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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 […]

NHPC Limited, the country’s largest hydropower producer, is optimistic about the sector’s growth story. Hydropower is expected to play a larger role in the grid due to its ability to meet peak demand and balance […]

The Interim Budget 2019-20 was overall unremarkable and did not see any major announcements for the power sector. However, with higher allocations made for the government’s Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS), the equipment industry has […]

If we glance around us, almost everything we see needs energy to function. The fact is that we live in a heavily energy dependent world and reliable energy is critical to our daily lives and […]

In November 2015, the cabinet had approved the first Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY) for the financial turnaround of the discoms. In December 2018, the power minister stated that while UDAY has done well in […]

The year 2018 saw the power sector delivering a fairly good performance on the back of the achievement of village electrification targets, a revival in power demand, significant growth in renewable energy and the signing […]

In view of the increasing power demand, the power ministry is reportedly mulling a proposal to bid out ultra mega power plants (UMPPs). To recall, the UMPP programme was launched in 2005 to develop large […]

In the past year, the power sector has witnessed significant growth, including the achievement of 100 per cent village electrification and an improvement in power supply. However, it continues to face several challenges such as […]