The Indian electrical equipment industry, broadly classified into two categories-generation equipments and transmission and distribution (T&D) equipments-manufactures diverse products ranging from high technology equipments to low technology electrical components.

The gap between power production and consumption is widening in India and will further vitiate with the government´s thrust on manufacturing. Since power outages have become the norm, industrial consumers are left with no option but to use diesel gensets. As such, with a genset power range of 10 kVA-200 kVA, the Indian market is about 100 thousand units per year.

Coal contributes to 70 per cent of India´s power generation, but the sector still needs to quadruple by 2031 by adding at least 600 GW of coal-based generation capacity to meet future energy demand.

Subsequent to the de-allocation of 204 coal blocks by the Supreme Court (SC) of India in September 2014, the Government of India (GoI) notified

With increasing demand for electricity and rising gap between the demand and supply situation in India, there is an urgent need to tap all possible energy resources. Hydropower leads the list for various reasons.

Despite gradual reduction over time, India still has a significant electricity demand and supply gap. Government of India (GoI) has been taking various positive steps to cater to the increasing demand of power in the country.

A number of players in the balance of plant (BoP) sector, who had a phenomenal order intake in the past several years, are currently reeling under tremendous working capital stretch because of stuck inventory and huge receivables.

With the government upping the targets for energy generation and the nation´s power demands constantly on the rise, Renovation & Modernization (R&M) of existing power plants seems to be the most cost-effective way of augmenting India´s generation capacity.

With the Indian coal sector sensing a fillip after the recent coal auctions, it is now time for its allied industries to gear up for some action. One of the prime movers-coal and ash handling systems-are likely to gain from the current happenings.