The paper assesses the demand for rural electricity services and contrasts it with the technology options available for rural electrification. Decentralised Distributed Generation can be economically viable as reflected by case studies reported in literature and analysed in our field study....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the economics of supplying energy needs for illumination requirements by hawkers using alternatives like compact fluorescent lamps battery lamps, liquefied petroleum gas mantle lamps or supply from mini‐grids supported by local diesel...

Electricity generation from renewable energy sources in India has been promoted through a host of fiscal policies and preferential tariff for electricity produced from the same. The fiscal policies include tax incentives and purchase of electricity generated through renewable energy sources. The...

The Indian power sector provides significant opportunities for reducing energy consumption by addressing existing inefficiencies of technical, operational and economic nature. Replacement of inefficient agricultural pump sets has been identified as one of the key policy initiatives, which to...

The initial phase of reforms in the Indian power sector was primarily aimed at bringing regulatory reforms and unbundling of the vertically integrated State Electricity Boards (SEBs). Enactment of the Electricity Act 2003 led to deepening of the reform process by dismantling this monopoly in the...

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...

EAL's analysis as presented in this issue shows significant variations in the regional demand profiles (except Southern Region) over the months October to December, although the national level load profiles were relatively consistent.Based on inputs from readers, the analysis of URS at national...

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...