All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) heartily welcomes and congratulates you on assuming the responsibility of the post of Power Minister of the country. 2. All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) is the only national federation of power engineers working in power corporations of all the states of the country, Central Electricity Authority, Bhakra and Beas Management Board, and Damodar Valley Corporation...

The central government must review its disinvestment policy and the effort should be to empower the CPSEs, not to sell them away, EAS Sarma , former Secretary to Government of India to the Union wrote to the finance minister. Sarma writes in his letter that in the immediate pipeline of disinvestment are several highly valuable CPSEs like Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) and BEML. Sarm...

India's peak power demand is projected to surpass 400 GW by 2031-32, exceeding earlier estimates. Power Secretary Pankaj Agarwal highlighted the need for a 900 GW installed capacity to meet the growing demand. New Delhi, Jul 2 (PTI) India's peak power demand may surpass the projected 384 GW mark and cross even a new level of 400 gigawatt (GW) by 2031-32, Power Secretary Pankaj Agarwal said on Tuesday. S...

Power demand in Punjab and Haryana rose around 5 per cent in June 2024 as compared to June last year. The maximum power demand touched 16089 MW on June 29 in Punjab, while it was 14394 MW on June 19 in Haryana. Last year the maximum daily demand in Punjab was 15325 MW and while in Haryana it was 13055 MW. Due to intense heat waves and practically no rain in June ,the average daily supply by PSPCL has als...

In Punjab, after the clandestine victory of the AAP govt in March 2022, the Bhagwant Mann government launched a 300 free units per month scheme for all categories of domestic consumers. The most favorite scheme of AAP govt’s free 300 units scheme was commenced on July 1, 2022 Unbridled free power to agriculture and the majority of domestic consumers bleeds Punjab’s coffers as the subsidy bill of&n...

Punjab power minister Harbhajan Singh said the state power utility PSPCL has met the highest-ever electricity demand of 16,089 MW on Saturday. The earlier record was 15,933 MW set on June 19, he said in a statement.“Punjab has consistently witnessed high peak demand during the second half of June, ranging from 15,000 MW to 15,800 MW, significantly higher than the corresponding period last year,” he sai...

Output growth in India’s eight core infrastructure sectors eased to 6.3% in May, from April’s 6.7% pace, with a double-digit rise in coal and electricity production offsetting contractions in three sectors, including cement and fertilisers. Sequentially, the Index of Core Industries (ICI) rose 3.7% from April’s levels. Electricity generation rose year-on-year at a seven-month high pace of 12.8...

On June 4, 2024, the verdict of our country’s electorate was delivered clearly and resoundingly. It signalled a personal, political, and moral defeat for a Prime Minister who had awarded himself a divine status during the campaign. The verdict negated not only such pretensions, but it was also an unequivocal rejection of the politics of divisiveness, discord and hatred, a repudiation of both the subst...

A news article in "The Guardian" has raised a critical issue for the satisfactory operation of the national power grid in India. It says among other things: "Engineers in India have warned of the possibility of prolonged power outages in the north, where a heatwave has brought misery for millions of people. Demand for electricity has soared due to fans, air coolers and air conditioners being...

  More than 30 gigawatts (GW) of India's power-generation capacity has been out of service over the past month even as scorching temperatures have caused the demand for power to soar.  According to data from the Grid Controller of India, there has been a ‘generation outage’ of more than 30 GW on all but two days since May 18. There was a 44 GW outage on 23 May and a 39 GW outage...