In the past year, the power sector has witnessed significant growth, including the achievement of 100 per cent village electrification and an improvement in power supply. However, it continues to face several challenges such as […]
Capacity addition by renewable energy sources continues to outpace that by conventional sources. In 2017-18, about 11,788 MW of renewable energy capacity was added against 9,505 MW by conventional sources including thermal, hydro and nuclear […]
The sector appears to be consolidating the gains from recent reforms. Demand, which had been playing spoilsport, is now showing signs of recovery. Also, helped by the Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY), the aggregate technical […]
The power sector witnessed impressive growth in renewable energy capacity during the past year. Initiatives to increase power demand with the launch of the Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya) and traction in the electric […]
India’s power transmission segment is growing at an unprecedented pace mainly due to the thrust provided by the recent policy and regulatory developments as well as the government’s initiatives. The pace of expansion is expected […]
The Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY) has been one of the biggest initiatives taken by the government to improve the efficiency of the power distribution companies reeling from financial losses. After almost three years of […]
The distribution segment has been high on the government’s reform agenda for the last few years. While the outcomes of the Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY) have been mixed so far, a number of reforms […]
Despite a significant improvement in its overall performance, the power distribution segment continues to face challenges such as high aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) and financial losses, inadequate tariffs, unconnected and unmetered consumers. Several ongoing […]
Power system and market reforms in India are essentially being driven by the large-scale integration of renewable energy into the grid. The country aims to achieve 175 GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022. The […]
Significant developments such as the adoption of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code and the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) stringent regulatory prescription for the resolution of stressed assets has weakened the investor sentiment over the […]
The government’s continued focus on solar and wind capacity addition has led to a remarkable increase in renewables’ share in the country’s power mix. The share of renewables in the total generation mix rose from […]
In recent months, coal availability at thermal power plants (TPPs) in the country has been under pressure owing to an interplay of various factors. These include evacuation constraints, a sudden increase in coal demand and […]
Nuclear power provides an ideal solution to India’s twin challenges of meeting a huge energy requirement and reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. Nuclear reactors can provide stable baseload power at optimum costs, which is not […]
The transmission and distribution (T&D) equipment market has witnessed a satisfactory performance on the back of government schemes such as the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya) and Unnat Jyoti by Affordable Lighting […]
The hydropower sector in India has been witnessing a lull for the past few years. This is largely due to the lack of policy focus as well as inherent risks associated with hydroelectric project (HEP) […]
In the past one year, the power sector has witnessed several policy and regulatory developments broadly aimed at addressing the power distribution issues, facilitating the large-scale integration of renewable energy sources and maintaining grid stability. […]
The power sector witnessed significant progress on various fronts, including a revival in demand growth, competitive tariffs being discovered for wind and solar projects as well as improved fuel security for power projects under the […]
With thermal power plants facing a demand crunch and discoms not signing any power purchase agreements (PPAs) beyond their baseload, the short-term power trading market has emerged as a necessary tool in recent years for […]
As the government works towards expanding the renewables sector to generate 40 per cent of its energy from renewable sources by 2030, it has emphasised that thermal and hydro power will continue to remain an […]
The government’s ambitious reform programme, the Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY), has started yielding positive outcomes on the operational and financial fronts, notes the power ministry. More importantly, it is making discoms conscious on a […]
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