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Exchange power prices nearly tripled in a week even though the grid was not short of power. India opens registration for its first coal exchanges, starting a shift to market-traded coal. Adani Power ties up a 25-year deal to sell 1,600 MW to Maharashtra, coal already secured. Delhi's fuel surcharge goes automatic - and the first month under it blows past the old 10% cap. In the middle of the monsoon, Telangana's big Krishna reservoirs are almost empty. A May collapse at Khavda wiped out nearly 9,000 MW in seconds - and most wind farms there failed the rules meant to stop it. The eastern grid operator cut tie-lines by hand in June - and its automatic defences still aren't ready. India's non-fossil capacity crosses 54% - but June's new plants show how one-sided the build has become. Macquarie is out of the Vibrant Energy captive-solar platform; Inox's parent has taken it over and repaid the lenders. Gujarat's GIPCL lays out a Rs 6,000-crore lignite plan and hints at an equity raise, while turning idle gas units into batteries. Power Markets Daily. Grid Operations Daily. Outage & Maintenance Register. Fuel & Coal Ledger. Hydro & Reservoir Ledger. CERC Docket. State Regulatory Roundup. Green Markets & RE Programme Watch. Corporate Wire. Committees, People & System Administration. Download tenders and news clips. Sikkim's Teesta-III and Teesta HPS units, 1,370 MW, remain out about 21 months after the October 2023 glacial-flood disaster. Telangana's Krishna-basin reservoir storage was down about 86% year-on-year on 15 July, with Srisailam at 10.3 TMC against 170.1 a year earlier. UPPCL and WBSEDCL floated cross-exchange reverse auctions for August-September peak-hour power on Hindustan Power Exchange. Gujarat's 'interim' Rs 1.50/unit green banking charge is extended again to 31 August 2026, a fixture nearly three years on. NPCIL's 100 GW-by-2047 nuclear ambition sits against a softer FY26, with PLF down to 79% and debt-to-EBITDA at 15.1 times. REC and SJVN were each fined by the exchanges for board-composition lapses, and both central PSUs blamed the government's failure to appoint directors. APTEL sets aside HPERC's treatment of a 90% state loan as grant, remanding hydro tariffs for HPPCL's Sainj, Kashang-I and Sawra Kuddu. Daily forward looking import matrices. Contracting news for the day: Part-1. Contracting news for the day: Part-2. Southern Region still carrying three 400 kV corridors out since mid-May tower collapses on its 14 July congestion list. Eastern Region exported 92.4 MU to the South on 14 July, but the South still fell 539 MW short and Kerala logged a frequency emergency. Northern Region imported a net 326.9 MU on 14 July yet still shed load, short 318 MW at the evening peak. NTPC's large coal units logged a run of boiler-tube-leak trips in mid-July across three regions. Coal-supply outages idled 2,255 MW at Yadadri, Ghatampur and ACBIL as monsoon coal stocks tightened. IEX spot power prices firmed through mid-July, with 14 July evening and overnight blocks pinned to the Rs 10/kWh ceiling. India's grid ran long by day and short after dark on 14 July, meeting a 251,139 MW evening peak with a 1,057 MW shortage. Committees, People & System Administration . Corporate Wire . Green Markets & RE Programme Watch. State Regulatory Roundup. CERC Docket . Hydro & Reservoir Ledger. Fuel & Coal Ledger . Outage & Maintenance Register. Grid Operations Daily. Power Markets Daily. Download tenders and news clips. Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update. POWER MARKETS DAILY. GRID OPERATIONS DAILY. OUTAGE & MAINTENANCE REGISTER. FUEL & COAL LEDGER. HYDRO & RESERVOIR LEDGER. Contracting news for the day. CERC DOCKET. STATE REGULATORY ROUNDUP. GREEN MARKETS & RE PROGRAMME WATCH. CORPORATE WIRE. COMMITTEES, PEOPLE & SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION. Power Finance Corporation floats the Satara Power Transmission SPV to evacuate up to 4,500 MW of pumped storage in the Western Region. A wave of connectivity-revocation challenges hits the CERC as CTUIL tightens on financial closure - developers race to protect grid access. NHPC seeks an interim tariff for the 2,000 MW Subansiri Lower project while SJVN’s 900 MW Arun-3 slips to 2028 - the Himalayan hydro pipeline is straining at both ends. The grid curtailed wind and solar and pushed generators down even as renewable output climbed - an oversupply signature, not a shortage. A single CT failure at Fatehgarh-III cascades through the 400/220 kV network, tripping about a dozen renewable-evacuation feeders in Rajasthan. India’s generation ran 4.7% below programme on 11 July - the cause was broken units, not short coal. NHPC restarts two Teesta-V units in Sikkim as the 1,200 MW Teesta-III below it stays stranded and fights for change-in-law relief. IEX day-ahead price for 14 July delivery jumps to Rs 6.33 a unit as buy bids overtake sell offers. APERC opens the FY2025-26 fuel-cost true-up for Andhra Pradesh’s three DISCOMs, with objections due by 3 August. Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update. Download tenders and news clips. . Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update. CERC opens a 60-day window to free 22,054 MW of grid connectivity held by projects that never signed power-purchase agreements.
Exchange power prices nearly tripled in a week even though the grid was not short of power
Jul 16:
8The real-time market price climbed from about Rs 2.75 a unit on 9 July to Rs 7.36 on 16 July, and the green day-ahead market hit its Rs 10 ceiling on 15 July. Yet the physical grid had power to spare - costly gas stayed switched off, wind and solar were backed down, and the system spent the day regulating downward.
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India opens registration for its first coal exchanges, starting a shift to market-traded coal
Jul 16:
8The Ministry of Coal opened the online registration portal for coal exchanges on 15 July, backed by the 2025 mining-law amendment and the new Coal Exchange Rules. It is the first step toward buying and selling coal on a market with price discovery and settlement, instead of only through allocations and long-term contracts.
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Adani Power ties up a 25-year deal to sell 1,600 MW to Maharashtra, coal already secured
Jul 16:
8Adani Power has signed a 25-year agreement to supply 1,600 MW to Maharashtra's MSEDCL from a new 2×800 MW ultra-supercritical plant, with coal allotted under the government's SHAKTI policy. It locks in a quarter-century of assured revenue and confirms the group's next big thermal build.
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Delhi's fuel surcharge goes automatic - and the first month under it blows past the old 10% cap
Jul 16:
8Delhi's regulator has moved the power-purchase cost adjustment from case-by-case approval to an automatic formula, and disposed of the discoms' pending quarterly petitions. In the first month under it, May's surcharge worked out well above the old 10% ceiling - 25% at BSES Rajdhani before the commission capped recovery at about 18%.
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In the middle of the monsoon, Telangana's big Krishna reservoirs are almost empty
Jul 16:
8Telangana's usable Krishna-basin storage is down about 92% from a year ago - Srisailam holds roughly 10 TMC against 184 last year. With this little water this deep into the monsoon, the state is leaning on thermal and the exchange to keep the lights on.
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A May collapse at Khavda wiped out nearly 9,000 MW in seconds - and most wind farms there failed the rules meant to stop it
Jul 16:
8A disturbance at the Khavda renewable complex on 13 May tripped 17 high-voltage lines and knocked out about 8,963 MW of renewable generation almost instantly, dragging the national frequency down to 49.39 Hz. A committee review now finds most wind plants there did not provide the fast frequency response the grid code requires.
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The eastern grid operator cut tie-lines by hand in June - and its automatic defences still aren't ready
Jul 16:
8When four eastern states overdrew heavily on 26 June and ignored repeated warnings, the region's operator opened interconnecting tie-lines as a last resort. The same committee papers show none of the East's five islanding and black-start schemes is yet operational.
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India's non-fossil capacity crosses 54% - but June's new plants show how one-sided the build has become
Jul 16:
8Non-fossil sources now make up 54.18% of India's installed power capacity, 297,369 MW of 548,858 MW at end-June. Yet of the 6,504 MW added in June, all but 760 MW was renewable - the thermal fleet has almost stopped growing, even as it still carries the evening peak.
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Macquarie is out of the Vibrant Energy captive-solar platform; Inox's parent has taken it over and repaid the lenders
Jul 16:
8ICRA withdrew its ratings on four Vibrant Energy captive-renewable companies on 15 July, all after a March change of control. Macquarie's roughly 93% stake has passed to the INOXGFL group, and the banks have been paid off.
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Gujarat's GIPCL lays out a Rs 6,000-crore lignite plan and hints at an equity raise, while turning idle gas units into batteries
Jul 16:
8On its Q4 call, GIPCL guided to Rs 6,000 crore of capex for a new 750 MW lignite plant, said blended EBITDA should reach Rs 950–1,000 crore as its Khavda solar ramps up, and flagged a possible equity raise. It is also repurposing gas units that have sat idle for six years into battery storage.
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Power Markets Daily
Jul 16:
8Exchange power prices nearly tripled in a week without a real shortage
The real-time price reached about Rs 7.36 a unit for 16 July, up from Rs 2.75 on 9 July, with the day-ahead near Rs 6.53 for 15 July. The point of the lead is that the grid had power to spare while the exchange tightened; the mechanism sits there.
8The green day-ahead market hit its Rs 10 ceiling - clean power was the tightest of all
On 15 July the green day-ahead segment cleared at its Rs 10-a-unit cap, buyers bidding for about 197,000 MWh against only 37,000 MWh offered. That imbalance is the real signal: when the system tightens in the evening it is firm and green capacity that runs short, not the day-time solar that floods the market at noon.
8PXIL opens a high-price window aimed at imported-fuel and battery sellers
Its new AnydaySSC product (Circular 483, effective 15 July) is a single-side reverse auction open only to imported-coal, imported-gas and battery sellers. It is a small structural move with a clear purpose - give costly-but-flexible capacity a place to sell when the system needs it, the same logic as the high-price day-ahead market.
8Andhra's discom is buying peak power on the exchange right through August
APCPDCL floated five reverse auctions on the Hindustan Power Exchange for late July and August - about 400 MW round-the-clock plus separate evening-peak blocks. Coming after UP and West Bengal did the same last edition, it says southern demand is running ahead of supply after dark, and discoms would rather lock in firm blocks now than chase the spot price later.
8SECI has a big, cheap block of renewables on offer - but firming it costs three times as much
SECI's sheet lists about 8,276 MW of solar and hybrid capacity open to buying utilities from Rs 2.42 a unit, while assured evening-peak renewable power clears near Rs 8. The gap is the whole story of the transition in one line: day-time green energy is cheap and plentiful; green power you can count on after sunset still costs three times more. Details
The real-time price reached about Rs 7.36 a unit for 16 July, up from Rs 2.75 on 9 July, with the day-ahead near Rs 6.53 for 15 July. The point of the lead is that the grid had power to spare while the exchange tightened; the mechanism sits there.
8The green day-ahead market hit its Rs 10 ceiling - clean power was the tightest of all
On 15 July the green day-ahead segment cleared at its Rs 10-a-unit cap, buyers bidding for about 197,000 MWh against only 37,000 MWh offered. That imbalance is the real signal: when the system tightens in the evening it is firm and green capacity that runs short, not the day-time solar that floods the market at noon.
8PXIL opens a high-price window aimed at imported-fuel and battery sellers
Its new AnydaySSC product (Circular 483, effective 15 July) is a single-side reverse auction open only to imported-coal, imported-gas and battery sellers. It is a small structural move with a clear purpose - give costly-but-flexible capacity a place to sell when the system needs it, the same logic as the high-price day-ahead market.
8Andhra's discom is buying peak power on the exchange right through August
APCPDCL floated five reverse auctions on the Hindustan Power Exchange for late July and August - about 400 MW round-the-clock plus separate evening-peak blocks. Coming after UP and West Bengal did the same last edition, it says southern demand is running ahead of supply after dark, and discoms would rather lock in firm blocks now than chase the spot price later.
8SECI has a big, cheap block of renewables on offer - but firming it costs three times as much
SECI's sheet lists about 8,276 MW of solar and hybrid capacity open to buying utilities from Rs 2.42 a unit, while assured evening-peak renewable power clears near Rs 8. The gap is the whole story of the transition in one line: day-time green energy is cheap and plentiful; green power you can count on after sunset still costs three times more. Details
Grid Operations Daily
Jul 16:
8Summer-scale demand near 266 GW, met with almost no shortfall
Demand held near 266 GW on 14 and 15 July, high for mid-monsoon, yet the energy shortfall was just 0.19%. The grid took a peak-season load in the rains in its stride; the strain was on price, not supply.
8A clean grid nationally, with one stubborn corner in the North-East
Frequency stayed in band and every monitored 400/765 kV substation and inter-regional corridor showed zero violation on 15 July. The exception was small but recurring: the Tripura import corridor ran over its limit for about 18 hours on 14 July. It does not threaten the national grid, but it does mean Tripura keeps leaning on a link that has no headroom left.
8On a record-demand day the grid spent more time holding plants back than calling them up
Down-regulation ran to about 42,700 MWh against 20,300 MWh of up-regulation on 15 July. For a peak day, that is the tell that the tightness showing up in the exchange price was commercial, not a physical shortage of energy. Details
Demand held near 266 GW on 14 and 15 July, high for mid-monsoon, yet the energy shortfall was just 0.19%. The grid took a peak-season load in the rains in its stride; the strain was on price, not supply.
8A clean grid nationally, with one stubborn corner in the North-East
Frequency stayed in band and every monitored 400/765 kV substation and inter-regional corridor showed zero violation on 15 July. The exception was small but recurring: the Tripura import corridor ran over its limit for about 18 hours on 14 July. It does not threaten the national grid, but it does mean Tripura keeps leaning on a link that has no headroom left.
8On a record-demand day the grid spent more time holding plants back than calling them up
Down-regulation ran to about 42,700 MWh against 20,300 MWh of up-regulation on 15 July. For a peak day, that is the tell that the tightness showing up in the exchange price was commercial, not a physical shortage of energy. Details
Outage & Maintenance Register
Jul 16:
8About 40,000 MW sat out across four regions at the seasonal peak
Combined outages on 15 July were roughly 16,990 MW in the West, 11,025 in the South, 6,122 in the North and 5,752 in the East - about 22,240 MW of it forced, the rest planned. The grid still met near-266 GW comfortably, so the margin held; but a fifth of the fleet being unavailable on a peak day is the figure to watch as demand climbs.
8The West carried a cluster of fresh trips
Both units of Adani's Raipur plant went out on 15 July (1,370 MW, on coal-mill and condenser faults), three Wanakbori units are down together (630 MW, Gujarat), and NTPC's Gadarwara-1 (800 MW) stays out on a boiler-tube leak. None alarming on its own; together they are why the West carried the largest outage load.
8Fresh trips in the East and South too
Odisha's OPGC-3 (660 MW) and Bengal's Sagardighi-5 (660 MW) tripped on 14 July; in the South, Vallur-1 (500 MW), SEIL-2 (660 MW) and Mettur-5 (600 MW) went out on boiler and cooling-water faults. Ordinary forced outages for fleets this size - logged so whoever tracks any of these plants finds it.
8Rajasthan's Kota station lost three units in a single day
Kota TPS units 1, 4 and 7 (about 515 MW combined) were all out on 15 July on vibration and boiler faults - and Unit 4 is a small story in itself: it returned that afternoon after ten days out, then tripped again the same night. It reads as a station running ageing units hard.
8UP's Ghatampur plant has both new units down on coal-feeding faults
Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (1,320 MW together, NUPPL) remain out since mid-to-late June on coal-feeding problems - not a fuel shortage but a materials-handling failure at a brand-new supercritical station, which is the more troubling kind.
8Telangana's Yadadri has both units out, one on coal
Yadadri-4 (800 MW) is out on a coal shortage and Yadadri-1 (800 MW) on overhaul: 1,600 MW of the state's newest coal capacity idle just as its hydro collapses.
8The most useful return of the day: Kudankulam's 1,000 MW nuclear unit is back
Kudankulam-1 returned on 15 July after about a week out on generator protection - a full gigawatt of firm, must-run capacity back on the bar as the evening peak runs high.
8A first repair from the 2023 Sikkim flood: Teesta HPS Unit 3 is back after nearly three years
NHPC's 170 MW Teesta HPS Unit 3, dark since the October 2023 glacial-lake-outburst disaster, resumed on 15 July - the first restoration milestone from that catastrophe, even as the 1,200 MW Teesta-III complex next door stays fully out. Small in megawatts, large in what it signals about the long road back.
8A Kakrapar nuclear unit is out on a seal fault, back in three days
KAPS-1 (220 MW) tripped on 15 July on a generator-seal problem, return expected 18 July - a short, specific fault, logged because nuclear trips remove firm capacity.
8Two whole hydro stations are dark, one in the South's water-short belt
Telangana's Srisailam left-bank station (six units, 900 MW) is entirely out on overhaul and a long forced outage, and Tamil Nadu's Kadamparai pumped-storage station (four units, 400 MW) is fully down on earth faults into 2026-27. With Srisailam's reservoir near empty (Story 5), the region is short of both the water and the machines.
8The long-dark fleet still on the books
Beyond Teesta-III (1,200 MW since 2023), a string of units has been out for years: Raichur-1 (210 MW, not due back until 2027), Tuticorin's two units (since a 2025 fire), MAPS-1 (220 MW nuclear, since 2018), and LANCO's LKPPL station (732 MW, under insolvency since 2016). None is new, but together they show how much built capacity the system carries as dead weight.
8India's oldest reactor is being retired
RAPS-A Unit 1 (100 MW, Rajasthan), out since 2004, is recorded as awaiting regulatory clearance for decommissioning. Tiny in megawatts, but it marks the formal end of India's first commercial reactor unit.
8On the wires: a three-week-old tower collapse and a fresh disturbance at a 765 kV hub
The 765 kV Akola–Koradi line has been out since a 26 June tower collapse - the longest-standing material transmission fault in the set - and on 15 July a wider disturbance hit the Wardha 765 kV station, taking out the Nizamabad–Wardha inter-regional line (still out) and briefly the Wardha–Raipur circuit; a Sipat ICT has been out about nine days. These are the backbone elements to track until restored.
8The maintenance calendar and the routine tail
Big units due back soon include Gadarwara-1, Ghatampur-2, Vallur-1 and Talcher ST-2 (16 July) and Yadadri-4 (20 July); nuclear returns run KAPS-1 (18 July), Kaiga-1 (September) and MAPS-1 (December). Below the line sit about 42 small units (~2,750 MW), overwhelmingly ageing gas-turbine peakers stranded on costly gas or expired PPAs, not grid events - recorded internally rather than as stories. Details
Combined outages on 15 July were roughly 16,990 MW in the West, 11,025 in the South, 6,122 in the North and 5,752 in the East - about 22,240 MW of it forced, the rest planned. The grid still met near-266 GW comfortably, so the margin held; but a fifth of the fleet being unavailable on a peak day is the figure to watch as demand climbs.
8The West carried a cluster of fresh trips
Both units of Adani's Raipur plant went out on 15 July (1,370 MW, on coal-mill and condenser faults), three Wanakbori units are down together (630 MW, Gujarat), and NTPC's Gadarwara-1 (800 MW) stays out on a boiler-tube leak. None alarming on its own; together they are why the West carried the largest outage load.
8Fresh trips in the East and South too
Odisha's OPGC-3 (660 MW) and Bengal's Sagardighi-5 (660 MW) tripped on 14 July; in the South, Vallur-1 (500 MW), SEIL-2 (660 MW) and Mettur-5 (600 MW) went out on boiler and cooling-water faults. Ordinary forced outages for fleets this size - logged so whoever tracks any of these plants finds it.
8Rajasthan's Kota station lost three units in a single day
Kota TPS units 1, 4 and 7 (about 515 MW combined) were all out on 15 July on vibration and boiler faults - and Unit 4 is a small story in itself: it returned that afternoon after ten days out, then tripped again the same night. It reads as a station running ageing units hard.
8UP's Ghatampur plant has both new units down on coal-feeding faults
Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (1,320 MW together, NUPPL) remain out since mid-to-late June on coal-feeding problems - not a fuel shortage but a materials-handling failure at a brand-new supercritical station, which is the more troubling kind.
8Telangana's Yadadri has both units out, one on coal
Yadadri-4 (800 MW) is out on a coal shortage and Yadadri-1 (800 MW) on overhaul: 1,600 MW of the state's newest coal capacity idle just as its hydro collapses.
8The most useful return of the day: Kudankulam's 1,000 MW nuclear unit is back
Kudankulam-1 returned on 15 July after about a week out on generator protection - a full gigawatt of firm, must-run capacity back on the bar as the evening peak runs high.
8A first repair from the 2023 Sikkim flood: Teesta HPS Unit 3 is back after nearly three years
NHPC's 170 MW Teesta HPS Unit 3, dark since the October 2023 glacial-lake-outburst disaster, resumed on 15 July - the first restoration milestone from that catastrophe, even as the 1,200 MW Teesta-III complex next door stays fully out. Small in megawatts, large in what it signals about the long road back.
8A Kakrapar nuclear unit is out on a seal fault, back in three days
KAPS-1 (220 MW) tripped on 15 July on a generator-seal problem, return expected 18 July - a short, specific fault, logged because nuclear trips remove firm capacity.
8Two whole hydro stations are dark, one in the South's water-short belt
Telangana's Srisailam left-bank station (six units, 900 MW) is entirely out on overhaul and a long forced outage, and Tamil Nadu's Kadamparai pumped-storage station (four units, 400 MW) is fully down on earth faults into 2026-27. With Srisailam's reservoir near empty (Story 5), the region is short of both the water and the machines.
8The long-dark fleet still on the books
Beyond Teesta-III (1,200 MW since 2023), a string of units has been out for years: Raichur-1 (210 MW, not due back until 2027), Tuticorin's two units (since a 2025 fire), MAPS-1 (220 MW nuclear, since 2018), and LANCO's LKPPL station (732 MW, under insolvency since 2016). None is new, but together they show how much built capacity the system carries as dead weight.
8India's oldest reactor is being retired
RAPS-A Unit 1 (100 MW, Rajasthan), out since 2004, is recorded as awaiting regulatory clearance for decommissioning. Tiny in megawatts, but it marks the formal end of India's first commercial reactor unit.
8On the wires: a three-week-old tower collapse and a fresh disturbance at a 765 kV hub
The 765 kV Akola–Koradi line has been out since a 26 June tower collapse - the longest-standing material transmission fault in the set - and on 15 July a wider disturbance hit the Wardha 765 kV station, taking out the Nizamabad–Wardha inter-regional line (still out) and briefly the Wardha–Raipur circuit; a Sipat ICT has been out about nine days. These are the backbone elements to track until restored.
8The maintenance calendar and the routine tail
Big units due back soon include Gadarwara-1, Ghatampur-2, Vallur-1 and Talcher ST-2 (16 July) and Yadadri-4 (20 July); nuclear returns run KAPS-1 (18 July), Kaiga-1 (September) and MAPS-1 (December). Below the line sit about 42 small units (~2,750 MW), overwhelmingly ageing gas-turbine peakers stranded on costly gas or expired PPAs, not grid events - recorded internally rather than as stories. Details
Fuel & Coal Ledger
Jul 16:
8India opens registration for its first coal exchanges
The structural fuel story of the day: coal moving, over time, toward market-based trading with discovered prices.
8Even at peak demand, the costly gas fleet stayed switched off
The merit-order schedule for 16 July left imported-gas stations - Gandhar, RGPPL, Dadri gas and others - at zero MW, and RGPPL's Ratnagiri units have been idle since 28 June on low system demand. On a record-demand day, expensive gas was simply not needed - which is why the scarcity the price implied was not there in the fuel stack.
8Delhi's fuel-cost pass-through jumps and turns automatic
May's surcharge broke the old 10% cap; the mechanism is now formula-driven. A direct consumer-bill consequence. Details
The structural fuel story of the day: coal moving, over time, toward market-based trading with discovered prices.
8Even at peak demand, the costly gas fleet stayed switched off
The merit-order schedule for 16 July left imported-gas stations - Gandhar, RGPPL, Dadri gas and others - at zero MW, and RGPPL's Ratnagiri units have been idle since 28 June on low system demand. On a record-demand day, expensive gas was simply not needed - which is why the scarcity the price implied was not there in the fuel stack.
8Delhi's fuel-cost pass-through jumps and turns automatic
May's surcharge broke the old 10% cap; the mechanism is now formula-driven. A direct consumer-bill consequence. Details
Hydro & Reservoir Ledger
Jul 16:
8Telangana's Krishna reservoirs are almost empty in the monsoon
Stored hydro energy down about 92% year-on-year, pushing the state onto thermal and the exchange.
8The wider reservoir picture is behind last year, north and south
CEA's bulletin has Srisailam, Bhakra, Tehri and Idukki all below their year-ago levels, with Hirakud the exception, running slightly ahead on heavy inflow. It is a slower, broader version of the Telangana story: the monsoon refill is lagging across several basins, which trims the cheap hydro the system can lean on later in the year.
8Odisha's hydro is steady, but building no cushion
OHPC generation held around 512 MW on 14 July with most reservoirs marginally below last year - no alarm, but no buffer forming either as the season wears on. Details
Stored hydro energy down about 92% year-on-year, pushing the state onto thermal and the exchange.
8The wider reservoir picture is behind last year, north and south
CEA's bulletin has Srisailam, Bhakra, Tehri and Idukki all below their year-ago levels, with Hirakud the exception, running slightly ahead on heavy inflow. It is a slower, broader version of the Telangana story: the monsoon refill is lagging across several basins, which trims the cheap hydro the system can lean on later in the year.
8Odisha's hydro is steady, but building no cushion
OHPC generation held around 512 MW on 14 July with most reservoirs marginally below last year - no alarm, but no buffer forming either as the season wears on. Details
CERC Docket
Jul 16:
8The day's biggest tariff order: Meja Thermal's fixed charges trued up near Rs 2,040 crore a year
The CERC finalised the 2019-24 tariff for the 1,320 MW Meja plant (NTPC–UPRVUNL), settling annual fixed charges at about Rs 2,040 crore for 2023-24, with an earlier year trued slightly down. For UP, Rajasthan and Punjab, who buy Meja's power, this fixes a large slice of what they pay for baseload for years - the most consequential number in the day's docket.
8The wires for a Karnataka renewable zone get their financing cleared
The CERC approved security-creation for a Rs 927 crore inter-state project - the Bijapur RE-zone evacuation line, a G R Infraprojects SPV - covering about Rs 714 crore of term loans. A small procedural order with a real signal: the transmission that renewable zones depend on is getting financed and built, which is usually the piece that lags the panels.
8A North-East transmission scheme is abandoned after the solar project behind it collapsed - leaving a compensation fight
The CERC had already cleared NERGS-I as eligible - a new 400 kV switching station at Bokajan, Assam, looping in the Misa–New Mariani line, awarded to Techno Electric under competitive bidding. It has now been closed as infructuous, not refused: the 750 MW Bokajan solar project it was built to evacuate fell apart after the Centre withdrew its ADB loan and Assam suspended the project, and APDCL surrendered the connectivity in June. Nothing was built, but real money was spent - the developer claims about Rs 28.5 crore already incurred (APDCL admits only about Rs 5 crore) plus Rs 40.8 crore of lost opportunity, and is fighting the central transmission utility over who pays, while APDCL separately wants a Rs 214 crore bank guarantee released. It is a clean illustration of the risk in building transmission ahead of generation: when the plant dies, the wires strand, and the bill has no obvious owner.
8A legacy transmission line's charges fall as it finishes depreciating
POWERGRID's Tanakpur system - the 1992-vintage 220 kV Tanakpur–Bareilly line - had its charges settled at about Rs 3.7 crore for 2024-25, dropping to about Rs 2.2 crore from 2025-26. The fall is not the debt running off (the asset carries no loan interest at all); it is because the line becomes fully depreciated at the end of 2024-25 and its allowed equity return is capped once it passes its useful life. A minor, uncontested order on an old asset shared by fifteen northern beneficiaries - logged for completeness, and to get the reason right.
8NTPC's 1,000 MW Rihand-III tariff is reserved for orders
The CERC has reserved its ruling on the Rihand Stage-III tariff (NTPC v UPPCL) - a large order to watch when it lands, given the plant's size and UP's exposure to it.
