairperson and Member (Power System) in the

Central Electricity Authority(CEA), Ministry of Power, Government of India.
He is also holding additional charge of Member(Grid Operations &
Distribution). He has over 34 years of service in different government
organisations including CEA, CERC and NRPC.

 Shri Mhaske did his graduation in Engineering in the year 1982 from
Visveswarayya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur University. He joined
CEA in 1984 as a Group-A officer in the Central Power Engineering Services,
through the Combined Engineering Services Examination of UPSC.

 He has worked in almost all the fields of power sector viz., Generation,
Transmission, Grid Operation and Electricity Regulation. He has vast
experience in the fields of Transmission Planning including techno-economic
appraisal of transmission schemes and monitoring, Grid Operation and
Regulatory issues.

 He has also worked in Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) and

was involved in formulating various Regulations such as Tariff Regulations;
Availability Based Tariff (ABT), Indian Electricity Grid Code, Open Access,
Electricity trading, Grant of Transmission licence, etc.

 He was Member Secretary, Northern Regional Power Committee and was

responsible for resolution of Grid Operation, Protection and commercial issues
for safe, secure and economic operation of grid and for improvement of grid
performance.

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