Germany remains Europe's largest and most diversified source of new technology, but still lags in the fastest growing areas of today's high technology. After World War II, West-German technology policy sought to rebuild the institutions which had supported Germany's leadership in the high-tech...

Germany remains Europe's largest and most diversified source of new technology, but still lags in the fastest growing areas of today's high technology. After World War II, West-German technology policy sought to rebuild the institutions which had supported Germany's leadership in the high-tech...

The guidelines for implementation of solar PV based agriculture pumps, under the PM-KUSUM scheme, aims to promote deployment of RE resources across the rural grid, and implementation of grid-connected as well as off-grid irrigation pumps. The provisions related to land acquisition should not...

Post Electricity Act, 2003, the Indian Power Sector entered into a phase of market reforms, targeted largely at bringing competition in wholesale procurement of power. The benefits of power market developed thus far have been limited to distribution licensees and Open Access consumers, who have...

It gives me immense pleasure to present the first issue of Regulatory Insights, the quarterly newsletter of Centre for Energy Regulation (CER). Each issue aims to bring insights into key regulatory and policy developments in the power sector, accompanied with analysis based on CER's Regulatory...

COVID-19 pandemic has immediate as well as long-term concerns for the regulators and the policy makers. Its impact on power system is reflected in general decline of energy sales and, a change in composition of energy sales and demand profile. Given the higher proportion of fixed cost component...