8NLCIL's Talabira coal-cost truing-up is put off to 24 September
The CERC deferred NLCIL's petitions on the input price of Talabira coal - which feeds its stations, with Tamil Nadu beneficiaries - directing more cost and O&M detail first. Procedural, but it decides a real slice of NLCIL's station tariffs.
8Two 1,000 MW NTPC/NLC blocks have their tariffs adjourned for more data
The CERC put off tariff proceedings for NLC Tamil Nadu Power (1,000 MW) and NTPC's Sipat Stage-II (1,000 MW), directing the generators to answer technical-validation queries before their 2019-24 true-ups and 2024-29 tariffs are settled. Routine housekeeping, but it decides a real slice of what Tamil Nadu and the central and western discoms pay for baseload - logged, with the subject corrected: these are tariff matters, not commissioning-date extensions.
8When does a 70 MW connection start paying? Welspun's case turns on a two-day notice
Welspun sought to push its connectivity start date back a year, blaming POWERGRID's delayed Bhachau substation augmentation in Kutch. The CERC has reserved orders, and the live question is narrow but real: whether the central transmission utility breached the mandatory three-month notice under the general network-access rules when it made the 70 MW renewable connection chargeable from 4 March with only two days' notice. The utility argues that joint-committee minutes served as notice; Welspun says liability cannot begin until the connection was actually usable. The rupees are modest, but the ruling will set how strictly that notice period is enforced for every delayed renewable connection.
8Sprng Vayu fights to keep 106 MW of wind connectivity revoked after missed milestones
The developer wants to use about 106 MW, in two tranches, that the CERC revoked on 25 February for missing connectivity milestones - leaning on the Commission's own March order that lets sufficiently-advanced developers retain revoked connectivity against compensation. That relief is itself under partial stay at APTEL, where other developers are challenging the compensation levy, so the outcome here feeds straight into the wider connectivity-revocation battle. The Commission has expedited the case, and even asked why revocation took nine months. Listed 20 July.
8Tata Power's Section 11 compensation claim against GUVNL rolls on
The dispute over how much Tata Power should be paid for supply it was directed to make in 2023 under Section 11 is adjourned to 20 August, with GUVNL's review still pending - a long-running imported-coal compensation fight.
8A narrow Haryana-discom review over about a Rs 6 crore difference
Haryana's discoms want a February order corrected, contesting a principal figure of Rs 711 crore against Rs 718 crore claimed - small in the round, but the kind of number a discom will still chase.
8A solar SCOD-extension plea stalls on a jurisdiction objection
TP Saurya's bid to extend the commissioning dates of its Neemuch solar units is held up by a jurisdiction objection from the MP power company - status quo for now.
8SECI chases Jharkhand's discom for unpaid solar dues
SECI has asked the CERC to make Jharkhand's JBVNL pay outstanding principal and late-payment surcharge for solar supplied under a 2018 agreement, and to sign a supplementary contract. The two sides read the tariff differently - SECI as the mapped project rate of about Rs 2.53 a unit, within the contract cap, the discom as a pooled rate across all its solar - and the Commission has first asked them to settle whether it or the state regulator has jurisdiction. Small in the round, but it is the familiar discom-payment problem that keeps renewable developers' receivables stuck. Listed 20 August. Details
The CERC finalised the 2019-24 tariff for the 1,320 MW Meja plant (NTPC–UPRVUNL), settling annual fixed charges at about Rs 2,040 crore for 2023-24, with an earlier year trued slightly down. For UP, Rajasthan and Punjab, who buy Meja's power, this fixes a large slice of what they pay for baseload for years - the most consequential number in the day's docket.
8The wires for a Karnataka renewable zone get their financing cleared
The CERC approved security-creation for a Rs 927 crore inter-state project - the Bijapur RE-zone evacuation line, a G R Infraprojects SPV - covering about Rs 714 crore of term loans. A small procedural order with a real signal: the transmission that renewable zones depend on is getting financed and built, which is usually the piece that lags the panels.
8A North-East transmission scheme is abandoned after the solar project behind it collapsed - leaving a compensation fight
The CERC had already cleared NERGS-I as eligible - a new 400 kV switching station at Bokajan, Assam, looping in the Misa–New Mariani line, awarded to Techno Electric under competitive bidding. It has now been closed as infructuous, not refused: the 750 MW Bokajan solar project it was built to evacuate fell apart after the Centre withdrew its ADB loan and Assam suspended the project, and APDCL surrendered the connectivity in June. Nothing was built, but real money was spent - the developer claims about Rs 28.5 crore already incurred (APDCL admits only about Rs 5 crore) plus Rs 40.8 crore of lost opportunity, and is fighting the central transmission utility over who pays, while APDCL separately wants a Rs 214 crore bank guarantee released. It is a clean illustration of the risk in building transmission ahead of generation: when the plant dies, the wires strand, and the bill has no obvious owner.
8A legacy transmission line's charges fall as it finishes depreciating
POWERGRID's Tanakpur system - the 1992-vintage 220 kV Tanakpur–Bareilly line - had its charges settled at about Rs 3.7 crore for 2024-25, dropping to about Rs 2.2 crore from 2025-26. The fall is not the debt running off (the asset carries no loan interest at all); it is because the line becomes fully depreciated at the end of 2024-25 and its allowed equity return is capped once it passes its useful life. A minor, uncontested order on an old asset shared by fifteen northern beneficiaries - logged for completeness, and to get the reason right.
8NTPC's 1,000 MW Rihand-III tariff is reserved for orders
The CERC has reserved its ruling on the Rihand Stage-III tariff (NTPC v UPPCL) - a large order to watch when it lands, given the plant's size and UP's exposure to it.
8NLCIL's Talabira coal-cost truing-up is put off to 24 September
The CERC deferred NLCIL's petitions on the input price of Talabira coal - which feeds its stations, with Tamil Nadu beneficiaries - directing more cost and O&M detail first. Procedural, but it decides a real slice of NLCIL's station tariffs.
8Two 1,000 MW NTPC/NLC blocks have their tariffs adjourned for more data
The CERC put off tariff proceedings for NLC Tamil Nadu Power (1,000 MW) and NTPC's Sipat Stage-II (1,000 MW), directing the generators to answer technical-validation queries before their 2019-24 true-ups and 2024-29 tariffs are settled. Routine housekeeping, but it decides a real slice of what Tamil Nadu and the central and western discoms pay for baseload - logged, with the subject corrected: these are tariff matters, not commissioning-date extensions.
8When does a 70 MW connection start paying? Welspun's case turns on a two-day notice
Welspun sought to push its connectivity start date back a year, blaming POWERGRID's delayed Bhachau substation augmentation in Kutch. The CERC has reserved orders, and the live question is narrow but real: whether the central transmission utility breached the mandatory three-month notice under the general network-access rules when it made the 70 MW renewable connection chargeable from 4 March with only two days' notice. The utility argues that joint-committee minutes served as notice; Welspun says liability cannot begin until the connection was actually usable. The rupees are modest, but the ruling will set how strictly that notice period is enforced for every delayed renewable connection.
8Sprng Vayu fights to keep 106 MW of wind connectivity revoked after missed milestones
The developer wants to use about 106 MW, in two tranches, that the CERC revoked on 25 February for missing connectivity milestones - leaning on the Commission's own March order that lets sufficiently-advanced developers retain revoked connectivity against compensation. That relief is itself under partial stay at APTEL, where other developers are challenging the compensation levy, so the outcome here feeds straight into the wider connectivity-revocation battle. The Commission has expedited the case, and even asked why revocation took nine months. Listed 20 July.
8Tata Power's Section 11 compensation claim against GUVNL rolls on
The dispute over how much Tata Power should be paid for supply it was directed to make in 2023 under Section 11 is adjourned to 20 August, with GUVNL's review still pending - a long-running imported-coal compensation fight.
8A narrow Haryana-discom review over about a Rs 6 crore difference
Haryana's discoms want a February order corrected, contesting a principal figure of Rs 711 crore against Rs 718 crore claimed - small in the round, but the kind of number a discom will still chase.
8A solar SCOD-extension plea stalls on a jurisdiction objection
TP Saurya's bid to extend the commissioning dates of its Neemuch solar units is held up by a jurisdiction objection from the MP power company - status quo for now.
8SECI chases Jharkhand's discom for unpaid solar dues
SECI has asked the CERC to make Jharkhand's JBVNL pay outstanding principal and late-payment surcharge for solar supplied under a 2018 agreement, and to sign a supplementary contract. The two sides read the tariff differently - SECI as the mapped project rate of about Rs 2.53 a unit, within the contract cap, the discom as a pooled rate across all its solar - and the Commission has first asked them to settle whether it or the state regulator has jurisdiction. Small in the round, but it is the familiar discom-payment problem that keeps renewable developers' receivables stuck. Listed 20 August. Details
State Regulatory Roundup
Jul 16:
8UP clears the way to penalise about 200 renewable-purchase defaulters
UPERC (suo-motu 71SM/2025) let UPNEDA issue one final notice, after which continuing defaulters face penal proceedings under Section 142 - only 273 of 472 obligated entities had filed their FY2025-26 data. It is the step that turns a toothless compliance drive into one that can actually fine; the consequence, not the count, is the story.
8A cold store may feed one unit from another's meter across a public road
UPERC (KBGB Agritech, 2303/2025) held that Supply Code Clause 4.46(a) carries its own exemption power, and let a multi-unit consumer run its own cable between two units split by a road, on revenue-neutral terms. Marked "not a precedent," it will be cited as one anyway - a clean, reasoned ruling other multi-unit consumers can lean on.
8Delhi's quarterly power-cost petitions are dropped as the mechanism turns automatic
The three discoms' PPAC petitions were disposed as infructuous under the amended regulations; the consumer-bill consequence is in the lead.
8Adani Green's Rs 4.79-a-unit Karnataka tariff survives a final challenge
APTEL dismissed the Karnataka discom CESC's review petitions against the 2024 verdict that gave Adani Green a force-majeure extension, a Rs 4.79/unit tariff and a refund of liquidated damages. With the Supreme Court already having turned CESC away, the discom is out of options and the tariff stands firm.
8A discom can't dock one contract's dues from another's bills, APTEL rules
In a dispute over a 2013 Karnataka PPA, APTEL held that a trader carries a generator's scheduling and deviation risk only if the contract says so, and struck down a discom's move to set off Rs 1.56 crore from unrelated invoices. The sums are small; the principle - no cross-contract set-off - is what traders and lenders will hold onto.
8APTEL may send an Andhra wind-tariff order back, calling the regulator's ruling 'perfunctory.'
Hearing Green Infra Wind Solutions' appeal, APTEL called APERC's 2021 order cryptic and without reasons, and has asked the parties to show cause on 5 August why it should not be remanded for a fresh, reasoned decision - a proposed remand, not yet ordered. The developer was contracted at Rs 4.84 a unit but has been paid an interim Rs 2.43. It keeps a long-running Andhra renewable-payment fight alive and signals the tribunal's impatience with the state regulator.
8Two Delhi waste-to-energy PPAs are a week from sign-off
DERC reserved orders on power-purchase agreements for the Narela-Bawana and Ghazipur municipal-waste plants, directing the parties to finalise within a week. Small in megawatts, but it advances Delhi's waste-to-energy offtake, which has crawled.
8The rest of the state docket
UPERC is weighing whether Jaypee's Noida township must convert to multi-point supply (next 20 August) and whether "EMI" on rescheduled genco dues must carry interest (Bajaj Energy/LPGCL, listed today); routine UPPCL hearing notices go to mid-August. Details
UPERC (suo-motu 71SM/2025) let UPNEDA issue one final notice, after which continuing defaulters face penal proceedings under Section 142 - only 273 of 472 obligated entities had filed their FY2025-26 data. It is the step that turns a toothless compliance drive into one that can actually fine; the consequence, not the count, is the story.
8A cold store may feed one unit from another's meter across a public road
UPERC (KBGB Agritech, 2303/2025) held that Supply Code Clause 4.46(a) carries its own exemption power, and let a multi-unit consumer run its own cable between two units split by a road, on revenue-neutral terms. Marked "not a precedent," it will be cited as one anyway - a clean, reasoned ruling other multi-unit consumers can lean on.
8Delhi's quarterly power-cost petitions are dropped as the mechanism turns automatic
The three discoms' PPAC petitions were disposed as infructuous under the amended regulations; the consumer-bill consequence is in the lead.
8Adani Green's Rs 4.79-a-unit Karnataka tariff survives a final challenge
APTEL dismissed the Karnataka discom CESC's review petitions against the 2024 verdict that gave Adani Green a force-majeure extension, a Rs 4.79/unit tariff and a refund of liquidated damages. With the Supreme Court already having turned CESC away, the discom is out of options and the tariff stands firm.
8A discom can't dock one contract's dues from another's bills, APTEL rules
In a dispute over a 2013 Karnataka PPA, APTEL held that a trader carries a generator's scheduling and deviation risk only if the contract says so, and struck down a discom's move to set off Rs 1.56 crore from unrelated invoices. The sums are small; the principle - no cross-contract set-off - is what traders and lenders will hold onto.
8APTEL may send an Andhra wind-tariff order back, calling the regulator's ruling 'perfunctory.'
Hearing Green Infra Wind Solutions' appeal, APTEL called APERC's 2021 order cryptic and without reasons, and has asked the parties to show cause on 5 August why it should not be remanded for a fresh, reasoned decision - a proposed remand, not yet ordered. The developer was contracted at Rs 4.84 a unit but has been paid an interim Rs 2.43. It keeps a long-running Andhra renewable-payment fight alive and signals the tribunal's impatience with the state regulator.
8Two Delhi waste-to-energy PPAs are a week from sign-off
DERC reserved orders on power-purchase agreements for the Narela-Bawana and Ghazipur municipal-waste plants, directing the parties to finalise within a week. Small in megawatts, but it advances Delhi's waste-to-energy offtake, which has crawled.
8The rest of the state docket
UPERC is weighing whether Jaypee's Noida township must convert to multi-point supply (next 20 August) and whether "EMI" on rescheduled genco dues must carry interest (Bajaj Energy/LPGCL, listed today); routine UPPCL hearing notices go to mid-August. Details
Green Markets & RE Programme Watch
Jul 16:
8India added a record amount of renewables in 2025 - almost all of it solar
IRENA's 2026 data puts India's additions at about 46 GW for the year, nearly 38 GW of it solar, taking capacity to 250.5 GW and keeping India third in the world. The pace of solar is the headline; the thinness of everything else - wind, storage, firm capacity - is the footnote that matters more each month.
8A record hour for renewables, and the same week's reminder of their limits
Wind and solar met a record 42.79% of demand at one point on 13 July, yet two days later undershot their own schedule by about 102 MU, and Gujarat curtailed thousands of megawatts to hold the grid steady. The record and the miss are one story: plenty of renewable energy when the weather cooperates, and a firming-and-forecasting gap when it doesn't.
8MNRE tightens the gate on new wind-turbine models
An MNRE memo bars commercial deployment of wind-turbine models not yet on the approved ALMM list, allowing only pre-enlistment test prototypes. It pulls wind OEMs toward the same list-based discipline solar already lives under - a small rule with real bite for anyone trying to field a new machine.
8Courts leave a set of renewable generators under the older deviation rules - for now
High courts in Karnataka and Madras have directed that CERC's 2014 deviation-settlement regulations, not the stricter 2024 ones, apply to certain renewable generators pending further orders. It reads as technical, but which regime applies decides real money for RE plants managing grid-support penalties. Details
IRENA's 2026 data puts India's additions at about 46 GW for the year, nearly 38 GW of it solar, taking capacity to 250.5 GW and keeping India third in the world. The pace of solar is the headline; the thinness of everything else - wind, storage, firm capacity - is the footnote that matters more each month.
8A record hour for renewables, and the same week's reminder of their limits
Wind and solar met a record 42.79% of demand at one point on 13 July, yet two days later undershot their own schedule by about 102 MU, and Gujarat curtailed thousands of megawatts to hold the grid steady. The record and the miss are one story: plenty of renewable energy when the weather cooperates, and a firming-and-forecasting gap when it doesn't.
8MNRE tightens the gate on new wind-turbine models
An MNRE memo bars commercial deployment of wind-turbine models not yet on the approved ALMM list, allowing only pre-enlistment test prototypes. It pulls wind OEMs toward the same list-based discipline solar already lives under - a small rule with real bite for anyone trying to field a new machine.
8Courts leave a set of renewable generators under the older deviation rules - for now
High courts in Karnataka and Madras have directed that CERC's 2014 deviation-settlement regulations, not the stricter 2024 ones, apply to certain renewable generators pending further orders. It reads as technical, but which regime applies decides real money for RE plants managing grid-support penalties. Details
Corporate Wire
Jul 16:
8Adani Power's 25-year, 1,600 MW Maharashtra supply deal
The biggest single commitment of the day, coal linkage included.
8GIPCL's Rs 6,000-crore lignite plan and possible equity raise
A rare, detailed roadmap from a state genco.
8EMMVEE's first results as a listed company are strong
The Karnataka solar manufacturer reported Q1 revenue of Rs 1,555 crore (up 51%) and PAT of Rs 380 crore (more than double), with a record margin and a 9.9 GW order book. It is a clean read on how well domestic module makers are doing under ALMM protection: the demand is there and the margins are widening.
8Sterling and Wilson takes Shell to arbitration over an Australian solar farm
The company's Australian subsidiary has filed for arbitration against Shell's Australian arm in London (LCIA) over the Gangarri solar project's EPC and O&M contracts, claiming - depending on scope - about AUD 28 million plus USD 1.6 million (roughly Rs 170 crore), or on a reduced reading about AUD 21 million plus the same USD claim (nearer Rs 130 crore). For a company its size the sum is meaningful but not defining; the more telling part is the recurring execution risk in its overseas order book.
8IEX moves to unlock its gas-exchange stake
IEX's associate, the Indian Gas Exchange, filed its draft IPO papers, with an offer-for-sale of up to about 16.7 million shares that includes IEX trimming its holding - a value-unlocking event to track as the listing proceeds.
8A small solar-cell maker's headline profit jump is mostly a standalone effect
Onix Solar reported standalone Q1 profit about 20 times a year earlier - about Rs 21 crore against Rs 1 crore - but on a consolidated basis the jump is only about three times, and consolidated revenue actually fell year on year. The standalone spike came largely from an inventory drawdown rather than trading, so it flags an accounting quirk more than real momentum. Worth a watch as it builds out cell manufacturing, but the group numbers are the ones to read.
8India's installed capacity crosses 54% non-fossil
The milestone, and why the capacity share flatters the evening-peak reality.
8Kalpataru confirms a dividend but draws institutional pushback on two resolutions
At its AGM, Kalpataru cleared a Rs 11 dividend, but its resolution seeking authority under Section 180(1)(a) - to dispose of the undertaking or create security, not to raise borrowing limits - passed with only about 87% institutional support, and a director's re-appointment drew about 9% of institutional votes against. Minorities, but notable ones for a company leaning on debt to grow.
8Borosil Renewables takes a small warrant-conversion inflow
The solar-glass maker allotted shares on warrant conversion for about Rs 12 crore - routine, and small for the company, noted for the record.
8Results diary
Board meetings to approve Q1 results: Bharat Coking Coal (21 July), IEX (23 July, with an analyst meet the next day) and Coal India (27 July, with a possible interim dividend).
Ratings Watch
8Macquarie exits Vibrant Energy; Inox's group takes over and repays the lenders
ICRA withdrew four ratings after the change of control.
8A captive-solar pool holds its rating, but a regulatory cloud sits over it
CARE reaffirmed CARE A- on the nine-company, 100 MW Maharashtra restricted group backed by Partners Group. The live risk is not the assets but a stayed Maharashtra banking-charge order: about 16% of the group's output is banked by off-takers, so an adverse final ruling could hurt. The rating is steady; the regulation is the variable.
8A North-East distribution franchisee stays in default
Feedback Energy Distribution (Meghalaya and Tripura) remains at CARE D on about Rs 319 crore of facilities and has gone non-cooperating with two agencies - a distress marker in the franchisee model, small in absolute terms but total for this company. Details
The biggest single commitment of the day, coal linkage included.
8GIPCL's Rs 6,000-crore lignite plan and possible equity raise
A rare, detailed roadmap from a state genco.
8EMMVEE's first results as a listed company are strong
The Karnataka solar manufacturer reported Q1 revenue of Rs 1,555 crore (up 51%) and PAT of Rs 380 crore (more than double), with a record margin and a 9.9 GW order book. It is a clean read on how well domestic module makers are doing under ALMM protection: the demand is there and the margins are widening.
8Sterling and Wilson takes Shell to arbitration over an Australian solar farm
The company's Australian subsidiary has filed for arbitration against Shell's Australian arm in London (LCIA) over the Gangarri solar project's EPC and O&M contracts, claiming - depending on scope - about AUD 28 million plus USD 1.6 million (roughly Rs 170 crore), or on a reduced reading about AUD 21 million plus the same USD claim (nearer Rs 130 crore). For a company its size the sum is meaningful but not defining; the more telling part is the recurring execution risk in its overseas order book.
8IEX moves to unlock its gas-exchange stake
IEX's associate, the Indian Gas Exchange, filed its draft IPO papers, with an offer-for-sale of up to about 16.7 million shares that includes IEX trimming its holding - a value-unlocking event to track as the listing proceeds.
8A small solar-cell maker's headline profit jump is mostly a standalone effect
Onix Solar reported standalone Q1 profit about 20 times a year earlier - about Rs 21 crore against Rs 1 crore - but on a consolidated basis the jump is only about three times, and consolidated revenue actually fell year on year. The standalone spike came largely from an inventory drawdown rather than trading, so it flags an accounting quirk more than real momentum. Worth a watch as it builds out cell manufacturing, but the group numbers are the ones to read.
8India's installed capacity crosses 54% non-fossil
The milestone, and why the capacity share flatters the evening-peak reality.
8Kalpataru confirms a dividend but draws institutional pushback on two resolutions
At its AGM, Kalpataru cleared a Rs 11 dividend, but its resolution seeking authority under Section 180(1)(a) - to dispose of the undertaking or create security, not to raise borrowing limits - passed with only about 87% institutional support, and a director's re-appointment drew about 9% of institutional votes against. Minorities, but notable ones for a company leaning on debt to grow.
8Borosil Renewables takes a small warrant-conversion inflow
The solar-glass maker allotted shares on warrant conversion for about Rs 12 crore - routine, and small for the company, noted for the record.
8Results diary
Board meetings to approve Q1 results: Bharat Coking Coal (21 July), IEX (23 July, with an analyst meet the next day) and Coal India (27 July, with a possible interim dividend).
Ratings Watch
8Macquarie exits Vibrant Energy; Inox's group takes over and repays the lenders
ICRA withdrew four ratings after the change of control.
8A captive-solar pool holds its rating, but a regulatory cloud sits over it
CARE reaffirmed CARE A- on the nine-company, 100 MW Maharashtra restricted group backed by Partners Group. The live risk is not the assets but a stayed Maharashtra banking-charge order: about 16% of the group's output is banked by off-takers, so an adverse final ruling could hurt. The rating is steady; the regulation is the variable.
8A North-East distribution franchisee stays in default
Feedback Energy Distribution (Meghalaya and Tripura) remains at CARE D on about Rs 319 crore of facilities and has gone non-cooperating with two agencies - a distress marker in the franchisee model, small in absolute terms but total for this company. Details
Committees, People & System Administration
Jul 16:
8Nearly 9,000 MW lost at Khavda in May, with safeguards missing
The compliance failure, not just the trip, is the point.
8The eastern grid operator opened tie-lines by hand in June
A last resort used because the automatic defences still aren't ready.
8Ancillary and deviation settlements: mostly housekeeping, one cost that bites
June's spot-despatch accounts left generators owing the pool modest net sums - about Rs 32 crore in the South, Rs 15 crore in the North, small money in system terms. A Rs 1,281 crore retrospective figure sounds huge but is a billing re-computation being unwound, not new money. The number that actually matters is the East's part-load compensation: Farakka alone is owed about Rs 147 crore for running below efficient load - a real, recurring cost of keeping thermal flexible for the renewables.
8A Rajasthan solar corridor is one contingency from losing all its generation
NRPC's 245th operations committee flagged that a 765 kV Bhadla–Sikar outage would, under a single further fault, "lose all the generation" on the corridor, and warned of August export curtailments up to about 4,000 MW on Rajasthan lines still under construction. It is the transmission-lag problem in miniature: the panels are up, the wires to move them safely are not.
8Parliament and people
The Lok Sabha Standing Committee on Energy meets 23 July for a briefing by MNRE on the Green Energy Corridor renewable-evacuation programme; other PSU board moves in the day's filings were routine.
Details
The compliance failure, not just the trip, is the point.
8The eastern grid operator opened tie-lines by hand in June
A last resort used because the automatic defences still aren't ready.
8Ancillary and deviation settlements: mostly housekeeping, one cost that bites
June's spot-despatch accounts left generators owing the pool modest net sums - about Rs 32 crore in the South, Rs 15 crore in the North, small money in system terms. A Rs 1,281 crore retrospective figure sounds huge but is a billing re-computation being unwound, not new money. The number that actually matters is the East's part-load compensation: Farakka alone is owed about Rs 147 crore for running below efficient load - a real, recurring cost of keeping thermal flexible for the renewables.
8A Rajasthan solar corridor is one contingency from losing all its generation
NRPC's 245th operations committee flagged that a 765 kV Bhadla–Sikar outage would, under a single further fault, "lose all the generation" on the corridor, and warned of August export curtailments up to about 4,000 MW on Rajasthan lines still under construction. It is the transmission-lag problem in miniature: the panels are up, the wires to move them safely are not.
8Parliament and people
The Lok Sabha Standing Committee on Energy meets 23 July for a briefing by MNRE on the Green Energy Corridor renewable-evacuation programme; other PSU board moves in the day's filings were routine.
