India’s crippling power outage has left an estimated 600 million people in the country without electricity. Charles Ebinger and Govinda Avasarala write on how India can alleviate its dependency on a fragile energy and electricity sector by ...
The current crisis resulted from reduced coal supplies and a failure of policy, which led India’s power generators to cut down on imports on the back of surging international coal prices. India’s power ministry has said that the 135 thermal power plants operating in the country had an avera...
"Going by coal stocks in thermal power stations, India's current power crisis is unlikely to be resolved soon. The onset of the southwest monsoon will further hamper mining and transportation of coal from mines to power stations," the Center for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) said ...
This resulted in a significant energy crisis, having repercussions on electricity prices which shot to as high as Rs 20/unit in April 2022. CERC intervened and reduced ceiling prices from Rs 20/unit to Rs 12/unit to protect consumer interests. India reported a ...
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NEW DELHI, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chief Minister of India's Delhi Arvind Kejriwal Saturday said the national capital could face a power crisis. Kejriwal said his government has written to the country's Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi, seeking his intervention in making adequate arrangements of...
Northern India is seething under a heat wave with record high temperatures. In Delhi, the power crisis sparked protests and even riots. CCTV’s Shweta Bajaj tells us what has been heating up the Indian capital. The unprecedented heat has put pressure demands on India’s power supply, leading...
The current scenario of heavy power crisis in India particularly in rural areas and small towns requires urgent solution. There is a need to look for innovative and sustainable ways for promoting equitable development in India. The centralized energy planning model currently used ignores energy needs...
With losses mounting up, the field was getting cleared for somenew entrants of ideas and practices, that the so-called 'fiscal crisis' at theturn of the nineties ushered in subsequently. Thus has commenced anera of reforms and restructuring of power sector in India, at the initiationof the ...
Now, India is set to get Russian oil to avert power crisis triggered by heatwave ignoring western sanctions. India is one of those G-20 members that has refused to budge in the face of US pressure to stop buying Russian energy supplies. The electricity grid of this South Asian country is...