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...

The South Asia Region (SAR) continues to face electricity shortages, underinvestment and challenges to improve energy access. Strengthening cooperation for cross-border electricity trade in South Asia makes it possible for the region to take advantage of significant benefits from greater...

This paper examines the economics of the landed price of natural gas in India through the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline in comparison with the existing agreements for the import of liquefied natural gas. It reviews the natural gas demand and supply scenario in India, and assesses the efficacy of...

Unscheduled Interchange (UI) mechanism has emerged as a powerful tool for maintaining grid discipline, penalizing the market players, causing deviations in the system. A buyer pays UI penalty for over-withdrawal of power more than the scheduled one based on the grid condition. Such buyers having...

As India is keen to develop large infrastructure projects where the private sector is expected to raise funds from the market, there is need to develop new financial instruments for the debt market as well as for risk capital.Securitization of debt allows banks and FIs to recycle their funds...

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...

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...

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...

COVID-19, a global pandemic, is leaving a lasting impression on the economic activities across nations. Electricity sector is facing significantly lower demand on account of country-wide lockdown leading to almost nil activity for most of the industrial and the commercial activity, which is...