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8Tender for reconductoring using covered conductor Details
8Tender for empanelment of agencies for new 33/11kV substation, additional /augmentation of PTR Details
8Tender for supply of tube modules Details
8Tender for supply and installation of industrial AC for Kiosk Details
8Tender for supply of 750 Nos jumper cone for 500 kV ACSR bersimis conductor Details
8Tender for repair restoration of damaged existing protection works Details
8Tender for replacement of damaged parts of HVAC system Details
8Tender for civil foundation works for installation of 08 nos of 33 kV outdoor bay along with 33 kV second main bus Details
8Tender for fabrication, galvanizing, testing, supply and delivery at site of 33 kV structure Details
8Design, manufacture and supply of energy efficient distribution transformer Details
8Tender for rerouting and reconductoring of 11kV line Details
8Tender for constructing 11 kV double circuit line Details
8Tender for manufacturing, testing and supply of ISI marked 11 kV XLPE underground cable 300 sqmm Details
8Tender for supply of hot dip galvanised steel stay sets Details
8Tender for construction of yard foundation cable Details
8Design, engineering, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of 220kV and 33kV GIS transformer/reactor bays along with associated works Details
8Tender for work of wire netting and roof bolt support Details
8Tender for additional electrical work Details
8Tender for supply of various insulation materials for boiler Details
8Tender for supply of neoprene rubber seals for annual maintenance of gates Details
8Tender for work of complete overhauling of 20 cumecs capacity pump Details
8Tender for laying of 11kV UG cable Details
8Tender for rate contract for work of laying of various size of cable Details
8Tender for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of secondary cooling centrifugal water pump motor set of power house Details
8Design, engineering, procurement and construction of power house and associated works for 640 MW ISP OSP pumped storage project Package Details
8Tender for supply of matching material Details
8Tender for supply of matching material for maintainance Details
8Tender for shifting and dismantling of 33kV feeder Details
8Design, manufacture, testing and supply of 33 kV outdoor vacuum circuit breaker Details
8Tender for overhauling of 132/3.3 kV, 7.5 MVA station transformer and 132/11kV, 48 MVA generator transformer Details
8Tender for supply and commissioning contract of 100TR water cooled chiller Details
8Tender for supply of DSS pumps with installation and commissioning supervision services Details
8Tender for electrical works for capital items Details
8Tender for laying of HDPE pumping main, with 355 mm OD HDPE pipes supplied Details
8Tender for general civil work like rolling shutter overhauling, UPVC line Details
8Tender for routine, preventive and breakdown maintenance work of complete air conditioning system Details
8Tender for repair of defects of existing PU coating of NDCTs Details
8Tender for procurement of sam turbo water pumps spares Details
8Design, supply, erection, commissioning and testing of control system Details
8Tender for waterproofing and allied work on bunker floor terrace Details
8Tender for procurement of high alumina castable refractory grade A and P and ceramic insulation pad for boiler Details
8Tender for supply of LTSH and economizer coils for boiler Details
8Tender for supply of various types of pressure and temperature switches Details
8Tender for supply & commissioning of various suspension magnet with its control panel at coal handling plant Details
8Design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with comprehensive maintenance contract of 5 years for solar rooftop projects Details
8Tender for work of providing service of online oil purification / filtration of servo mesh SP-320 oil of coal mill Details
8Tender for work of rubber lining of various equipments, pipes and fittings Details
8Tender for supply of various consumables items Details
8Tender for construction of control room foundations, cable trench Details
8Tender for overhauling and refurbishment of 03 nos. cartridges of boiler feed pump Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance contract for miscellaneous civil work Details
8Tender for servicing of different equipments during Details
8Tender for overhauling repair maintenance of all hoisting arrangement of rope drum motors Details
8Tender for shifting of 33 kV line etc Details
8Tender for work for shifting & construction of H.T. & L.T. line Details
8Tender for erection of 1.1 Kms S/C 33 kV line with ACSR DOG conductor Details
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Sikkim's Teesta-III and Teesta HPS units, 1,370 MW, remain out about 21 months after the October 2023 glacial-flood disaster
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8Every daily generation register still carries the six 200 MW units of Teesta-III plus NHPC's Teesta HPS Unit 3 (170 MW) as forced out since 4 October 2023, with revival 'subject to further information'. Reconstruction of the flood-destroyed Chungthang dam has since been approved and is under way, but the powerhouses remain off the grid, a standing 1,370 MW hole in eastern hydro.
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Telangana's Krishna-basin reservoir storage was down about 86% year-on-year on 15 July, with Srisailam at 10.3 TMC against 170.1 a year earlier
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8Telangana's usable Krishna-basin storage stood at about 39.6 TMC on 15 July 2026, roughly 86% below the same date last year, with Srisailam live storage collapsed to 10.3 TMC from 170.1 TMC and Nagarjunasagar at 6.2 TMC from 90.4 TMC. So little water this deep into monsoon shifts more of Telangana's July load onto thermal and market power, a hydro shortfall that dovetails with the state's coal-hit Yadadri outages and the firm exchange prices.
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UPPCL and WBSEDCL floated cross-exchange reverse auctions for August-September peak-hour power on Hindustan Power Exchange
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8Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation (for September) and West Bengal's WBSEDCL (for August) each issued single-side reverse-auction circulars on the Hindustan Power Exchange - and, per the circulars, in parallel on IEX and PXIL - weighted toward evening-peak blocks. Two large state utilities lining up short-to-medium-term peak power through competitive auctions signals discoms bracing for the same evening-ramp scarcity now visible in the spot market.
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Gujarat's 'interim' Rs 1.50/unit green banking charge is extended again to 31 August 2026, a fixture nearly three years on
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8GERC has once more extended the flat Rs 1.50 per unit banking charge for green open-access consumers - to 31 August 2026 - and rejected industry's demand for a lower 8% in-kind banking charge, while still not putting in place the cost-based framework the Forum of Regulators model and stakeholders have sought since 2024. An 'interim' arrangement renewed repeatedly is now the de facto regime for Gujarat's green open-access economics.
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NPCIL's 100 GW-by-2047 nuclear ambition sits against a softer FY26, with PLF down to 79% and debt-to-EBITDA at 15.1 times
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8CARE reaffirmed NPCIL at AAA/A1+ even as the operator's FY26 nuclear plant load factor eased to about 79% and its debt-to-EBITDA rose to 15.1 times, against a build-out of 6.1 GW under construction and a national target of 100 GW of nuclear capacity by 2047. With the SHANTI Act now clearing the way for private participation, the gap between a debt-heavy, capital-intensive expansion and weakening current operating metrics is the tension a lender must weigh.
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REC and SJVN were each fined by the exchanges for board-composition lapses, and both central PSUs blamed the government's failure to appoint directors
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8REC disclosed a Rs 5.31 lakh exchange fine and SJVN a Rs 5.76 lakh fine for the March 2026 quarter for failing to maintain the required board composition, including the mandated woman director, under SEBI's listing regulations. Both government-controlled companies pinned the lapse on their majority owner - the Ministry of Power - not making the appointments, and both are seeking a waiver, a governance gap that recurs across listed central public-sector enterprises.
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APTEL sets aside HPERC's treatment of a 90% state loan as grant, remanding hydro tariffs for HPPCL's Sainj, Kashang-I and Sawra Kuddu
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8The Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, in Appeals 89, 94 and 135 of 2025, held that the Himachal Pradesh regulator had no jurisdiction to re-characterise 90% of a government-routed loan as a grant in order to shield consumers from tariff burden, and remanded the tariffs of three Himachal hydro projects. The ruling reaffirms that a state commission cannot override a government funding-policy decision to lower tariffs, and pushes the cost of that borrowing back into the projects' recoverable capital.
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Contracting news for the day: Part-1
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8POWERGRID scraps bid deposit but raises the technical bar for its Rs-scale transformer buy POWERGRID wants four 500 MVA autotransformers — but scrapping the usual bid deposit is the least of it. Joint ventures are banned, a dynamic short-circuit test now decides who even qualifies, and the cost of strengthening every bridge and road on the delivery route quietly lands in the supplier's price.
8MSEDCL's Rs 130 crore transformer order hands raw-material risk straight to bidders Maharashtra's power utility is buying 200 kVA distribution transformers worth Rs 130 crore, open only to manufacturers and locked to firm pricing. That single condition passes every rupee of future CRGO steel, copper and aluminium volatility to the bidder — nine months to deliver, with no room to pass the cost on.
8Gujarat's 500 MWh battery tender is really a 12-year performance bet GSECL isn't buying a battery — it's buying guaranteed power for the next twelve years. An 18-month build followed by 11 years of maintenance, Rs 18.3 crore locked as security, and performance measured at the 220 kV grid point. With the pre-bid process rewritten again and again, the real contest is lifecycle economics, not headline price.
8Kulhal hydro tender extended a third time, but the 25% penalty risk stays intact A Rs 110 crore turnkey job to rebuild a 1975-vintage hydro station has now been pushed back three times — 29 days in all. But more time doesn't soften the sting: turbine-shortfall penalties can reach 25% of the turbine value, and bidders must price a five-decade-old machine whose true condition they can only guess.
8NTPC's two-transformer order hides a far tougher brownfield fit test It reads like a simple order for two 201.67 MVA generator transformers. It isn't. Each unit must slot into decades-old foundations, bus ducts and fire systems with almost no modification — and NTPC expects bidders to walk the site and prove it fits before they quote. Miss a hidden interface, and there's no extra payment coming.
8NTPC quietly moves its data centres to a next-generation platform Behind routine procurement language, NTPC is switching its Noida and Hyderabad centres to a disaggregated infrastructure that survives losing two servers at once. The winner supplies it, migrates onto it, buys back the old system and nurses it for seven years — with the final payment held until the very end.
8KPTCL bundles two GIS packages with a Rs 3.62 crore entry ticket Two high-voltage substation packages fold GIS systems, transmission lines, underground cables and civil works into single contracts — with Rs 3.62 crore in bid security just to enter. And the final bill won't clear until the contractor hands over drone surveys and GIS-mapped data, turning digital paperwork into a payment gate.
8OMC's Rs 100 crore project rides on one consultant for 47 months One consultant, 47 months, a Rs 100 crore project — from the first sketch to the final occupancy certificate. Odisha Mining Corporation has fused architect, cost planner and site supervisor into a single accountable firm, on a fixed fee that won't rise even if the project's true cost does.
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Jul 15:
8A nine-engine opening rewrites the technology contest
A revised engine configuration has widened the field, but the most difficult obligations have become sharper rather than easier. Hydrogen testing, tighter emission guarantees and remote-island logistics now converge inside a single EPC risk envelope. The decisive issue lies in which bidders can turn that flexibility into a bankable and technically defensible offer.
A revised engine configuration has widened the field, but the most difficult obligations have become sharper rather than easier. Hydrogen testing, tighter emission guarantees and remote-island logistics now converge inside a single EPC risk envelope. The decisive issue lies in which bidders can turn that flexibility into a bankable and technically defensible offer.
8A ten-package land exercise puts 303.50 km of transmission corridors on a 15-day valuation clock
Three Gujarat packages reveal a procurement structure designed to accelerate decisions across hundreds of transmission-line locations. The commercial contest will not be governed by L1 pricing alone, as award sequencing and capacity controls alter how bidders can pursue the work. The most consequential risk sits inside the interaction between rapid delivery, variable quantities and fragmented district-level valuations.
8Rs 315 crore transmission package signals a broader grid expansion strategy while raising execution stakes
A seemingly routine transmission package conceals a procurement structure that reshapes execution responsibility far beyond conventional EPC contracts. The engineering choices and commercial framework point towards a much larger strategic objective than simple capacity addition. The implications extend well beyond this project and could influence how similar transmission packages are structured in the coming years.
8Large-scale PCC pole procurement sharpens execution standards as logistics, manufacturing depth and financial discipline emerge as decisive competitive differentiators
A routine distribution-material procurement quietly introduces commercial signals that extend far beyond concrete poles. Several provisions reshape how manufacturers will compete on execution capacity, financial strength and delivery assurance rather than price alone. The document hints at a procurement philosophy that could influence future utility sourcing decisions across Rajasthan.
8Final commissioning strategy tightens execution accountability as critical power project enters its decisive phase
The procurement is built around far more than routine commissioning activities. Several contractual provisions quietly reshape execution risk, commercial exposure and project responsibility in ways that deserve closer examination. The implications extend well beyond this individual package and could influence how similar projects are procured going forward.
8Qualification rules evolve as execution accountability remains firmly intact
A series of amendments quietly reshaped who can compete without altering who ultimately carries project risk. The revised framework broadens access while tightening accountability in unexpected ways. The implications extend well beyond a routine hydroelectric EPC procurement.
8Rs 1,723 crore pumped-storage EPC package sets the stage for a high-stakes contest where execution strategy may matter as much as price
A major pumped-storage package is reshaping the balance between engineering responsibility and commercial competition. The bidding framework introduces several provisions that could influence both pricing behaviour and execution strategy. What ultimately determines the winning advantage extends well beyond the quoted number.
8Repeated technical clarifications reshape EPC execution while commercial discipline remains firmly intact
Successive revisions have quietly altered the engineering assumptions behind this EPC package without changing its contractual backbone. The most consequential developments are buried inside technical clarifications rather than headline corrigenda. Their combined impact could influence pricing, execution strategy and bidder competitiveness far beyond the formal amendments.
8Rs 109 crore transformer tender places factory output under a five-year performance test
A large indoor-transformer procurement has been corrected after a value description magnified its apparent scale by 100 times. Behind the revised amount sits a contract that tests every supplied unit for losses and can reject an entire lot over one sampled failure. The decisive risk is buried not in the headline quantity, but in the interaction between rate matching, long guarantees and post-delivery quality control.
Southern Region still carrying three 400 kV corridors out since mid-May tower collapses on its 14 July congestion list
Jul 15:
8SRLDC's 14 July transmission-constraint list still shows the 400 kV Kaiga-Guttur out since 14 May after tower collapses, the 400 kV Gadag-Koppal double circuit with about 15 towers collapsed, and the Gazuwaka-Jeypore corridor - roughly two months on. The persistence of these outages on the congestion register is a structural weakness behind the region's recurring evening deficits, though the current restoration timeline is not in the day's documents.
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Eastern Region exported 92.4 MU to the South on 14 July, but the South still fell 539 MW short and Kerala logged a frequency emergency
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8The Eastern Region ran a large net exporter, sending 92.4 MU to the Southern Region over the 765 kV Angul-Srikakulam double circuit and the Talcher-Kolar HVDC, yet the Southern Region still carried the day's largest regional shortage at 539 MW, with Kerala alone short 508 MW while logging a grid-code frequency emergency and two non-compliance instances. The same state that could not meet its load also breached the grid code on the same day, and the north-to-south corridors were carrying heavy flows to plug the gap.
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Northern Region imported a net 326.9 MU on 14 July yet still shed load, short 318 MW at the evening peak
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8The Northern Region was the country's largest net importer on 14 July, drawing 326.9 MU across inter-regional ties - 4,027 MW on the Champa-Kurukshetra HVDC bipole alone - yet it still met its 86,204 MW evening peak with a 318 MW shortage and reported unscheduled load shedding in Uttar Pradesh. A region leaning this hard on imports and still shedding load is running with very little headroom, and its intra-regional corridors were already breaching limits.
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NTPC's large coal units logged a run of boiler-tube-leak trips in mid-July across three regions
Jul 15:
8NTPC supercritical and 660 MW units at Gadarwara (800 MW, Madhya Pradesh), Barh (660 MW, Bihar) and Dadri-I (210 MW, Uttar Pradesh) tripped on boiler tube leaks within days of 12-14 July, while the utility's Barh Unit 2 was already out on an overhaul following a boiler leak. With planned maintenance light in July, these unplanned trips - not scheduled overhauls - were the main drag on thermal availability, though whether they share a common cause or are coincidental monsoon failures cannot be established from the outage registers.
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Coal-supply outages idled 2,255 MW at Yadadri, Ghatampur and ACBIL as monsoon coal stocks tightened
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8On 14 July, coal availability rather than equipment failure kept large thermal blocks out across three states - Telangana's Yadadri Unit 4 (800 MW) on an explicit coal shortage since 9 July, Uttar Pradesh's two Ghatampur supercritical units (2x660 MW) on coal-feeding faults, and Chhattisgarh's ACBIL (135 MW) on low stock since mid-June. Yadadri's 'critical coal' flag also masks a deeper problem: three of its four units were already down, so its low plant load factor is being read as a fuel story when it is largely an outage story.
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IEX spot power prices firmed through mid-July, with 14 July evening and overnight blocks pinned to the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
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8The IEX day-ahead average market clearing price rose from Rs 2.49/kWh on 12 July to Rs 6.33 on 14 July and Rs 6.53 on 15 July, while the real-time market climbed from Rs 3.39 to Rs 5.87 to Rs 6.74 over the same days. The High-Price Day-Ahead Market, designed to clear above the Rs 10/kWh cap, drew about 72,590 MWh of sell offers on 14 July but found no buyers all week, so the day's scarcity stopped exactly at the ceiling.
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India's grid ran long by day and short after dark on 14 July, meeting a 251,139 MW evening peak with a 1,057 MW shortage
Jul 15:
8Grid-India met the 20:00 hrs all-India peak of 251,139 MW but left a 1,057 MW shortage even as the system spent much of the day over-frequency and ancillary services net down-regulated 48,461 MWh. The same day's power exchange swung from a Rs 1.09/kWh midday solar trough to the Rs 10/kWh ceiling after sunset, the clearest sign that 14 July's scarcity was an evening-ramp problem, not a shortage of daytime energy.
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8CEA Load Generation Balance Report 2026-27 projects all-India surplus of 2.5% energy and 4.1% peak for the year
8LGBR 2026-27 flags Eastern Region peak deficit of 16.2% and Southern Region 9.6%, with Odisha, Assam and Telangana worst hit
8ERPC weekly DSM settlement shows Southern Region under-drawing heavily, driving East-South deviation charge of Rs 273.8 crore for 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly DSM account records Rs 266.8 crore receivable from Southern Region and Rs 263.2 crore payable to Eastern Region, 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly ancillary-service (TRAS) account has thermal providers paying back for shortfall delivery, Khargone-I refunds Rs 2.06 crore
8ERPC reactive-energy charge statement issued for 29 June-5 July 2026 covering Eastern Region 400/220/132 kV lines
8WRPC reactive-energy account issued for the week 29 June-5 July 2026
8SRPC finalises March 2026 part-load and heat-rate compensation for 14 southern ISGS thermal stations, degradation compensation totals about Rs 1,077 crore
8Southern Region frequency-response certificate for June 2026 leaves four generators below the 0.30 beta incentive threshold
8NER protection sub-committee records 47 grid disturbances in April and 22 in May 2026, most on radial feeders
8SPS maloperation blacks out Sonabil and radial areas of Assam on 1 June 2026 with about 70 MW load loss
8SPS failed to operate during 132 kV Palatana-Surajmaninagar line tripping on 28 April 2026
8NERPC proposes new SPS on 220 kV BTPS-Agia corridor as delayed 400 kV Sonapur and Rangia substations strain the Assam grid
8PTCC clearance requirement abolished for transmission-line projects with effect from 1 July 2026
8WRPC to draft POWERGRID and WRLDC into random inspection of AUFLS/UFR relays across the Western Region
8SRPC communication sub-committee sees leadership change as SE (P&C) Len J.B. retires and ED SRLDC M.K. Ramesh moves to Western Region
8SRPC posts revised part-load compensation statements for southern-region thermal generators covering FY2024-25 and FY2025-26
8SRPC issues revised final Regional Energy Account statements for April 2025 to March 2026
8SRPC calls special meeting on 31 July to review Free Governor Mode of Operation performance of southern-region generators for FY2025-26 Details
8LGBR 2026-27 flags Eastern Region peak deficit of 16.2% and Southern Region 9.6%, with Odisha, Assam and Telangana worst hit
8ERPC weekly DSM settlement shows Southern Region under-drawing heavily, driving East-South deviation charge of Rs 273.8 crore for 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly DSM account records Rs 266.8 crore receivable from Southern Region and Rs 263.2 crore payable to Eastern Region, 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly ancillary-service (TRAS) account has thermal providers paying back for shortfall delivery, Khargone-I refunds Rs 2.06 crore
8ERPC reactive-energy charge statement issued for 29 June-5 July 2026 covering Eastern Region 400/220/132 kV lines
8WRPC reactive-energy account issued for the week 29 June-5 July 2026
8SRPC finalises March 2026 part-load and heat-rate compensation for 14 southern ISGS thermal stations, degradation compensation totals about Rs 1,077 crore
8Southern Region frequency-response certificate for June 2026 leaves four generators below the 0.30 beta incentive threshold
8NER protection sub-committee records 47 grid disturbances in April and 22 in May 2026, most on radial feeders
8SPS maloperation blacks out Sonabil and radial areas of Assam on 1 June 2026 with about 70 MW load loss
8SPS failed to operate during 132 kV Palatana-Surajmaninagar line tripping on 28 April 2026
8NERPC proposes new SPS on 220 kV BTPS-Agia corridor as delayed 400 kV Sonapur and Rangia substations strain the Assam grid
8PTCC clearance requirement abolished for transmission-line projects with effect from 1 July 2026
8WRPC to draft POWERGRID and WRLDC into random inspection of AUFLS/UFR relays across the Western Region
8SRPC communication sub-committee sees leadership change as SE (P&C) Len J.B. retires and ED SRLDC M.K. Ramesh moves to Western Region
8SRPC posts revised part-load compensation statements for southern-region thermal generators covering FY2024-25 and FY2025-26
8SRPC issues revised final Regional Energy Account statements for April 2025 to March 2026
8SRPC calls special meeting on 31 July to review Free Governor Mode of Operation performance of southern-region generators for FY2025-26 Details
Corporate Wire
Jul 15:
8SECI extends bid deadline for Rs 1,000 crore external commercial borrowing / foreign-currency loan mandate to 22 July 2026
8Tata Power allots Rs 1,500 crore of 7.50% five-year unsecured NCDs on private placement
8POWER GRID commissions Khavda Phase-IV Part-E4 transmission element evacuating Gujarat RE (7 GW zone)
8REC incorporates Kesurdi Power Transmission Ltd to build 220 kV GIS at Satara, Maharashtra under TBCB
8PFC raises JPY 8.4 billion yen syndicated loan arranged by SBI Shinsei Bank
8Siemens India reports an 18-month FY2024-26 ending March 2026; 68th AGM set for August 11
8Ujaas Energy's 27th AGM appoints Geeta Mundra as Chairman and approves borrowing up to Rs 1,000 crore
8Adani's Khavda IV A transmission SPV seeks part-COD recognition for 5 of 14 bays already in service at KPS-3
8Waa Solar's bank facilities affirmed at IND BBB+/Stable/A2+ and removed from rating watch
8Adani Energy Solutions assigned Crisil ESG score of 65/100 ('Crisil ESG 65')
8Solapur Solar's Rs 20.98 crore loan stays at CARE D with issuer non-cooperating since 2021 Details
8Tata Power allots Rs 1,500 crore of 7.50% five-year unsecured NCDs on private placement
8POWER GRID commissions Khavda Phase-IV Part-E4 transmission element evacuating Gujarat RE (7 GW zone)
8REC incorporates Kesurdi Power Transmission Ltd to build 220 kV GIS at Satara, Maharashtra under TBCB
8PFC raises JPY 8.4 billion yen syndicated loan arranged by SBI Shinsei Bank
8Siemens India reports an 18-month FY2024-26 ending March 2026; 68th AGM set for August 11
8Ujaas Energy's 27th AGM appoints Geeta Mundra as Chairman and approves borrowing up to Rs 1,000 crore
8Adani's Khavda IV A transmission SPV seeks part-COD recognition for 5 of 14 bays already in service at KPS-3
8Waa Solar's bank facilities affirmed at IND BBB+/Stable/A2+ and removed from rating watch
8Adani Energy Solutions assigned Crisil ESG score of 65/100 ('Crisil ESG 65')
8Solapur Solar's Rs 20.98 crore loan stays at CARE D with issuer non-cooperating since 2021 Details
Green Markets & RE Programme Watch
Jul 15:
8All-India renewable generation 1,337 MU on 14 July; Gujarat leads wind, Rajasthan leads solar
8WRLDC reports persistent RE forecast errors in Maharashtra and Gujarat, partly from a January 2026 weather-provider switch Details
8WRLDC reports persistent RE forecast errors in Maharashtra and Gujarat, partly from a January 2026 weather-provider switch Details
State Regulatory Roundup
Jul 15:
8Meghalaya Power Distribution files for revised open-access additional surcharge of Rs 2.32/kWh for October 2025-March 2026
8HESCOM's July 2026 fuel-cost adjustment is a 4 paise/unit refund to all consumers as May power-purchase cost fell Rs 4.99 crore
8Punjab regulator admits PSPCL's Rs 6.90 crore compensation claim against Rana Sugars over 2005 co-gen PPA breach
8MERC disposes PSPCL-unrelated Khowal non-compliance petition after MSEDCL refunds Rs 6.94 lakh under new-connection scheme
8MERC closes Aspa Bandsons non-compliance case as MSEDCL awaits only Electrical Inspector approval for Amravati connection
8MERC declines Section 142 action against MSEDCL after Rs 3,000 Ombudsman-ordered connection-delay compensation is paid
8Torrent Power reports Q4 FY2025-26 T&D loss of 6.54% for Ahmedabad and under 1% for Surat in GERC quarterly filing
8Torrent Power's Dholera area shows ~50% year-on-year growth in power purchase and billing in Q4 FY2025-26
8Meghalaya regulator resets FY2026-27 tariffs for MePGCL, MePTCL and MePDCL after FY2024-25 true-ups
8Meghalaya sets FY2026-27 distribution tariff: domestic LT at Rs 5.00-5.10/kWh, industrial HT at Rs 5.55/kVAh with 20% peak ToD
8Meghalaya transmission tariff for FY2026-27 set at 64.96 paise/unit, MePTCL annual charge Rs 110.06 crore
8Rajasthan transmission utility RVPN overhauls deposit-works procedure, mandates 100% advance supervision charges and reserves 400/765 kV works to itself Details
8HESCOM's July 2026 fuel-cost adjustment is a 4 paise/unit refund to all consumers as May power-purchase cost fell Rs 4.99 crore
8Punjab regulator admits PSPCL's Rs 6.90 crore compensation claim against Rana Sugars over 2005 co-gen PPA breach
8MERC disposes PSPCL-unrelated Khowal non-compliance petition after MSEDCL refunds Rs 6.94 lakh under new-connection scheme
8MERC closes Aspa Bandsons non-compliance case as MSEDCL awaits only Electrical Inspector approval for Amravati connection
8MERC declines Section 142 action against MSEDCL after Rs 3,000 Ombudsman-ordered connection-delay compensation is paid
8Torrent Power reports Q4 FY2025-26 T&D loss of 6.54% for Ahmedabad and under 1% for Surat in GERC quarterly filing
8Torrent Power's Dholera area shows ~50% year-on-year growth in power purchase and billing in Q4 FY2025-26
8Meghalaya regulator resets FY2026-27 tariffs for MePGCL, MePTCL and MePDCL after FY2024-25 true-ups
8Meghalaya sets FY2026-27 distribution tariff: domestic LT at Rs 5.00-5.10/kWh, industrial HT at Rs 5.55/kVAh with 20% peak ToD
8Meghalaya transmission tariff for FY2026-27 set at 64.96 paise/unit, MePTCL annual charge Rs 110.06 crore
8Rajasthan transmission utility RVPN overhauls deposit-works procedure, mandates 100% advance supervision charges and reserves 400/765 kV works to itself Details
CERC Docket
Jul 15:
8CERC proposes Category-III inter-State trading licence for Carbon Resources Pvt Ltd, objections invited by 28 July 2026
Details
Hydro & Reservoir Ledger
Jul 15:
8Southern reservoirs mostly ran below year-ago levels on 14 July, with Mettur, Idukki and Srisailam all down
8National pumped-storage pipeline stands at 310,104 MW of potential against just 7,426 MW in operation
8Krishna-basin reservoirs Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar sit well below year-ago levels in early monsoon
8Tehri reservoir 10.5 m below year-ago level as northern hydro runs behind programme
