The Electricity Act, 2003 enshrines the basic need to provide consumers with a continuous, reliable and quality power supply. Power quality is the ability of electrical equipment to consume the energy being supplied in an […]
Over the past decade, the country’s energy consumption has grown significantly and to fulfil the increasing power demand, the sector is exploring renewable energy sources as an alternative to conventional sources. Renewable energy is unpredictable […]
Distribution networks consisting of overhead lines can experience faults, following lightning strikes, due to overvoltage. Overvoltage damage caused by events such as spikes and transients due to lightning, utility switching, isolation arcing, electrical motor cycling, […]
Earthing is an essential element in safeguarding the operations and thus the performance of generation, transmission and distribution systems. The process of transferring the immediate discharge of electrical energy directly to the earth with the […]
(as of July 2019)
Arvind Rajvedi, Former MD, Madhyanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited While the debate on the separation of carriage and content or wire and supply business in the retail electricity markets in India continues, a recent amendment […]
UDAY’s term is over and the power distribution segment continues to be affected by the chronic debt problem. As per recent data shared by the Ministry of Power (as of September 2019), the cumulative book […]
Distribution franchisees are likely to form a key component of the government’s plan to revive the distribution segment. The Ministry of Power (MoP) has reportedly drafted a plan for the states to have multiple private […]
The Ministry of Power’s (MoP) Seventh Annual Integrated Ratings of State Power Distribution Utilities report for the review period 2017-18, released in October 2019, shows some signs of improvement in the performance of state distribution […]
The power ministry is preparing to launch the next set of reforms for the distribution segment. Over the past two decades, several reform schemes have been introduced in the segment – a one-time settlement scheme […]
The distribution segment has reported mixed performance over the past year with near 100 per cent electrification under Saubhagya and a decline in operational and financial losses under the Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY) being […]
One of the recent notable achievements in the power sector has been near 100 per cent household electrification in the country under the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya). All states except Chhattisgarh […]
Over the past couple of years, there has been an increasing focus on the implementation of smart meters in the country. It is a key component of various central government schemes and programmes such as […]
In a major positive for the power generation segment, the new letter of credit (LC) mechanism has kicked in from August 1, 2019. The order requires discoms to open and maintain an adequate LC as […]
Reliable power supply is one of the key goals of power distribution utilities. The government’s thrust to provide quality power to each village and every household through various schemes like DDUGJY, IPDS and Saubhagya has […]
Smart grids, with advanced information and communications technology, have the potential to enable more dynamic, real-time flows of information on the network and greater interaction between suppliers and consumers. The Ministry of Power (MoP) announced […]
In the past decade or so, metering has witnessed the deployment of various technologies. Prior to 2006, electromechanical meters dominated the scene. The focus then shifted to automated meter reading (AMR) and then to advanced […]
The recently presented Union Budget 2019-20 has been satisfactory for the power sector. One of the key announcements for the sector has been the introduction of tariff and structural reforms. In her maiden budget, the […]
Although appliance replacement or home retrofit-based utility-DSM activities have seen progress in recent years, embracing even more innovative DSM approaches is crucial to unlocking incremental energy savings in a sustained manner. International experience demonstrates, for […]
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