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.
An Indian consortium led by Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IndianOil), Oil India Limited (OIL) and Bharat Petro Resources
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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.
In a bid to kick-start majority of the stranded gas based power projects in the country, the government is discussions with
If India’s union minister for power, coal and RE, Piyush Goyal has his way, he plans to turn India into the world’s energy capital
Ministry of Power and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have launched India’s first integrated
The document chalks out a plan to increase solar capacity of the region from 2.15 MW to 8.45 MW. At present, 10 inhabited
