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Sougata Ghoshal

Sougata Ghoshal

Jamshedpur

Summary

Accomplished energy and power sector executive with over 16 years of expertise in power distribution franchisee management, operations, project management, and financial oversight. Proven success in managing large-scale distribution projects, improving operational efficiency, and driving revenue growth. Strong leadership in delivering customer satisfaction, implementing technical innovations, and ensuring regulatory compliance. A strategic thinker with a focus on loss reduction, budget management, and high-performance team leadership.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Manager operations

Sai Computers Limited
06.2024 - Current
  • Lead operations for power distribution franchisee projects, ensuring real-time spot billing, revenue collection, and overall operational efficiency
  • Oversee the maintenance and reliability of the power distribution network, including preventive and corrective maintenance for substations, transformers, and cables
  • Manage financial budgets, resource allocation, and cost control measures, driving profitability through optimized operations
  • Spearhead efforts to reduce power losses and improve billing accuracy by implementing advanced smart metering systems and real-time data monitoring
  • Ensure safety compliance across all franchise operations, adhering to both internal and external regulatory standards
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, service agencies, and vendors to streamline processes and manage infrastructure projects, enhancing customer service and satisfaction

Consultant

Sitaram Enterprises
08.2022 - 05.2024
  • Provided high-level consulting services in the energy distribution sector, specializing in technical feasibility assessments and financial viability analysis for large-scale projects
  • Conducted energy audits, identifying opportunities for efficiency improvement and loss reduction in power distribution
  • Oversaw the import and installation of heavy machinery for energy projects, ensuring compliance with local and international regulations

Manager Transmission & Distribution

India Power Corporation
08.2017 - 01.2022
  • Planned and designed distribution network to meet network demand
  • Developed strategic business proposals for enhancing network capacity
  • Prepared revenue and capital expenditure budgets, monitored expenditure
  • Led the planning and execution of new HT & LT lines and substations
  • Managed material and scrap management for the business unit
  • Oversaw vendor management and cash cycle management
  • Provided functional consultancy and application support
  • Conducted energy auditing, loss reduction initiatives, and enforcement drives

Senior Executive

Noida Power Company Ltd.
05.2008 - 07.2017
  • Overseeing metering, network reengineering, collection, MIS and consumer-interfacing of the entire consumer population
  • Leading rural power distribution efficiency enhancement, load monitoring and scheduling
  • Maintaining substations, overhead and underground lines
  • Managing the Cash Cycle Management pertaining to rural areas, enhancing profitability through unit recovery and theft surveillance
  • Providing functional consultancy for providing application support to SAP on vigilance and rural distribution
  • Conducting transformer load analysis, balancing and new source creation, energy audit, loss reduction, enforcement drives, franchisee operation
  • Mapping of consumers with supply sub-station, feeders & transformers
  • Identifying area of concern for revenue leakage either in the form of commercial or technical loss
  • Taking actions for plugging the detected revenue leakage via enforcement activities, improvement in billing quality, replacing bare conductors with ABC conductors or HVDS system and reducing length of LT feeders
  • Preparing incident reports, maintaining sensitive & confidential case files in present political environment
  • Attending court hearings to provide official testimony, primarily in relation to theft cases
  • Leading the addition of consumers from rural areas into billing net
  • Providing new connection, load augmentation, load reduction & name transfer of high valued consumer
  • Checking of relevant documents required with co-ordination of legal department, commercial feasibility & technical feasibility, permissible limit of the feeders
  • Handling the installation at consumer premises abiding by the safety regulations
  • Supervising installation of meter and checking and final testing of whole installation
  • Controlling the energization of supply at consumer end and providing permit for drawl of load

Project Engineer

JD Enterprise
08.2007 - 04.2008
  • Played a key role in resource mapping and commission of the 33/11 kV Sub-Station within the fixed time frame
  • Managed daily basis monitoring of the field activities and compared with activity charter
  • Prepared daily, weekly and monthly progress reports

Education

B.Tech/B.E. -

st thomas college of engineering and technology
01.2007

Skills

  • Techno-commercial Operations
  • Transmission Planning and Design
  • Distribution Network Management
  • Operations and Maintenance
  • Financial Budgeting and Monitoring
  • Team Leadership
  • Project Planning and Execution
  • Vendor Management
  • Energy Auditing
  • Strategic Planning
  • Resource Allocation

Languages

  • English
  • Hindi
  • Bengali

Totalworkexperience

16 Years 0 Month

Timeline

Sr. Manager operations

Sai Computers Limited
06.2024 - Current

Consultant

Sitaram Enterprises
08.2022 - 05.2024

Manager Transmission & Distribution

India Power Corporation
08.2017 - 01.2022

Senior Executive

Noida Power Company Ltd.
05.2008 - 07.2017

Project Engineer

JD Enterprise
08.2007 - 04.2008

B.Tech/B.E. -

st thomas college of engineering and technology

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