8Sardar Sarovar runs about 8 m above last year's level, ahead on monsoon storage
8Odisha's Balimela hydro pond 6.5 ft below year-ago level on 14 July; three of its units out
8Hirakud (Burla) reservoir above last year and spilling with two gates open on 14 July
8Odisha's Chiplima run-of-river station generating 50 MW with all units available on 14 July
8Rengali reservoir in Odisha 7.8 m below year-ago level on 14 July, near minimum draw-down
8Upper Indravati (Mukhiguda) reservoir 3.8 m below last year; station peaked at 548 MW
8Upper Kolab (Bariniput) reservoir 2.7 m below last year with two of four units out
8Machkund hydro station generated zero on 14 July with reservoir 20 ft below last year
8Odisha OHPC hydro fleet averaged 559 MW for 13.4 MU on 14 July
8CEA data shows four of eight 250 MW Subansiri Lower units commissioned by May 2026
8Telangana's Krishna-basin usable reservoir storage down about 86% year-on-year to 39.6 TMC on 15 July 2026
8Srisailam live storage collapses to 10.3 TMC on 15 July 2026, a fraction of the 170.1 TMC held a year earlier
8Nagarjunasagar live storage at 6.2 TMC on 15 July 2026 versus 90.4 TMC a year earlier
8Singur reservoir shows zero live storage on 15 July 2026, down from 9.5 TMC a year earlier
8Pochampad live storage down to 0.3 TMC on 15 July 2026 from 7.4 TMC a year earlier
8Telangana bright spots: Pulichintala and Nizamsagar hold more water on 15 July 2026 than a year earlier Details
8National pumped-storage pipeline stands at 310,104 MW of potential against just 7,426 MW in operation
8Krishna-basin reservoirs Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar sit well below year-ago levels in early monsoon
8Tehri reservoir 10.5 m below year-ago level as northern hydro runs behind programme
8Sardar Sarovar runs about 8 m above last year's level, ahead on monsoon storage
8Odisha's Balimela hydro pond 6.5 ft below year-ago level on 14 July; three of its units out
8Hirakud (Burla) reservoir above last year and spilling with two gates open on 14 July
8Odisha's Chiplima run-of-river station generating 50 MW with all units available on 14 July
8Rengali reservoir in Odisha 7.8 m below year-ago level on 14 July, near minimum draw-down
8Upper Indravati (Mukhiguda) reservoir 3.8 m below last year; station peaked at 548 MW
8Upper Kolab (Bariniput) reservoir 2.7 m below last year with two of four units out
8Machkund hydro station generated zero on 14 July with reservoir 20 ft below last year
8Odisha OHPC hydro fleet averaged 559 MW for 13.4 MU on 14 July
8CEA data shows four of eight 250 MW Subansiri Lower units commissioned by May 2026
8Telangana's Krishna-basin usable reservoir storage down about 86% year-on-year to 39.6 TMC on 15 July 2026
8Srisailam live storage collapses to 10.3 TMC on 15 July 2026, a fraction of the 170.1 TMC held a year earlier
8Nagarjunasagar live storage at 6.2 TMC on 15 July 2026 versus 90.4 TMC a year earlier
8Singur reservoir shows zero live storage on 15 July 2026, down from 9.5 TMC a year earlier
8Pochampad live storage down to 0.3 TMC on 15 July 2026 from 7.4 TMC a year earlier
8Telangana bright spots: Pulichintala and Nizamsagar hold more water on 15 July 2026 than a year earlier Details
Fuel & Coal Ledger
Jul 15:
8All-India power-plant coal stock holds near 42.8 million tonnes on 13 July, 66% of normative with 27 plants critical
8Telangana's 3,200 MW Yadadri TPS runs at 23% PLF on critical coal, with three 800 MW units also on outage
8Reliance Sasan 3,960 MW UMTPP holds 7% of normative coal, thinnest cover among large pithead plants
8Andhra Pradesh state thermal fleet (Dr N. Tata Rao, Rayalaseema, Damodaram Sanjeevaiah) stays on critical coal at 11-21% of normative
8Gujarat's Wanakbori and Madhya Pradesh's Shree Singaji hold 15% of normative coal on rail-supply constraints
8Adani's imported-coal coastal plants (Mundra I-III, Udupi) run 36-56% PLF on 9-11% import stock
8All-India gas-based generation 58 MU on 12 July, 28% below programme; over half of gas/liquid capacity offline
8All-India coal generation 3,442 MU on 12 July; thermal fleet 20.5% on outage, forced outages dominant
8NTPC stations generate 949 MU on 12 July, 1.8% below programme and 2% behind year-to-date target
8Northern region conventional generation 4.8% below programme on 12 July; nuclear runs 18% behind year-to-date Details
8Telangana's 3,200 MW Yadadri TPS runs at 23% PLF on critical coal, with three 800 MW units also on outage
8Reliance Sasan 3,960 MW UMTPP holds 7% of normative coal, thinnest cover among large pithead plants
8Andhra Pradesh state thermal fleet (Dr N. Tata Rao, Rayalaseema, Damodaram Sanjeevaiah) stays on critical coal at 11-21% of normative
8Gujarat's Wanakbori and Madhya Pradesh's Shree Singaji hold 15% of normative coal on rail-supply constraints
8Adani's imported-coal coastal plants (Mundra I-III, Udupi) run 36-56% PLF on 9-11% import stock
8All-India gas-based generation 58 MU on 12 July, 28% below programme; over half of gas/liquid capacity offline
8All-India coal generation 3,442 MU on 12 July; thermal fleet 20.5% on outage, forced outages dominant
8NTPC stations generate 949 MU on 12 July, 1.8% below programme and 2% behind year-to-date target
8Northern region conventional generation 4.8% below programme on 12 July; nuclear runs 18% behind year-to-date Details
Outage & Maintenance Register
Jul 15:
8Two large Southern thermal units - Coastal Energen 600 MW and SEIL 660 MW - remained on forced outage on 14 July
8Kudankulam nuclear Unit 1 (1,000 MW) offline since 8 July on generator protection operation; NPCIL targets 15 July restart
8NTPC Gadarwara Unit 1 (800 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 13 July; largest unit out in Western Region
8Telangana's Yadadri Unit 4 (800 MW) out on coal shortage since 9 July; sister Unit 1 also down for overhaul
8Two Ghatampur supercritical units (2x660 MW) offline three to four weeks on coal-feeding problems
8Obra-C TPS Unit 1 (660 MW) out to 26 July on generator fault as 765 kV Obra-C bus isolator hotspots recur
8Barh (Bihar) has both 660 MW units out - Unit 2 on overhaul after boiler leak, Unit 3 on abnormal boiler sound
8OPGC Unit 3 (660 MW) in Odisha tripped on boiler tube leak on 14 July
8WBPDCL Sagardighi Unit 5 (660 MW) tripped 14 July on critical 220V DC system failure; two-week revival
8SEIL Project-2 Unit 1 (660 MW) in Andhra Pradesh tripped on cooling-water pipeline leak on 14 July
8Adani APL Mundra has three 660 MW units down (U8 clinker, U9 cooling-water leak, U6 overhaul) even as four RSD units returned
8Adani Tiroda Unit 5 (660 MW) in Maharashtra out from 13 July on high air-preheater gearbox vibration
8MahaGenco Bhusawal Unit 6 (660 MW) out on air-preheater fault; Unit 5 (500 MW) simultaneously on capital overhaul
8Anpara-C Unit 2 (600 MW) in UP out to 20 July on hydrogen leakage in the condenser
8Vedanta's 600 MW unit in Chhattisgarh has been out on a PA-fan trip since 14 April, revival now 31 July
8MahaGenco Chandrapur Unit 7 (500 MW) out on flame failure since 6 July, revival slated 10 August
8DVC Raghunathpur (RTPS) Unit 2 (600 MW) out on high turbine vibration since mid-April; revival 11 August
8Adani Coastal Energen Unit 1 (600 MW) in Tamil Nadu tripped 14 July on condenser water-box vent leak
8TNPGCL Mettur has both a 600 MW unit and a 210 MW unit out - Unit 5 on boiler leak, Unit 1 on rotor earth fault
8Hinduja HNPCL Unit 1 (520 MW) in Andhra Pradesh out on condenser tube leak since 12 July
8NTPC Dadri-I Unit 1 (210 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 12 July
8Rajasthan's Kota TPS has two units out - Unit 4 (210 MW) on TG bearing vibration, Unit 1 (110 MW) on vacuum fault
8Harduaganj-D Unit 9 (250 MW) in UP out since 2 July on raw-water non-availability / reheater protection trip
8HPGCL Panipat Unit 6 (210 MW) tripped 14 July on loss of all fuel
8PSPCL Ropar (Guru Gobind Singh) Unit 3 (210 MW) tripped late on 14 July on boiler tube leak
8Rajwest lignite plant loses two 135 MW units to bed-material leakage within days
8Suratgarh super-critical Unit 8 (660 MW) tripped and recovered same day on generator rotor earth fault
8CLP Jhajjar Unit 2 (660 MW) back on 14 July after two-day boiler-tube-leak outage
8CSPGCL Korba East (DSPM) Unit 1 (250 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak while Unit 2 sits on annual overhaul
8GSECL Wanakbori loses two 210 MW units on 14 July to low vacuum and a boiler tube leak
8ACBIL Unit 1 (135 MW) in Chhattisgarh out on low coal stock since mid-June
8WBPDCL Kolaghat Unit 3 (210 MW) out since 18 June after a boiler fire hazard
8Tuticorin Units 1 and 2 (2x210 MW) still out 16 months after a control-room fire; revival now end-2026
8PVUNL Patratu Unit 1 (800 MW) returned 14 July after five days offline on low system demand
8KPCL Bellary Unit 1 (500 MW) tripped twice within hours on 14 July on ID-fan and reverse-power protection
8SJVN Bikaner solar plant lost ~2.5 hours of generation on 14 July after delayed charging of the 400 kV Bikaner-II/III line
8Solapur STPS Unit 1 (660 MW) and Sipat-I Unit 3 (660 MW) among NTPC monsoon overhauls trimming Western Region supply
8About 7,510 MW of thermal capacity tripped or shut on 12 July, led by 685 MW Adani Raipur unit and multiple 660 MW units
8About 6,240 MW returned to grid on 12 July, including Talwandi Sabo (660 MW), Bellary (700 MW) and Neyveli New (500 MW)
8UP's Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (660 MW each) still out since mid-June on coal-feeding-system faults
8Windstorm collapses two towers of the 400 kV Raipur PS (Durg)-Kurud D/C line in Chhattisgarh on 19 May 2026
8220 kV Vapi-II (Sterlite)-Sayali D/C line remains out since September 2024 over a helipad in the corridor
8Wrong line opened: 220 kV Indore (PG)-Ujjain-1 tripped instead of scheduled Ujjain-2 on 15 June 2026, out for over 1.5 hours
8WRLDC lists WR generators taking planned outages without the required WRLDC code, some running days late
8WRPC lists WR transmission elements that tripped repeatedly in Q1 of 2026-27
8IndiGrid seeks Rs 18 crore and change-in-law relief to raise 765 kV Dharamjaygarh-Jabalpur line after Chhattisgarh HC induction case
8WRPC finalises MoU template after Adani's proposed 30-day shutdown of 765 kV Kotra-Tamnar and Kotra-Durg lines for APL Raigarh rail works Details
8Kudankulam nuclear Unit 1 (1,000 MW) offline since 8 July on generator protection operation; NPCIL targets 15 July restart
8NTPC Gadarwara Unit 1 (800 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 13 July; largest unit out in Western Region
8Telangana's Yadadri Unit 4 (800 MW) out on coal shortage since 9 July; sister Unit 1 also down for overhaul
8Two Ghatampur supercritical units (2x660 MW) offline three to four weeks on coal-feeding problems
8Obra-C TPS Unit 1 (660 MW) out to 26 July on generator fault as 765 kV Obra-C bus isolator hotspots recur
8Barh (Bihar) has both 660 MW units out - Unit 2 on overhaul after boiler leak, Unit 3 on abnormal boiler sound
8OPGC Unit 3 (660 MW) in Odisha tripped on boiler tube leak on 14 July
8WBPDCL Sagardighi Unit 5 (660 MW) tripped 14 July on critical 220V DC system failure; two-week revival
8SEIL Project-2 Unit 1 (660 MW) in Andhra Pradesh tripped on cooling-water pipeline leak on 14 July
8Adani APL Mundra has three 660 MW units down (U8 clinker, U9 cooling-water leak, U6 overhaul) even as four RSD units returned
8Adani Tiroda Unit 5 (660 MW) in Maharashtra out from 13 July on high air-preheater gearbox vibration
8MahaGenco Bhusawal Unit 6 (660 MW) out on air-preheater fault; Unit 5 (500 MW) simultaneously on capital overhaul
8Anpara-C Unit 2 (600 MW) in UP out to 20 July on hydrogen leakage in the condenser
8Vedanta's 600 MW unit in Chhattisgarh has been out on a PA-fan trip since 14 April, revival now 31 July
8MahaGenco Chandrapur Unit 7 (500 MW) out on flame failure since 6 July, revival slated 10 August
8DVC Raghunathpur (RTPS) Unit 2 (600 MW) out on high turbine vibration since mid-April; revival 11 August
8Adani Coastal Energen Unit 1 (600 MW) in Tamil Nadu tripped 14 July on condenser water-box vent leak
8TNPGCL Mettur has both a 600 MW unit and a 210 MW unit out - Unit 5 on boiler leak, Unit 1 on rotor earth fault
8Hinduja HNPCL Unit 1 (520 MW) in Andhra Pradesh out on condenser tube leak since 12 July
8NTPC Dadri-I Unit 1 (210 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 12 July
8Rajasthan's Kota TPS has two units out - Unit 4 (210 MW) on TG bearing vibration, Unit 1 (110 MW) on vacuum fault
8Harduaganj-D Unit 9 (250 MW) in UP out since 2 July on raw-water non-availability / reheater protection trip
8HPGCL Panipat Unit 6 (210 MW) tripped 14 July on loss of all fuel
8PSPCL Ropar (Guru Gobind Singh) Unit 3 (210 MW) tripped late on 14 July on boiler tube leak
8Rajwest lignite plant loses two 135 MW units to bed-material leakage within days
8Suratgarh super-critical Unit 8 (660 MW) tripped and recovered same day on generator rotor earth fault
8CLP Jhajjar Unit 2 (660 MW) back on 14 July after two-day boiler-tube-leak outage
8CSPGCL Korba East (DSPM) Unit 1 (250 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak while Unit 2 sits on annual overhaul
8GSECL Wanakbori loses two 210 MW units on 14 July to low vacuum and a boiler tube leak
8ACBIL Unit 1 (135 MW) in Chhattisgarh out on low coal stock since mid-June
8WBPDCL Kolaghat Unit 3 (210 MW) out since 18 June after a boiler fire hazard
8Tuticorin Units 1 and 2 (2x210 MW) still out 16 months after a control-room fire; revival now end-2026
8PVUNL Patratu Unit 1 (800 MW) returned 14 July after five days offline on low system demand
8KPCL Bellary Unit 1 (500 MW) tripped twice within hours on 14 July on ID-fan and reverse-power protection
8SJVN Bikaner solar plant lost ~2.5 hours of generation on 14 July after delayed charging of the 400 kV Bikaner-II/III line
8Solapur STPS Unit 1 (660 MW) and Sipat-I Unit 3 (660 MW) among NTPC monsoon overhauls trimming Western Region supply
8About 7,510 MW of thermal capacity tripped or shut on 12 July, led by 685 MW Adani Raipur unit and multiple 660 MW units
8About 6,240 MW returned to grid on 12 July, including Talwandi Sabo (660 MW), Bellary (700 MW) and Neyveli New (500 MW)
8UP's Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (660 MW each) still out since mid-June on coal-feeding-system faults
8Windstorm collapses two towers of the 400 kV Raipur PS (Durg)-Kurud D/C line in Chhattisgarh on 19 May 2026
8220 kV Vapi-II (Sterlite)-Sayali D/C line remains out since September 2024 over a helipad in the corridor
8Wrong line opened: 220 kV Indore (PG)-Ujjain-1 tripped instead of scheduled Ujjain-2 on 15 June 2026, out for over 1.5 hours
8WRLDC lists WR generators taking planned outages without the required WRLDC code, some running days late
8WRPC lists WR transmission elements that tripped repeatedly in Q1 of 2026-27
8IndiGrid seeks Rs 18 crore and change-in-law relief to raise 765 kV Dharamjaygarh-Jabalpur line after Chhattisgarh HC induction case
8WRPC finalises MoU template after Adani's proposed 30-day shutdown of 765 kV Kotra-Tamnar and Kotra-Durg lines for APL Raigarh rail works Details
Grid Operations Daily
Jul 15:
8All-India power demand met 251,139 MW at evening peak on 14 July with 1,057 MW national shortage
8All-India grid ran over-frequency on 14 July, outside the IEGC 49.90-50.05 Hz band 18.8% of the day
8Ancillary services were net down-regulating on 14 July, with 48,461 MWh of down despatch against 27,810 MWh up
8Northern Region met 86,204 MW evening peak with a 318 MW shortage; Uttar Pradesh carried out unscheduled load shedding
8Western Region met 71,426 MW evening peak with 200 MW shortage; Maharashtra curtailed 100 MW on a 132 kV Sakri-Dhule overload
8Southern Region carried the largest regional shortage on 14 July: 539 MW at evening peak
8Kerala short by 508 MW at maximum demand on 14 July and logged a frequency emergency on the grid code
8Eastern Region met its full 30,861 MW evening peak and ran as a large net exporter on 14 July
8North-Eastern Region met its 3,862 MW peak in full and exported surplus power on 14 July
8Northern Region imported a net 326.9 MU on 14 July, led by the 4,027 MW Champa-Kurukshetra HVDC
8Eastern Region exported 92.4 MU to the South on 14 July, chiefly over the Angul-Srikakulam 765 kV and Talcher-Kolar HVDC
8India imported 52.4 MU from Bhutan and 19.7 MU from Nepal on 14 July while exporting 41.6 MU to Bangladesh
8North-Eastern intra-regional corridors to Assam and Tripura breached TTC and ATC limits on 13 July
8Haryana and Punjab breached ATC limits and Haryana violated N-1 on Northern intra-regional corridors on 14 July
8Rajasthan hit the daily cap of deviation zero-crossing violations on 14 July, running 55 blocks without a sign change
8Eastern Region flagged N-1 violations on the 400 kV Banka-Kahalgaon and MPL-Maithon corridors on 14 July
8Gujarat curtailed about 9 MU of wind and solar on 14 July for grid security and stability
8NLDC's day-ahead SCUC for 15 July committed 48 thermal and gas units below minimum turndown, costliest at Rs 21.85/kWh
8Western Region met its 80,330 MW June 2026 peak with nil shortfall; monthly energy shortfall just 0.05%
8Maharashtra resorts to load shedding on 11 days in June 2026, peaking at 1,850 MW on 27 June
8Chhattisgarh load-sheds on eight days in June 2026, mostly late-night, peaking 779 MW on 29 June
8WRLDC flags persistent Maharashtra over-drawl at low frequency during 25-28 June 2026, with 1,700 MW of coal-hit Mahagenco capacity idle
8400 kV Navsari-Vav single-circuit line loads above 800 MW at night in early July 2026 as intra-Gujarat renewables fall
8Western Gujarat 400 kV nodes run at 432-434 kV overnight, forcing 49 line-switching operations
8Sardar Sarovar 400 kV switchyard runs at 415-420 kV when SSP machines are off, NCA seeks remedy Details
8All-India grid ran over-frequency on 14 July, outside the IEGC 49.90-50.05 Hz band 18.8% of the day
8Ancillary services were net down-regulating on 14 July, with 48,461 MWh of down despatch against 27,810 MWh up
8Northern Region met 86,204 MW evening peak with a 318 MW shortage; Uttar Pradesh carried out unscheduled load shedding
8Western Region met 71,426 MW evening peak with 200 MW shortage; Maharashtra curtailed 100 MW on a 132 kV Sakri-Dhule overload
8Southern Region carried the largest regional shortage on 14 July: 539 MW at evening peak
8Kerala short by 508 MW at maximum demand on 14 July and logged a frequency emergency on the grid code
8Eastern Region met its full 30,861 MW evening peak and ran as a large net exporter on 14 July
8North-Eastern Region met its 3,862 MW peak in full and exported surplus power on 14 July
8Northern Region imported a net 326.9 MU on 14 July, led by the 4,027 MW Champa-Kurukshetra HVDC
8Eastern Region exported 92.4 MU to the South on 14 July, chiefly over the Angul-Srikakulam 765 kV and Talcher-Kolar HVDC
8India imported 52.4 MU from Bhutan and 19.7 MU from Nepal on 14 July while exporting 41.6 MU to Bangladesh
8North-Eastern intra-regional corridors to Assam and Tripura breached TTC and ATC limits on 13 July
8Haryana and Punjab breached ATC limits and Haryana violated N-1 on Northern intra-regional corridors on 14 July
8Rajasthan hit the daily cap of deviation zero-crossing violations on 14 July, running 55 blocks without a sign change
8Eastern Region flagged N-1 violations on the 400 kV Banka-Kahalgaon and MPL-Maithon corridors on 14 July
8Gujarat curtailed about 9 MU of wind and solar on 14 July for grid security and stability
8NLDC's day-ahead SCUC for 15 July committed 48 thermal and gas units below minimum turndown, costliest at Rs 21.85/kWh
8Western Region met its 80,330 MW June 2026 peak with nil shortfall; monthly energy shortfall just 0.05%
8Maharashtra resorts to load shedding on 11 days in June 2026, peaking at 1,850 MW on 27 June
8Chhattisgarh load-sheds on eight days in June 2026, mostly late-night, peaking 779 MW on 29 June
8WRLDC flags persistent Maharashtra over-drawl at low frequency during 25-28 June 2026, with 1,700 MW of coal-hit Mahagenco capacity idle
8400 kV Navsari-Vav single-circuit line loads above 800 MW at night in early July 2026 as intra-Gujarat renewables fall
8Western Gujarat 400 kV nodes run at 432-434 kV overnight, forcing 49 line-switching operations
8Sardar Sarovar 400 kV switchyard runs at 415-420 kV when SSP machines are off, NCA seeks remedy Details
Power Markets Daily
Jul 15:
8IEX Day-Ahead Market clears at Rs 6.33/kWh average on 14 July, evening and night blocks pinned to the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8IEX Real-Time Market clears 172,398 MWh at Rs 5.87/kWh average on 14 July, peaks at the ceiling
8IEX Green Day-Ahead Market clears just 28,423 MWh at Rs 5.97/kWh on 14 July as green buy bids run ~4.8x green supply
8IEX High-Price Day-Ahead Market clears nothing for a seventh straight day despite ~72,000 MWh/day of sell offers
8IEX Term-Ahead Market daily and intraday contracts clear at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8IEX Green Term-Ahead Market: solar/daily-contingency legs clear near the Rs 10/kWh ceiling, wind contracts at Rs 5.90/kWh
8PXIL Real-Time Market clears 650 MWh on 14 July, entirely at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8PXIL contingency/DSM auction clears ~956 MW of buy across three evening blocks at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8Third exchange RTM clears only 50 MWh on 14 July, all at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8UPPCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy up to 315 MW of evening-peak power for September 2026
8WBSEDCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy 300 MW off-peak and 300 MW peak power for August 2026 Details
8IEX Real-Time Market clears 172,398 MWh at Rs 5.87/kWh average on 14 July, peaks at the ceiling
8IEX Green Day-Ahead Market clears just 28,423 MWh at Rs 5.97/kWh on 14 July as green buy bids run ~4.8x green supply
8IEX High-Price Day-Ahead Market clears nothing for a seventh straight day despite ~72,000 MWh/day of sell offers
8IEX Term-Ahead Market daily and intraday contracts clear at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8IEX Green Term-Ahead Market: solar/daily-contingency legs clear near the Rs 10/kWh ceiling, wind contracts at Rs 5.90/kWh
8PXIL Real-Time Market clears 650 MWh on 14 July, entirely at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8PXIL contingency/DSM auction clears ~956 MW of buy across three evening blocks at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8Third exchange RTM clears only 50 MWh on 14 July, all at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8UPPCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy up to 315 MW of evening-peak power for September 2026
8WBSEDCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy 300 MW off-peak and 300 MW peak power for August 2026 Details
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Jul 15:
For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Tender for supply of multipurpose grease, lithium base grease and oil Details
8Tender for supply, installation commissioning of C and I spares for Jockey pump, hydrant pump, cable gallery Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for C and I part of FDPS (fire detection and protection system) installed Details
8Tender for construction of 02 Nos. fire wall at GT yard Details
8Tender for supply design erection testing and commissioning of 11kV HT line Details
8Tender for levelling, laying PCC, gravel and construction of trench covers at 132/33/11 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for providing newly proposed 11/0.4 kV 63 KVA S/stn. Details
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 220kV & 66kV equipments & materials Details
8Tender for work of erection and commissioning of 220kV and 132kV equipment, structures, control wiring etc Details
8Tender for Bi- annual rate contract for work of erection of 66kV transmission towers Details
8Tender for work of boiler tube surface preparation, thickness survey measurement with party’s D-meter Details
8Design, supply, installation, retrofitting, testing and commissioning of 220kV bus barpanel/scheme, 220 kV bus coupler relay scheme Details
8Tender for supply of 90/10 cupronickel condenser tubes Details
8Tender for supply of various lighting products Details
8Tender for work of penthouse roof restrengthening and repairing in boilers Details
8Tender for work of IN SITU repairing/overhauling of high energy drain valves and other low/medium/high pressure and temperature steam/water valves Details
8Tender for work of constructions of new maintenance free earth pit at 220 kV & 400kV switchyard Details
8Tender for supply of MS grill and fabrication & epoxy paint of stairs, railing, structure Details
8Tender for work of removal, supply and application of spray thermal insulation on drive turbines Details
8Tender for work of preventive maintenance of various 220 kV switchyard Details
8Tender for constructing new 11kV UG cable Details
8Tender for construction of 33 kV link line Details
8Tender for separation of 33 kV line Details
8Tender for work of transportation installation and commissioning of emergency restoration system ERS tower Details
8Tender for increasing capacity at 220 kV substation Details
8Tender for construction work of multipurpose seed store Details
8Tender for repairing and renovation of 09 Nos. existing bore holes and lowering and lifting Details
8Tender for carrying out miscellaneous job Details
8Tender for day to day comprehensive maintenance of civil and electrical works Details
8Tender for distribution of plant saplings Details
8Tender for supplying and laying of filled bag Details
8Tender for construction of 400kV (quad moose) 2nd D/C line Details
8Tender for purchase of sewage treatment plant Details
8Tender for construction of store in yard at 220 kV GSS Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing along with end bays Details
8Tender for assistance for maintenance and repair of electrical equipment Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of boilers Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of various Details
8Tender for tit bit civil work Details
8Tender for day-to-day operation of pumps, motors, and valves for the water supply system Details
8Tender for repair and renovation of the pump house Details
8Tender for misc. civil works inside Details
8Tender for upgradation/revamping of fire fighting facilities Details
8Tender for construction of pavement quality concrete Details
8Tender for construction of shed for hydro-mechanical (HM) works Details
8Tender for construction of damaged retaining wall on right bank Details
8Tender for work of HT LE using UG cable Details
8Tender for procurement of steel section quantity Details
8Tender for supply erection and commissioning of 20 torch panel welding machine Details
8Tender for balance civil and architectural works of main plant FGD civil works Details
8Tender for strengthening of crusher house Details
8Tender for development of water recharge shafts Details
8Tender for repair & rehabilitation works of 220 M height RCC chimney Details
8Tender for supply and installation of fills for stage 2 cooling tower Details
8Tender for earth mat extension and metalling work beyond 220kV fencing side at 220kV substation Details
8Tender for replacement of insulators from 110 kV substation Details
8Tender for award of contract for system strengthening works for survey, installation, testing and commissioning of new 5 MVA 33/11kV substation Details
8Tender for construction of RR masonry revetment wall at various Details
8Tender for procurement of power contactor and auxiliary contactor relays Details
8Tender for procurement of pneumatic fittings, tubings, hose and valves Details
8Tender for construction of coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for construction of road between coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for procurement of pressure switches and differential pressure switches Details
8Tender for supply of 9M long PCC poles Details
8Tender for supply of 10 KVA 11/0.433 kV aluminium wound EEL1 completely self protected (CSP) distribution transformers Details
8Tender for supply of 33kV single circuit ungalvanized steel lattice structure Details
8Tender for purchase of suspension type wave trap Details
8Tender for requirement of spares for service transformers installed Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for supply of TC fuse wire 12 SWG and 14 SWG Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance of minor civil and structural work Details
8Tender for procurement of conveyor belt Details
8Tender for service contract for evacuation job of accumulated ash and coal from all ducts of boiler during Details
8Tender for intermidiate additional pole between long spans in 11 kV and LT line Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines and 11/0.4 kV DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for augmentation of substation by replacement of 1X25 MVA 220/33kV T/F Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by replacement of 2x100MVA, 220/132kV ICTs Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by providing addition 1X100MVA 220/132kV ICT along with HV & LV bays Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for carrying out work of dismantling, erection & other allied activities in planned outage & emergency/breakdown for power transformers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 245 & 145 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 36 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for AMC for CTR make nitrogen injection fire protection system (NIFPS) for ICTs & transformer Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on existing of 132kV SCDC line Details
8Tender for second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract (AMC) for the demonstration, preventive maintenance as well as repairing work including supply of required spare of nitrogen injection fire protection systems Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance contract for the work of restoration of collapsed towers in emergency/breakdown situation of EHV lines Details
8Tender for work of dismantling of existing 132kV & 220kV various equipments Details
8Tender for work of supply, civil and ETC of replacement of 220kV & 132kV CTs and PTs Details
8Tender for work of erection, testing and commissioning of dedicated 400kV metering current transformer Details
8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 50MVA, 132/33kV power T/F along Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation capacity of substation by providing 1x100MVA, 220/132kV ICT along Details
8Tender for work of SITC of SCADA system along with integration of 25Nos. of bays and replacement of existing faulty relays Details
8Tender for work of establishment of 132-110/33 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for work of establishment of link line between 220kV phase 1 sub-station Details
8Tender for AMC for regular maintenance work, outage work and attending emergency breakdown work of 220 kV & 400 kV transmission lines Details
8Tender for works of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 1 x 100 MVA, 220/132 kV ICT along with bay equipments Details
You can also click on Tenders for more
For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
8Linde India raises stake in Zenataris Renewable Energy Details
8India's renewable energy expansion to be driven by domestic firms: EY, Centrum Details
8India Rooftop Solar Market Surges in 2026 as PM Surya Ghar Drives Record Residential Adoption Details
8Eco Solutions Subsidiary Bags Rs 72.06 Crore Orders for Solar Inverters and BESS Details
8Waaree Energies Share: UBS Reduces Its Valuation and Sees Multiple Risks in the Company Details
8KEC International shares up 4%: Bags Rs 1,180 crore orders across T&D, renewables, civil businesses Details
8Manufacturing Lines: Building flexibility into solar production for the next technology shift Details
8From Coal to Code: How India’s Top PSUs Are Embracing AI Details
8ECL Signs MoU with WBFDCL to Plant 2.11 Lakh Saplings in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman Details
8Coal gasification can cut imports, but at a high cost Details
8India Hits Record 57 GW Wind Capacity Details
8Shell divests 5GW of wind and solar assets in India, with local energy group acquiring them to expand its footprint. Details
8Wheels India Board Approves Fund Raising of Up to Rs 400 Crore to Support Growth Plans Details
8Blueleaf Energy Secures $75M Debt for 850MW Renewable Projects Details
8Top 33 Power Sector Stocks to Watch in India 2026 Details
