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Bill to provide choice of multiple service providers to power consumers likely in Parliament's monsoon sessionThe bill provides for de-licensing of the distribution business to promote competition, appointment of a member from law background in ever...- Power plants told to import 10% of their coal demand for next yearCoal ministry says that by the end of March, stocks at power plants will be 47 million tonnes from the present 23 mt.
- View: It is the time for more reforms in the Indian power sectorIndia will need an efficient energy chain, power delivery and a regulatory regime that can ensure an adequate flow of investments as well a...
- Why Jhunjhunwala thinks power reforms will be bigger than 1991's liberalisationThe government is expected to introduce the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 in Parliament soon. The bill is the latest attempt by the Ce...
- Penalties will make discom delicensing a success: RK Singh“The proposed amendment aims at giving non-discriminatory access to network of any other electricity supplier and not doing this will invit...
- Power sector workers begin protest against Electricity Amendment Bill 2021On the call of the National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees & Engineers (NCCOEEE), hundreds of power sector workers started...
- Niti Aayog pitches for greater operational, financial autonomy for state-owned discomsIn a report titled 'Turning Around the Power Distribution Sector', Niti Aayog said the performance of state-owned discoms is also determine...
- State-owned utilities should have greater autonomy: Niti Aayog“The utility should have operational and financial autonomy. Good corporate governance practices, including the use of independent director...
- Electricity (Amendment) Bill may come before Union Cabinet for approval in next few daysThe Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 could come up for consideration and approval before the Union Cabinet in the next few days as the go...
- Electricity (Amendment) Bill likely to be introduced in Monsoon session: Power minister R K SinghParticipating in the virtual BloombergNEF (BNEF) Summit, Power and Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh said the bill seeks to delicense dis...
- View: Why setting up of a National Power Distribution Company is the need of the hourThe first major reform took place in the mid-1990s — the unbundling of SEBs into separate generation, transmission and distribution entitie...
- New discoms to share power from existing contractsElectricity distribution companies proposing to enter a distribution area will have to share power from the existing contracts signed by th...
- Discom debt at Rs 6 trillion; negative outlook on power distribution: ICRAThis is in addition to Rs 1.27 trillion pending discom payables to power generators as of December 2020, 30% higher on a year-on-year basis.
- Power companies’ shares rally as PM Modi vows to delicense distributionShares of Bharat Heavy Electrical Ltd closed 7.3% higher on the BSE on Thursday while Torrent Power scrip ended the day 8% up while governm...
- PLI scheme for high-efficiency solar PV to lead to investments of more than Rs 14,000 crore: PM Modi"It is expected that in the coming 5 years, demand worth 17,500 crore will be created. This demand will go a long way in giving impetus to ...
- Taking steps to prevent cherry picking; states on board for discoms delicensing: Power Secy Alok KumarPower and renewable energy minister R K Singh, Kumar along with senior officials in the ministries and attached PSUs held four zone-wise me...
- Proposed delicensing of power distribution evokes mixed reaction in BengalFormer West Bengal State Electricity Regulatory Commission chairman R N Sen on the other hand welcomed the reform mooted by the Centre in E...
- Put Electricity Amendment Bill in public domain: AIPEFThe draft bill is not available on the power ministry website, AIPEF Spokesperson V K Gupta said in a statement. According to the statement...
- Govt to delicense power distribution, push for GST on electricity: R K Singh"If discoms are making losses they will not be eligible to get financing from the distribution reforms scheme unless and until they work ou...
- Will delicense discoms to end monopolies: RK SinghThe power ministry will soon circulate a draft bill proposing amendments in the Electricity Act to omit the word ‘distribution licensee’ to...
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