Amidst Rise in Renewables, CEA Suggests Ways to Maintain Adequate Generation Capacity
The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has prepared a draft resource adequacy plan to maintain adequate generation capacity to meet future energy demands. The document says that it had become imperative ...
POSOCO Forbids 15 DISCOMS in Seven States from Trading in Power Exchanges
Power System Operation Corporation (POSOCO) has debarred 15 distribution companies (DISCOMs) in six states and a Union Territory from buying or selling electricity at power exchanges as a penalty for ...
CERC Approves Introduction of Month-Ahead Contracts on Power Exchange India
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) recently approved Power Exchange India’s (PXIL) proposal to introduce delivery-based monthly contracts, which can be traded on one month, two-month, and three-month ahead basis ...
Daily News Wrap-Up: Amp Energy Commissions 30 MW Solar Project for Bosch
Here are some noteworthy cleantech announcements of the day from around the world: Bosch Limited signed a power purchase agreement to procure solar power for 25 years from a 30 ...
Solar Projects With ₹7.01/kWh Tariff Face Higher Curtailment in Tamil Nadu: POSOCO
Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO) has submitted a report on renewable energy curtailment in Tamil Nadu following the Appellate Tribunal For Electricity's (APTEL) orders. The tribunal had ordered POSOCO ...
DISCOM and Load Despatch Center Must Compensate for Curtailment of Solar Power: APTEL
The Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (APTEL), in a recent order, ruled that the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) and the Tamil Nadu State Load Despatch Center (TNSLDC) should ...
NTPC Floats Tender for 1,000 MWh of Battery Energy Storage Systems
NTPC Limited has invited expression of interest (EoI) from Indian and global companies to set up 1,000 MWh of grid-connected battery energy storage systems (BESS) on the premises of its ...
DISCOMs Need Distribution System Operators To Forecast Renewables and Manage Load
India is an attractive solar market with tremendous, long-term potential. The installation targets are aggressive; however, the investments in the sector have stymied due to counterparty credit risks from distribution ...
Letter of Credit Order Ignored, Andhra DISCOMs Allowed to Buy Power from Spot Market
The Andhra Pradesh High Court, in a recent order, has allowed the distribution companies (DISCOMs) of the state to operate through power exchanges and to secure power through open access ...
India’s Power Demand is Almost Back to Pre-COVID Levels: POSOCO Report
Data from POSOCO, the National Load Despatch Centre (NLDC), has shown that power demand in the country rose after it dipped during the COVID-19-induced nationwide lockdown. The data showed that ...
Andhra Pradesh to Install and Supply 10 GW of Free Solar Power to Farmers
The Andhra Pradesh government has announced that it is planning to develop 10 GW of solar power projects as a permanent solution to supply free power to farmers in the ...
Center Mulls 5-Min Time-Block for Deviation Settlement as Renewable Generation Surges
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) recently organized a conference “Energizing South” in Tamil Nadu’s capital city of Chennai. The conference’s theme was “India at 75: Forging Ahead: Commercially Smart, ...
India Gets Serious on Optimizing Inter-State Generating Stations, Reducing Power Cost
In a recent order, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has asked the Power System Operation Corporation (POSOCO) to implement a pilot for the security constrained economic dispatch (SCED) of electricity ...
CERC Amends Regulations for Open Access in Interstate Transmission
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has amended the regulations for Open Access in Interstate Transmission, which were first passed in 2008. The new regulations will be called the CERC ...
India Can Integrate 175 GW of Renewable Energy into the Electricity Grid, Study Reveals
India can integrate the entire targeted 175 GW of renewable energy into the national electricity grid based on projected power system plans and regulations according to a study conducted under ...
Month in a Minute: Important Headlines and Data Points from the Indian Renewable Energy Sector in June 2017
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) de-empaneled 71 channel partners fromits grid-connected rooftop and small solar power projects program. These agencies had not entered any installation data or ...
Weather Portal for Power Sector launched in India
A weather portal for the power sector developed by the Power System Operation Corporation (POSOCO) and India Meteorological Department (IMD) and a web portal named MERIT (Merit Order Dispatch of ...
