The establishment of a market based Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) mechanism was instrumental in driving renewable energy installations in India. However, due to absence of enforcement of RPO obligations and…

Sunil Misra, Director General, IEEMA Indian power sector is undergoing a significant change that has redefined the industry outlook. Sustained economic growth continues to drive electricity demand in India. The…

Sanjib Mitra,  Country Head and Sr VP – Transformer Division, Electrotherm (India) Coal remains a crisis worldwide as mining remains a challenge all through. Not only this, also if we…

Arvinder Bir Singh, Vice President Solar Business, EAPL Yes, with its power generation capacity of 330 GW India has the potential of offering power to all. To offer power to…

Shekhar Singal, Managing Director, Eastman Auto & Power Ltd CBEC has sought to reclassify imported solar panels and modules in a category that attracts 7.5 per cent duty and various…

Smart City Mission is an important initiative which was launched in June 2015. The mission intends to provide core infrastructure to the citizens of the city in a sustainable, cleaner…

While India is set to grow in terms of GDP in 2018, the ground reality tells a different story. Recent rankings do show India in a formidable position to do…

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] No. Chinese entry into Indian power sector is not a security threat but potentially an economic threat. As context: global manufacturing today is based on complex and integrated supply…

SHAKTI (Scheme for Harnessing and Allocating Koyala {coal} Transparently in India) will give a new lease of life to the power sector. The new coal linkage policy for power plants…

The government’s target for the renewable energy sector seems to be really good and quite progressive. So far, the country has installed about 28 GW of wind-power farms. India’s push…

Is it going to be sustainable? Wind energy availability is abundant and is an untapped resource of renewable energy with huge potential. Gaining the momentum in tapping of renewable energy…

As a professional stakeholder body, we are not too happy with the budget 2017 as there is nothing concrete on the renewable energy sector, considering it is one of the…

Rajiv Kumar, Director – Marketing (ES – India), Eaton Power Quality Pvt Ltd Yes. Introduction of GST as a unified tax system will fundamentally change the existing structure of procurement…

Krishnan Rajagopalan, Head Solar Business, Anchor Electricals The Indian power sector comprises of large corporate, private equity players, foreign direct investors, individual business houses and small scale industries. Demonetisation was…

  The RPO will make it imperative for discoms and industries to go for solar energy for their power needs since under the policy 8 per cent of the electricity…

  Tata Power welcomes the Union Cabinet’s decision to approve amendments to the national tariff policy for electricity. The amendments which make a strong pitch for the promotion of clean…

  The new power tariff policy appears to be promising, as it is aimed at far-reaching promotions of clean energy. Such promotional activities from the ministry itself would allure more…

  The Centre has unveiled a new power tariff policy which allows 100 per cent expansion by existing power plants, passing on levies to consumers and purchase of 100 per…