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Sunday, July 27, 2025
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Topic: electricity

India’s power market is booming. But it’s bad for business

The booming power market hasn’t translated into good times for the industry. Of 45 Indian electricity companies, just two are covering their cost of capital.

Modi govt plans to spend Rs 1.5 lakh crore to roll out smart power meters

The prepaid meters are expected to improve billing and raise enough revenue to generate savings for state power distributors.

As cyber attacks grow, regulator calls for firewalls at power grids across India

Energy networks across the world have been key targets for hackers, prodding governments to take safeguard measures.

Energy access policy across the world is mostly based on intuition, instead of data

Paucity of rigorous research is bad news for enegy policy. There are hundreds of case studies and industry reports, but only a handful of academic studies.

Record fall in electricity demand adds to bad loans woes of Indian banks

Prospective bidders for stressed power generators are wary as demand from distribution utilities contracted in three straight months to October

India’s renewables revolution needs what other countries are fast adopting: water battery

Pumped hydro energy storage can pave the way for India’s climate leadership by enabling another green revolution, this time in the power sector.

IIT-Delhi students make 5G-enabled power meters that can alert users on energy guzzlers

The smart device will do away with the need for power distribution firms to manually take meter readings from each consumer’s house.

India’s first indigenous fuel cell a silent, green alternative to noisy diesel generators

The fuel cell has been developed by the CSIR in partnership with Thermax Ltd, a Pune-based engineering firm.

Power Finance Corp. looks to offset risks by funding new sectors, like electric vehicles

India's distributors are saddled with huge debts from selling power below cost or from poor billing and collection.

Why demand for power is surging amid India’s growth slowdown

Overall jump in demand came mostly because of rise in demand from states that added large number of households to electricity network for the first time.

On Camera

Maharashtra’s language war reaches West Bengal. Actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is the first victim

While the language war in other states is targeting those who can't speak the local language, in Bengal, even those whose mother tongue is Bengali have to constantly prove their Bengali-ness.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

DRDO successfully tests latest version of UAV-launched precision missile, ULPGM-V3

Capable of being fired in plain and high-altitude areas, it has day-and-night capability and two-way data link to support post-launch target, aim-point update.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.