Incentive to Save
Driving energy efficiency under PAT
The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) launched the Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme in 2012, under […]
Industrial Power
Incentive to Save
Limited Uptake
Need to promote biomass as the fuel of choice for cogeneration
Cogeneration, or combined heat and power (CHP), is the simultaneous generation of electrical or mechanical energy and […]
Triple Benefits
EESL’s initiatives to commercialise trigeneration
Trigeneration, as the name implies, is the production of three types of energy, electricity, heat and cooling, […]
Safety Measures
Utilities adopt measures for electrical safety
Ensuring safety against electrical accidents is of paramount importance for utilities and end users. Snapping of conductors, […]
Secure Operations
CEA issues advisory to enhance plant safety
Ensuring safety in power plant operations is essential as any negligence could lead to accidents. These accidents […]
Green Route
Industrial and commercial users increasingly opt for renewable energy
Commercial and industrial consumers account for 51 per cent of grid power consumption in India. Owing to […]
Decentralised Energy
Focus on clean distributed generation for a flexible power system
Distributed generation (DG) refers to a variety of technologies that generate electricity near the end users. Some […]
Growing Captive Capacity
Key trends, outlook and challenges
Uninterrupted electricity supply is key to industrial operations as every blackout affects production processes and ultimately results […]
Efficiency Track
Indian Railways on a mission to reduce its energy footprint
With one of the largest rail networks in the world, Indian Railways is an energy-intensive sector. Reducing […]
Towards Energy Savings
Government promotes the uptake of efficient motors
Electrical machines that consume electrical energy and convert it into mechanical energy are widely known as electric […]
Cost Optimisation
Growing number of industrial consumers turn to short-term power trading
Industrial consumers have various options to meet their power procurement needs. To begin with, they have for […]
Climate Smart
Efforts to make the cement industry more sustainable
The cement industry plays a key role in the economic development of emerging markets. Along with aggregates […]
Optimising Operations
High-performance HVAC systems could yield energy cost savings
Heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems constitute a large part of a commercial building’s energy consumption. Industry […]
Savings Potential
Measures for improving energy efficiency in the chemicals and petrochemicals sector
The chemicals industry in India is an important contributor to the economy, sustaining a variety of downstream […]
PAT Success
Energy efficiency scenario improves
The perform, achieve and trade (PAT) is one of the flagship schemes launched by the Bureau of […]
Cogeneration and Modernisation
Improving energy efficiency in the sugar industry
As per various media statistics, India is the second highest sugar-producing country in the world, after Brazil. […]
Sweet Savings
Sugar mills adopt energy efficient practices to achieve cost optimization
Sugar manufacturers that are grappling with issues such as declining sugarcane production, rising raw material costs, increasing […]
Growth in Renewables
New trends, key drivers and future outlook
The renewable energy segment presents an attractive investment opportunity in the power sector with record capacity additions, […]
Attractive Alternative
High grid tariffs drive commercial and industrial users towards rooftop solar
The rooftop solar segment grew by 81 per cent in 2016-17 over 2015-16. As opposed to other […]