This article explains how complying to the international safety standards, along with implementing technologically upgraded materials will minimise safety risks of an earthing system. Earthing systems are one of the…

This project will create a direct impact on 1000+ Maa Badi’s stakeholders and an indirect impact on the parents of the school students as well as villagers. India is still…

This article provides a brief view about the present market scenario for solar PV manufacturers in India. It further walks us through the details pertaining to challenges and opportunities for…

Electrical earthing is the phenomenon of connecting metallic parts of an electrical component to the earth.  Earthing is the connection of all the neutral points present in the supply of…

Though the distribution transformer segment is facing challenges currently, revival of renewable energy and evolution of EV charging infrastructure are expected to fetch new opportunities in future.  Distribution transformers constitute…

The innovative smarter and greener features coming up in power cables will support the country’s smart electricity moves in future. Wires and cables play an important role, as a medium…

The proliferation of variable renewable generation has led to new challenges for transmission utilities.  The investment and time required to build new lines has re-emphasised the importance of utilising existing …

With the advent of changing consumer pattern, increasing power demand and consumption and adoption of newer technologies, industry foresee an upward trend in the future of distribution transformers market. India’s…

Industry experts here discuss how government schemes and recent demands have changed the core of HT&LT segment. Low tension cables have a lower rating where as high tension cables have…

The power system deals with voltage above 36KV, is referred as high voltage switchgear. As the voltage level is high the arcing produced during switching operation is also very high.…

Class of conductor refers to the flexibility requirement in application. Class 2 is used in cases where the installation is fixed and they are stranded conductors. Class 5 refers to…

Traditional methods of generating electric power include hydro power, thermal power and nuclear power. Nowadays solar power and wind power are becoming popular because of the renewable nature of the…

The Indian pump and valve industry contributes significantly to the country’s growth, given its role as basic equipment in almost every sphere including infrastructure and agriculture. The Indian pump and…

The high-tension (HT) and low-tension (LT) wire market is growing in India with better quality products and improved safety standards that necessitate greater testing and third-party inspections to ensure that…

Micro-grids with ability to coordinate and control the local demand and the distributed energy resources to maintain the voltage at standard levels, is the alternate solution to the conventional power…

Transformer system in itself is a very complex system and it requires continuous monitoring and maintenance. However in spite of that there are transformer failures generally are seen in India…

Government notifications continue to bubble up on our news feed. Welcoming the move to convert all existing two-wheelers below 150 cc vehicles to electric by the year 2025 auto players…

An industry analysis on what parameters are looked into while setting up an Advanced Metering Infrastructure and its challenges in doing the same. Implementing advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) delivers significant…

Smart cities have smart cables and wires installed, but can they resist the biggest threat ‘fire’ and save the entire city? The industry experts discuss out how much imperative it…

An analysis by industry experts shows how optimising HT/LT line length ratio will result in reducing distribution loss and how technical loss reduction technique can be implemented by improving ratio…

Increasing access to solar energy has brought-in changes to almost every sphere of life in rural India, and farmers are its biggest beneficiaries due to better irrigation facilities Today, in…

An overview on why simply ‘being smart’ is not enough for the next-gen lighting; being intelligent and ingraining cyber security are the need of the hour. Lighting was earlier being…

More competition in the form of solar and wind energy has put more emphasis on lower cost of production. Further, higher plant efficiencies mean lower carbon footprint. Plant efficiencies are…

Smart city needs smart grid, ‘the grid of tomorrow’. Here, the experts discusses how the power of smart grid guarantees more efficient energy usage and zero transmission losses There are…

Transmission lines links the node centres of the country’s generation sector to the end user. The failure of any line would have much worse of an effect. So, here is…

Nithyanandam Yuvaraj Dinesh Babu, Team Leader, EY India “Solar-powered pumps would be a great solution to the energising requirements and also will relieve farmers from electricity tariffs” Nithyanandam Yuvaraj Dinesh…

HK Mishra, Acting Director, Electrical Research and Development Association “The country has gained from the improvement in quality, energy efficiency, and reliability of distribution system, which is turning out to…

Chandmal Goliya, Director, Kusam Electrical Industries Limited “If the required energy demand can be supplied by electrification of each and every village and can also cater to the demand of…

Vivek Yadav, Vice President, Havells India Limited “Smart switchgears can also be pre-programmed and embedded with intelligent devices for monitoring and automatic load management for energy savings and easy maintenance”…

Rajesh Kumar Mediratta, Director Business Development, IEX Ltd. “Price signals from Exchange are truly reflecting the ground realities. In 2009-10, high prices reflected shortage in generating capacities; divergent regional prices…