Powering up investments into India’s renewable sector

    2018-12-31T13:43:46+00:00May 26th, 2017|2018/2017, Cover Feature, India Investment Journal May Edition, Year|

    India’s power minister, Piyush Goyal, was on a European investment scouting mission recently and opened up a series of avenues for FDI into the power sector in Vienna and London. India’s Minister for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines, Piyush Goyal, was on a European tour in early May to lure Austria and the UK to look at investing more in India. At the Vienna Energy Forum, the discussion revolved around the world’s largest energy transformation programme which [...]

      The man behind an electrifying challenge

      2019-01-02T07:27:26+00:00May 26th, 2017|2018/2017, Cover Feature, India Investment Journal May Edition, Year|

      Piyush Goyal was among Mumbai’s most successful chartered accountants and merchant bankers when he gave up a flourishing professional career to become India’s power minister in May 2014. Actually he was appointed  more than just power minister. As a 50-year-old who had never held ministerial office before, he was put in charge of an entire energy feedstock chain, with the Departments of Mines, Coal and Power under him, and with New and Renewable Energy as well. In previous times, these [...]