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M Pillai is the Founder Director General, World Institute of
Sustainable Energy (WISE), Pune, India—an institution committed to
the cause of promoting sustainable energy, energy conservation and
sustainable development. Mr Pillai began his career in the Indian
Administrative Service in 1976, rising to the rank of Principal
Secretary to Government of Maharashtra, and has vast experience of
development at national and international levels (Senior Advisor
with UNDP for more than 4 years).
Prior to joining
WISE, he was the Director General of the Maharashtra Energy
Development Agency (MEDA), Pune, for a period of almost five years.
During this period, he pioneered many path-breaking activities in
the area of green power development like Renewable Portfolio
Standard (RPS), introduction of ‘Green Cess’ on conventional power
to create a Rs 1000 million fund for development of renewables in
Maharashtra, etc. His outstanding work of establishing 400 MW wind
power projects in Maharashtra resulted in MEDA receiving the
National Award in this field for 4 consecutive years, from 1999-2000
to 2002-2003. As D.G. of WISE, he was instrumental in drafting a
Model Renewable Energy Law for India and successfully articulating
its advocacy and final adoption by the Government of India. Under Mr
Pillai’s leadership, WISE has emerged as a unique and pioneering
institution in the area of sustainable energy. Mr Pillai is the
recipient of the Business Leadership Award from the Solar Energy
Society of India. He is a Member in two important Advisory bodies of
the Government of India viz. Wind Power Advisory Group and the
Technical Committee on R.E. Law in the Ministry of New & Renewable
Energy.
A well known author
and speaker in the area of sustainable energy and sustainable
development, he has published many books and articles (in
international journals also) on the subjects, both in English and
Malayalam. He is an invited speaker to major renewable energy
conferences in India and abroad. Besides being the Chief Editor of
the acclaimed journal ‘Green Energy’, he has conceived and edited
four books in English viz. ‘Challenges of Agriculture in the 21st
Century’, ‘The New Energy Economy’, ‘Wind Power Development in
India’ and ‘A Solar Future for India’. In the
regional language Malayalam—writing under the pen name
G.Madhusoodanan—he has published three pioneering books in the field
of Ecological Literary Criticism. For his writings in Malayalam, he
received five prestigious Literary Awards, including the Literary
Akademi Award in 2003.
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