Solar driven lights have garnered unmatched popularity in keeping the streets illuminated all through the night irrespective of power cuts or grid failures. Mostly adopted in rural areas than urban,…

Industry leaders discuss the challenges being faced while implying net metering in the urban areas. Net metering is a simple mechanism that credits the solar energy system. If a residential…

With the government’s push for achieving 175GW of renewable energy generation by 2022, India is willing to go solar, and have least dependency on fuel based electrical consumption. The industry…

Smart meter is one of the advancements to the grid systems, and is common form of a grid technology. It’s primarily monitors and records your electrical consumption, digitally. As an…

A special report on what the industry peeps expects from the Government 2.0. Rajiv Ranjan Mishra, Managing Director of CLP India Over the last five years, India has made significant…

To make India the country of choice for the production of electrical equipment is what every Indian manufacturer is trying to achieve. The industry players of insulator industry discuss how…

Evaporative cooling tower (wet cooling tower) is the best equipments to reject process heat with lowest power. But, it evaporates some percentage of circulation water to cool the water temperature.…

In the past, consumers had no option to view the real-time data of how much electricity has been used and had no control over the budgeting. The idea of smart…

Few sectors highlight the challenges posed by the energy/water nexus so clearly as coal power in India. Coal will remain central to India’s base load generation for the foreseeable future.…

Digitisation helps in improving performance and reliability of switchgears, but to what extent? The experts discuss it out! Digitisation will have a great impact on electrical distribution as it will…

In a developing world, which is yet to mitigate the rural-urban transition and associated population dynamics, the global urban dwellers are sometimes restricted to live in limited access to water,…

Assessment of plant status and estimating the plant life can easily be done by oil condition monitoring. Oil testing done on a regular basis can determine oil deterioration at an…

Neeraj Nanda, President – South Asia (T&D, Solar), KEC International Ltd “Advanced project management tools are helping EPC companies to micro-plan and effectively monitor the projects and achieve a high…

Amit L Goti, Director, Zenium Cables Limited “The world is going through a transition where people are more concerned about the environment” Electrification is the first step to development after…

Dilip Kumbhat, President Indian Society of Lighting Engineers and CEO, K-Lite Industries “Government should impose restrictions so that except the LED chips from reputed manufacturers, other imports are curtailed” Dilip…

Piyush Garg, Director, Balaji Switchgears “Switchgear market is now being termed as an FMEG market” Piyush Garg, Director, Balaji Switchgears discusses what makes the switchgear industry click and how switchgears’…

Krishnendu Mukherjee, COO, Sova Solar Limited “Rather than irrigation being a large abler for solar, it should go like irrigation has a huge scope with solar as its complementary” Krishnendu…

Ashish Joshi, Director, Addin Power Limited “Subsidy in residential rooftop solar is one of the best initiatives in solar sector, which has enabled several individuals to take the benefit of…

Storage is meant to bring stability to an infirm life. If set up domestically, it is bound to make solar more exciting than ever. However, there is still miles to…

An exclusive report on the need and importance of testing and maintaining the health of the transformers at regular interval. Transformer is an important electrical asset in our life which…

Industry analysis on the major factors that contribute towards the growth of the lighting market Lighting is one major sector that is expected to gain momentum as well as good…

Once installed, solar panels are not that easy to forget; a labour intensive but easy cleaning process needs to be carried out every now and then to maximize its energy…

An exclusive story on India’s target of 40 GW solar power generation from rooftop Solar rooftop is the most efficient application of solar energy to mitigate climate change issues and…

Together with smart grids, digital substations could bring in smarter power systems that have the latent to digitally transform the Indian power sector. Industry 4.0 is changing the industries considerably,…

Together with smart grids, digital substations could bring in smarter power systems that have the latent to digitally transform the Indian power sector. Industry 4.0 is changing the industries considerably,…

How will the rise of smart cities revolutionise lighting? It is obvious that cities that are listed to be smart are bound to have smart streets, equipment, smart amenities, uninterrupted…

Analysing the role of advanced switchgear technology in smart grid Role of advanced switchgear technology in smart grid Smart grids can be characterised by a two-way flow of electricity and…

India Ratings & Research reports that the credit profile of private sector owned GBPPs has deteriorated and several such projects have already applied for debt restructuring. The plant load factor…

Rajiv Menon, Managing Director, Black & Veatch India. A long way to achieve ‘Power for All’ The health of the power sector is improving, but there is still a way…

Ratul Puri, Power Chairman, Hindustan Powerprojects Pvt Ltd (HPPPL) Improvement in multiple programmes led by the government Power sector has been working on multiple programmes to revive the power sector…