Analyzing Power Regulations & Policy Decisions
Weekly brief covering regulatory developments, judicial orders, and policy shifts shaping the power sector.
Analyzing Power Regulations & Policy Decisions
This World Environment Day, as plantation numbers once again dominate corporate sustainability narratives, Power Peak Digest examines a recurring gap in India’s thermal power sector: compensatory...
For years, the Tariff-Based Competitive Bidding (TBCB) route for transmission projects followed a predictable pattern. Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PowerGrid) would win the majority of...
The reliability of India’s vast and complex power transmission network, a critical artery for the nation’s economic growth, has come under intense scrutiny following a disturbing trend of failures in...
Transformers and Rectifiers (India) Limited (TARIL) has doubled its transformer manufacturing capacity to 33,000 MVA over the past two years and is now targeting 75,000 MVA, alongside expanding into...
The adage “if a business is profitable, why share profits by going public” does not fully apply to 100% government-owned entities such as Bihar State Power Transmission Company (BSPTCL) and...
Wirepas has spent over 15 years building wireless mesh infrastructure for environments where conventional connectivity struggles: dense cities, fragmented grids, and large fleets of endpoints that...
Source: MNRE, Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 854, February 4, 2026 (data as of January 31, 2026)...
India’s power sector continues to expand with a total installed utility capacity of 509,743.09 MW as of November 30, 2025, according to the latest data from the Central Electricity Authority...
India’s energy storage sector has seen a sharp rise in tender activity from 2018 to 2025. A total of 138 tenders covered 51 GW of renewable energy capacity and 196 GWh of energy storage capacity...
The State Transmission Utility (STU) of Chandigarh has submitted a five-year business plan before the Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC), proposing capital expenditure of Rs 158.34 crore...
The Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC) has released a draft explanatory memorandum and draft fifth amendment regulations to the GERC (Terms and Conditions for Green Energy Open Access)...
The Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL) has set aside the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (MERC) order dated March 6, 2026, which had adopted a tariff of Rs 1,65,998 per MW per...
The Approved List of Models and Manufacturers (ALMM) is a regulatory framework administered by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) that determines which solar photovoltaic (PV) modules...
India is expanding solar deployment in agriculture through programmes such as the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan (PM KUSUM) and the PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana. These...
Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) recently announced plans to install India’s first eco-friendly 145 kV green circuit breaker at its Imphal substation. This marks a key step in moving...