SEIL Energy India hosts meet in Nellore

Key points

• SEIL Energy India Limited, a city-based independent producer, has organised ‘C&I Connect 2026’, South India’s first-ever dedicated conference on Control, Instrumentation and Automation in thermal power plants, in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh on Thursday.
• Over 150 delegates from more than 30 thermal power companies and equipment suppliers spanning four Southern States – Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, and Karnataka, participated in the two-day event.
• The theme of the conference was ‘Sustainable Solutions through Advanced Instrumentation and Cyber-Resilient Systems in Thermal Power Plants’.
• The C&I Connect stressed on the need for a dedicated, practitioner-focused forum where plant operators and technology suppliers can exchange field-level insights on the digital and automation frontier of thermal power.
• The event featured technical presentations and panel discussions on advanced DCS/SCADA and digital control architectures, Industrial IoT and OT cybersecurity, predictive maintenance using AI/ML, Automatic Generation Control (AGC) implementation, flexible plant operations for grid support, and environmental compliance...