While a blackout is a complete power failure that affects electricity users across cities and states as the entire area goes black; a brownout is a controlled power reduction that can be used by a utility to reduce line voltage to deliver more power and meet increased demand and also avert grid failures.
Tired of “tom-toming” that India had become an electricity surplus nation, Goyal said that the need of the hour was to refurbish the overall investment cycle in the sector.
Coal is no more a crisis, sunshine is being tapped energetically, gas has been addressed partly. A significant amount of resetting has been done to the fuel side. On generation we are taking of surplus capacity being available. On discoms no better label than the UDAY scheme which tends to do two things simultaneously – it tends to alter the balance sheet of the discoms and gives them operational stress to bring down AT&C (aggregate technical and commercial) losses and finally the last mile connectivity mainly with the aim of connecting rural India is seeing positive upsurge from the village folk.
“The power sector has transformed in the last 2 years, after the new government came in. Coal production has gone up, supply has improved, and attempts are being made to improve transmission lines. That’s laudable”, Kumar said.