Sh. R P Gupta is the Chairman & Managing Director of the Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI). He is a retired IAS Officer of 1987 Batch, Gujarat Cadre. He has joined SECI on 15th June 2023.
Prior to joining SECI, he worked in the Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change as Secretary, Govt. of India. He has also worked with NITI Aayog, Ministry of Coal. Sh. Gupta has pursued graduation in Aerospace Engineering from IIT, Kanpur.
Sh. Gupta has wide experience in corporate management, economics, statistics planning and program implementation. His areas of expertise are energy, environment, climate change, decarbonization strategies, carbon market & trading, sustainability, resource efficiency and material recycling, forest and wildlife.
Sh. Gupta has been pivotal in taking SECI to new heights. Under his leadership, SECI has attained the prestigious ‘Navratna’ status, thereby becoming one of the youngest PSUs in India in this category. The company has emerged as the leading Renewable Energy Implementing Agency (REIA) in the country and has successfully aligned itself with the changing dynamics of the Renewable Energy sector, through a host of innovative products and power supply models, such as Firm and Dispatchable Renewable Energy (FDRE), Solar with Energy Storage etc.
He has been instrumental in expanding SECI’s own projects portfolio, thereby strengthening the company’s asset base, and in also for diversification of the company into the emerging technology areas of Green Hydrogen, Green Ammonia, Electrolyzers and Offshore wind.