8India’s power demand growth to drive INR 50 trillion investment by FY32 Details
8APTEL Judgment Reinforces Regulatory Certainty And Boosts Investor Confidence In India’s Power Sector Details
8Tata Power share price target: 29% upside Why MOFSL is bullish on this Tata stock post AGM Details
8Vedanta Targets Major Expansion in Metals, Oil, and Power Sectors Details
8Birla's power play to reshape India's green grid Details
8NICCI Senior Advisor Attends India–Nepal Power Sector Luncheon Meeting Details
8Adani Group Breaks Into India's Top 10 Most Valuable Brands; Adani Power Leads Energy Rankings Details
8Green Energy Sector Shows Pockets Of Strength In Weak Market Session Details
8How ethanol and green energy changed Uttar Pradesh’s sugar industry Details
8India moves closer to its first geothermal power plant as ONGC drills second geothermal well in Ladakh Details
8GERC Invites Consultants To Develop Simplified And Future-Ready Retail Electricity Tariff Framework In Gujarat Details
8Centre to launch eighth critical mineral auction, offering 20 blocks Details
8WTTC projects India to become world’s fourth-largest Travel & Tourism economy by 2036 Details
8Data Centres and manufacturing may drive Rs 50 trillion power investment, but risks hitting a transmission wall Details
8RECPDCL Signs MoA for 1 MW Solar Power Plant at Gandhigram Rural Institute to Boost Clean Energy Adoption Details
You can also click on Newsclips for more Details
8Tender for supply of multipurpose grease, lithium base grease and oil Details
8Tender for supply, installation commissioning of C and I spares for Jockey pump, hydrant pump, cable gallery Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for C and I part of FDPS (fire detection and protection system) installed Details
8Tender for construction of 02 Nos. fire wall at GT yard Details
8Tender for supply design erection testing and commissioning of 11kV HT line Details
8Tender for levelling, laying PCC, gravel and construction of trench covers at 132/33/11 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for providing newly proposed 11/0.4 kV 63 KVA S/stn. Details
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 220kV & 66kV equipments & materials Details
8Tender for work of erection and commissioning of 220kV and 132kV equipment, structures, control wiring etc Details
8Tender for Bi- annual rate contract for work of erection of 66kV transmission towers Details
8Tender for work of boiler tube surface preparation, thickness survey measurement with party’s D-meter Details
8Design, supply, installation, retrofitting, testing and commissioning of 220kV bus barpanel/scheme, 220 kV bus coupler relay scheme Details
8Tender for supply of 90/10 cupronickel condenser tubes Details
8Tender for supply of various lighting products Details
8Tender for work of penthouse roof restrengthening and repairing in boilers Details
8Tender for work of IN SITU repairing/overhauling of high energy drain valves and other low/medium/high pressure and temperature steam/water valves Details
8Tender for work of constructions of new maintenance free earth pit at 220 kV & 400kV switchyard Details
8Tender for supply of MS grill and fabrication & epoxy paint of stairs, railing, structure Details
8Tender for work of removal, supply and application of spray thermal insulation on drive turbines Details
8Tender for work of preventive maintenance of various 220 kV switchyard Details
8Tender for constructing new 11kV UG cable Details
8Tender for construction of 33 kV link line Details
8Tender for separation of 33 kV line Details
8Tender for work of transportation installation and commissioning of emergency restoration system ERS tower Details
8Tender for increasing capacity at 220 kV substation Details
8Tender for construction work of multipurpose seed store Details
8Tender for repairing and renovation of 09 Nos. existing bore holes and lowering and lifting Details
8Tender for carrying out miscellaneous job Details
8Tender for day to day comprehensive maintenance of civil and electrical works Details
8Tender for distribution of plant saplings Details
8Tender for supplying and laying of filled bag Details
8Tender for construction of 400kV (quad moose) 2nd D/C line Details
8Tender for purchase of sewage treatment plant Details
8Tender for construction of store in yard at 220 kV GSS Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing along with end bays Details
8Tender for assistance for maintenance and repair of electrical equipment Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of boilers Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of various Details
8Tender for tit bit civil work Details
8Tender for day-to-day operation of pumps, motors, and valves for the water supply system Details
8Tender for repair and renovation of the pump house Details
8Tender for misc. civil works inside Details
8Tender for upgradation/revamping of fire fighting facilities Details
8Tender for construction of pavement quality concrete Details
8Tender for construction of shed for hydro-mechanical (HM) works Details
8Tender for construction of damaged retaining wall on right bank Details
8Tender for work of HT LE using UG cable Details
8Tender for procurement of steel section quantity Details
8Tender for supply erection and commissioning of 20 torch panel welding machine Details
8Tender for balance civil and architectural works of main plant FGD civil works Details
8Tender for strengthening of crusher house Details
8Tender for development of water recharge shafts Details
8Tender for repair & rehabilitation works of 220 M height RCC chimney Details
8Tender for supply and installation of fills for stage 2 cooling tower Details
8Tender for earth mat extension and metalling work beyond 220kV fencing side at 220kV substation Details
8Tender for replacement of insulators from 110 kV substation Details
8Tender for award of contract for system strengthening works for survey, installation, testing and commissioning of new 5 MVA 33/11kV substation Details
8Tender for construction of RR masonry revetment wall at various Details
8Tender for procurement of power contactor and auxiliary contactor relays Details
8Tender for procurement of pneumatic fittings, tubings, hose and valves Details
8Tender for construction of coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for construction of road between coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for procurement of pressure switches and differential pressure switches Details
8Tender for supply of 9M long PCC poles Details
8Tender for supply of 10 KVA 11/0.433 kV aluminium wound EEL1 completely self protected (CSP) distribution transformers Details
8Tender for supply of 33kV single circuit ungalvanized steel lattice structure Details
8Tender for purchase of suspension type wave trap Details
8Tender for requirement of spares for service transformers installed Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for supply of TC fuse wire 12 SWG and 14 SWG Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance of minor civil and structural work Details
8Tender for procurement of conveyor belt Details
8Tender for service contract for evacuation job of accumulated ash and coal from all ducts of boiler during Details
8Tender for intermidiate additional pole between long spans in 11 kV and LT line Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines and 11/0.4 kV DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for augmentation of substation by replacement of 1X25 MVA 220/33kV T/F Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by replacement of 2x100MVA, 220/132kV ICTs Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by providing addition 1X100MVA 220/132kV ICT along with HV & LV bays Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for carrying out work of dismantling, erection & other allied activities in planned outage & emergency/breakdown for power transformers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 245 & 145 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 36 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for AMC for CTR make nitrogen injection fire protection system (NIFPS) for ICTs & transformer Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on existing of 132kV SCDC line Details
8Tender for second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract (AMC) for the demonstration, preventive maintenance as well as repairing work including supply of required spare of nitrogen injection fire protection systems Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance contract for the work of restoration of collapsed towers in emergency/breakdown situation of EHV lines Details
8Tender for work of dismantling of existing 132kV & 220kV various equipments Details
8Tender for work of supply, civil and ETC of replacement of 220kV & 132kV CTs and PTs Details
8Tender for work of erection, testing and commissioning of dedicated 400kV metering current transformer Details
8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 50MVA, 132/33kV power T/F along Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation capacity of substation by providing 1x100MVA, 220/132kV ICT along Details
8Tender for work of SITC of SCADA system along with integration of 25Nos. of bays and replacement of existing faulty relays Details
8Tender for work of establishment of 132-110/33 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for work of establishment of link line between 220kV phase 1 sub-station Details
8Tender for AMC for regular maintenance work, outage work and attending emergency breakdown work of 220 kV & 400 kV transmission lines Details
8Tender for works of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 1 x 100 MVA, 220/132 kV ICT along with bay equipments Details
You can also click on Tenders for more
For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
8Linde India raises stake in Zenataris Renewable Energy Details
8India's renewable energy expansion to be driven by domestic firms: EY, Centrum Details
8India Rooftop Solar Market Surges in 2026 as PM Surya Ghar Drives Record Residential Adoption Details
8Eco Solutions Subsidiary Bags Rs 72.06 Crore Orders for Solar Inverters and BESS Details
8Waaree Energies Share: UBS Reduces Its Valuation and Sees Multiple Risks in the Company Details
8KEC International shares up 4%: Bags Rs 1,180 crore orders across T&D, renewables, civil businesses Details
8Manufacturing Lines: Building flexibility into solar production for the next technology shift Details
8From Coal to Code: How India’s Top PSUs Are Embracing AI Details
8ECL Signs MoU with WBFDCL to Plant 2.11 Lakh Saplings in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman Details
8Coal gasification can cut imports, but at a high cost Details
8India Hits Record 57 GW Wind Capacity Details
8Shell divests 5GW of wind and solar assets in India, with local energy group acquiring them to expand its footprint. Details
8Wheels India Board Approves Fund Raising of Up to Rs 400 Crore to Support Growth Plans Details
8Blueleaf Energy Secures $75M Debt for 850MW Renewable Projects Details
8Top 33 Power Sector Stocks to Watch in India 2026 Details
8India’s power demand growth to drive INR 50 trillion investment by FY32 Details
8APTEL Judgment Reinforces Regulatory Certainty And Boosts Investor Confidence In India’s Power Sector Details
8Tata Power share price target: 29% upside Why MOFSL is bullish on this Tata stock post AGM Details
8Vedanta Targets Major Expansion in Metals, Oil, and Power Sectors Details
8Birla's power play to reshape India's green grid Details
8NICCI Senior Advisor Attends India–Nepal Power Sector Luncheon Meeting Details
8Adani Group Breaks Into India's Top 10 Most Valuable Brands; Adani Power Leads Energy Rankings Details
8Green Energy Sector Shows Pockets Of Strength In Weak Market Session Details
8How ethanol and green energy changed Uttar Pradesh’s sugar industry Details
8India moves closer to its first geothermal power plant as ONGC drills second geothermal well in Ladakh Details
8GERC Invites Consultants To Develop Simplified And Future-Ready Retail Electricity Tariff Framework In Gujarat Details
8Centre to launch eighth critical mineral auction, offering 20 blocks Details
8WTTC projects India to become world’s fourth-largest Travel & Tourism economy by 2036 Details
8Data Centres and manufacturing may drive Rs 50 trillion power investment, but risks hitting a transmission wall Details
8RECPDCL Signs MoA for 1 MW Solar Power Plant at Gandhigram Rural Institute to Boost Clean Energy Adoption Details
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Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update
Jul 15:
8Daily Excel covering new tenders and all published updates including corrigendum, amendment, addendum, clarification and status revisions, along with technical and financial bid opening, evaluation completion and final award actions including AOC and LOA issuance.
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POWER MARKETS DAILY
Jul 14:
8IEX Real-Time Market clears at a weekly high of Rs 5.25 a unit on the thinnest volume of the week
8Green Day-Ahead Market firms to Rs 4.02 a unit, the only active green segment
8Term-ahead trades cling to the price ceiling; PXIL deviation market clears nothing
8Hydro day-ahead segment draws sellers but no buyers all week
8Intraday volume-profile products barely trade, and only at the cap Details
8Green Day-Ahead Market firms to Rs 4.02 a unit, the only active green segment
8Term-ahead trades cling to the price ceiling; PXIL deviation market clears nothing
8Hydro day-ahead segment draws sellers but no buyers all week
8Intraday volume-profile products barely trade, and only at the cap Details
GRID OPERATIONS DAILY
Jul 14:
8All-India demand held near 251 GW on 13 July with an energy shortage of just 0.17%
8Frequency stayed in band 84% of the day but spent twice as long high as low
8Reliability indices clean nationally; localised violations at Dadra & Nagar Haveli and voltage deviations in Rajasthan and Karnataka
8Ancillary despatch ran firmly downward on 13 July - but far less than mid-week
8Regional peaks reconcile; the only material residual shortage is a Kerala pocket Details
8Frequency stayed in band 84% of the day but spent twice as long high as low
8Reliability indices clean nationally; localised violations at Dadra & Nagar Haveli and voltage deviations in Rajasthan and Karnataka
8Ancillary despatch ran firmly downward on 13 July - but far less than mid-week
8Regional peaks reconcile; the only material residual shortage is a Kerala pocket Details
OUTAGE & MAINTENANCE REGISTER
Jul 14:
8Kudankulam-1 (1,000 MW nuclear) remains out since 8 July on generator protection
8Gadarwara-1 (800 MW, NTPC) trips fresh on a boiler-tube leak
8Adani Power Maharashtra Tiroda-5 (660 MW) out on air-pre-heater vibration
8Mettur-5 (600 MW) forced out on a boiler-tube leak
8Both Ghatampur units (660 MW each) remain out since June on coal-feeding failure
8Other large forced units carried over on 13 July
8Six large units returned to the bar, cushioning the evening peak
8Kanpur GIS 400 kV Bus-1 out on busbar protection for a process-bus upgrade
8765 kV Kurnool–Maheshwaram-2 remains out on an R-N fault
8765 kV Raichur–Sholapur-2 out on an isolator hot-spot
8Other notable transmission elements out on 13 July
8Forward maintenance diary: a heavy annual-overhaul slate through the year
8Register-reading cautions: artefacts and mirrored entries Details
8Gadarwara-1 (800 MW, NTPC) trips fresh on a boiler-tube leak
8Adani Power Maharashtra Tiroda-5 (660 MW) out on air-pre-heater vibration
8Mettur-5 (600 MW) forced out on a boiler-tube leak
8Both Ghatampur units (660 MW each) remain out since June on coal-feeding failure
8Other large forced units carried over on 13 July
8Six large units returned to the bar, cushioning the evening peak
8Kanpur GIS 400 kV Bus-1 out on busbar protection for a process-bus upgrade
8765 kV Kurnool–Maheshwaram-2 remains out on an R-N fault
8765 kV Raichur–Sholapur-2 out on an isolator hot-spot
8Other notable transmission elements out on 13 July
8Forward maintenance diary: a heavy annual-overhaul slate through the year
8Register-reading cautions: artefacts and mirrored entries Details
FUEL & COAL LEDGER
Jul 14:
8Coal stocks stable at about 17 days; not one plant officially critical, but Niwari TPP is down to a single day
8Renewable generation climbed through the week to 1,349 MU, led by Rajasthan and Gujarat
8Ministry of Coal opens two decriminalisation and penalty consultations
8The gas fleet again sits idle on economics, not fuel Details
8Renewable generation climbed through the week to 1,349 MU, led by Rajasthan and Gujarat
8Ministry of Coal opens two decriminalisation and penalty consultations
8The gas fleet again sits idle on economics, not fuel Details
HYDRO & RESERVOIR LEDGER
Jul 14:
8Odisha reservoirs mostly below last year; Hirakud the exception, passing heavy inflow
8Odisha hydro generation about 504 MW; two stations idle
8Coverage note: no national reservoir bulletin this edition Details
8Odisha hydro generation about 504 MW; two stations idle
8Coverage note: no national reservoir bulletin this edition Details
Contracting news for the day
Jul 14:
8Rs 128 crore cable procurement tightens quality filters as technical scrutiny reshapes competition
A large procurement has quietly become a test of manufacturing capability rather than simply price competitiveness. Technical scrutiny significantly narrowed the competitive field before commercial bids assumed importance. The outcome signals broader changes in how future utility procurements may increasingly evaluate suppliers
8Rs 289 crore reactor award carries a far longer risk tail than the contract value suggests
This latest reactor package carries implications that extend well beyond equipment procurement. The technical framework, contractual structure and award outcome collectively indicate a procurement strategy that could influence future transmission packages. The deeper significance becomes evident only after examining the tender clause by clause.
8A familiar GIS package introduces an unfamiliar procurement structure
A new procurement structure quietly changes where project risk begins and who carries it first. The commercial framework appears straightforward, but several clauses reshape competitive positioning well before the owner awards the contract. The biggest implications emerge only after the document is read clause by clause.
81000 MW renewable procurement signals another important step in India's evolving RTC power market
A utility-scale renewable procurement has returned to the spotlight after a series of developments during the bidding process. The headline capacity is only one part of what makes this opportunity strategically significant for developers and investors alike. The real story emerges after examining how the procurement framework has gradually evolved.
8Tender extends timeline for Rs solar park infrastructure tender, giving bidders more room before the next procurement milestone
A revised schedule has quietly reshaped the bidding calendar for one of Rajasthan's key renewable infrastructure packages. The change appears procedural, but its impact could extend beyond just the submission date. The implications for competition and bid strategy become clearer inside the document.
8A 70-day deadline shift redraws the competitive field for the Chitradurga project
The tender covers more than isolated equipment procurement. Its balance-of-system structure brings several engineering and construction interfaces under one competitive package. The allocation of those interfaces will shape bidder appetite and execution exposure.
8Environmental compliance takes centre stage as a major EPC package advances
A major environmental upgrade package has entered a crucial phase after fresh revisions altered the procurement timeline without changing the project's technical ambition. The contract combines engineering, construction and long-term performance responsibility into a single execution model that raises the competitive threshold for bidders. The real significance, however, lies in how the procurement strategy could influence both participation and execution quality.
8A critical thermal EPC package quietly raises the bar for execution and competition
A technically important package is doing far more than inviting bids for an auxiliary system. The procurement structure reveals a deliberate shift in how execution responsibility, commercial discipline and bidder capability are being balanced before work even begins. The implications extend well beyond this individual contract and become evident only after examining the tender in detail.
8The engineering design quietly raises the technical benchmark for future transmission projects
The project's configuration reflects decisions that extend beyond routine EPC execution. Equipment choices indicate a longer-term network strategy rather than a conventional asset replacement. Their significance only becomes evident when viewed collectively.
8A Rs 142 crore EPC contest has stayed open 110 days longer, but its hardest conditions remain untouched
A major turnkey procurement has undergone four deadline extensions without any corresponding easing of its commercial or technical obligations. The extra preparation window sits alongside fixed pricing, heavy security commitments and a long post-handover responsibility. What the unchanged clauses reveal about the intended bidder pool is more significant than the revised calendar itself. Details
A large procurement has quietly become a test of manufacturing capability rather than simply price competitiveness. Technical scrutiny significantly narrowed the competitive field before commercial bids assumed importance. The outcome signals broader changes in how future utility procurements may increasingly evaluate suppliers
8Rs 289 crore reactor award carries a far longer risk tail than the contract value suggests
This latest reactor package carries implications that extend well beyond equipment procurement. The technical framework, contractual structure and award outcome collectively indicate a procurement strategy that could influence future transmission packages. The deeper significance becomes evident only after examining the tender clause by clause.
8A familiar GIS package introduces an unfamiliar procurement structure
A new procurement structure quietly changes where project risk begins and who carries it first. The commercial framework appears straightforward, but several clauses reshape competitive positioning well before the owner awards the contract. The biggest implications emerge only after the document is read clause by clause.
81000 MW renewable procurement signals another important step in India's evolving RTC power market
A utility-scale renewable procurement has returned to the spotlight after a series of developments during the bidding process. The headline capacity is only one part of what makes this opportunity strategically significant for developers and investors alike. The real story emerges after examining how the procurement framework has gradually evolved.
8Tender extends timeline for Rs solar park infrastructure tender, giving bidders more room before the next procurement milestone
A revised schedule has quietly reshaped the bidding calendar for one of Rajasthan's key renewable infrastructure packages. The change appears procedural, but its impact could extend beyond just the submission date. The implications for competition and bid strategy become clearer inside the document.
8A 70-day deadline shift redraws the competitive field for the Chitradurga project
The tender covers more than isolated equipment procurement. Its balance-of-system structure brings several engineering and construction interfaces under one competitive package. The allocation of those interfaces will shape bidder appetite and execution exposure.
8Environmental compliance takes centre stage as a major EPC package advances
A major environmental upgrade package has entered a crucial phase after fresh revisions altered the procurement timeline without changing the project's technical ambition. The contract combines engineering, construction and long-term performance responsibility into a single execution model that raises the competitive threshold for bidders. The real significance, however, lies in how the procurement strategy could influence both participation and execution quality.
8A critical thermal EPC package quietly raises the bar for execution and competition
A technically important package is doing far more than inviting bids for an auxiliary system. The procurement structure reveals a deliberate shift in how execution responsibility, commercial discipline and bidder capability are being balanced before work even begins. The implications extend well beyond this individual contract and become evident only after examining the tender in detail.
8The engineering design quietly raises the technical benchmark for future transmission projects
The project's configuration reflects decisions that extend beyond routine EPC execution. Equipment choices indicate a longer-term network strategy rather than a conventional asset replacement. Their significance only becomes evident when viewed collectively.
8A Rs 142 crore EPC contest has stayed open 110 days longer, but its hardest conditions remain untouched
A major turnkey procurement has undergone four deadline extensions without any corresponding easing of its commercial or technical obligations. The extra preparation window sits alongside fixed pricing, heavy security commitments and a long post-handover responsibility. What the unchanged clauses reveal about the intended bidder pool is more significant than the revised calendar itself. Details
CERC DOCKET
Jul 14:
8MPPMCL v OPTCL - order reserved on a long-running wheeling-charge refund
8Saimaa Solar v CTUIL - interim protection for 150 MW at Bikaner-III
8Avaada v CTUIL - anti-revocation relief sought
8Ayana v CTUIL - land-bank-BG to LOA conversion dispute
8EG Mega Urja v CTUIL - round-the-clock and non-solar-hour access
8NTPC Renewable v CTUIL - land-document extension for 900 MW at Mandsaur
8SJVN v ReNew - round-the-clock tariff adoption for 448 of 1,200 MW
8APNRL v HPPC - fuel-cost adjustment and late-payment surcharge
8Eight renewable developers seek SCSD extensions from NHPC and NTPC
8CREHTPL v SJVN - a further SCSD-extension plea
8Adani Renewable, ReNew and Anupavan v SECI - bid-nullity dispute adjourned
8NLCIL v Angul Sundargarh Transmission - LILO-line charges review admitted
8POWERGRID v AVVNL - transmission-tariff review
8WRLDC/CTUIL v MPSEZ Utilities - RLDC fees and transmission dues Details
8Saimaa Solar v CTUIL - interim protection for 150 MW at Bikaner-III
8Avaada v CTUIL - anti-revocation relief sought
8Ayana v CTUIL - land-bank-BG to LOA conversion dispute
8EG Mega Urja v CTUIL - round-the-clock and non-solar-hour access
8NTPC Renewable v CTUIL - land-document extension for 900 MW at Mandsaur
8SJVN v ReNew - round-the-clock tariff adoption for 448 of 1,200 MW
8APNRL v HPPC - fuel-cost adjustment and late-payment surcharge
8Eight renewable developers seek SCSD extensions from NHPC and NTPC
8CREHTPL v SJVN - a further SCSD-extension plea
8Adani Renewable, ReNew and Anupavan v SECI - bid-nullity dispute adjourned
8NLCIL v Angul Sundargarh Transmission - LILO-line charges review admitted
8POWERGRID v AVVNL - transmission-tariff review
8WRLDC/CTUIL v MPSEZ Utilities - RLDC fees and transmission dues Details
STATE REGULATORY ROUNDUP
Jul 14:
8West Bengal orders all utilities into the Ninth Control Period MYT filing
8Kerala regulator dismisses two KSEBL-linked matters on maintainability
8Delhi relaxes security deposits for Kanwar-season temporary connections
8Gujarat’s PGVCL reports an 11.17% Q4 distribution loss
8Haryana ash-utilisation returns and an Uttarakhand disclosure refresh Details
8Kerala regulator dismisses two KSEBL-linked matters on maintainability
8Delhi relaxes security deposits for Kanwar-season temporary connections
8Gujarat’s PGVCL reports an 11.17% Q4 distribution loss
8Haryana ash-utilisation returns and an Uttarakhand disclosure refresh Details
GREEN MARKETS & RE PROGRAMME WATCH
Jul 14:
8GUVNL and TANGEDCO launch large firm-power reverse auctions on HPX
8Fraunhofer benchmark puts world solar near 2,974 GW with module prices around US$0.10/Wp
8Mangalam Worldwide commissions a 10.4 MW captive solar plant
8Pace Digitek’s Lineage Power signs a third BESS supply framework
8International context: UK puts public support behind long-duration storage Details
8Fraunhofer benchmark puts world solar near 2,974 GW with module prices around US$0.10/Wp
8Mangalam Worldwide commissions a 10.4 MW captive solar plant
8Pace Digitek’s Lineage Power signs a third BESS supply framework
8International context: UK puts public support behind long-duration storage Details
CORPORATE WIRE
Jul 14:
8Siemens reports an 18-month transition year: Rs 33,868 crore of orders and a 900% dividend
8Transformers & Rectifiers India affirmed IND A+/A1+ with a larger rated book; results due 20 July
8SJVN Green Energy - CARE reaffirms AA and enlarges the facility to Rs 14,844.71 crore
8SJVN Ltd - AA+/A1+ reaffirmed on a strong parent credit
8Supreme Power Equipment wins a Rs 13.6 crore transformer order
8Sarda Energy to weigh a fund-raise alongside Q1 results
8Jaiprakash Power Ventures board meets 20 July for Q1 results
8Sterling and Wilson Renewable holds a Q1 earnings call on 17 July
8Torrent Power sets its 22nd AGM for 3 August
8Adani Enterprises converts partly paid rights shares to fully paid
8Viaton Energy notched down to CARE B- as the issuer keeps its agency in the dark
8IL&FS Wind Energy’s Rs 200 crore debentures stay in default - a shell the wind farms already left
8SJVN Arun-3’s AA+ is a borrowed rating - strip the guarantee and it is BBB+, on a project slipping to 2028 Details
8Transformers & Rectifiers India affirmed IND A+/A1+ with a larger rated book; results due 20 July
8SJVN Green Energy - CARE reaffirms AA and enlarges the facility to Rs 14,844.71 crore
8SJVN Ltd - AA+/A1+ reaffirmed on a strong parent credit
8Supreme Power Equipment wins a Rs 13.6 crore transformer order
8Sarda Energy to weigh a fund-raise alongside Q1 results
8Jaiprakash Power Ventures board meets 20 July for Q1 results
8Sterling and Wilson Renewable holds a Q1 earnings call on 17 July
8Torrent Power sets its 22nd AGM for 3 August
8Adani Enterprises converts partly paid rights shares to fully paid
8Viaton Energy notched down to CARE B- as the issuer keeps its agency in the dark
8IL&FS Wind Energy’s Rs 200 crore debentures stay in default - a shell the wind farms already left
8SJVN Arun-3’s AA+ is a borrowed rating - strip the guarantee and it is BBB+, on a project slipping to 2028 Details
COMMITTEES, PEOPLE & SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
Jul 14:
8Southern RPC advances pre-islanding load-shedding, grid-forming BESS and black-start ahead of its 58th meeting
8Northern RPC’s 245th coordination meeting takes up islanding, black-start trials and the Kanpur busbar upgrade
8Grid-India’s minimum-turndown support settlements: Rs 51 lakh in April, Rs 24 lakh in May
8Western RPC coordination: Khavda dynamic compensation, IEGC self-audits and the annual overhaul plan
8People: Punjab reshuffles senior engineers; Himachal invites Ombudsman applications; a coal retention
8A northern RE sub-committee meeting and two southern operational milestones Details
8Northern RPC’s 245th coordination meeting takes up islanding, black-start trials and the Kanpur busbar upgrade
8Grid-India’s minimum-turndown support settlements: Rs 51 lakh in April, Rs 24 lakh in May
8Western RPC coordination: Khavda dynamic compensation, IEGC self-audits and the annual overhaul plan
8People: Punjab reshuffles senior engineers; Himachal invites Ombudsman applications; a coal retention
8A northern RE sub-committee meeting and two southern operational milestones Details
Power Finance Corporation floats the Satara Power Transmission SPV to evacuate up to 4,500 MW of pumped storage in the Western Region
Jul 14:
8PFC has incorporated a wholly owned special-purpose vehicle, Satara Power Transmission Ltd, to build a Western-Region transmission scheme sized to serve pumped-storage potential of up to 4,500 MW near Satara in Maharashtra. As the bid-process coordinator, PFC (through PFC Consulting) will develop the SPV and transfer it to the winning bidder under the tariff-based competitive-bidding route.
