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Energy Accounting of DISCOMs to Reduce Electricity Losses
- February 20, 2022
- Posted by: BiconAdmin
- Category: DISCOMs
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Big reform in the Electricity Distribution Sector
- November 3, 2017
- Posted by: BiconAdmin
- Categories: DISCOMs, Ministry of Power - Policy
The Govt. is planning to separate carriage (distribution network) from the content (electricity supply business) for which they are planning to table the necessary bill in the winter session of the parliament that begins in the third week of November. Salient features of this proposal include: Introduction of Multiple Licensees for a single area of
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Two years of journey and UDAY encourages power supply
- August 1, 2017
- Posted by: BiconAdmin
- Category: DISCOMs
Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojna (UDAY) has helped Power Distribution Companies (DISCOMs) to put them back in shape and reducing the duration of blackouts in the nearly two years since the treatment began. UDAY was approved on November 5, 2015, when all state DISCOMs had a collective debt of Rs 3.95 lakh crore. Out of that
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UDAY list is now 26, as Kerala, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh new member of UDAY Scheme
- March 31, 2017
- Posted by: BiconAdmin
- Categories: DISCOMs, Power Sector
The state governments of Kerala, Tripura and Arunachal Pradesh have joined the Union Government’s DISCOM debt relief scheme, Ujjwal DISCOM Assurance Yojna (UDAY). So, twenty six states are now part of the Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) Scheme. An overall net benefit of approximately Rs 4,178 crore, Rs 309 crore and Rs 810 crore would
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Power prices to rise, with coal freight hike, green cess
- October 10, 2016
- Posted by: BiconAdmin
- Categories: DISCOMs, Miscellaneous, Power Sector
New rate and cess increases would erode the benefit to power plants from surplus coal availability.
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Discoms arbitrarily shutting off solar power, government tells CERC
- August 26, 2016
- Posted by: BiconAdmin
- Categories: DISCOMs, Miscellaneous
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has complained to the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) that some discoms are not fully evacuating the solar power available to them, resulting in losses for solar developers. Discoms have been arbitrarily shutting off power from solar projects, for varying lengths of time, often during peak consumption