A disturbing side effect of electrification is the increasing number of electrical accidents. Over the years, there has been a big increase in the number of accidents in both absolute and per population terms. The rural public is a major victim of th...

On 2nd June 2022, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) issued a staff paper introducing a 'Blending of imported coal with domestic coal to mitigate the domestic coal shortage'. in response to MoP’s directive to the CERC, under secti...

A disturbing side effect of electrification is the increasing number of electrical accidents. Over the years, there has been a big increase in the number of accidents in both absolute and  per population terms. The rural public is a major victim of ...

Residential electricity consumption is about a quarter of the total electricity consumption in India and has more than doubled since 2010. Use of appliances drives this consumption. There is limited data on ownership and usage of appliances t...

On 13th May 2022, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) issued a staff paper introducing a 'Methodology for Computing “Deterrent Charges” for maintaining lower coal stock by coal based thermal generating stations'. This was based o...