Power Sector News Roundup for September 1, 2025

Author: PPD Team Date: November 19, 2025 India CEA pushes national standard for DT design and maintenance The Central Electricity Authority held a meeting to push national standardisation of distribution transformer design and maintenance. Officials noted that failure rates average about 10 per cent, which equals nearly 1.3 million failures each year. Performance varies sharply across states, with some northern utilities above 20 per cent while Tata Power DDL and CESC operate below 0.5 per…

Author: PPD Team Date: January 7, 2026 India Bondada Engineering commissions 120 MWp solar capacity in December 2025 Bondada Engineering Limited commissioned 120.46 MWp of solar capacity in December 2025. The projects were developed for Paradigm IT, Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited and NLC India Limited across Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Sites include Dhule, Amaravati, Hingoli, Pathardi, Shevgaon, Kannad and Dharni in Maharashtra, and Neyveli in Tamil Nadu. The company said its commissioning volumes…

Author: PPD Team Date: January 9, 2026 India Shakti Pumps invests Rs 3 crore in solar manufacturing expansion Shakti Pumps (India) Limited has invested Rs 3 crore in its wholly owned subsidiary, Shakti Energy Solutions Limited. The funding will be used to set up a greenfield facility in Pithampur, Madhya Pradesh, to manufacture high efficiency Solar Domestic Content Requirement cells and solar photovoltaic modules. The proposed plant will have a capacity of 2.20 GW and…