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Open access II: India's attempt to expand scope of green energy initiatives

The new guidelines expanding consumer choices to green energy will remain subject to the uncertainties and quirks of state policy

Maharashtra's electricity users to pay more as fuel adjustment charges rise

Nearly all the electricity users across categories in Maharashtra will be paying more for every unit of electricity they consume over the next four months, power utilities said on Friday. The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), the sector regulator, has approved discoms' requests for accumulated fuel adjustment charges (FAC), which will result in higher payouts. The FAC charges are for higher costs borne by discoms in arranging power either by way of paying higher charges for short-term power supply or imported coal, which surged because of geopolitical tensions, experts pointed out. Consumers will have to pay the higher FAC for four months till November 2022 billing cycle, industry sources said, adding that the actual payments will differ from discom to discom, and also as per the category a consumer falls under. An official from the state-owned Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MSEDCL) said the increase is as per the MERC order. "The FAC duly

States add 1.1 million families to un-electrified list, shows data

Under Saubhagya, the Centre provided 60 per cent of the project finance to states for giving connections to rural households, and the rest was borne by states

Centre permits green open access for smaller electricity consumers

Threshold brought down to 100 kW from 1 Mw; open access allows consumer to buy power from a source of its choice

India's power crisis: The devil lies more in the cost than in the crunch

New far-off plants are costlier and start supplying power much after the older ones have been run at peak. This summer, despite the call to phase out plants over 25 years, they've proved their worth

India's heat waves, power outages testing the limits of human survival

Multiple regions of India have already been edging close to critical wet-bulb temperatures over the past week

Decoding the link between coal policy changes and the power crunch in India

Coal supply reforms are medium term, but they have created an immediate surge in demand. The result is a power crisis

India staring at power outage in multiple states amid coal crisis

States such as Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Haryana and Andhra Pradesh are witnessing powercuts amid low coal stocks

Indian Oil installs more than 1,000 electric vehicle charging stations

IndianOil is gearing up to provide EV charging facilities at 10,000 fuel stations in the next three years, said Director, Marketing V. Satish Kumar

Power consumption grows 2.6% to 112.67 billion units in January

According to the data, peak power demand met or highest supply in a day rose to 192.07GW in the month under review compared to 189.39 GW in January 2021, and 170.97 GW in January 2020

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The latest power distribution scheme reflects old structural flaws

Best of BS Opinion: India's data deficiency, question of compliance & more

Here are the best of Business Standard's opinion pieces for Wednesday

Does India need more coal power?

Can we really give up on fresh coal-based plants? And still meet the goal of 24x7 electricity for all? A number of connected issues have to be examined before coming to a conclusion

Electricity costs to fall sharply thanks to RE boom, predicts Gautam Adani

Thanks to renewable power boom, the marginal cost of electricity will continue to drop sharply and India will emerge as the least expensive producer of renewable energy, he said

Villages along LoC connected with national electricity grid after 70 yrs

Villagers in these areas have also enthusiastically participated in elections with the turnout always being over 60 per cent, Garg, who took over as DC in February 2019, said

The Sebi-CERC turf war over control of trading in energy as a commodity

The stakes are indeed steep because international traders in this market are often massive entities who could swamp a regulator with little experience

Electricity tariffs in Delhi to remain unchanged for another year

For the domestic category, the energy charges or the per unit electricity charge is in the range of Rs 3-Rs 8 per unit for consumption slabs of 0-200 units to up till 1200 units

After 73 years of wait for power, 3 J&K villages along LOC on national grid

For three hours of electricity, the Keran area, with a population of 14,000 in four panchayats, was till recently dependent on three old diesel generator sets

IEX expects online price of electricity to weaken as fallout of coronavirus

While demand from industry and commerce has reduced owing to the lockdown, it has heightened in many other areas like domestic demand through work from home models

Post coronavirus lockdown, industrial demand for power plummets by 30%

An overall generation down by 3.6 per cent YoY in March 2020, creating financial problem for producers