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Overemphasis on renewables will impact thermal projects: CEA
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"All this can have a detrimental effect on the health of the banking sector, especially the public sector banks, in the country, which in turn can adversely impact the health of the Indian economy, already afflicted by the Twin Balance Sheet challenge ...

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India silently countering Chinese influence on its telecom, power sectors
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India is tightening the rules for businesses entering its power transmission sector and making stringent checks on both power and telecoms equipment for malware - moves that government and industry officials say aim to check China's advance into ...
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India is quietly preparing to end Chinese businesses' free run here
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NEW DELHI: India is tightening the rules for businesses entering its power transmission sector and making stringent checks on both power and telecoms equipment for malware — moves that government and industry officials say aim to check China's ...
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Micro-grids, a route to ensure 24X7 power
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Unlike other developed countries of the world the biggest challenge of India is increasing the availability of electricity. Despite the fact that, in recent years Indian Power sector has witnessed a tremendous growth, the sector has still not able to ...
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Two-thirds of power utilities bullish on digitisation: Survey
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The study, released today, stated that Indian power sector faces several challenges, particularly rapid energy demand growth, infrastructure modernisation, and transmission and distribution inefficiencies. It found that the operational efficiency and ...

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Two-thirds of power utilities bullish on digitisation: Survey
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New Delhi, Aug 17 Two-thirds of Indian power utilities have citied digitisation of manual processes as one of the biggest drivers of growth and want to invest in technology for making their organisation more agile, a survey said today. According to the ...

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Why India must take China's warning of a trade war seriously
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Power is another sector where India has come to be dependent on Chinese imports. In the 12th Plan alone, almost 30% of the generating capacity was imported from China. In the rapidly growing solar energy sector, between April 2016 and January 2017, ...
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India: India enters global smart-meter race to fight utility losses
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For India, smart meters represent a possible gamechanger by handing power distribution companies the ability to address billing inefficiencies.

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Faulty electricity meter may soon be a thing of the past as India enters global smartmeter race to fight utility losses
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EESL is a joint venture between India's Ministry of Power and state-backed companies in the power sector such as NTPC Ltd., Rural Electrification Corp., Power Grid Corp. of India Ltd., Power Finance Corp. and the Bureau of Energy Efficiency.

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India Enters Global Smart-Meter Race to Fight Utility Losses
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India Enters Global Smart-Meter Race to Fight Utility Losses. Anindya Upadhyay ... (Bloomberg) -- India is aiming to help its ailing power distribution companies by buying five million smart meters for two of its northern states in a global tender to ...

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Will low tariffs eclipse India's solar run?
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Cloud cover can result in very rapid changes in the output of individual PV (photo voltaic) systems,” Central Electricity Authority (CEA), India's apex power sector planning body, said in its draft national electricity plan. The sector has a lot to ...

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India Power in talks with 3 companies to acquire renewable projects
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Kanoria did not disclose how much India Power would shell out for the three assets, but said the company is likely to invest Rs 1,000-1,500 crore in the segment, “including the acquisitions for which we are in talks”, in the next couple of years when ...

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PSUs' overwhelming presence holding back Indian economy: Ruchir Sharma
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NEW DELHI: The overwhelming presence of public sector is holding back the Indian economy, Morgan Stanley's Ruchir Sharma said today. Citing the example of Indian banks, Sharma said the public sector's share in the banking industry is two-thirds, which ...

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DISCOMs save Rs 15,0000 crore under UDAY scheme
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Debt-laden power distribution companies in states which participated in the UDAY scheme, meant for their revival, have saved Rs 15,000 crore till March this year, the power ministry said today. The Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) was launched in ...

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Market Live: Sensex gains nearly 250 pts, Nifty firmly above 9850; Coal India declines
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ITC, Hero MotoCorp, Tech Mahindra and Tata Power gained the most on both indices, while Asian Paints, Larsen & Toubro, Yes Bank and Bosch were the top losers. 11:41 am GST impact: The estimated Rs 5,500 crore capital good leasing sector growing at ...

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Planned coal plant expansions in Europe have backfired, Asia could lose too
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The Maharashtra Star Rating Programme is the first government-led initiative in India that makes data available from approximately 20,000 industrial stack samples over multiple years. Photo: Reuters ...

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View: China may be fighting the Doklam war on Pakistan front
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The Chinese move at Doklam might have been prompted by India's aggressive military posture against Pakistan after Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power. For the first time, India under PM Modi openly supported rebels in Pakistan's Balochistan ...

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Infrastructure boost: From Nitin Gadkari saving Rs 3 lakh cr of bad loans, power rates in UP to era of black gold ...
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Transmitting cheap hydro-power—line can transmit 6,000MW at 800,000 volts—from the northeast to central India could bring tariffs down, lower dependence on coal-fired power. UP trying really hard to clean up its power sector. After 'chori roko ...

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India added more solar power in first half of 2017 than in all of 2016
Business Standard
However, uncertainty around Goods and Services Tax (GST) rates, utilities renegotiating to get better rates, and the recently initiated anti-dumping case has stalled momentum in the sector and could have a significant negative effect on installations ...

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India to add 9.4GW solar power capacity this year: Bridge to India report
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The India Solar Compass report, a quarterly update on the Indian solar market, noted that second quarter (Q2) of 2017 was a landmark period in the Indian solar sector with tariffs falling below the critical threshold of Rs3 per unit, making solar power ...

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