Details
A wave of connectivity-revocation challenges hits the CERC as CTUIL tightens on financial closure - developers race to protect grid access
Jul 14:
8The Central Transmission Utility’s harder line on connectivity milestones has produced a cluster of developer challenges now live at the CERC, heard together on 9 July. In 319/MP/2026 Saimaa Solar contested CTUIL’s 10 June revocation of its connectivity for missing financial closure and won interim protection - the Commission directed that 150 MW at the Bikaner-III pooling station not be re-allocated while CTUIL verifies the financial-closure documents on affidavit, with the matter listed for 25 August. It does not stand alone: Avaada (186/MP/2026) is seeking anti-revocation relief, Ayana (109/MP/2026) is contesting a land-bank-BG to LOA conversion, and EG Mega Urja (317/MP/2026) is fighting over round-the-clock/non-solar-hour access.
Details
NHPC seeks an interim tariff for the 2,000 MW Subansiri Lower project while SJVN’s 900 MW Arun-3 slips to 2028 - the Himalayan hydro pipeline is straining at both ends
Jul 14:
8Two of the country’s largest under-construction hydro stations moved in opposite-but-related ways in today’s file. At the CERC, NHPC’s petition 258/GT/2026 against UPPCL seeks a generation tariff - with an interim tariff pressed - for the 2,000 MW Subansiri Lower project, with revised tariff forms due by 27 July and the matter listed for 27 August. Separately, CARE’s rating rationale on SJVN Arun-3 records the 900 MW Nepal project’s scheduled commissioning slipping from December 2025 to March 2028 on geological grounds, with a cost overrun flagged.
Details
The grid curtailed wind and solar and pushed generators down even as renewable output climbed - an oversupply signature, not a shortage
Jul 14:
8The system spent 13 July leaning against surplus, not scarcity. Frequency sat above the 50.05 Hz ceiling for 10.57% of the day and below 49.90 Hz for only 5.32%; net ancillary despatch was 56,691 MWh downward against 11,781 MWh up; and the day-ahead price collapsed to around Rs 0.50 a unit in the midday solar hours before the evening peak. On the renewable side, the REMC report for 12 July shows variable renewable output actually rising - 1,349 MU nationally, wind climbing through the week - yet with heavy curtailment attributed to “high frequency and heavy underdrawal.”
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A single CT failure at Fatehgarh-III cascades through the 400/220 kV network, tripping about a dozen renewable-evacuation feeders in Rajasthan
Jul 14:
8At around 17:44 on 13 July an R-phase current-transformer failure at the POWERGRID Fatehgarh-III substation in Rajasthan set off a cascade recorded in the Northern Region outage register: a 765/400 kV, 1,500 MVA interconnecting transformer, seven 400/220 kV 500 MVA ICTs, four 220 kV buses and roughly twelve renewable-evacuation feeders tripped together. Fatehgarh is a backbone node for evacuating desert wind and solar, so the event reads as an equipment-protection failure with direct renewable-dispatch consequences.
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India’s generation ran 4.7% below programme on 11 July - the cause was broken units, not short coal
Jul 14:
8All-India generation excluding renewables came in at 4,309.74 MU on 11 July against a programme of 4,521.78 MU, a shortfall of 4.7%. Coal stocks were not the constraint: 148 monitored plants held about 36.2 million tonnes, roughly 17 days of cover, with not one plant flagged critical.
Details
NHPC restarts two Teesta-V units in Sikkim as the 1,200 MW Teesta-III below it stays stranded and fights for change-in-law relief
Jul 14:
8NHPC told the exchanges that Units 1 and 2 of its 510 MW Teesta-V station - 170 MW each, 340 MW together - resumed commercial generation at 17:00 on 13 July after grid synchronisation, with the third unit to follow. Twenty kilometres downstream, the 1,200 MW Teesta-III remains out nearly two years after the October 2023 glacial-lake-outburst flood destroyed its dam, and its owner Sikkim Urja is still before the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission seeking to pass through Sikkim’s ecosystem water charge as change-in-law.
Details
IEX day-ahead price for 14 July delivery jumps to Rs 6.33 a unit as buy bids overtake sell offers
Jul 14:
8The average day-ahead clearing price on the Indian Energy Exchange for delivery on 14 July settled at Rs 6,328.93 per MWh - Rs 6.33 a unit - up from Rs 2.49 a unit as recently as 12 July. For the first time in the week, purchase bids (523,267 MWh) exceeded sell bids (462,625 MWh), the signature of a supply-tight session rather than a demand collapse.
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APERC opens the FY2025-26 fuel-cost true-up for Andhra Pradesh’s three DISCOMs, with objections due by 3 August
Jul 14:
8The Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission has admitted fuel-and-power-purchase-cost adjustment (FPPCA) true-up petitions for FY2025-26 from all three state distribution companies - APSPDCL (OP 32/2026), APCPDCL (OP 33/2026) and APEPDCL (OP 34/2026) - and set a public-objection window closing 3 August, with DISCOM replies due by 13 August. The petitions reconcile the actual fuel and power-purchase cost the utilities incurred against what tariff already recovered.
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Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update
Jul 14:
8Daily Excel covering new tenders and all published updates including corrigendum, amendment, addendum, clarification and status revisions, along with technical and financial bid opening, evaluation completion and final award actions including AOC and LOA issuance.
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Jul 14:
For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Tender for supply of various sizes diaphragm valves Details
8Tender for supply of 11 kV vertical GOS AB switch with PT insulator Details
8Tender for supply of 11 kV transfromer structure material Details
8Tender for supply of GI stem bolt and nut Details
8Tender for procurement of 8 Nos of ethernet switches with necessary accessories for various Details
8Tender for supply of consumable material Details
8Tender for procurement of hydraulic hoses for CHP hydraulic system Details
8Tender for supply of sulphuric acid Details
8Tender for estimate for 33 kV feeder Details
8Tender for supply of 03 Nos. SPS for ICTs at 400kV substations Details
8Tender for procurement of various LED lights Details
8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with RMS of 46 KWp grid connected solar PV power plant Details
8Tender for work of power/control instrument cable tray cleaning, cable tracing & redressing and miscellaneous works Details
8Tender for various maintenance works of wagon tippler Details
8Tender for work of ash lifting of ESP Details
8Tender for civil other other miscellaneous works Details
8Tender for work of carry out corrosive test of various MS structure of coal handling plant Details
8Tender for procurement of 400kV current transformer Details
8Tender for repairing and maintenance contract of rolling shutters Details
8Tender for supply of MS rods along with buts bolts and lugs for tower earthing Details
8Tender for purchase of HDPE PVC pipe 140mm Details
8Tender for purchase of three phase 200kVA (aluminium wound) level 1/star-1 rated CRGO/amorphous core distribution transformers Details
8Tender for supply of ceralined P.F. bends and orifice for coal mill Details
8Tender for supply of cooler for ID fan motor Details
8Tender for procurement of collecting electrode of ESP Details
8Tender for providing protection measures against shooting and falling of stones Details
8Tender for providing comprehensive slope stabilization and protection works on the upstream slope Details
8Tender for supply of materials Details
8Tender for supply of non-asbestos gaskets Details
8Tender for supply of pneumatic drain isolating valve Details
8Tender for SCADA integration of 13 No 33 kV GIS bays Details
8Design, manufacturing, testing and supply of 220kV emergency restoration system tower Details
8Tender for supply of LT 3phase channel cross arm. Details
8Tender for installing new 200MVA, 220/110kV 3 ph Trfr station in existing spare bay available Details
8Design, engineering, manufacturing factory test inspection supply supervision of installation and commissioning of 11kV RMUs Details
8Tender for rerouting and standisation of 11kV line Details
8Tender for rerouting of 11kV line Details
8Tender for work of extension of switch house at 66 kV sub station Details
8Tender for construction of 33 kV substation Details
8Tender for erection of 0.15 Kms S/C 33 kV line Details
8Tender for supply of pneumatic knife gate valves Details
8Tender for retrofitting/replacement work of vertical waterwall, repair and checking work of stirrup with buckstays, wall and tie beam/bar Details
8Tender for supply of PIP pipe for fly ash conveying system of ESP Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for replacement of damaged disc insulators string of 132kV transmission line Details
8Tender for AMC for work of overhauling/servicing with spares of 33kV circuit breakers of various make at various substations Details
8Tender for supply of micro pulveriser, jaw type coal sampler and coal sampler crusher Details
8Tender for work of shifting the electrical assets Details
8Tender for supply of various consumables, measuring instruments, Tools tackles, CPVC and fasteners items Details
8Tender for supply of CPVC pipe & fittings Details
8Tender for supply of fire water pump-3 with motor Details
8Tender for work related to reconstruction of damaged T/F fencing Details
8Tender for replacement of existing 11 kV ACSR conductor with 11 kV Dog conductor Details
8Tender for construction work of double circuit 11 kV line Details
8Tender for work of MRI and bill distribution of KCC, non KCC, solar Details
8Tender for work of installing insulated covered conductor in place of ACSR weasel conductor Details
8Tender for work of installing insulated covered conductor Details
8Tender for work of MRI and bill distribution of KCC, non KCC, solar, STW/PTW consumers Details
8Tender for work of installing insulated covered conductor in place of ACSR wessel conductor in 11 kV power line Details
8Tender for biennial service contract of job related to chemical solution preparation and chemical handling Details
8Tender for procurement of different spares of bowl mill Details
8Tender for procurement of 200 MT hydrochloric acid and 50 MT caustic soda flakes Details
8Tender for procurement of steel materials and fasteners for pressure and non-pressure parts Details
8Tender for service contract for repairing of air/flue gas duct, pipe line Details
8Tender for procurement of grinding rollers and bull ring segments for coal mill Details
8Tender for procurement of straight pipe for repairing of coal carrying pipe Details
8Tender for refurbishment of under carriage set Details
8Tender for coal mill performance test of unit Details
8Tender for service contract for overhauling of mechanical system for ash handling plant Details
8Tender for various civil jobs Details
8Tender for augmentation of substation by providing additional 1x50MVA, 132/33kV TF Details
8Tender for work of augmentation of substation by addition of 25MVA, 132/33kV power transformer along Details
8Tender for work of providing and fixing of additional 33kV PT set along Details
8Tender for annual contract for the work of loading, unloading, winching and transportation of various EHV power transformers/ICT’s Details
8Tender for work of annual rate contract for attending on site minor repairs/ maintenance work/ OLTC overhauling of EHV class power transformers/ ICTs at various Details
8Tender for supply of equipments/ material, erection, testing and commissioning for the work augmentation by providing additional 1 x 25MVA, 132- 110/33 kV T/F Details
8Tender for supply, erection and commissioning of new street light poles with cable laying Details
8Tender for misc. civil works Details
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 66kV D/C line on D/C panther tower Details
8Tender for repair, maintenance, and installation of plant/ systems/equipments Details
8Tender for supply of various items Details
8Tender for supply of knife gate valve for ash handling plant Details
8Tender for work of misc pressure part related activity of boiler stage Details
8Tender for supply of various ratings LT motor Details
8Design, supply erection commissioning and testing of water distribution system Details
8Tender for fabrication and erection of wind barrier in LHP stack yard. Details
8Tender for work of collection of fly ash, bed ash Details
8Tender for procurement of various type of control transformers Details
8Tender for supply & application of high insulation floor coating at switchgear Details
8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for transportation of material including loading, unloading and stacking of any store material Details
8Tender for turnkey based contract for conversion of existing 11kV LT line network Details
8Tender for purchase of 4CX185mm2 LT PVC cable Details
8Tender for supply of special 414 TXM coupling set TXM-301865 & its gasket for pulverized fuel pipes of boiler Details
8Tender for supply of tool kit and service kit for single point automatic lubrication system Details
8Tender for turnkey based contract for conversion of existing overhead LT line network Details
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For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
8FGD-exempted coal power plants within 300 km of NCR behind 81 pc SO2 emissions in this sector: Report Details
8Most sulphur dioxide around Delhi comes from coal plants exempted from pollution rules: CREA Details
8Avaada activates first phase of 6 GW TOPCon solar cell plant Details
8CERC tells clean energy firms to lose grid connection or generate power Details
8Power sector: Equirus starts coverage on JSW Energy, Torrent; NTPC top pick Details
8Tamil Nadu Signs Rs 15,037 Crore Deal with Vikram Solar to Expand Battery Energy Storage Manufacturing Details
8Why tapped solar electricity is going down the drain in India Details
8THDCIL Celebrates 39th Foundation Day, Reaffirms Commitment to India’s Clean Energy Future Details
8Most sulphur dioxide around Delhi comes from coal plants exempted from pollution rules: CREA Details
8Aditya Birla Group acquires Shell’s India renewable arm Sprng for $1.8 bn Details
8India’s Power Transmission Sector to See Rs 5-6 Trillion Capex by FY32 Amid Renewable Energy Expansion: ICRA Details
8GUVNL Awards 250 MW Phase XI Wind Projects To NLC India Renewables, Juniper Green, Powerica & Cu-Built At INR3.51/kWh Details
8Why India's growing solar surplus is going unused despite record demand Details
8FGD-Exempted Coal Power Plants Within 300 Km of NCR Behind 81 pc SO2 Emissions in This Sector: Report Details
8Campaign against ethanol is sponsored; my focus is on national interest: Nitin Gadkari Details
8Why India’s C&I sector is slow to embrace battery storage Details
8NHPC’s Phukot Karnali Project, Cross-Border Power Trade to Dominate Nepal-India Energy Talks Details
8Honda India Power Products recommends Rs 23 dividend, schedules AGM Details
8TERI urges national push for solar thermal energy to decarbonise India’s industrial sector Details
8How Renewable Energy Companies Are Redefining Environmental Sustainability in India Details
8NTPC Board Approves Rs 20,456.70 Crore Investment for 1,600 MW Lara Stage-III Thermal Power Project Details
8Equirus Securities Initiates Coverage on JSW Energy, Torrent Power Details
8Rajasthan prioritises financial strength of DISCOMs, pushes renewable energy for sustainable power sector Details
8Subsidy support masks discom stress; reforms key: S&P Details
8Rolls-Royce mtu Generators Power New INS Mahendragiri Frigate Details
8NHPC resumes commercial operation of two units at Teesta-V Power Station Details
8Power Stock in Focus After Receiving Rs 443 Crore BESS and PCS Order from Bondada Renewable Energy Details
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8Tender for supply of various sizes diaphragm valves Details
8Tender for supply of 11 kV vertical GOS AB switch with PT insulator Details
8Tender for supply of 11 kV transfromer structure material Details
8Tender for supply of GI stem bolt and nut Details
8Tender for procurement of 8 Nos of ethernet switches with necessary accessories for various Details
8Tender for supply of consumable material Details
8Tender for procurement of hydraulic hoses for CHP hydraulic system Details
8Tender for supply of sulphuric acid Details
8Tender for estimate for 33 kV feeder Details
8Tender for supply of 03 Nos. SPS for ICTs at 400kV substations Details
8Tender for procurement of various LED lights Details
8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with RMS of 46 KWp grid connected solar PV power plant Details
8Tender for work of power/control instrument cable tray cleaning, cable tracing & redressing and miscellaneous works Details
8Tender for various maintenance works of wagon tippler Details
8Tender for work of ash lifting of ESP Details
8Tender for civil other other miscellaneous works Details
8Tender for work of carry out corrosive test of various MS structure of coal handling plant Details
8Tender for procurement of 400kV current transformer Details
8Tender for repairing and maintenance contract of rolling shutters Details
8Tender for supply of MS rods along with buts bolts and lugs for tower earthing Details
8Tender for purchase of HDPE PVC pipe 140mm Details
8Tender for purchase of three phase 200kVA (aluminium wound) level 1/star-1 rated CRGO/amorphous core distribution transformers Details
8Tender for supply of ceralined P.F. bends and orifice for coal mill Details
8Tender for supply of cooler for ID fan motor Details
8Tender for procurement of collecting electrode of ESP Details
8Tender for providing protection measures against shooting and falling of stones Details
8Tender for providing comprehensive slope stabilization and protection works on the upstream slope Details
8Tender for supply of materials Details
8Tender for supply of non-asbestos gaskets Details
8Tender for supply of pneumatic drain isolating valve Details
8Tender for SCADA integration of 13 No 33 kV GIS bays Details
8Design, manufacturing, testing and supply of 220kV emergency restoration system tower Details
8Tender for supply of LT 3phase channel cross arm. Details
8Tender for installing new 200MVA, 220/110kV 3 ph Trfr station in existing spare bay available Details
8Design, engineering, manufacturing factory test inspection supply supervision of installation and commissioning of 11kV RMUs Details
8Tender for rerouting and standisation of 11kV line Details
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8Tender for work of extension of switch house at 66 kV sub station Details
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8Tender for retrofitting/replacement work of vertical waterwall, repair and checking work of stirrup with buckstays, wall and tie beam/bar Details
8Tender for supply of PIP pipe for fly ash conveying system of ESP Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
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8Design, supply erection commissioning and testing of water distribution system Details
8Tender for fabrication and erection of wind barrier in LHP stack yard. Details
8Tender for work of collection of fly ash, bed ash Details
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8Tender for turnkey based contract for conversion of existing 11kV LT line network Details
8Tender for purchase of 4CX185mm2 LT PVC cable Details
8Tender for supply of special 414 TXM coupling set TXM-301865 & its gasket for pulverized fuel pipes of boiler Details
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8FGD-exempted coal power plants within 300 km of NCR behind 81 pc SO2 emissions in this sector: Report Details
8Most sulphur dioxide around Delhi comes from coal plants exempted from pollution rules: CREA Details
8Avaada activates first phase of 6 GW TOPCon solar cell plant Details
8CERC tells clean energy firms to lose grid connection or generate power Details
8Power sector: Equirus starts coverage on JSW Energy, Torrent; NTPC top pick Details
8Tamil Nadu Signs Rs 15,037 Crore Deal with Vikram Solar to Expand Battery Energy Storage Manufacturing Details
8Why tapped solar electricity is going down the drain in India Details
8THDCIL Celebrates 39th Foundation Day, Reaffirms Commitment to India’s Clean Energy Future Details
8Most sulphur dioxide around Delhi comes from coal plants exempted from pollution rules: CREA Details
8Aditya Birla Group acquires Shell’s India renewable arm Sprng for $1.8 bn Details
8India’s Power Transmission Sector to See Rs 5-6 Trillion Capex by FY32 Amid Renewable Energy Expansion: ICRA Details
8GUVNL Awards 250 MW Phase XI Wind Projects To NLC India Renewables, Juniper Green, Powerica & Cu-Built At INR3.51/kWh Details
8Why India's growing solar surplus is going unused despite record demand Details
8FGD-Exempted Coal Power Plants Within 300 Km of NCR Behind 81 pc SO2 Emissions in This Sector: Report Details
8Campaign against ethanol is sponsored; my focus is on national interest: Nitin Gadkari Details
8Why India’s C&I sector is slow to embrace battery storage Details
8NHPC’s Phukot Karnali Project, Cross-Border Power Trade to Dominate Nepal-India Energy Talks Details
8Honda India Power Products recommends Rs 23 dividend, schedules AGM Details
8TERI urges national push for solar thermal energy to decarbonise India’s industrial sector Details
8How Renewable Energy Companies Are Redefining Environmental Sustainability in India Details
8NTPC Board Approves Rs 20,456.70 Crore Investment for 1,600 MW Lara Stage-III Thermal Power Project Details
8Equirus Securities Initiates Coverage on JSW Energy, Torrent Power Details
8Rajasthan prioritises financial strength of DISCOMs, pushes renewable energy for sustainable power sector Details
8Subsidy support masks discom stress; reforms key: S&P Details
8Rolls-Royce mtu Generators Power New INS Mahendragiri Frigate Details
8NHPC resumes commercial operation of two units at Teesta-V Power Station Details
8Power Stock in Focus After Receiving Rs 443 Crore BESS and PCS Order from Bondada Renewable Energy Details
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Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update
Jul 13:
8Daily Excel covering new tenders and all published updates including corrigendum, amendment, addendum, clarification and status revisions, along with technical and financial bid opening, evaluation completion and final award actions including AOC and LOA issuance.
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CERC opens a 60-day window to free 22,054 MW of grid connectivity held by projects that never signed power-purchase agreements
Jul 13:
8In a suo-motu order dated 10 July, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission found that of 40,420 MW of connectivity granted through letters of award between January 2019 and May 2025, developers had signed purchase agreements for only 2,338 MW, leaving 22,054 MW blocked without a buyer. Rather than cancel the idle grants outright, the Commission has offered a voluntary menu of exit, substitution or surrender, and will auction released capacity from a Rs 3 lakh per MW base - a softer route adopted after developers argued that forced surrender would require a change in the regulations.
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Exchange power prices nearly tripled in a week even though the grid was not short of power
Jul 16:
8The real-time market price climbed from about Rs 2.75 a unit on 9 July to Rs 7.36 on 16 July, and the green day-ahead market hit its Rs 10 ceiling on 15 July. Yet the physical grid had power to spare - costly gas stayed switched off, wind and solar were backed down, and the system spent the day regulating downward.
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India opens registration for its first coal exchanges, starting a shift to market-traded coal
Jul 16:
8The Ministry of Coal opened the online registration portal for coal exchanges on 15 July, backed by the 2025 mining-law amendment and the new Coal Exchange Rules. It is the first step toward buying and selling coal on a market with price discovery and settlement, instead of only through allocations and long-term contracts.
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Adani Power ties up a 25-year deal to sell 1,600 MW to Maharashtra, coal already secured
Jul 16:
8Adani Power has signed a 25-year agreement to supply 1,600 MW to Maharashtra's MSEDCL from a new 2×800 MW ultra-supercritical plant, with coal allotted under the government's SHAKTI policy. It locks in a quarter-century of assured revenue and confirms the group's next big thermal build.
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Delhi's fuel surcharge goes automatic - and the first month under it blows past the old 10% cap
Jul 16:
8Delhi's regulator has moved the power-purchase cost adjustment from case-by-case approval to an automatic formula, and disposed of the discoms' pending quarterly petitions. In the first month under it, May's surcharge worked out well above the old 10% ceiling - 25% at BSES Rajdhani before the commission capped recovery at about 18%.
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In the middle of the monsoon, Telangana's big Krishna reservoirs are almost empty
Jul 16:
8Telangana's usable Krishna-basin storage is down about 92% from a year ago - Srisailam holds roughly 10 TMC against 184 last year. With this little water this deep into the monsoon, the state is leaning on thermal and the exchange to keep the lights on.
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A May collapse at Khavda wiped out nearly 9,000 MW in seconds - and most wind farms there failed the rules meant to stop it
Jul 16:
8A disturbance at the Khavda renewable complex on 13 May tripped 17 high-voltage lines and knocked out about 8,963 MW of renewable generation almost instantly, dragging the national frequency down to 49.39 Hz. A committee review now finds most wind plants there did not provide the fast frequency response the grid code requires.
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The eastern grid operator cut tie-lines by hand in June - and its automatic defences still aren't ready
Jul 16:
8When four eastern states overdrew heavily on 26 June and ignored repeated warnings, the region's operator opened interconnecting tie-lines as a last resort. The same committee papers show none of the East's five islanding and black-start schemes is yet operational.
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India's non-fossil capacity crosses 54% - but June's new plants show how one-sided the build has become
Jul 16:
8Non-fossil sources now make up 54.18% of India's installed power capacity, 297,369 MW of 548,858 MW at end-June. Yet of the 6,504 MW added in June, all but 760 MW was renewable - the thermal fleet has almost stopped growing, even as it still carries the evening peak.
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Macquarie is out of the Vibrant Energy captive-solar platform; Inox's parent has taken it over and repaid the lenders
Jul 16:
8ICRA withdrew its ratings on four Vibrant Energy captive-renewable companies on 15 July, all after a March change of control. Macquarie's roughly 93% stake has passed to the INOXGFL group, and the banks have been paid off.
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Gujarat's GIPCL lays out a Rs 6,000-crore lignite plan and hints at an equity raise, while turning idle gas units into batteries
Jul 16:
8On its Q4 call, GIPCL guided to Rs 6,000 crore of capex for a new 750 MW lignite plant, said blended EBITDA should reach Rs 950–1,000 crore as its Khavda solar ramps up, and flagged a possible equity raise. It is also repurposing gas units that have sat idle for six years into battery storage.
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Power Markets Daily
Jul 16:
8Exchange power prices nearly tripled in a week without a real shortage
The real-time price reached about Rs 7.36 a unit for 16 July, up from Rs 2.75 on 9 July, with the day-ahead near Rs 6.53 for 15 July. The point of the lead is that the grid had power to spare while the exchange tightened; the mechanism sits there.
8The green day-ahead market hit its Rs 10 ceiling - clean power was the tightest of all
On 15 July the green day-ahead segment cleared at its Rs 10-a-unit cap, buyers bidding for about 197,000 MWh against only 37,000 MWh offered. That imbalance is the real signal: when the system tightens in the evening it is firm and green capacity that runs short, not the day-time solar that floods the market at noon.
8PXIL opens a high-price window aimed at imported-fuel and battery sellers
Its new AnydaySSC product (Circular 483, effective 15 July) is a single-side reverse auction open only to imported-coal, imported-gas and battery sellers. It is a small structural move with a clear purpose - give costly-but-flexible capacity a place to sell when the system needs it, the same logic as the high-price day-ahead market.
8Andhra's discom is buying peak power on the exchange right through August
APCPDCL floated five reverse auctions on the Hindustan Power Exchange for late July and August - about 400 MW round-the-clock plus separate evening-peak blocks. Coming after UP and West Bengal did the same last edition, it says southern demand is running ahead of supply after dark, and discoms would rather lock in firm blocks now than chase the spot price later.
8SECI has a big, cheap block of renewables on offer - but firming it costs three times as much
SECI's sheet lists about 8,276 MW of solar and hybrid capacity open to buying utilities from Rs 2.42 a unit, while assured evening-peak renewable power clears near Rs 8. The gap is the whole story of the transition in one line: day-time green energy is cheap and plentiful; green power you can count on after sunset still costs three times more. Details
The real-time price reached about Rs 7.36 a unit for 16 July, up from Rs 2.75 on 9 July, with the day-ahead near Rs 6.53 for 15 July. The point of the lead is that the grid had power to spare while the exchange tightened; the mechanism sits there.
