The last three decades have exposed the inefficiency of the central government's reform program in electricity planning, power sector financing, national tariff policy, and in developing an equitable national renewable energy policy. The present set of reforms is nothing but a desperate attempt by the government to cover up the policy miscalculations of the past decades while simultaneously protecting the interes...

Since the 1990s, India has embarked on market-oriented power sector reforms that ranged from restructuring state electricity boards, establishing independent regulators, and partially privatising the power sector. The past three decades have exposed the inefficiency of the Central government's reform programme in electricity planning, power sector financing, national tariff policy, and in developing an equitab...

It is learnt that Minister of Power GoI has scheduled a Virtual Meeting / Meeting with State Regulators  on 02 March at 2-30 PM . However, the notice for the meeting has been kept extremely short ie 2-3  days  or so . This indicates a haphazard, unplanned and adhoc approach on matters that need to be dealt with systematically in a planned manner. On 05 Feb the draft Amendment Bill 2...

During day-long raids by the power department authorities, 1,100 cases of industrial power theft were detected in Haryana on Saturday. Power Minister Ranjit Singh Chautala said on Saturday evening that as many as 236 teams comprising more than 1,000 officers conducted raids to detect power thefts in various industries running in the state since 4.30 am. “During the raids, more than 1,100 cases of industrial ...

In a move that could push the already beleaguered power distribution companies into more trouble, the Centre has brought changes to the Electricity Act to suspend discoms from buying power if they fail to clear dues to generation companies beyond six months. The Centre has also brought in a clause in the Act to impose penalties on the discoms for late payment of...

Ajaypal Singh Atwal general secretary PSEBA said that Punjab government and PSPCL management is not able to safeguard the interest of the power sector and alleged that a big land grabbing is going on in the Punjab power sector. Land of Bhatinda thermal worth Rs.4000 crore is being transferred to private players at Rs.1. Padamjit Singh (retd.) chief patron of AIPEF said that the government is planning to close d...

Power consumers, electricity department employees and engineers are being ignored in the process of finalising the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021, V K Gupta, spokesman, All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF), said on Tuesday. ...

“Pleas of Electricity Department employees may have fallen on deaf ears, but their prayers have been answered. After the decision of the Centre to frame a uniform policy for the privatisation of the Electricity Department of all union territories, the UT Administration has put the department privatisation process on hold. The privatisation process of the Electricity Department has been put on hold till the C...

The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) on Tuesday said consumers as well as employees are being ignored in finalising the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021, and demanded that the draft bill should be put in public domain for feedback. 'The consumers and power sector employees and engineers are being ignored in finalising the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021,' AIPEF spok...

  In continuation to AIPEF  letter No 19-2021   dated 18 Feb 2021, additional comments are submitted as under. 1.  In AIPEF  letter/comments  we have quoted from a study by the NGO PRAYAS  titled  Many Sparks, Little Light   which shows how the experiment of privatization and multiple licensees  has failed in Mumbai  and caused  hardship  t...