• 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
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    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
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    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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  • Discoms arbitrarily shutting off solar power, government tells CERC

    • August 26, 2016
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    • Categories: DISCOMs, Miscellaneous
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    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

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  • UDAY program for DISCOMS

    • April 6, 2016
    • Posted by: BiconAdmin
    • Categories: Ministry of Power - Policy, Miscellaneous
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    In order to make India’s future more powerful, it is essential that DISCOM’s mounting losses are tackled efficiently. With severe coal scarcity and mounting debts, merely being the tip of an iceberg. Acting as a ray of hope, governments UDAY (Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojna). The Union Cabinet chaired by the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra

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