NewsletterA A   inShare  India has declared that nuclear energy is vital for meeting the challenge of climate change and suggested supporting efforts to promote its public acceptance amid growing opposition to nuclear power and plans by some countries to phase out their atomic generation plants. "Nuclear power remains an important option to meet the challeng...

New Delhi: The steep fall in the cost of producing solar power in recent years is now causing conflicts between different arms of state and central governments over the buying price of solar power. On November 2, the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (Aptel) intervened with a stay order on a dispute between Karnataka’s power regulator and its discoms over the tariff at which to buy solar power fro...

A reliable, economically competitive and environmentally sustainable electricity system is the cornerstone of a modern society. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is being built on the digital revolution and combines multiple technologies that are leading to unprecedented paradigm shifts in the economy, business and society et al.   The electricity landscape is a prime example of the Fourth I...

It would perhaps be rash to look beyond insolvency when the courts, a parliamentary committee, and the central bank are deliberating it. In the power sector, the problem is so complex and large (about 66 GW of generating capacity with loans of ?1.8 trillion) that despite many government initiatives, much of it remains unresolved. The power developers, who experienced this in full measure, having seen their capital...

 NewsletterA A        inShare  Chandigarh: Punjab government on Friday conferred state-level awards for excellence in energy conservation on 10 industrialists. The award has been given to units that made efforts for efficient utilisation of energy in the last two years. Rishab Spinning Mills, Ludhiana, and Vardh...

New Delhi: The Supreme Court may have allowed India’s central electricity regulator to consider reopening the power supply contracts of the loss-making generating stations of Tata, Adani and Essar in Gujarat, but it does not mean that the matter of compensatory tariff for these plants has been settled. Far from it. Consumer forums can still continue their legal battle all the way up to the ape...

Following a recent verdict by the apex court allowing the Adani and Tata groups to get ‘compensatory tariff ’ due to increase in the prices of imported coal, the cost of power is all set to escalate in all partner states, including Punjab and Haryana. Both Punjab and Haryana buy power from independent power producers. In 2013, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) had allowed ‘c...

PATIALA: The Punjab government continues to default on the instalments against the power subsidy to the Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd (PSPCL), which is now on the brink of cash crunch. Even after giving an undertaking to the power regulator that it will pay in advance, the Punjab government has not paid for October and November. In the past also, the payments made by the government against the subsidy were ne...

Dear Shri Vinod Gupta, We are pleased to share with you our new report - Amicus Populi? A public interest review of the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity along with a note on coordinated ...

New Delhi: Electricity distribution companies of four states – Bihar, West Bengal, Telangana and Tamil Nadu – today signed powerpurchase agreements with trader PTC India while seven private generating companies also inked pacts with PTC for sale of 1,900 Mw power under a pilot scheme of the ministry of power. “The successful bidders included RKM Powergen (550 MW); Jh...