Editorial

Solar power constitutes nearly half of India’s renewable energy capacity and is leading the energy transition and decarbonisation initiatives in the country. On the back of favourable government policies and cost economics, solar capacity has […]

Over the course of the last month or so, several pertinent policy and reform measures have been taken in the renewable energy and power distribution segments. Marking a paradigm shift in green open access, the […]

The Ministry of Power has recently announced that it is working on a scheme to liquidate the past dues of power distribution companies. The ministry is considering extending a one-time relaxation to discoms, whereby the […]

Amid the fresh coal crisis that is brewing in the country, the railway ministry has stepped in to resolve the logistics issue for coal supply to thermal power plants. The power and railway ministries have […]

The Indian power transmission segment has expanded rapidly over the years, driven by the need to meet the growing demand for power and to provide adequate evacuation infrastructure for generation capacity addition. Grid expansion and […]

Following up on the launch of the National Hydrogen Mission, the power ministry has notified the first phase of India’s Green Hydrogen Policy, introducing several measures to ease adoption and promote green hydrogen/ ammonia manufacturing. […]

As the country moves towards achieving its clean energy targets, hydropower will be pivotal to balancing the electricity grid. In addition to being a clean energy source, hydropower is a good source of peaking power […]

Looking back at 2021, one of the key highlights for the power sector was India’s commitments at the COP26 climate summit at Glasgow to mitigate climate change and decarbonise the economy. India announced a net […]

The Indian power sector crossed a significant milestone recently – its installed renewable energy capacity (excluding large hydro) reached 100 GW. This, indeed, is a noteworthy achievement given that the installed renewable energy capacity has […]

One of the most important developments over the past month has been the launch of a new big-ticket power distribution scheme, with an outlay of over Rs 3 trillion. The Reforms-Based and Results-Linked Revamped Distribution […]

The power transmission segment in India has seen substantial growth in the past few years owing to increasing power demand as well as generation capacity addition. The transmission line length has grown at a CAGR […]

Over the years, the country’s power generation has grown at a rapid pace to reach an installed capacity of 382.7 GW as of April 2021. While coal continues to account for a major share of […]

In one of the key recent developments, the environment ministry has pushed the deadline for complying with the emission norms for thermal power plants (TPPs). Earlier, TPPs were required to meet the emission norms by […]

  The past month was marked by some key policy initiatives that are expected to bring some respite to the distressed discoms. With a view to improving the liquidity of power discoms, which have been […]

Significant policy announcements have come in for the power distribution segment this month. To begin with, the union budget has announced a reform-linked support scheme for discoms, with an outlay of Rs 3 trillion. On […]

India has ambitious renewable energy capacity goals of 175 GW by 2022 and 450 GW by 2030. Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind are, however, subject to intermittency issues, thus giving rise to […]

2020 has been a turbulent year for the power sector. The Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated the financial stress in the sector. And the industry’s return to normalcy has been slower than expected, despite strong government measures […]