Since 1994
32 years at the neutral table.
Where India’s regulators, policymakers and power producers have met since 1994: the Retreat, the Summits, the states, and IRPRI, the school for the people who run the grid.
Next IRPRI batch
IRPRI Batch 9: Intensive Course on the Regulatory & Policy Framework in the Power Sector
Four-day residential course, 27–30 October 2026.
Five Prime Ministers
The platform heads of government chose.
Shri Rajiv Gandhi
Prime Minister of India, 1984–89
Support, participation and guidance to IPPAI’s conferences.
Shri Chandra Shekhar
Prime Minister of India, 1990–91
Addressed India Power ’98, the Energy & Infrastructure Summit, New Delhi.
Shri P V Narasimha Rao
Prime Minister of India, 1991–96
Keynote address, India Power ’94, New Delhi. “Leave the private sector to freely invest in infrastructure and make profit.”
Shri H D Deve Gowda
Prime Minister of India, 1996–97
Support, participation and guidance to IPPAI’s conferences.
Dr Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister of India, 2004–14
Support, participation and guidance to IPPAI’s conferences.
The year the table was laid
Established after the Government of India opened generation to private players
Regulators & Policymakers Retreats
Goa 2003 to Belagavi 2026
Asia Energy Security Summits
Colombo 2011 to Belgundi 2017
Leaders in the directory
Faces at the table
The people who argued the sector’s questions here.
Salman Khurshid
Union Minister of External Affairs
Suresh Prabhu
Union Minister for Railways, Power and Commerce
Jyotiraditya Scindia
Union Minister of Communications; Minister of State for Power, 2012–14
Kapil Sibal
Union Minister for HRD, Communications and Law
Ravi Shankar Prasad
Union Minister of Law & Justice and Electronics & IT
Arun Shourie
Union Minister of Communications and Disinvestment
Mani Shankar Aiyar
Union Minister of Petroleum and Panchayati Raj
Dinesh Trivedi
Union Minister of Railways
Ajay Maken
Union Minister of Youth Affairs; Minister of Power, Delhi
Santosh Bagrodia
Union Minister of State for Coal
Babul Supriyo
Union Minister of State for Environment
Meenakshi Lekhi
Union Minister of State for External Affairs
M J Akbar
Union Minister of State for External Affairs
Farooq Abdullah
Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir; Union Minister of MNRE
Sheila Dikshit
Chief Minister of Delhi
Nitish Kumar
Chief Minister of Bihar
Arjun Munda
Chief Minister of Jharkhand; Union Minister of Tribal Affairs
Harish Rawat
Chief Minister of Uttarakhand; Union Minister of Water Resources
Digambar Kamat
Chief Minister of Goa
Nirmal Kumar Singh
Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu & Kashmir
D K Shivakumar
Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka
G Jagadish Reddy
Minister for Energy, Telangana
Pradyut Bordoloi
Minister of Power, Assam
S L Rao
First Chairman, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission
From the archive
Inside the room.
“Transcending the realm of mere economics, energy security is now an issue of global politics and human security. As the events of the last decade have demonstrated, this is a determinant of war and peace”Deputy Minister of External Affairs, Sri Lanka · Asia Energy Security Summit 2014
Advisory Board
The people who keep the table neutral.
- Pramod Deo
Chairperson, Central Electricity Regulatory Commission - V K Garg
Chairman, JERC; CMD, Power Finance Corporation - R N Prasher
Chairman, Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission - Upendra Behera
Chairman, Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission - V P Raja
Chairman, Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission - Balawant Joshi
Founder & MD, Idam Infra Advisory - Chintan Shah
Founder, SustCred - Harry Dhaul
Director General, IPPAI - P K Agarwal
Former Director & CISO, POSOCO - Sudha Mahalingam
Former Regulator, PNGRB
Join the table.
Members, partners and participants from every part of the sector: generators, utilities, regulators, ministries, investors, counsel.