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The past year saw several leadership changes, at the ministerial level as well as in leading power companies. R.K. Singh continued as union minister of state (independent charge) for power and new and renewable energy […]

In a recent move, the Goods and Services Tax [GST] Council has reduced the tax rates on electric vehicles (EVs) and chargers effective August 1, 2019. The tax rate on EVs has been reduced from 12 per cent to […]

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has recently published a draft report on India’s optimal generation capacity mix for 2030. The report suggests that the overall grid capacity in the country will reach 831 GW to […]

Management of power supply to consumers in the most optimal manner is the real challenge for discoms in the present scenario. Although sufficient power generation capacities are available, due to limited financial capability and liquidity, […]

It has been more than three years since India formally adopted the Paris Agreement. Since then, India has been working on a multifold strategy to become a clean energy powerhouse. In an interview with Power […]

Tighter control on emissions from sulphur oxide (SOx), nitrogen oxide (NOx) and particular matter (PM) has become a priority for many countries across the world. In India, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change […]

Having witnessed major challenges in the past year, the industry is now looking to the new government for steps to overcome these. Power Line invited industry experts to share their views on the top power […]

Uttar Pradesh, one of the key states under UDAY, has been striving hard to improve the performance of the state’s power sector. The state has witnessed an improvement in the plant load factor, an increase […]

The power sector’s record in the past five years has been somewhat mixed. While the sector has done well in key areas such as reducing the energy deficit, improving coal production, increasing renewable energy capacity […]

The Supreme Court recently struck down the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) circular dated February 12, 2018, declaring it ultra vires. The controversial RBI circular had kept the industry on tenterhooks. It mandated defaulters with a […]

Poonam Verma, Partner, and Aparajita Upadhyay, Associate, J. Sagar Associates What is a hybrid power plant? Hybrid conventionally means something that has two different types of components performing essentially the same function, or a thing […]

Mohammad Hossain, Director General, Power Cell, Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, Government of Bangladesh Bangladesh has a vision to boost its installed generation capacity to 24,000 MW by 2021, with the aim of […]

“There is a need to devise a balancing mechanism” The intermittency and grid integration challenges of renewables underscore the heightened risk of curtailment, in terms of technical issues and misalignment with demand-supply forecasts. There have […]

To  give a major leg-up to the ailing hydropower segment, the government, in March 2019, approved a slew of policy measures, including the much-awaited renewable energy status to large hydropower projects (LHPs) (of more than […]

  Ashok Sethi, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director, Tata Power The distribution segment, which is a critical link in the Indian power industry, is tightly regulated today through the Electricity Act, 2003, the National […]

Following the reasonable response to the first round of medium-term power purchase agreement (PPA) auctions in 2018, which saw PPAs being signed for 1,900 MW of capacity, the Ministry of Power (MoP) recently issued guidelines […]

From an installed nuclear base of less than 7 GW, the government is looking to expand the installed capacity to over 22 GW by 2031. It has, in the recent past, undertaken a series of […]