electricity access

Special Anniversary Issue

Perform and Transform: Time to introduce outcome-based reforms for discoms

September 22, 2021

Atmanirbhar Bharat presupposes a robust and sustainable power supply system to accelerate progress. Power sector reforms in India star­ted along with the liberalisation of the ec­o­nomy with the objectives of en­su­ring security of supply, effici­ency improvement and cost recovery. India has done extremely well on two subsequently added goals of uni­versal electrification and decarbonisation of the power sector. […]

Special Anniversary Issue

Serving the Unserved: Strong business case for decentralised generation and distribution

September 21, 2021

It is a well-known fact that despite all the advancements, a large percentage of the population of the world is still unserved when it co­mes to power supply. According to data published by the World Bank, 1.3 billion people around the world lack access to power. More than 600 million of them are in sub-Saharan Africa and more than 300 million are in India alone. One out of every five people around the world without adequate access to power  lives in India. […]