Asian Highway

On September 5, 2017, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Nay Pyi Taw on his first bilateral visit to Myanmar to chart out a roadmap for closer cooperation. The very next day, on September 6, a Rs 1,177 cr construction and maintenance of road contract funded by India for the Yagyi-Kalewa section in Myanmar […]

Generating Black Money

Cases of over-invoicing in the energy sector have become rampant. Government’s own agency – Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) – in its various investigation reports has unearthed massive scam in which several private companies have siphoned away several thousand crores of rupees abroad. Most of these over-invoicing instances have been reported from the power sector, […]

Domestic Coal Mining

ICRA expects aggregate domestic coal demand growth to witness a structural slowdown on the back of government’s large renewable energy capacity addition plans. Government’s renewable plan includes taking the capacity to 175,000 MW by 2022 from the current capacity of around 58,300 MW.

5-yr Trend

The solar power tariffs discovered through bidding have recently come down to the level of Rs 2.44/ kWh in May 2017 for Bhadla Solar project in Rajasthan. The details of solar power tariffs discovered during the last five years in the country are given in

UDAY Scheme

The news on the Ujjwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY) is a mixed bag. On the positive side, the financial metrics of state discoms improved in nine months of FY17, with their interest cost burden falling to 8.5 pc, as against 13 pc earlier.

25 cr LED sold

The Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LED for All (Ujala) Yojana is being implemented by Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL), a joint venture of power sector PSUs. It is based on aggregation of demand and bulk procurement of LED bulbs by EESL, resulting in reduction of procurement prices of these bulbs which is passed on to […]