The first pillar our partnership with India is based on is nuclear. India's strong mission to increase the use of nuclear from 3 per cent of the energy mix to 9 per cent by 2030 is very ambitious.

It has been an exciting journey of 9 years for Power Today, your beloved magazine, in chronicling and presenting an incisive analysis of events in power sector.

The power sector, over a period of six months, has witnessed large scale investments in the power generation segment leading to an increase in the installed capacity to 329 GW as on September 30, 2017 from 132 GW as on March 31, 2007.

Millions of Indians are yet to see the light of the day, without electricity connection. Pace of demand growth is far behind that of supply. The fossil fuels are being relegated and renewable sources are inducted in a big way.

Despite the Centre's thrust to renewable energy, state governments are not an active party to the renewable energy wave. If the Centre and states collaborate, things would be easier for achieving targets.

One of India's leading power transmission companies, Sterlite Power Transmission has four business units - infrastructure, solutions, convergence and IndiGrid. In the infrastructure space, the company sets up power transmission infrastructure on BOOM (Build, Own, Operate and Maintain) model.

Gujarat-based DGVCL is involved in the sub-transmission, distribution and supply of electricity across India. The company, incorporated in 2003, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam, a Government of Gujarat company.

A private electricity distribution company founded in 1899, Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC) is involved in generation, distribution and transmission of electrical power in private sector.

Established to accelerate power development in the country, NTPC is one of India's largest energy conglomerates with roots tracing back to 1975. Since then it has forayed into fossil fuels into hydro, nuclear and renewable energy sources.