Expressing their solidarity with the Covid-19 warriors, all employees of the Electrical Research and Development Association (ERDA), a not-for-profit scientific and industrial research organisation, have voluntarily donated one day’s salary for the month of April […]
Utilities across the world are focusing on digitalisation and automation through smart grid technologies to facilitate modernised distribution operations. In India, too, discoms have been working towards the roll-out of smart grid technologies in association […]
Amidst the Covid-19 nationwide lockdown, the prime minister of India appealed to the citizens of India to switch off their lights and express solidarity by lighting earthen lamps or torches on April 5, 2020, at […]
Power management and the ability of utility companies to react to near-real-time operational data remotely is becoming more critical and represents an improved and strategic approach to work and asset management. For the assets themselves, […]
Substations and switchgear are key elements in power systems and perform the functions of voltage transformation, system protection, power factor correction metering, and circuit switching. Beyond the financial value, they play a major role in […]
In the distribution segment, utilities are embracing new technologies driven by the need to lower losses, ensure proper energy accounting, enable data-driven decision-making and deliver better services to end consumers. In conventional distribution equipment such […]
Vertiv, a global provider of critical digital infrastructure solutions, has introduced Liebert S600, an efficient and robust uninterruptible power supply system (UPS) for critical edge and data centre applications. The fully digital, double conversion UPS distributes clean […]
The distribution franchise (DF) model is slowly gaining prominence in the power sector as the government is looking at it as a potential way to increase private participation. As per the recently released draft Electricity […]
As per a recent research report, energy consumption by electric vehicles (EVs) would account for 3 per cent of India’s total power demand by 2030. Thus, the transition towards electric mobility offers India not only […]
The impact of the Covid-19 outbreak on the power sector is expected to be far-reaching. Electricity demand has already seen a drop due to the shutdown of industrial and commercial establishments. This, in turn, is […]
By Dr Atul Agrawal, Research Officer, CERC On April 17, 2020, the Ministry of Power issued the Draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020 (henceforth referred to as the present bill). Interestingly, in the proposed bill […]
MYSUN, a Delhi-based technology platform for rooftop solar energy solutions, has raised Rs 320 million ($4.2 million) from its existing investors in a structured equity deal as a part of its pre-series A round. MYSUN […]
By DrBalasubramanian S., Researcher, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore The 21-day lockdown (Phase I) announced by the Indian government to contain the spread of Covid-19, is now over, but the government has extended it further […]
Dr Jyoti Parikh, Executive Director, V.K. Agrawal, Technical Director, and Rajiv Ratna Panda, Technical Head, Integerated Research and Action for Development While public health personnel are rightly being hailed as the front-line warriors in the […]
By P.N. Bhandari, Former Chairman, Rajasthan State Electricity Board The much-awaited draft of the Electricity Act amendments has at last been released, inviting comments from leading stakeholders. Curiously, the Ministry of Power has not thrown […]
Signify, the world leader in lighting, recently illuminated five playgrounds in rural government schools in the Mewat District of Haryana under its CSR program called “Khel Jyoti”. These playgrounds have badminton courts that are illuminated […]
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