The Gujarat government had approached the SC following a high-powered committee’s recommendations allowing higher tariffs and a 100% pass-through of tariffs to consumers, which would require an amendment to the existing PPAs with the discoms of the five procurer states.  The Supreme Court will hear the Gujarat government’s petition seeking the apex court’s opinion regarding amendment of powe...

In the present scenario, states pool in the availability of power and implements Merit Order Dispatch at state-level so that the energy requirement is met at the least cost. In the proposed set-up, how the intermediary company will implement the merit order with multiple supply licensees is not known and will lead to endless disputes. The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) considers the changes propos...

  Present Government has issued a draft notification proposing changes to the Electricity Law of the country and has invited comments from stakeholders. It is expected that the bill will be presented in the upcoming winter session of parliament which will also be the last parliament session of the present Government. The bill if passed will result in sea changes in Electricity law as we know...

A lot of analysts are praising the proposed changes in tariff policies as well as the legislation to amend the Electricity Act. Tells us about the proposed key reforms and when are will these get implemented? The tariff policy mainly brings in reforms for the distribution companies so that their losses can be checked and beyond a certain percentage of loss will not be treated as a pass through. So, discoms will ha...

New developments 1      Ministry of Power has extended the last date for submission of comments on Amendment Act 2018  to 05 Nov 2018. 2      In June MoP had circulated draft of Tariff Policy  .  Now MoP has put on its website detailed proposal to amend Sec 8.3A of draft tariff Policy. The MoP documents  refer...

No. 35 / Extension of date for comments       25-10-2018   All Office Bearers - A I P E F Chairman / Secretary General - SIPEF / WIPEF / EIPEF / NIPEF President / General Secretary - All AIPEF Constituents   Sub: Extension of date for comments on Electricity(Amendment) Bill 2018 and details of Tariff Policy draft   Ministry of Power, GOI has extended t...

The Ministry of Power has issued a proposal incorporating new modifications to the revised proposal for amendments to the Electricity Act 2003. In September 2018, the Ministry of Power had issued revised proposal for amendments to the Electricity Act 2003, in which it had included ample provisions for renewable energy generation and distribution. The new modifications are related to simplificat...

NEW DELHI: SBI has moved the Supreme Court seeking implementation of a high powerpanel's recommendation to amend the PPAs between various discomsand three Gujarat-based electricity producers who were running losses as they could not hike tariffs to compensate for the rise in cost of coal imported from Indonesia. SBI is part of a consortium of banks that funded the t...

CHANDIGARH: All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has submitted its comments on the draft Electricity (Amendment) bill 2018 to the power ministry opposing the complete privatization of power distribution. AIPEF has written to R K Singh Power Minister demanding that the revised draft along with the comments of stakeholders be again sent to Parliament’s Standing Committee on ...

The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) on Sunday termed the changes proposed in the Electricity Act, 2003 as a matter of serious concern, as this will concentrate all powers in the electricity sector in the hands of Central government and eventually lead to complete privatisation of power distribution in the country.   The AIPEF warned against any u...