Power

The government’s policy think tank, the National Institution for Transforming India, also called NITI Aayog, released the draft version of the National Energy Policy (NEP) on June 27, 2017. Broadly, the NEP is expected to […]

One of the long-standing wishes of the power industry has been to make the distribution segment self-sustainable by streamlining subsidies and introducing a direct benefit transfer (DBT) mechanism. Rightly so, the total subsidy dependence of the […]

There have been a number of noteworthy developments in the power sector in the past twelve months. Policies and programames in the generation segment such as the new coal linkage policy — the Scheme to […]

Growth momentum in the Indian power sector continues to gather pace in response to policy initiatives by the central government. The generation segment has witnessed record capacity additions, with renewables taking the lead in recent […]

With climate change being a global concern, the adoption of renewable energy has accelerated across the world in recent years, and India has been no exception. Piyush Goyal, Minister of State with Independent Charge for […]

Coal and renewables must be the joint focus of policy, says Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India, as the country’s growing focus on renewables will result in a significant part of […]

That the power sector has shown a reasonably good performance in the past year in terms of robust capacity additions, declining peak shortages, improvements under the Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY), and brisk progress in […]

Power generation recorded a compound annual growth rate of 5.34 per cent to reach 1,154,524 MUs in 2016-17 from 722,626 MUs in 2007-08. Thermal generation accounted for 86 per cent of the total in 2016-17, […]

The national plant load factor (PLF) registered a decline from 62.24 per cent in 2015-16 to 59.88 per cent in 2016-17. Across the central, state and private sectors, the PLF has been declining since 2011-12. […]

As per industry estimates, the global investment in smart grid infrastructure has increased from $67 billion in 2009 to nearly $200 billion in 2015. Economies such as China, the US, Japan, Korea, the UK and […]

Coal-based power generation continues to account for a significant share in the country’s total installed capacity base and plays an important role in meeting the growing power demand. The coal-based power generation segment has been […]