Private investors respond to risk return tradeoffs. The policy environment and regulatory framework significantly influence risk as well as return in the power sector. Power sector reform and policy initiatives for enhanced private participation have been undertaken in a number of developing...

We examine the impact of electricity sector restructuring on the operating efficiency of coal-fired power plants in India. Between 1995 and 2009, 85 percent of coal-based generation capacity owned by state governments was unbundled from vertically integrated State Electricity Boards into state...

This study analyzes the interrelationships between regulation and technology adoption using the new institutional economics perspective. It examines the role of independent electricity regulatory commissions in promoting adoption of loss reduction technologies (LRTs) in the Indian electricity...

Energy Analytics Lab (EAL) is an initiative to empower decision-making in the Indian power sector. EAL has put concerted efforts over the last two years to bring forth data analyses and visualisation of the power system and the power market data.Through this newsletter, we provide a glimpse of...

The renewable energy generation is often encouraged with the policies like subsidies, fiscal incentives and mandatory purchase obligation (RPO) with feed-in-tariffs (FiT). The impact of these policies on deployment of renewable energy sources for electricity generation is governed by the...