The hydropower segment in India has consistently fallen short of achieving the prescribed capacity addition targets every year since 2008-09. During the Twelfth Plan period (2012-17), around 5,479 MW of capacity was added against the […]
Coal-based power plants account for around 75 per cent of India’s thermal power generation and a significant share of carbon emissions. According to the latest data from the Central Electricity Authority (CEA), carbon dioxide (CO2) […]
A conducive policy framework has helped the transmission sector to develop consistently at a significant growth rate. The growth is likely to continue over the next few years. “The power transmission segment is currently the […]
The second edition of the Power Line Summit was held on October 10, 2017 at The Imperial in New Delhi. The objective of the summit was to provide a top-level view of the road ahead […]
Several leadership changes have taken place in the power sector over the past 12 months. The foremost among these was the appointment of a new minister for the sector. Raj Kumar Singh took over the […]
India is proactively working towards achieving the ambitious 175 GW by 2022 renewable energy target, which is over three times the current installed capacity of 58 GW. Wind and solar plants are subject to daily […]
The Indian power sector has been struggling with issues such as infrastructure inadequacy, and transmission and distribution inefficiencies. There are several technical challenges in terms of manual distribution processes and lack of real-time information that […]
Can the revised environmental norms for thermal power plants be a catalyst for the growth of the equipment industry? Industry observers say the answer is yes. The power equipment industry has been hit hard in […]
In the series of web portals and mobile apps being launched by the government to promote transparency and efficiency in the power sector, the MERIT (Merit Order Despatch of Electricity for Rejuvenation of Income and […]
Aimed at regulating the pollution caused by thermal power plants, the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) revised the standards for emissions from thermal power plants in December 2015. Apart from tightening the […]
The situation today The Indian power sector today is facing a strange conundrum where existing power plants are suffering from low utilisation rates (about 60Â per cent) or are lying stranded either for want of […]
The rising demand for power in India has been met increasingly through coal-based power, which accounts for 60 per cent of the country’s total installed capacity base of 320 GW (as of March 2017). The […]
The shortage of domestic natural gas has severely affected gas-based power generation in the country. As of February 2017, the country’s 25,329 MW of installed gas-based power capacity was operating at a suboptimal plant load […]
Coal is the primary source of power generation in the country, accounting for around 60 per cent of the total installed base and 78 per cent of the total power generation. However, over the past […]
In light of the huge renewable capacity addition planned in the country, peaking power is emerging as the centrepiece of discussions in the sector. The intermittent and unpredictable nature of renewables makes it challenging to […]
With the increasing share of renewable energy in total generation arises the need to optimise generation and maintain grid reliability. One of the solutions for addressing the challenges of large-scale renewable integration and enabling enhanced […]
The coal sector is finally set to be opened up to private players as the central government gears up to auction coal blocks for commercial mining in 2017-18. In this regard, on March 27, 2017, […]
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