8The green day-ahead market hit its Rs 10 ceiling - clean power was the tightest of all
On 15 July the green day-ahead segment cleared at its Rs 10-a-unit cap, buyers bidding for about 197,000 MWh against only 37,000 MWh offered. That imbalance is the real signal: when the system tightens in the evening it is firm and green capacity that runs short, not the day-time solar that floods the market at noon.
8PXIL opens a high-price window aimed at imported-fuel and battery sellers
Its new AnydaySSC product (Circular 483, effective 15 July) is a single-side reverse auction open only to imported-coal, imported-gas and battery sellers. It is a small structural move with a clear purpose - give costly-but-flexible capacity a place to sell when the system needs it, the same logic as the high-price day-ahead market.
8Andhra's discom is buying peak power on the exchange right through August
APCPDCL floated five reverse auctions on the Hindustan Power Exchange for late July and August - about 400 MW round-the-clock plus separate evening-peak blocks. Coming after UP and West Bengal did the same last edition, it says southern demand is running ahead of supply after dark, and discoms would rather lock in firm blocks now than chase the spot price later.
8SECI has a big, cheap block of renewables on offer - but firming it costs three times as much
SECI's sheet lists about 8,276 MW of solar and hybrid capacity open to buying utilities from Rs 2.42 a unit, while assured evening-peak renewable power clears near Rs 8. The gap is the whole story of the transition in one line: day-time green energy is cheap and plentiful; green power you can count on after sunset still costs three times more. Details
Grid Operations Daily
Jul 16:
8Summer-scale demand near 266 GW, met with almost no shortfall
Demand held near 266 GW on 14 and 15 July, high for mid-monsoon, yet the energy shortfall was just 0.19%. The grid took a peak-season load in the rains in its stride; the strain was on price, not supply.
8A clean grid nationally, with one stubborn corner in the North-East
Frequency stayed in band and every monitored 400/765 kV substation and inter-regional corridor showed zero violation on 15 July. The exception was small but recurring: the Tripura import corridor ran over its limit for about 18 hours on 14 July. It does not threaten the national grid, but it does mean Tripura keeps leaning on a link that has no headroom left.
8On a record-demand day the grid spent more time holding plants back than calling them up
Down-regulation ran to about 42,700 MWh against 20,300 MWh of up-regulation on 15 July. For a peak day, that is the tell that the tightness showing up in the exchange price was commercial, not a physical shortage of energy. Details
Demand held near 266 GW on 14 and 15 July, high for mid-monsoon, yet the energy shortfall was just 0.19%. The grid took a peak-season load in the rains in its stride; the strain was on price, not supply.
8A clean grid nationally, with one stubborn corner in the North-East
Frequency stayed in band and every monitored 400/765 kV substation and inter-regional corridor showed zero violation on 15 July. The exception was small but recurring: the Tripura import corridor ran over its limit for about 18 hours on 14 July. It does not threaten the national grid, but it does mean Tripura keeps leaning on a link that has no headroom left.
8On a record-demand day the grid spent more time holding plants back than calling them up
Down-regulation ran to about 42,700 MWh against 20,300 MWh of up-regulation on 15 July. For a peak day, that is the tell that the tightness showing up in the exchange price was commercial, not a physical shortage of energy. Details
Outage & Maintenance Register
Jul 16:
8About 40,000 MW sat out across four regions at the seasonal peak
Combined outages on 15 July were roughly 16,990 MW in the West, 11,025 in the South, 6,122 in the North and 5,752 in the East - about 22,240 MW of it forced, the rest planned. The grid still met near-266 GW comfortably, so the margin held; but a fifth of the fleet being unavailable on a peak day is the figure to watch as demand climbs.
8The West carried a cluster of fresh trips
Both units of Adani's Raipur plant went out on 15 July (1,370 MW, on coal-mill and condenser faults), three Wanakbori units are down together (630 MW, Gujarat), and NTPC's Gadarwara-1 (800 MW) stays out on a boiler-tube leak. None alarming on its own; together they are why the West carried the largest outage load.
8Fresh trips in the East and South too
Odisha's OPGC-3 (660 MW) and Bengal's Sagardighi-5 (660 MW) tripped on 14 July; in the South, Vallur-1 (500 MW), SEIL-2 (660 MW) and Mettur-5 (600 MW) went out on boiler and cooling-water faults. Ordinary forced outages for fleets this size - logged so whoever tracks any of these plants finds it.
8Rajasthan's Kota station lost three units in a single day
Kota TPS units 1, 4 and 7 (about 515 MW combined) were all out on 15 July on vibration and boiler faults - and Unit 4 is a small story in itself: it returned that afternoon after ten days out, then tripped again the same night. It reads as a station running ageing units hard.
8UP's Ghatampur plant has both new units down on coal-feeding faults
Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (1,320 MW together, NUPPL) remain out since mid-to-late June on coal-feeding problems - not a fuel shortage but a materials-handling failure at a brand-new supercritical station, which is the more troubling kind.
8Telangana's Yadadri has both units out, one on coal
Yadadri-4 (800 MW) is out on a coal shortage and Yadadri-1 (800 MW) on overhaul: 1,600 MW of the state's newest coal capacity idle just as its hydro collapses.
8The most useful return of the day: Kudankulam's 1,000 MW nuclear unit is back
Kudankulam-1 returned on 15 July after about a week out on generator protection - a full gigawatt of firm, must-run capacity back on the bar as the evening peak runs high.
8A first repair from the 2023 Sikkim flood: Teesta HPS Unit 3 is back after nearly three years
NHPC's 170 MW Teesta HPS Unit 3, dark since the October 2023 glacial-lake-outburst disaster, resumed on 15 July - the first restoration milestone from that catastrophe, even as the 1,200 MW Teesta-III complex next door stays fully out. Small in megawatts, large in what it signals about the long road back.
8A Kakrapar nuclear unit is out on a seal fault, back in three days
KAPS-1 (220 MW) tripped on 15 July on a generator-seal problem, return expected 18 July - a short, specific fault, logged because nuclear trips remove firm capacity.
8Two whole hydro stations are dark, one in the South's water-short belt
Telangana's Srisailam left-bank station (six units, 900 MW) is entirely out on overhaul and a long forced outage, and Tamil Nadu's Kadamparai pumped-storage station (four units, 400 MW) is fully down on earth faults into 2026-27. With Srisailam's reservoir near empty (Story 5), the region is short of both the water and the machines.
8The long-dark fleet still on the books
Beyond Teesta-III (1,200 MW since 2023), a string of units has been out for years: Raichur-1 (210 MW, not due back until 2027), Tuticorin's two units (since a 2025 fire), MAPS-1 (220 MW nuclear, since 2018), and LANCO's LKPPL station (732 MW, under insolvency since 2016). None is new, but together they show how much built capacity the system carries as dead weight.
8India's oldest reactor is being retired
RAPS-A Unit 1 (100 MW, Rajasthan), out since 2004, is recorded as awaiting regulatory clearance for decommissioning. Tiny in megawatts, but it marks the formal end of India's first commercial reactor unit.
8On the wires: a three-week-old tower collapse and a fresh disturbance at a 765 kV hub
The 765 kV Akola–Koradi line has been out since a 26 June tower collapse - the longest-standing material transmission fault in the set - and on 15 July a wider disturbance hit the Wardha 765 kV station, taking out the Nizamabad–Wardha inter-regional line (still out) and briefly the Wardha–Raipur circuit; a Sipat ICT has been out about nine days. These are the backbone elements to track until restored.
8The maintenance calendar and the routine tail
Big units due back soon include Gadarwara-1, Ghatampur-2, Vallur-1 and Talcher ST-2 (16 July) and Yadadri-4 (20 July); nuclear returns run KAPS-1 (18 July), Kaiga-1 (September) and MAPS-1 (December). Below the line sit about 42 small units (~2,750 MW), overwhelmingly ageing gas-turbine peakers stranded on costly gas or expired PPAs, not grid events - recorded internally rather than as stories. Details
Combined outages on 15 July were roughly 16,990 MW in the West, 11,025 in the South, 6,122 in the North and 5,752 in the East - about 22,240 MW of it forced, the rest planned. The grid still met near-266 GW comfortably, so the margin held; but a fifth of the fleet being unavailable on a peak day is the figure to watch as demand climbs.
8The West carried a cluster of fresh trips
Both units of Adani's Raipur plant went out on 15 July (1,370 MW, on coal-mill and condenser faults), three Wanakbori units are down together (630 MW, Gujarat), and NTPC's Gadarwara-1 (800 MW) stays out on a boiler-tube leak. None alarming on its own; together they are why the West carried the largest outage load.
8Fresh trips in the East and South too
Odisha's OPGC-3 (660 MW) and Bengal's Sagardighi-5 (660 MW) tripped on 14 July; in the South, Vallur-1 (500 MW), SEIL-2 (660 MW) and Mettur-5 (600 MW) went out on boiler and cooling-water faults. Ordinary forced outages for fleets this size - logged so whoever tracks any of these plants finds it.
8Rajasthan's Kota station lost three units in a single day
Kota TPS units 1, 4 and 7 (about 515 MW combined) were all out on 15 July on vibration and boiler faults - and Unit 4 is a small story in itself: it returned that afternoon after ten days out, then tripped again the same night. It reads as a station running ageing units hard.
8UP's Ghatampur plant has both new units down on coal-feeding faults
Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (1,320 MW together, NUPPL) remain out since mid-to-late June on coal-feeding problems - not a fuel shortage but a materials-handling failure at a brand-new supercritical station, which is the more troubling kind.
8Telangana's Yadadri has both units out, one on coal
Yadadri-4 (800 MW) is out on a coal shortage and Yadadri-1 (800 MW) on overhaul: 1,600 MW of the state's newest coal capacity idle just as its hydro collapses.
8The most useful return of the day: Kudankulam's 1,000 MW nuclear unit is back
Kudankulam-1 returned on 15 July after about a week out on generator protection - a full gigawatt of firm, must-run capacity back on the bar as the evening peak runs high.
8A first repair from the 2023 Sikkim flood: Teesta HPS Unit 3 is back after nearly three years
NHPC's 170 MW Teesta HPS Unit 3, dark since the October 2023 glacial-lake-outburst disaster, resumed on 15 July - the first restoration milestone from that catastrophe, even as the 1,200 MW Teesta-III complex next door stays fully out. Small in megawatts, large in what it signals about the long road back.
8A Kakrapar nuclear unit is out on a seal fault, back in three days
KAPS-1 (220 MW) tripped on 15 July on a generator-seal problem, return expected 18 July - a short, specific fault, logged because nuclear trips remove firm capacity.
8Two whole hydro stations are dark, one in the South's water-short belt
Telangana's Srisailam left-bank station (six units, 900 MW) is entirely out on overhaul and a long forced outage, and Tamil Nadu's Kadamparai pumped-storage station (four units, 400 MW) is fully down on earth faults into 2026-27. With Srisailam's reservoir near empty (Story 5), the region is short of both the water and the machines.
8The long-dark fleet still on the books
Beyond Teesta-III (1,200 MW since 2023), a string of units has been out for years: Raichur-1 (210 MW, not due back until 2027), Tuticorin's two units (since a 2025 fire), MAPS-1 (220 MW nuclear, since 2018), and LANCO's LKPPL station (732 MW, under insolvency since 2016). None is new, but together they show how much built capacity the system carries as dead weight.
8India's oldest reactor is being retired
RAPS-A Unit 1 (100 MW, Rajasthan), out since 2004, is recorded as awaiting regulatory clearance for decommissioning. Tiny in megawatts, but it marks the formal end of India's first commercial reactor unit.
8On the wires: a three-week-old tower collapse and a fresh disturbance at a 765 kV hub
The 765 kV Akola–Koradi line has been out since a 26 June tower collapse - the longest-standing material transmission fault in the set - and on 15 July a wider disturbance hit the Wardha 765 kV station, taking out the Nizamabad–Wardha inter-regional line (still out) and briefly the Wardha–Raipur circuit; a Sipat ICT has been out about nine days. These are the backbone elements to track until restored.
8The maintenance calendar and the routine tail
Big units due back soon include Gadarwara-1, Ghatampur-2, Vallur-1 and Talcher ST-2 (16 July) and Yadadri-4 (20 July); nuclear returns run KAPS-1 (18 July), Kaiga-1 (September) and MAPS-1 (December). Below the line sit about 42 small units (~2,750 MW), overwhelmingly ageing gas-turbine peakers stranded on costly gas or expired PPAs, not grid events - recorded internally rather than as stories. Details
Fuel & Coal Ledger
Jul 16:
8India opens registration for its first coal exchanges
The structural fuel story of the day: coal moving, over time, toward market-based trading with discovered prices.
8Even at peak demand, the costly gas fleet stayed switched off
The merit-order schedule for 16 July left imported-gas stations - Gandhar, RGPPL, Dadri gas and others - at zero MW, and RGPPL's Ratnagiri units have been idle since 28 June on low system demand. On a record-demand day, expensive gas was simply not needed - which is why the scarcity the price implied was not there in the fuel stack.
8Delhi's fuel-cost pass-through jumps and turns automatic
May's surcharge broke the old 10% cap; the mechanism is now formula-driven. A direct consumer-bill consequence. Details
The structural fuel story of the day: coal moving, over time, toward market-based trading with discovered prices.
8Even at peak demand, the costly gas fleet stayed switched off
The merit-order schedule for 16 July left imported-gas stations - Gandhar, RGPPL, Dadri gas and others - at zero MW, and RGPPL's Ratnagiri units have been idle since 28 June on low system demand. On a record-demand day, expensive gas was simply not needed - which is why the scarcity the price implied was not there in the fuel stack.
8Delhi's fuel-cost pass-through jumps and turns automatic
May's surcharge broke the old 10% cap; the mechanism is now formula-driven. A direct consumer-bill consequence. Details
Hydro & Reservoir Ledger
Jul 16:
8Telangana's Krishna reservoirs are almost empty in the monsoon
Stored hydro energy down about 92% year-on-year, pushing the state onto thermal and the exchange.
8The wider reservoir picture is behind last year, north and south
CEA's bulletin has Srisailam, Bhakra, Tehri and Idukki all below their year-ago levels, with Hirakud the exception, running slightly ahead on heavy inflow. It is a slower, broader version of the Telangana story: the monsoon refill is lagging across several basins, which trims the cheap hydro the system can lean on later in the year.
8Odisha's hydro is steady, but building no cushion
OHPC generation held around 512 MW on 14 July with most reservoirs marginally below last year - no alarm, but no buffer forming either as the season wears on. Details
Stored hydro energy down about 92% year-on-year, pushing the state onto thermal and the exchange.
8The wider reservoir picture is behind last year, north and south
CEA's bulletin has Srisailam, Bhakra, Tehri and Idukki all below their year-ago levels, with Hirakud the exception, running slightly ahead on heavy inflow. It is a slower, broader version of the Telangana story: the monsoon refill is lagging across several basins, which trims the cheap hydro the system can lean on later in the year.
8Odisha's hydro is steady, but building no cushion
OHPC generation held around 512 MW on 14 July with most reservoirs marginally below last year - no alarm, but no buffer forming either as the season wears on. Details
CERC Docket
Jul 16:
8The day's biggest tariff order: Meja Thermal's fixed charges trued up near Rs 2,040 crore a year
The CERC finalised the 2019-24 tariff for the 1,320 MW Meja plant (NTPC–UPRVUNL), settling annual fixed charges at about Rs 2,040 crore for 2023-24, with an earlier year trued slightly down. For UP, Rajasthan and Punjab, who buy Meja's power, this fixes a large slice of what they pay for baseload for years - the most consequential number in the day's docket.
8The wires for a Karnataka renewable zone get their financing cleared
The CERC approved security-creation for a Rs 927 crore inter-state project - the Bijapur RE-zone evacuation line, a G R Infraprojects SPV - covering about Rs 714 crore of term loans. A small procedural order with a real signal: the transmission that renewable zones depend on is getting financed and built, which is usually the piece that lags the panels.
8A North-East transmission scheme is abandoned after the solar project behind it collapsed - leaving a compensation fight
The CERC had already cleared NERGS-I as eligible - a new 400 kV switching station at Bokajan, Assam, looping in the Misa–New Mariani line, awarded to Techno Electric under competitive bidding. It has now been closed as infructuous, not refused: the 750 MW Bokajan solar project it was built to evacuate fell apart after the Centre withdrew its ADB loan and Assam suspended the project, and APDCL surrendered the connectivity in June. Nothing was built, but real money was spent - the developer claims about Rs 28.5 crore already incurred (APDCL admits only about Rs 5 crore) plus Rs 40.8 crore of lost opportunity, and is fighting the central transmission utility over who pays, while APDCL separately wants a Rs 214 crore bank guarantee released. It is a clean illustration of the risk in building transmission ahead of generation: when the plant dies, the wires strand, and the bill has no obvious owner.
8A legacy transmission line's charges fall as it finishes depreciating
POWERGRID's Tanakpur system - the 1992-vintage 220 kV Tanakpur–Bareilly line - had its charges settled at about Rs 3.7 crore for 2024-25, dropping to about Rs 2.2 crore from 2025-26. The fall is not the debt running off (the asset carries no loan interest at all); it is because the line becomes fully depreciated at the end of 2024-25 and its allowed equity return is capped once it passes its useful life. A minor, uncontested order on an old asset shared by fifteen northern beneficiaries - logged for completeness, and to get the reason right.
8NTPC's 1,000 MW Rihand-III tariff is reserved for orders
The CERC has reserved its ruling on the Rihand Stage-III tariff (NTPC v UPPCL) - a large order to watch when it lands, given the plant's size and UP's exposure to it.
8NLCIL's Talabira coal-cost truing-up is put off to 24 September
The CERC deferred NLCIL's petitions on the input price of Talabira coal - which feeds its stations, with Tamil Nadu beneficiaries - directing more cost and O&M detail first. Procedural, but it decides a real slice of NLCIL's station tariffs.
8Two 1,000 MW NTPC/NLC blocks have their tariffs adjourned for more data
The CERC put off tariff proceedings for NLC Tamil Nadu Power (1,000 MW) and NTPC's Sipat Stage-II (1,000 MW), directing the generators to answer technical-validation queries before their 2019-24 true-ups and 2024-29 tariffs are settled. Routine housekeeping, but it decides a real slice of what Tamil Nadu and the central and western discoms pay for baseload - logged, with the subject corrected: these are tariff matters, not commissioning-date extensions.
8When does a 70 MW connection start paying? Welspun's case turns on a two-day notice
Welspun sought to push its connectivity start date back a year, blaming POWERGRID's delayed Bhachau substation augmentation in Kutch. The CERC has reserved orders, and the live question is narrow but real: whether the central transmission utility breached the mandatory three-month notice under the general network-access rules when it made the 70 MW renewable connection chargeable from 4 March with only two days' notice. The utility argues that joint-committee minutes served as notice; Welspun says liability cannot begin until the connection was actually usable. The rupees are modest, but the ruling will set how strictly that notice period is enforced for every delayed renewable connection.
8Sprng Vayu fights to keep 106 MW of wind connectivity revoked after missed milestones
The developer wants to use about 106 MW, in two tranches, that the CERC revoked on 25 February for missing connectivity milestones - leaning on the Commission's own March order that lets sufficiently-advanced developers retain revoked connectivity against compensation. That relief is itself under partial stay at APTEL, where other developers are challenging the compensation levy, so the outcome here feeds straight into the wider connectivity-revocation battle. The Commission has expedited the case, and even asked why revocation took nine months. Listed 20 July.
8Tata Power's Section 11 compensation claim against GUVNL rolls on
The dispute over how much Tata Power should be paid for supply it was directed to make in 2023 under Section 11 is adjourned to 20 August, with GUVNL's review still pending - a long-running imported-coal compensation fight.
8A narrow Haryana-discom review over about a Rs 6 crore difference
Haryana's discoms want a February order corrected, contesting a principal figure of Rs 711 crore against Rs 718 crore claimed - small in the round, but the kind of number a discom will still chase.
8A solar SCOD-extension plea stalls on a jurisdiction objection
TP Saurya's bid to extend the commissioning dates of its Neemuch solar units is held up by a jurisdiction objection from the MP power company - status quo for now.
8SECI chases Jharkhand's discom for unpaid solar dues
SECI has asked the CERC to make Jharkhand's JBVNL pay outstanding principal and late-payment surcharge for solar supplied under a 2018 agreement, and to sign a supplementary contract. The two sides read the tariff differently - SECI as the mapped project rate of about Rs 2.53 a unit, within the contract cap, the discom as a pooled rate across all its solar - and the Commission has first asked them to settle whether it or the state regulator has jurisdiction. Small in the round, but it is the familiar discom-payment problem that keeps renewable developers' receivables stuck. Listed 20 August. Details
The CERC finalised the 2019-24 tariff for the 1,320 MW Meja plant (NTPC–UPRVUNL), settling annual fixed charges at about Rs 2,040 crore for 2023-24, with an earlier year trued slightly down. For UP, Rajasthan and Punjab, who buy Meja's power, this fixes a large slice of what they pay for baseload for years - the most consequential number in the day's docket.
8The wires for a Karnataka renewable zone get their financing cleared
The CERC approved security-creation for a Rs 927 crore inter-state project - the Bijapur RE-zone evacuation line, a G R Infraprojects SPV - covering about Rs 714 crore of term loans. A small procedural order with a real signal: the transmission that renewable zones depend on is getting financed and built, which is usually the piece that lags the panels.
8A North-East transmission scheme is abandoned after the solar project behind it collapsed - leaving a compensation fight
The CERC had already cleared NERGS-I as eligible - a new 400 kV switching station at Bokajan, Assam, looping in the Misa–New Mariani line, awarded to Techno Electric under competitive bidding. It has now been closed as infructuous, not refused: the 750 MW Bokajan solar project it was built to evacuate fell apart after the Centre withdrew its ADB loan and Assam suspended the project, and APDCL surrendered the connectivity in June. Nothing was built, but real money was spent - the developer claims about Rs 28.5 crore already incurred (APDCL admits only about Rs 5 crore) plus Rs 40.8 crore of lost opportunity, and is fighting the central transmission utility over who pays, while APDCL separately wants a Rs 214 crore bank guarantee released. It is a clean illustration of the risk in building transmission ahead of generation: when the plant dies, the wires strand, and the bill has no obvious owner.
8A legacy transmission line's charges fall as it finishes depreciating
POWERGRID's Tanakpur system - the 1992-vintage 220 kV Tanakpur–Bareilly line - had its charges settled at about Rs 3.7 crore for 2024-25, dropping to about Rs 2.2 crore from 2025-26. The fall is not the debt running off (the asset carries no loan interest at all); it is because the line becomes fully depreciated at the end of 2024-25 and its allowed equity return is capped once it passes its useful life. A minor, uncontested order on an old asset shared by fifteen northern beneficiaries - logged for completeness, and to get the reason right.
8NTPC's 1,000 MW Rihand-III tariff is reserved for orders
The CERC has reserved its ruling on the Rihand Stage-III tariff (NTPC v UPPCL) - a large order to watch when it lands, given the plant's size and UP's exposure to it.
8NLCIL's Talabira coal-cost truing-up is put off to 24 September
The CERC deferred NLCIL's petitions on the input price of Talabira coal - which feeds its stations, with Tamil Nadu beneficiaries - directing more cost and O&M detail first. Procedural, but it decides a real slice of NLCIL's station tariffs.
8Two 1,000 MW NTPC/NLC blocks have their tariffs adjourned for more data
The CERC put off tariff proceedings for NLC Tamil Nadu Power (1,000 MW) and NTPC's Sipat Stage-II (1,000 MW), directing the generators to answer technical-validation queries before their 2019-24 true-ups and 2024-29 tariffs are settled. Routine housekeeping, but it decides a real slice of what Tamil Nadu and the central and western discoms pay for baseload - logged, with the subject corrected: these are tariff matters, not commissioning-date extensions.
8When does a 70 MW connection start paying? Welspun's case turns on a two-day notice
Welspun sought to push its connectivity start date back a year, blaming POWERGRID's delayed Bhachau substation augmentation in Kutch. The CERC has reserved orders, and the live question is narrow but real: whether the central transmission utility breached the mandatory three-month notice under the general network-access rules when it made the 70 MW renewable connection chargeable from 4 March with only two days' notice. The utility argues that joint-committee minutes served as notice; Welspun says liability cannot begin until the connection was actually usable. The rupees are modest, but the ruling will set how strictly that notice period is enforced for every delayed renewable connection.
8Sprng Vayu fights to keep 106 MW of wind connectivity revoked after missed milestones
The developer wants to use about 106 MW, in two tranches, that the CERC revoked on 25 February for missing connectivity milestones - leaning on the Commission's own March order that lets sufficiently-advanced developers retain revoked connectivity against compensation. That relief is itself under partial stay at APTEL, where other developers are challenging the compensation levy, so the outcome here feeds straight into the wider connectivity-revocation battle. The Commission has expedited the case, and even asked why revocation took nine months. Listed 20 July.
8Tata Power's Section 11 compensation claim against GUVNL rolls on
The dispute over how much Tata Power should be paid for supply it was directed to make in 2023 under Section 11 is adjourned to 20 August, with GUVNL's review still pending - a long-running imported-coal compensation fight.
8A narrow Haryana-discom review over about a Rs 6 crore difference
Haryana's discoms want a February order corrected, contesting a principal figure of Rs 711 crore against Rs 718 crore claimed - small in the round, but the kind of number a discom will still chase.
8A solar SCOD-extension plea stalls on a jurisdiction objection
TP Saurya's bid to extend the commissioning dates of its Neemuch solar units is held up by a jurisdiction objection from the MP power company - status quo for now.
8SECI chases Jharkhand's discom for unpaid solar dues
SECI has asked the CERC to make Jharkhand's JBVNL pay outstanding principal and late-payment surcharge for solar supplied under a 2018 agreement, and to sign a supplementary contract. The two sides read the tariff differently - SECI as the mapped project rate of about Rs 2.53 a unit, within the contract cap, the discom as a pooled rate across all its solar - and the Commission has first asked them to settle whether it or the state regulator has jurisdiction. Small in the round, but it is the familiar discom-payment problem that keeps renewable developers' receivables stuck. Listed 20 August. Details
State Regulatory Roundup
Jul 16:
8UP clears the way to penalise about 200 renewable-purchase defaulters
UPERC (suo-motu 71SM/2025) let UPNEDA issue one final notice, after which continuing defaulters face penal proceedings under Section 142 - only 273 of 472 obligated entities had filed their FY2025-26 data. It is the step that turns a toothless compliance drive into one that can actually fine; the consequence, not the count, is the story.
8A cold store may feed one unit from another's meter across a public road
UPERC (KBGB Agritech, 2303/2025) held that Supply Code Clause 4.46(a) carries its own exemption power, and let a multi-unit consumer run its own cable between two units split by a road, on revenue-neutral terms. Marked "not a precedent," it will be cited as one anyway - a clean, reasoned ruling other multi-unit consumers can lean on.
8Delhi's quarterly power-cost petitions are dropped as the mechanism turns automatic
The three discoms' PPAC petitions were disposed as infructuous under the amended regulations; the consumer-bill consequence is in the lead.
8Adani Green's Rs 4.79-a-unit Karnataka tariff survives a final challenge
APTEL dismissed the Karnataka discom CESC's review petitions against the 2024 verdict that gave Adani Green a force-majeure extension, a Rs 4.79/unit tariff and a refund of liquidated damages. With the Supreme Court already having turned CESC away, the discom is out of options and the tariff stands firm.
8A discom can't dock one contract's dues from another's bills, APTEL rules
In a dispute over a 2013 Karnataka PPA, APTEL held that a trader carries a generator's scheduling and deviation risk only if the contract says so, and struck down a discom's move to set off Rs 1.56 crore from unrelated invoices. The sums are small; the principle - no cross-contract set-off - is what traders and lenders will hold onto.
8APTEL may send an Andhra wind-tariff order back, calling the regulator's ruling 'perfunctory.'
