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MDI becomes the first B-School in the world to start a course on Smart Grid. Devender Singh, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Power, Government of India inaugurated the course as a part of curriculum of energDevender Singhy management programme running in the institute.
Bradley Williams Chief of Oracle, who visited from USA to grace the occasion, to deliver a key note address on Smart Grid has assured all his support to this course. Raghu Cavale, Senior VP, Infosys, who is also one of the course coordinators, along with Ms. Bridgit Heartland Johnson announced that Infosys will provide technical know-how and expertise to the course module.
Prominent among those present at the event were experts from prominent industries such as Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Ferrantie, Datagen, AREVA, NDPL, PGCIL, CEA, and others from MoP and USAID etc. The function which lasted the whole day added a new feather in the cap of MDI School of Energy Management.
With the culmination of the recent climate change summit at Copenhagen, energy efficiency and conservation are two important issues that have been attracting international attention in the recent times. Smart Grid is a movement in this direction which involves the up gradation of the power grid using Information Communication Technology.
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