If recent developments such as the launch of the National Hydrogen Energy Mission and bringing green hydrogen within the ambit of renewable purchase obligations are anything to go by, Indian policymakers seem to be aligning their […]
The Ministry of Power came out with detailed guidelines for the “Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme: A Reforms-Based and Results-Linked Scheme” on July 20, 2021, envisioning an investment of Rs 3.03 trillion in the power distribution […]
During the month of August, 2021, I had good opportunities of participating in two important Webinars on issues concerning problems in the Electricity Distribution Sector in India which are creating a very adverse impact on the entire power supply chain […]
Hydrogen has seen several previous waves of interest in history, mostly driven by high oil prices and a focus on a single end-use sector – transport. […]
Indian democracy rests on four institutions – legislature, executive, judiciary, and the media. Today, we have an independent legislature, a strong executive, an independent judiciary, and independent media. […]
Coal has been the major energy resource of India. The country is short of oil and gas, but coal reserves are relatively abundant. Coal has been the mainstay of our energy use. […]
Over the past decade and a half, I have published three books that represent three stages in India’s journey towards clean and green energy. The first one, Decentralised Energy Planning – Methodo-logy and Case Studies, published in 1991, is based on my experience of setting up and operationalising the Maharashtra Energy Development Agency in 1986. […]
The past one decade clearly belongs to renewable energy. The first 100 GW of fossil fuel capacity addition took more than 60 years, whereas renewable energy raced to 100 GW in less than 15 years (especially the last 50 GW added over five years). Over the past few years, renewable energy capacity addition had been consistently more than fossil fuel capacity addition. The scale of capacity addition combined with competitive bidding as well as the reduction of input costs has resulted in tariffs […]
By , Former CMD, PTC India Limited and PTC Financial Services After setting ambitious targets for solar energy development, the government also turned its attention to harnessing small-hydro projects, aiming and planning to set up […]
On January 7, 1897, Kilburn & Co. secured the electricity licence in Calcutta as agents of the Indian Electric Co., which was registered in London on January 15, 1897. A month later, the company was re-named the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation. […]
Circa 2002 Delhi – Numerous power cuts… Prolonged load shedding for nearly six hours at a stretch… Poor quality of power… Over 500 transformer blowouts a month… Gensets and stabilisers in every house… Hopeless customer care… Massive aggregate […]
A paradigm shift is being seen today in the energy and utility space, which has made it mandatory for utilities in the distribution segment to either step up to embrace the change, or become obsolete and get substituted by a new player. […]
In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly set 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) intended to be achieved by the year 2030. A short six years on, we are at an inflection point where some of the goals laid down stand seriously challenged. Most of the goals are deeply interlinked. Slipping on one often leads to losing ground on others. […]
By P.N. Bhandari, Former Chairman, Rajasthan State Electricity Board, and Advocate, Rajasthan High Court The long-awaited amendments to the Electricity Act, 2003 have unfortunately been stuck in Parliament due to the diffidence of the Power […]
Atmanirbhar Bharat presupposes a robust and sustainable power supply system to accelerate progress. Power sector reforms in India started along with the liberalisation of the economy with the objectives of ensuring security of supply, efficiency improvement and cost recovery. India has done extremely well on two subsequently added goals of universal electrification and decarbonisation of the power sector. […]
It is a well-known fact that despite all the advancements, a large percentage of the population of the world is still unserved when it comes to power supply. According to data published by the World Bank, 1.3 billion people around the world lack access to power. More than 600 million of them are in sub-Saharan Africa and more than 300 million are in India alone. One out of every five people around the world without adequate access to power lives in India. […]
India is the world’s third largest producer and consumer of electricity. The national electric grid has an installed capacity of 388.134 GW as of August 31, 2021. Renewable power plants, which also include large hydroelectric plants, constitute 37 per cent of India’s total installed capacity. […]
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