Excellence Enhancement Centre (EEC) for Indian Power Sector was conceptualized as part of bilateral cooperation between Govt. of India and Govt. of Federal Republic of Germany and was set up through an Implementation Agreement between BEE & CEA, Ministry of Power, GOI and GIZ, Germany under the Indo German Energy Programme (Phase II), to promote dialogue in the area of Energy Efficiency and Energy Security. It was registered as a non-profit society under the Indian Societies Registration Act 1860 and started functioning from February 2012.

AIMS & OBJECTIVES OF EEC

• To promote Peer to Peer cooperation between Indian Power Sector Stakeholders.
• To provide a platform for the top Experts in Power Sector
• To share best practices in all areas of power sector and provide broad based expertise.
• To identify challenges for power sector.
• To create a “Technical Discussion Forum”
• To promote policy initiatives of MOP, GOI
• To facilitate bilateral cooperation in the Indian Power Sector.
• To engage pro-actively with foreign organizations such as VGB Germany, for Technical knowhow, Expertise, Consultancy, Studies and Reviews.
• To raise awareness for the need of excellence in Power Sector.

VGB Support to EEC

VGB Power Tech e.V. is the European technical association for power and heat generation. The association is based on a voluntary membership of companies active in the field of power and heat generation.

VGB has supported the vision of an expert platform in the Indian Power Sector since it was created under the Indo-German Energy Forum. VGB is the part of the core group that developed the concept. Thus VGB supports GIZ with technical experience to bring the EEC into a lively platform for the Indian Power Sector. A Memorandum of Understanding between VGB and CEA was signed for the successful Indo-German cooperation in EEC project. VGB acts as the point of contact for EEC to access the German power generation industry and provides detailed A to Z information about the energy supply in Germany, which also comprises the coordination of the exchange of experiences from the German side.