India has 75 million households without access to electricity and per capita consumption in rural households was only 8 units per month as compared 24 units in urban households, according to an expert report submitted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The report, submitted by a network of parliamentarians working to promote renewable energy, also says India is endowed with huge renewable energy (RE) resources, but the country's per capita energy consumption is one of the lowest in the ...
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The Planning Commission does not seem to be happy with the rising wave in favour of power tariff reductions nationally triggered by Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's 50% tariff relief for domestic consumers.

"The policy of free power is a very bad idea and against the spirit of reforms. Unless we improve the financial health of utilities and stop the policy of freebies, it will be difficult to look after the ongoing reform process," B K Chaturvedi, Member-Energy and Infrastructure,...

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To help the cash-strapped Ratnagiri Gas and Power Pvt. Ltd (RGPPL) tide over the tough times, state-run NTPC Ltd, which owns 32.86% stake in the utility, has proposed that electricity generated from the Dabhol power plant be made a part of the Telangana package.
NTPC, which has invested Rs.974.31 crore in RGPPL, has communicated the proposal to the power ministry. The other stakeholders in RGPPL are GAIL (India) Ltd, which also owns 32.86% in the utility, the Maharashtra government with ...
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Reliance Infra-backed power distribution company BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd has sought Delhi Government's intervention in overcoming its "precarious financial" condition in absence of a "cost-reflective" electricity tariff in the national capital.

In a letter to Delhi's Power Secretary Punit Goyal, the company said it has been finding increasingly difficult to get bank loans due to delay in announcing a liquidation plan of existing regulatory assets and the new government's approach toward...

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