Editorial May 01, 2014 Water Woes Last year, all six units of the 1160 MW Parli thermal plant in Beed, Maharashtra, were shut down because of acute water shortage. A recent report indicates that nearly two-thirds of the country´s power plants are located in water-scarce or water stressed areas. What´s even more worrying, around 80 per cent of new power capacities are coming up in areas that are water-stressed.
Editorial Apr 01, 2014 The Power Agenda The system is broke, and the new Power Minister will have to fix it. This month´s Cover Story has focused on the items that need to be actioned off immediately after the new political dispensation comes to power. In the pages to follow, you´ll get the best of industry observers pitching in with what needs to be done. The agenda has been gathering dust for too long, this expresses the worn out look on the cover.
Editorial Mar 01, 2014 Stumbling Around The powers that be certainly seem to have adopted a management by wandering around (MWA) approach as far as the power sector is concerned. The MWA approach is unstructured, depends on several hit-or-miss moves, and is not based or any pre-determined, thought-out strategies. Though one really cannot expect any well defined, bold policy moves from a regime which has its sights fixed firmly on the upcoming elections, the power sector is reeling under the fallout of a few developments over the past
Editorial Feb 01, 2014 All Plug, No Play The ramifications of l´affaire Khobragade are still being felt as the proposed visit by U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz is still in limbo, thanks to the strained diplomatic relationship between the two countries over the treatment meted out to the Indian diplomat over alleged visa fraud. At stake is the India-US Energy Dialogue, which in happier times promised to usher in a new era of co-operation between New Delhi and Washington on the energy front.
Editorial Jan 01, 2014 Aap,The PPP-Slayer? When he went around town restoring illegal power connections and proclaiming that cheap electricity was a citizen´s fundamental right, Arvind Kejriwal may not have known it would come back to haunt him. As the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief takes oath, he is also likely to initiate audit of discoms´ operations in the national capital. What would it entail for the producers and consumers of power?
Editorial Jan 01, 2014 Aap,The PPP-Slayer? When he went around town restoring illegal power connections and proclaiming that cheap electricity was a citizen´s fundamental right, Arvind Kejriwal may not have known it would come back to haunt him. As the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief takes oath, he is also likely to initiate audit of discoms´ operations in the national capital. What would it entail for the producers and consumers of power?
Editorial Dec 01, 2013 Carrot and Stick The government is toying with an idea of a ´carrot and stick´ with the energy companies to de-bottleneck energy growth. This is largely in the hopes of achieving a makeover of their global image that has taken a beating in recent months, as rating firms have painted the government as investor-unfriendly so much so that a couple of them have declared their affinity to Narendra Modi as the next leader of the nation, much to the displeasure of the Finance Minister and those who believe the governme
Editorial Dec 01, 2013 Carrot and Stick The government is toying with an idea of a ´carrot and stick´ with the energy companies to de-bottleneck energy growth. This is largely in the hopes of achieving a makeover of their global image that has taken a beating in recent months, as rating firms have painted the government as investor-unfriendly so much so that a couple of them have declared their affinity to Narendra Modi as the next leader of the nation, much to the displeasure of the Finance Minister and those who believe the governme