Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC or the Commission) directed the National Load Despatch Centre (NLDC) to prepare a procedure on the mechanism to work out compensation for degradation of station heat rate (SHR), auxiliary energy consump...

Central Electricity Regulatory Commission notified the draft of the first amendment to the CERC (Terms and Conditions of Tariff) Regulations, 2024, and invited public comments on the same.  The draft document includes amendments to the consideratio...

Achieving low energy demand in buildings is crucial in climate change mitigation. In India, this needs to be balanced with the need to address critical gaps in access to the basic services supporting Decent Living Standards (DLS). Supported by new ev...

This article traces the success of competitive bidding in power procurement across the electricity sector over the past two decades. It highlights the significant progress made in the renewable energy sector, where competitive price discovery and wid...

Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has issued the Manual on Transmission Planning Criteria, 2023 which was effective from 1st April, 2023. In order to cover the planning procedure, a new chapter (Chapter-7) is proposed to be added by CEA. CEA has in...

India has set itself an ambitious renewable energy target of 175 GW by 2022. In spite of the several benefits of renewable energy, such a high target has profound implications for the Indian power sector, especially in the medium term. Hence it is ve...