Conventional power plants are capable of converting only 35-45 per cent of energy from the resources infused into the power plant, and a substantial proportion of electricity is heat loss, which is attributable to fundamental […]
A number of safety issues are emerging from archives relating to industry and power plant safety. According to IndustriALL, a global union of workers, 30 industrial accidents occurred in India during May-June 2020, killing at […]
A quiet stakeholder in the renewable energy market, corporate PPAs are beginning to capture significant attention across the utility-scale solar/wind as well as rooftop solar segments. Several models of sourcing renewable power have emerged over […]
Distributed power generation is very important to the power system network. It helps bridge the gap between supply and demand, and increase the efficiency and production of power. Distributed power generation based on renewable sources […]
Over the years, captive and rental power have emerged as viable options for industrial and commercial consumers to meet their energy demand and hedge against the risks of high grid power tariffs. While coal has […]
Indian Railways is one of the world’s largest railway networks comprising 123,542 km of track over a route length of 67,415 km across 8,500 stations. In recent years, a lot of emphasis has been given […]
The industrial sector accounts for around 40 per cent of the electricity demand in India. With growth in the Indian industrial sector pegged at a compound annual growth rate of 4.6 per cent, according to […]
The short-term power market, an integral part of the power sector, has been beneficial in meeting the short-term needs of all market participants. Meanwhile, the short-term power trading market has emerged as a necessary tool […]
India is the second largest producer of cement in the world. At present, the installed capacity of cement in the country is 540 million tonnes per annum (mtpa), with production at 298 mtpa. With the […]
The importance of the micro, small and medium enterprise (MSME) sector in India’s socio-economic development is well understood, especially in terms of its contribution (29 per cent) to GDP, exports and employment. Likewise, there is […]
Population and economic growth, clubbed with rapid urbanisation, have been driving the massive demand for construction activity in India, wherein two-thirds of the building structures that will come up by the year 2030 are yet […]
As India works towards achieving its commitment to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, it has taken up a series of innovative energy efficiency measures across all sectors. It seeks to reduce its […]
According to data from the Ministry of Labour and Employment, 3,562 workers died in factory accidents across India between 2014 and 2016, and more than 51,000 were injured in that period. This works out to […]
India is the third largest country in terms of electricity generation, as per the International Energy Agency. However, even though absolute figures are staggering, the country’s per capita electricity consumption is one-third of the world […]
In India’s renewable energy growth story, distributed renewable energy sources seem to have been overlooked. As a result, even after a year of record growth in the 2019 fiscal, distributed renewables, which include off-grid power and rooftop […]
Over the years, captive power plants (CPPs) have emerged as a viable option for industrial and commercial consumers to meet their energy demand and hedge against the risks of high grid power tariffs. As per […]
Increasing demand for low greenhouse gas emissions, on-site power generation, lower energy costs, application flexibility and high energy efficiency will drive the uptake of waste heat recovery (WHR) and cogeneration systems in the coming years. […]
Indian Railways (IR) had a modest beginning in 1853, when the first train steamed from Mumbai to Thane. In 1951, IR was nationalised as a single unit, becoming one of the largest railway networks in […]
The industrial sector accounts for 30-34 per cent of the total energy consumption in India, of which about 70 per cent is electrical energy consumption. Electric motors are known as the “workhorses” of industry. They […]
Given the competitive and predictable day-ahead market prices, a large number of industrial customers have made forays into the day-ahead market, utilising open access to supplement their offtake from utilities and reduce their effective cost […]
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