Reforms in the power sector have always led to better quality of service and more jobs, he said. Unless this is realised, reforms cannot attain momentum, he added.

Doucet is here to attend an Indian member committee meeting of WEC. Union power minister P R Kumaramnagalam is the patron of the Indian committee, while the chairman is V K Pandit, power secretary and Rajinder Singh, chairman and managing director, National Thermal Power Corporation is the member secretary. WEC will hold its global congress in Delhi in November this year.

WEC is the leading global multi-energy organisation with committees and activities in 100 countries including most of the largest energy producing and consuming countries in the world. The mission of WEC is to promote sustainable supply and use of all forms of energy. Through its studies, technical and regional programmes which culminate in the triennial World Energy Congress, member committees of the WEC and energy related companies which support them share information, collaborate on new technologies and offer reliable policy or strategy recommendations. This work is published and discussed in regional forums and at the WEC to assist decision makers in business and government to anticipate the future and meet challenges which lie ahead.

The WEC represents the spread and interests of its own membership from the industrialised economies, economies in transition and developing economies.

Some 92 per cent of world energy consumption is represented in the membership of the WEC. It does not directly represent energy industries in any market.