(as updated on July 01, 2024)

The joint Chapter of Power & Energy Society and Industry Applications Society started in Delhi with Prof. B. Prasad Singh, SMIEEE of Indian Institute of Technology Delhi as its interim Chairman on June 12, 1997. Subsequently in the AGM of September 21, 1997 under the leadership of Prof. Singh an EXECOM of 10 Members assumed the office. In the year 2000 Chapter received PES Outstanding Chapter Award (Small) and in 2003, 2006, and 2013 PES Outstanding Chapter Award (Large), while in 2009 Outstanding Large Joint Chapter Award from IAS. In 2001 its Founder-Chairman Prof. Singh received the first Regional Outstanding Engineer Award. This award in the year 2002 was also won by Delhi's  Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay. It has a large number of activities in the year 2023. In this context, for example, other relevant details normally included in the past may be seen at Annual Report 2022 as well as most recently at Report for IEEE PES Outstanding Chapter. For the year 2024 surf IEEE vTools Meeting System, then login with User Name and Password, and view List Current L31 Meetings (in my Section) in respect of IEEE Delhi Section and its Subsection, Society Chapters, and Affinity Groups including PES-IAS Chapter.

Present EXECOM of the Chapter, which assumed the office on February 18, 2024, the day of online AGM of the Chapter, consists of the following members:

Sl. No.	Position	Name	Organization
1.	Chairperson	Prof. Prerna Gaur	NSUT New Delhi
2.	Secretary	Dr. Vivek Shrivastava	NIT Srinagar (UK)
3.	Treasurer	Er. K V N Pawan Kumar	Grid-India
4.	Past-Chairperson	Prof. Dinesh K Jain	DCRUST Murthal
5.	Member	Dr. Manish Kumar Saini	DCRUST Murthal
6.	Member	Dr. Arjun Tyagi	DU Delhi
7.	Member	Dr. Atma Rajesh Pindoriya	TIET Patiala
8.	Member (YP)	Mr. Rishi Kant Thakur	IIT Delhi
9.	Member (Industry Representative)	Dr. Shivani Sharma	Hitachi Energy India Faridabad

PES Outstanding Chapter Engineer Award Winners

1998 : Mr. Bhanu Bhushan, Director (Operation), POWERGRID
1999 : Mr. Harbans L. Bajaj, Director (Commercial), NTPC
2000 : Dr. B. Prasad Singh, Professor in EE Dept., IIT Delhi
(also won PES Outstanding Engineer Award, Region 10 for 2000)
2001: Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay, Chief Engineer, CEA
(also won PES Outstanding Engineer Award, Region 10 for 2001)
2002: Mr. Man Mohan S Puri, Vice President, DESEIN India Pvt. Ltd.
2003: Mr. Vasant N. Manohar, Independent Consultant
2004: Dr. Chepuri S. Rao, Ex-Prof. & Head, EE Dept., Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh
2005: Dr. R. Balasubramanian, Professor in Center for Energy Studies, IIT Delhi
2006: Dr. Bhim Singh, Professor in EE Dept., IIT Delhi
2007: Dr. S. S. Murthy, Professor in EE Dept., IIT Delhi
2008: Dr. Mini S. Thomas, Professor in EE Dept., Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
2009: Mr. Ravi K. Aggarwal, General Manager, Doosan, Gurgaon
2010: Mr. Ravindra Joshi, Assistant General Manager, NDPL, Delhi
2011: Mr. Sushil K. Soonee, CEO, POSOCO, New Delhi
2012: Dr. Sukumar Mishra, Professor in EE Dept., IIT Delhi
2013: Mr. Vinod K. Agrawal, ED, POSOCO, New Delh
2014: Dr. Dinesh K. Jain, Professor in EE Dept., DCRUST Murthal (Haryana)
2015: Dr. Prerna Gaur, Associate Professor, NSIT, New Delhi
2016: Prof. Bhuvaneshwari G, Professor, IIT, New Delhi
2017: Prof. Rachana Garg, Professor, DTU, Delhi
2018: Dr. Ashu Verma, Associate Professor, IIT, New Delhi (Professional <15 yrs.)>
2019: Dr. Ahteshamul Haque, Assistant Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (Professional <15 yrs.)
2019: Mr. S R Narasimhan, Director, POSOCO, New Delhi (Professional >15 yrs.)
2020: Dr. Jyoti Jain, Assistant Professor, MSIT, New Delhi (Professional <15 yrs.)
2020: Dr. Bharat Singh Rajpurohit, Associate Professor, IIT, Mandi, HP (Professional >15 yrs.)
2021: Er. K V N Pawan Kumar, Chief Manager, POSOCO, New Delhi (Professional <15 yrs.)
2021: Prof. Bijaya Ketan Panigrahi, Professor, IIT Delhi, New Delhi (Professional >15 yrs.)
2022: Prof. Alka Singh, Professor, DTU Delhi, Delhi (Professional >15 yrs.)
2023: Dr. Anshul Varshney, Scientist, NPL, New Delhi (Professional <15 yrs.)
2023: Prof. Rohit Bhakar, Professor, MNIT Jaipur (Professional >15 yrs.)

Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Lectures

Besides holding evening lectures from time to time separately or along with the Section and other Institutions, as an yearly feature since Edison Sesquicentennial celebration in 1997, IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter is holding 'Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Lecture' in Delhi usually in the month of September utilizing services of Distinguished Lecturers from different Societies of IEEE, like, PES, IAS, PELS, IES, etc.on topics of interest to Members.

Other Important Events

With IAS as Technical Sponsor, IEEE PELS-IES and IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapters, and IEEE Delhi Section as Financial Co-Sponsors organized IEEE Ninth India International Conference on Power Electronics IICPE-2023 at DCRUST, Murthal, Delhi NCR, India with the support of a few others from November 28 to 30, 2023.

With IAS as Technical Sponsor, IEEE PES-IAS and IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapters as Financial Co-Sponsors organized IEEE Tenth Power India International Conference PIICON-2022 at National Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, India with the support of a few others from November 25 to 27, 2022.

With IAS, IEEE PES-IAS and IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapters as Technical Co-Sponsors, IEEE Delhi Section financially sponsored and organized Ninth IEEE Power India International Conference PIICON-2020 at DCRUST, Murthal, Haryana, India with the support of latter from February 28 to March 1, 2020.

With IAS as Technical Sponsor, IEEE PES-IAS and IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapters financially co-sponsored and organized Eighth IEEE India International Conference on Power Electronics IICPE-2018 at Malviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India with the support of latter from December 13 to 15, 2018.

With IAS as Technical Sponsor, IEEE PES-IAS and IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapters financially co-sponsored and organized Eighth IEEE Power India International Conference PIICON-2018 at National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India with the support of latter from December 10 to 12, 2018.

With IAS as Technical Sponsor, IEEE PES-IAS and IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapters financially co-sponsored and organized 2016 IEEE 7th Power India International Conference (PIICON) at the Lallgarh Palace (a heritage hotel) of Bikaner, Rajasthan, India with the support of Govt. Engineering College Bikaner, Rajasthan, India from November 25 to 27, 2016.

With IAS as Technical Sponsor, IEEE PES-IAS and IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapters financially co-sponsored and organized Seventh IEEE India International Conference on Power Electronics IICPE-2016 at Thapar University, Patiala, Punjab, India with the support of latter from November 17 to 19, 2016.

With IAS as Technical Sponsor, IEEE PES-IAS and IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapters financially co-sponsored and organized Sixth IEEE India International Conference on Power Electronics IICPE-2014 at National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, Haryana, India with the support of latter from December 8 to 10, 2014.

With IAS and PELS as Technical Co-Sponsors, IEEE PES-IAS and IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapters financially co-sponsored and organized Sixth IEEE POWER INDIA International Conference 2014 at Hotel Le-Meridian, Connaught Place, New Delhi, India with the support of Delhi Technological University (formerly Delhi College of Engineering), Delhi, India from December 5 to 7, 2014.

With IAS and PELS as Technical Co-Sponsors, IEEE PES-IAS and IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapters financially co-sponsored and organized 2012 IEEE Fifth POWER INDIA Conference (PICONF2012) at Deenbandhu Chhotu Ram University of Science & Technology, Murthal, Delhi-National Capital Region, India from December 19 to 22, 2012.

With PELS as Technical Sponsor, IEEE PELS-IES and IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapters financially co-sponsored and organized 2012 IEEE Fifth India International Conference on Power Electronics (IICPE2012) at Delhi Technological University, Delhi, India from December 6 to 8, 2012.

With PELS and Delhi Section as Technical Co-Sponsors, IEEE PELS-IES and IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapters financially co-sponsored and organized India International conference on Power Electronics-(IICPE2010) at Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India from January 28 to 30, 2011.

With PES, IAS, PELS & IES as Technical Co-Sponsors, and with the support provided by IEEE PELS-IES Delhi Chapter, IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter organized 2010 Joint International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems & 2010 Power India at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India from December 20 to 23, 2010.

With PES as Sponsor & IAS as Technical Sponsor, and the support provided by CSEE, IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter organized PES Asia Pacific Region International Conference "POWERCON2008" jointly with 2008 IEEE Power India Conference at InterContinental The Grand Hotel, New Delhi, India from October 12 to 15, 2008.

With PES, IAS, PELS & IES as Technical Co-Sponsors, IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter with the support of IEEE Delhi Section organized International Conference on Power Electronics, Drives and Energy Systems for Industrial Growth-2006 (PEDES-2006) at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi & WelcomHotel, New Delhi, India from December 12 to 15, 2006.

With PES as Technical Sponsor, IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter in association with Delhi Section organized 2006 IEEE Power India Conference at Hotel InterContinental The Grand, New Delhi, India from April 10 to 12, 2006.

With IAS as Technical Sponsor, IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter in association with Delhi Section organized 2004 PCI India Conference at India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India on November 9 & 10, 2004.

With IAS as Technical Sponsor, IEEE PES-IAS Delhi Chapter in association with Delhi Section organized 2000 IEEE IAS Workshop on Electrical Safety in Industry at India Habitat Center, New Delhi, India on April 14 & 15, 2000.

Chapter Bylaws

For Chapter may use e-mail: pesdelhi@ieee.org
& to contact Chapter Chair: prernagaur@nsut.ac.in, prernagaur@yahoo.com
(Consult Consolidated List of Chapter for other details.)

Power & Energy Society
Industry Applications Society