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Karnataka has been ranked the top performer under UDAY scheme that aims to shore up the financial health of power distribution companies (discoms).

A Mechanical Engineer by qualification, Gurdeep Singh, CMD, NTPC, has over 28 years of experience in power generation sector. He started his career with NTPC and has worked at various levels in both Indian and multi-national companies such as Powergen, CLP, IDFC, CESC and AES.

In the past five years, coal power made up over two-thirds of capacity additions in India's generation, and currently accounts for more than 60 per cent of India's power capacity. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), India's coal demand will see the biggest growth over the next five years, despite a global slowdown.

In order to meet the coal demand in next five years, Coal India Ltd, the main coal producer, has an ambitious plan of increasing its production to one billon tonnes by FY2019-20. CIL's production is showing an increasing trend, having gone up from 494 Mt in FY15 to 554 Mt in FY17.

ABB India has restored and modernised the critical 1,035 MW Sharavathi hydro power plant in Karnataka, which approximately accounts for 25 per cent of the state utility Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd.’s (KPCL) power generation.

ABB India has restored and modernised the critical 1,035 MW Sharavathi hydro power plant in Karnataka, which approximately accounts for 25 per cent of the state utility Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd’s (KPCL) power generation. The India Smart Grid Foundation innovation award, recognised ABB India’s efforts by awarding the “smart technology of the year 2016” to this project.

Reeling under severe shortage of power until a few months ago, Karnataka is all of a sudden left with the bounty of surplus power. The surplus generation has left the energy department in a dilemma of whether to make arrangements for purchase of power to cope with the summer crisis or manage with its own.

Reeling under severe shortage of power until a few months ago, Karnataka is all of a sudden left with the bounty of surplus power. The surplus generation has left the energy department in a dilemma of whether to make arrangements for purchase of power to cope with the summer crisis or manage with its own.