Hearing Green Infra Wind Solutions' appeal, APTEL called APERC's 2021 order cryptic and without reasons, and has asked the parties to show cause on 5 August why it should not be remanded for a fresh, reasoned decision - a proposed remand, not yet ordered. The developer was contracted at Rs 4.84 a unit but has been paid an interim Rs 2.43. It keeps a long-running Andhra renewable-payment fight alive and signals the tribunal's impatience with the state regulator.
8Two Delhi waste-to-energy PPAs are a week from sign-off
DERC reserved orders on power-purchase agreements for the Narela-Bawana and Ghazipur municipal-waste plants, directing the parties to finalise within a week. Small in megawatts, but it advances Delhi's waste-to-energy offtake, which has crawled.
8The rest of the state docket
UPERC is weighing whether Jaypee's Noida township must convert to multi-point supply (next 20 August) and whether "EMI" on rescheduled genco dues must carry interest (Bajaj Energy/LPGCL, listed today); routine UPPCL hearing notices go to mid-August. Details
UPERC (suo-motu 71SM/2025) let UPNEDA issue one final notice, after which continuing defaulters face penal proceedings under Section 142 - only 273 of 472 obligated entities had filed their FY2025-26 data. It is the step that turns a toothless compliance drive into one that can actually fine; the consequence, not the count, is the story.
8A cold store may feed one unit from another's meter across a public road
UPERC (KBGB Agritech, 2303/2025) held that Supply Code Clause 4.46(a) carries its own exemption power, and let a multi-unit consumer run its own cable between two units split by a road, on revenue-neutral terms. Marked "not a precedent," it will be cited as one anyway - a clean, reasoned ruling other multi-unit consumers can lean on.
8Delhi's quarterly power-cost petitions are dropped as the mechanism turns automatic
The three discoms' PPAC petitions were disposed as infructuous under the amended regulations; the consumer-bill consequence is in the lead.
8Adani Green's Rs 4.79-a-unit Karnataka tariff survives a final challenge
APTEL dismissed the Karnataka discom CESC's review petitions against the 2024 verdict that gave Adani Green a force-majeure extension, a Rs 4.79/unit tariff and a refund of liquidated damages. With the Supreme Court already having turned CESC away, the discom is out of options and the tariff stands firm.
8A discom can't dock one contract's dues from another's bills, APTEL rules
In a dispute over a 2013 Karnataka PPA, APTEL held that a trader carries a generator's scheduling and deviation risk only if the contract says so, and struck down a discom's move to set off Rs 1.56 crore from unrelated invoices. The sums are small; the principle - no cross-contract set-off - is what traders and lenders will hold onto.
8APTEL may send an Andhra wind-tariff order back, calling the regulator's ruling 'perfunctory.'
Hearing Green Infra Wind Solutions' appeal, APTEL called APERC's 2021 order cryptic and without reasons, and has asked the parties to show cause on 5 August why it should not be remanded for a fresh, reasoned decision - a proposed remand, not yet ordered. The developer was contracted at Rs 4.84 a unit but has been paid an interim Rs 2.43. It keeps a long-running Andhra renewable-payment fight alive and signals the tribunal's impatience with the state regulator.
8Two Delhi waste-to-energy PPAs are a week from sign-off
DERC reserved orders on power-purchase agreements for the Narela-Bawana and Ghazipur municipal-waste plants, directing the parties to finalise within a week. Small in megawatts, but it advances Delhi's waste-to-energy offtake, which has crawled.
8The rest of the state docket
UPERC is weighing whether Jaypee's Noida township must convert to multi-point supply (next 20 August) and whether "EMI" on rescheduled genco dues must carry interest (Bajaj Energy/LPGCL, listed today); routine UPPCL hearing notices go to mid-August. Details
Green Markets & RE Programme Watch
Jul 16:
8India added a record amount of renewables in 2025 - almost all of it solar
IRENA's 2026 data puts India's additions at about 46 GW for the year, nearly 38 GW of it solar, taking capacity to 250.5 GW and keeping India third in the world. The pace of solar is the headline; the thinness of everything else - wind, storage, firm capacity - is the footnote that matters more each month.
8A record hour for renewables, and the same week's reminder of their limits
Wind and solar met a record 42.79% of demand at one point on 13 July, yet two days later undershot their own schedule by about 102 MU, and Gujarat curtailed thousands of megawatts to hold the grid steady. The record and the miss are one story: plenty of renewable energy when the weather cooperates, and a firming-and-forecasting gap when it doesn't.
8MNRE tightens the gate on new wind-turbine models
An MNRE memo bars commercial deployment of wind-turbine models not yet on the approved ALMM list, allowing only pre-enlistment test prototypes. It pulls wind OEMs toward the same list-based discipline solar already lives under - a small rule with real bite for anyone trying to field a new machine.
8Courts leave a set of renewable generators under the older deviation rules - for now
High courts in Karnataka and Madras have directed that CERC's 2014 deviation-settlement regulations, not the stricter 2024 ones, apply to certain renewable generators pending further orders. It reads as technical, but which regime applies decides real money for RE plants managing grid-support penalties. Details
IRENA's 2026 data puts India's additions at about 46 GW for the year, nearly 38 GW of it solar, taking capacity to 250.5 GW and keeping India third in the world. The pace of solar is the headline; the thinness of everything else - wind, storage, firm capacity - is the footnote that matters more each month.
8A record hour for renewables, and the same week's reminder of their limits
Wind and solar met a record 42.79% of demand at one point on 13 July, yet two days later undershot their own schedule by about 102 MU, and Gujarat curtailed thousands of megawatts to hold the grid steady. The record and the miss are one story: plenty of renewable energy when the weather cooperates, and a firming-and-forecasting gap when it doesn't.
8MNRE tightens the gate on new wind-turbine models
An MNRE memo bars commercial deployment of wind-turbine models not yet on the approved ALMM list, allowing only pre-enlistment test prototypes. It pulls wind OEMs toward the same list-based discipline solar already lives under - a small rule with real bite for anyone trying to field a new machine.
8Courts leave a set of renewable generators under the older deviation rules - for now
High courts in Karnataka and Madras have directed that CERC's 2014 deviation-settlement regulations, not the stricter 2024 ones, apply to certain renewable generators pending further orders. It reads as technical, but which regime applies decides real money for RE plants managing grid-support penalties. Details
Corporate Wire
Jul 16:
8Adani Power's 25-year, 1,600 MW Maharashtra supply deal
The biggest single commitment of the day, coal linkage included.
8GIPCL's Rs 6,000-crore lignite plan and possible equity raise
A rare, detailed roadmap from a state genco.
8EMMVEE's first results as a listed company are strong
The Karnataka solar manufacturer reported Q1 revenue of Rs 1,555 crore (up 51%) and PAT of Rs 380 crore (more than double), with a record margin and a 9.9 GW order book. It is a clean read on how well domestic module makers are doing under ALMM protection: the demand is there and the margins are widening.
8Sterling and Wilson takes Shell to arbitration over an Australian solar farm
The company's Australian subsidiary has filed for arbitration against Shell's Australian arm in London (LCIA) over the Gangarri solar project's EPC and O&M contracts, claiming - depending on scope - about AUD 28 million plus USD 1.6 million (roughly Rs 170 crore), or on a reduced reading about AUD 21 million plus the same USD claim (nearer Rs 130 crore). For a company its size the sum is meaningful but not defining; the more telling part is the recurring execution risk in its overseas order book.
8IEX moves to unlock its gas-exchange stake
IEX's associate, the Indian Gas Exchange, filed its draft IPO papers, with an offer-for-sale of up to about 16.7 million shares that includes IEX trimming its holding - a value-unlocking event to track as the listing proceeds.
8A small solar-cell maker's headline profit jump is mostly a standalone effect
Onix Solar reported standalone Q1 profit about 20 times a year earlier - about Rs 21 crore against Rs 1 crore - but on a consolidated basis the jump is only about three times, and consolidated revenue actually fell year on year. The standalone spike came largely from an inventory drawdown rather than trading, so it flags an accounting quirk more than real momentum. Worth a watch as it builds out cell manufacturing, but the group numbers are the ones to read.
8India's installed capacity crosses 54% non-fossil
The milestone, and why the capacity share flatters the evening-peak reality.
8Kalpataru confirms a dividend but draws institutional pushback on two resolutions
At its AGM, Kalpataru cleared a Rs 11 dividend, but its resolution seeking authority under Section 180(1)(a) - to dispose of the undertaking or create security, not to raise borrowing limits - passed with only about 87% institutional support, and a director's re-appointment drew about 9% of institutional votes against. Minorities, but notable ones for a company leaning on debt to grow.
8Borosil Renewables takes a small warrant-conversion inflow
The solar-glass maker allotted shares on warrant conversion for about Rs 12 crore - routine, and small for the company, noted for the record.
8Results diary
Board meetings to approve Q1 results: Bharat Coking Coal (21 July), IEX (23 July, with an analyst meet the next day) and Coal India (27 July, with a possible interim dividend).
Ratings Watch
8Macquarie exits Vibrant Energy; Inox's group takes over and repays the lenders
ICRA withdrew four ratings after the change of control.
8A captive-solar pool holds its rating, but a regulatory cloud sits over it
CARE reaffirmed CARE A- on the nine-company, 100 MW Maharashtra restricted group backed by Partners Group. The live risk is not the assets but a stayed Maharashtra banking-charge order: about 16% of the group's output is banked by off-takers, so an adverse final ruling could hurt. The rating is steady; the regulation is the variable.
8A North-East distribution franchisee stays in default
Feedback Energy Distribution (Meghalaya and Tripura) remains at CARE D on about Rs 319 crore of facilities and has gone non-cooperating with two agencies - a distress marker in the franchisee model, small in absolute terms but total for this company. Details
The biggest single commitment of the day, coal linkage included.
8GIPCL's Rs 6,000-crore lignite plan and possible equity raise
A rare, detailed roadmap from a state genco.
8EMMVEE's first results as a listed company are strong
The Karnataka solar manufacturer reported Q1 revenue of Rs 1,555 crore (up 51%) and PAT of Rs 380 crore (more than double), with a record margin and a 9.9 GW order book. It is a clean read on how well domestic module makers are doing under ALMM protection: the demand is there and the margins are widening.
8Sterling and Wilson takes Shell to arbitration over an Australian solar farm
The company's Australian subsidiary has filed for arbitration against Shell's Australian arm in London (LCIA) over the Gangarri solar project's EPC and O&M contracts, claiming - depending on scope - about AUD 28 million plus USD 1.6 million (roughly Rs 170 crore), or on a reduced reading about AUD 21 million plus the same USD claim (nearer Rs 130 crore). For a company its size the sum is meaningful but not defining; the more telling part is the recurring execution risk in its overseas order book.
8IEX moves to unlock its gas-exchange stake
IEX's associate, the Indian Gas Exchange, filed its draft IPO papers, with an offer-for-sale of up to about 16.7 million shares that includes IEX trimming its holding - a value-unlocking event to track as the listing proceeds.
8A small solar-cell maker's headline profit jump is mostly a standalone effect
Onix Solar reported standalone Q1 profit about 20 times a year earlier - about Rs 21 crore against Rs 1 crore - but on a consolidated basis the jump is only about three times, and consolidated revenue actually fell year on year. The standalone spike came largely from an inventory drawdown rather than trading, so it flags an accounting quirk more than real momentum. Worth a watch as it builds out cell manufacturing, but the group numbers are the ones to read.
8India's installed capacity crosses 54% non-fossil
The milestone, and why the capacity share flatters the evening-peak reality.
8Kalpataru confirms a dividend but draws institutional pushback on two resolutions
At its AGM, Kalpataru cleared a Rs 11 dividend, but its resolution seeking authority under Section 180(1)(a) - to dispose of the undertaking or create security, not to raise borrowing limits - passed with only about 87% institutional support, and a director's re-appointment drew about 9% of institutional votes against. Minorities, but notable ones for a company leaning on debt to grow.
8Borosil Renewables takes a small warrant-conversion inflow
The solar-glass maker allotted shares on warrant conversion for about Rs 12 crore - routine, and small for the company, noted for the record.
8Results diary
Board meetings to approve Q1 results: Bharat Coking Coal (21 July), IEX (23 July, with an analyst meet the next day) and Coal India (27 July, with a possible interim dividend).
Ratings Watch
8Macquarie exits Vibrant Energy; Inox's group takes over and repays the lenders
ICRA withdrew four ratings after the change of control.
8A captive-solar pool holds its rating, but a regulatory cloud sits over it
CARE reaffirmed CARE A- on the nine-company, 100 MW Maharashtra restricted group backed by Partners Group. The live risk is not the assets but a stayed Maharashtra banking-charge order: about 16% of the group's output is banked by off-takers, so an adverse final ruling could hurt. The rating is steady; the regulation is the variable.
8A North-East distribution franchisee stays in default
Feedback Energy Distribution (Meghalaya and Tripura) remains at CARE D on about Rs 319 crore of facilities and has gone non-cooperating with two agencies - a distress marker in the franchisee model, small in absolute terms but total for this company. Details
Committees, People & System Administration
Jul 16:
8Nearly 9,000 MW lost at Khavda in May, with safeguards missing
The compliance failure, not just the trip, is the point.
8The eastern grid operator opened tie-lines by hand in June
A last resort used because the automatic defences still aren't ready.
8Ancillary and deviation settlements: mostly housekeeping, one cost that bites
June's spot-despatch accounts left generators owing the pool modest net sums - about Rs 32 crore in the South, Rs 15 crore in the North, small money in system terms. A Rs 1,281 crore retrospective figure sounds huge but is a billing re-computation being unwound, not new money. The number that actually matters is the East's part-load compensation: Farakka alone is owed about Rs 147 crore for running below efficient load - a real, recurring cost of keeping thermal flexible for the renewables.
8A Rajasthan solar corridor is one contingency from losing all its generation
NRPC's 245th operations committee flagged that a 765 kV Bhadla–Sikar outage would, under a single further fault, "lose all the generation" on the corridor, and warned of August export curtailments up to about 4,000 MW on Rajasthan lines still under construction. It is the transmission-lag problem in miniature: the panels are up, the wires to move them safely are not.
8Parliament and people
The Lok Sabha Standing Committee on Energy meets 23 July for a briefing by MNRE on the Green Energy Corridor renewable-evacuation programme; other PSU board moves in the day's filings were routine.
Details
The compliance failure, not just the trip, is the point.
8The eastern grid operator opened tie-lines by hand in June
A last resort used because the automatic defences still aren't ready.
8Ancillary and deviation settlements: mostly housekeeping, one cost that bites
June's spot-despatch accounts left generators owing the pool modest net sums - about Rs 32 crore in the South, Rs 15 crore in the North, small money in system terms. A Rs 1,281 crore retrospective figure sounds huge but is a billing re-computation being unwound, not new money. The number that actually matters is the East's part-load compensation: Farakka alone is owed about Rs 147 crore for running below efficient load - a real, recurring cost of keeping thermal flexible for the renewables.
8A Rajasthan solar corridor is one contingency from losing all its generation
NRPC's 245th operations committee flagged that a 765 kV Bhadla–Sikar outage would, under a single further fault, "lose all the generation" on the corridor, and warned of August export curtailments up to about 4,000 MW on Rajasthan lines still under construction. It is the transmission-lag problem in miniature: the panels are up, the wires to move them safely are not.
8Parliament and people
The Lok Sabha Standing Committee on Energy meets 23 July for a briefing by MNRE on the Green Energy Corridor renewable-evacuation programme; other PSU board moves in the day's filings were routine.
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Sikkim's Teesta-III and Teesta HPS units, 1,370 MW, remain out about 21 months after the October 2023 glacial-flood disaster
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8Every daily generation register still carries the six 200 MW units of Teesta-III plus NHPC's Teesta HPS Unit 3 (170 MW) as forced out since 4 October 2023, with revival 'subject to further information'. Reconstruction of the flood-destroyed Chungthang dam has since been approved and is under way, but the powerhouses remain off the grid, a standing 1,370 MW hole in eastern hydro.
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Telangana's Krishna-basin reservoir storage was down about 86% year-on-year on 15 July, with Srisailam at 10.3 TMC against 170.1 a year earlier
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8Telangana's usable Krishna-basin storage stood at about 39.6 TMC on 15 July 2026, roughly 86% below the same date last year, with Srisailam live storage collapsed to 10.3 TMC from 170.1 TMC and Nagarjunasagar at 6.2 TMC from 90.4 TMC. So little water this deep into monsoon shifts more of Telangana's July load onto thermal and market power, a hydro shortfall that dovetails with the state's coal-hit Yadadri outages and the firm exchange prices.
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UPPCL and WBSEDCL floated cross-exchange reverse auctions for August-September peak-hour power on Hindustan Power Exchange
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8Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation (for September) and West Bengal's WBSEDCL (for August) each issued single-side reverse-auction circulars on the Hindustan Power Exchange - and, per the circulars, in parallel on IEX and PXIL - weighted toward evening-peak blocks. Two large state utilities lining up short-to-medium-term peak power through competitive auctions signals discoms bracing for the same evening-ramp scarcity now visible in the spot market.
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Gujarat's 'interim' Rs 1.50/unit green banking charge is extended again to 31 August 2026, a fixture nearly three years on
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8GERC has once more extended the flat Rs 1.50 per unit banking charge for green open-access consumers - to 31 August 2026 - and rejected industry's demand for a lower 8% in-kind banking charge, while still not putting in place the cost-based framework the Forum of Regulators model and stakeholders have sought since 2024. An 'interim' arrangement renewed repeatedly is now the de facto regime for Gujarat's green open-access economics.
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NPCIL's 100 GW-by-2047 nuclear ambition sits against a softer FY26, with PLF down to 79% and debt-to-EBITDA at 15.1 times
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8CARE reaffirmed NPCIL at AAA/A1+ even as the operator's FY26 nuclear plant load factor eased to about 79% and its debt-to-EBITDA rose to 15.1 times, against a build-out of 6.1 GW under construction and a national target of 100 GW of nuclear capacity by 2047. With the SHANTI Act now clearing the way for private participation, the gap between a debt-heavy, capital-intensive expansion and weakening current operating metrics is the tension a lender must weigh.
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REC and SJVN were each fined by the exchanges for board-composition lapses, and both central PSUs blamed the government's failure to appoint directors
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8REC disclosed a Rs 5.31 lakh exchange fine and SJVN a Rs 5.76 lakh fine for the March 2026 quarter for failing to maintain the required board composition, including the mandated woman director, under SEBI's listing regulations. Both government-controlled companies pinned the lapse on their majority owner - the Ministry of Power - not making the appointments, and both are seeking a waiver, a governance gap that recurs across listed central public-sector enterprises.
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APTEL sets aside HPERC's treatment of a 90% state loan as grant, remanding hydro tariffs for HPPCL's Sainj, Kashang-I and Sawra Kuddu
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8The Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, in Appeals 89, 94 and 135 of 2025, held that the Himachal Pradesh regulator had no jurisdiction to re-characterise 90% of a government-routed loan as a grant in order to shield consumers from tariff burden, and remanded the tariffs of three Himachal hydro projects. The ruling reaffirms that a state commission cannot override a government funding-policy decision to lower tariffs, and pushes the cost of that borrowing back into the projects' recoverable capital.
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Contracting news for the day: Part-1
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8POWERGRID scraps bid deposit but raises the technical bar for its Rs-scale transformer buy POWERGRID wants four 500 MVA autotransformers — but scrapping the usual bid deposit is the least of it. Joint ventures are banned, a dynamic short-circuit test now decides who even qualifies, and the cost of strengthening every bridge and road on the delivery route quietly lands in the supplier's price.
8MSEDCL's Rs 130 crore transformer order hands raw-material risk straight to bidders Maharashtra's power utility is buying 200 kVA distribution transformers worth Rs 130 crore, open only to manufacturers and locked to firm pricing. That single condition passes every rupee of future CRGO steel, copper and aluminium volatility to the bidder — nine months to deliver, with no room to pass the cost on.
8Gujarat's 500 MWh battery tender is really a 12-year performance bet GSECL isn't buying a battery — it's buying guaranteed power for the next twelve years. An 18-month build followed by 11 years of maintenance, Rs 18.3 crore locked as security, and performance measured at the 220 kV grid point. With the pre-bid process rewritten again and again, the real contest is lifecycle economics, not headline price.
8Kulhal hydro tender extended a third time, but the 25% penalty risk stays intact A Rs 110 crore turnkey job to rebuild a 1975-vintage hydro station has now been pushed back three times — 29 days in all. But more time doesn't soften the sting: turbine-shortfall penalties can reach 25% of the turbine value, and bidders must price a five-decade-old machine whose true condition they can only guess.
8NTPC's two-transformer order hides a far tougher brownfield fit test It reads like a simple order for two 201.67 MVA generator transformers. It isn't. Each unit must slot into decades-old foundations, bus ducts and fire systems with almost no modification — and NTPC expects bidders to walk the site and prove it fits before they quote. Miss a hidden interface, and there's no extra payment coming.
8NTPC quietly moves its data centres to a next-generation platform Behind routine procurement language, NTPC is switching its Noida and Hyderabad centres to a disaggregated infrastructure that survives losing two servers at once. The winner supplies it, migrates onto it, buys back the old system and nurses it for seven years — with the final payment held until the very end.
8KPTCL bundles two GIS packages with a Rs 3.62 crore entry ticket Two high-voltage substation packages fold GIS systems, transmission lines, underground cables and civil works into single contracts — with Rs 3.62 crore in bid security just to enter. And the final bill won't clear until the contractor hands over drone surveys and GIS-mapped data, turning digital paperwork into a payment gate.
8OMC's Rs 100 crore project rides on one consultant for 47 months One consultant, 47 months, a Rs 100 crore project — from the first sketch to the final occupancy certificate. Odisha Mining Corporation has fused architect, cost planner and site supervisor into a single accountable firm, on a fixed fee that won't rise even if the project's true cost does.
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Jul 15:
8A nine-engine opening rewrites the technology contest
A revised engine configuration has widened the field, but the most difficult obligations have become sharper rather than easier. Hydrogen testing, tighter emission guarantees and remote-island logistics now converge inside a single EPC risk envelope. The decisive issue lies in which bidders can turn that flexibility into a bankable and technically defensible offer.
A revised engine configuration has widened the field, but the most difficult obligations have become sharper rather than easier. Hydrogen testing, tighter emission guarantees and remote-island logistics now converge inside a single EPC risk envelope. The decisive issue lies in which bidders can turn that flexibility into a bankable and technically defensible offer.
8A ten-package land exercise puts 303.50 km of transmission corridors on a 15-day valuation clock
Three Gujarat packages reveal a procurement structure designed to accelerate decisions across hundreds of transmission-line locations. The commercial contest will not be governed by L1 pricing alone, as award sequencing and capacity controls alter how bidders can pursue the work. The most consequential risk sits inside the interaction between rapid delivery, variable quantities and fragmented district-level valuations.
8Rs 315 crore transmission package signals a broader grid expansion strategy while raising execution stakes
A seemingly routine transmission package conceals a procurement structure that reshapes execution responsibility far beyond conventional EPC contracts. The engineering choices and commercial framework point towards a much larger strategic objective than simple capacity addition. The implications extend well beyond this project and could influence how similar transmission packages are structured in the coming years.
8Large-scale PCC pole procurement sharpens execution standards as logistics, manufacturing depth and financial discipline emerge as decisive competitive differentiators
A routine distribution-material procurement quietly introduces commercial signals that extend far beyond concrete poles. Several provisions reshape how manufacturers will compete on execution capacity, financial strength and delivery assurance rather than price alone. The document hints at a procurement philosophy that could influence future utility sourcing decisions across Rajasthan.
8Final commissioning strategy tightens execution accountability as critical power project enters its decisive phase
The procurement is built around far more than routine commissioning activities. Several contractual provisions quietly reshape execution risk, commercial exposure and project responsibility in ways that deserve closer examination. The implications extend well beyond this individual package and could influence how similar projects are procured going forward.
8Qualification rules evolve as execution accountability remains firmly intact
A series of amendments quietly reshaped who can compete without altering who ultimately carries project risk. The revised framework broadens access while tightening accountability in unexpected ways. The implications extend well beyond a routine hydroelectric EPC procurement.
8Rs 1,723 crore pumped-storage EPC package sets the stage for a high-stakes contest where execution strategy may matter as much as price
A major pumped-storage package is reshaping the balance between engineering responsibility and commercial competition. The bidding framework introduces several provisions that could influence both pricing behaviour and execution strategy. What ultimately determines the winning advantage extends well beyond the quoted number.
8Repeated technical clarifications reshape EPC execution while commercial discipline remains firmly intact
Successive revisions have quietly altered the engineering assumptions behind this EPC package without changing its contractual backbone. The most consequential developments are buried inside technical clarifications rather than headline corrigenda. Their combined impact could influence pricing, execution strategy and bidder competitiveness far beyond the formal amendments.
8Rs 109 crore transformer tender places factory output under a five-year performance test
A large indoor-transformer procurement has been corrected after a value description magnified its apparent scale by 100 times. Behind the revised amount sits a contract that tests every supplied unit for losses and can reject an entire lot over one sampled failure. The decisive risk is buried not in the headline quantity, but in the interaction between rate matching, long guarantees and post-delivery quality control.
Southern Region still carrying three 400 kV corridors out since mid-May tower collapses on its 14 July congestion list
Jul 15:
8SRLDC's 14 July transmission-constraint list still shows the 400 kV Kaiga-Guttur out since 14 May after tower collapses, the 400 kV Gadag-Koppal double circuit with about 15 towers collapsed, and the Gazuwaka-Jeypore corridor - roughly two months on. The persistence of these outages on the congestion register is a structural weakness behind the region's recurring evening deficits, though the current restoration timeline is not in the day's documents.
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Eastern Region exported 92.4 MU to the South on 14 July, but the South still fell 539 MW short and Kerala logged a frequency emergency
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8The Eastern Region ran a large net exporter, sending 92.4 MU to the Southern Region over the 765 kV Angul-Srikakulam double circuit and the Talcher-Kolar HVDC, yet the Southern Region still carried the day's largest regional shortage at 539 MW, with Kerala alone short 508 MW while logging a grid-code frequency emergency and two non-compliance instances. The same state that could not meet its load also breached the grid code on the same day, and the north-to-south corridors were carrying heavy flows to plug the gap.
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Northern Region imported a net 326.9 MU on 14 July yet still shed load, short 318 MW at the evening peak
Jul 15:
8The Northern Region was the country's largest net importer on 14 July, drawing 326.9 MU across inter-regional ties - 4,027 MW on the Champa-Kurukshetra HVDC bipole alone - yet it still met its 86,204 MW evening peak with a 318 MW shortage and reported unscheduled load shedding in Uttar Pradesh. A region leaning this hard on imports and still shedding load is running with very little headroom, and its intra-regional corridors were already breaching limits.
Details
NTPC's large coal units logged a run of boiler-tube-leak trips in mid-July across three regions
Jul 15:
8NTPC supercritical and 660 MW units at Gadarwara (800 MW, Madhya Pradesh), Barh (660 MW, Bihar) and Dadri-I (210 MW, Uttar Pradesh) tripped on boiler tube leaks within days of 12-14 July, while the utility's Barh Unit 2 was already out on an overhaul following a boiler leak. With planned maintenance light in July, these unplanned trips - not scheduled overhauls - were the main drag on thermal availability, though whether they share a common cause or are coincidental monsoon failures cannot be established from the outage registers.
Details
Coal-supply outages idled 2,255 MW at Yadadri, Ghatampur and ACBIL as monsoon coal stocks tightened
Jul 15:
8On 14 July, coal availability rather than equipment failure kept large thermal blocks out across three states - Telangana's Yadadri Unit 4 (800 MW) on an explicit coal shortage since 9 July, Uttar Pradesh's two Ghatampur supercritical units (2x660 MW) on coal-feeding faults, and Chhattisgarh's ACBIL (135 MW) on low stock since mid-June. Yadadri's 'critical coal' flag also masks a deeper problem: three of its four units were already down, so its low plant load factor is being read as a fuel story when it is largely an outage story.
Details
IEX spot power prices firmed through mid-July, with 14 July evening and overnight blocks pinned to the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
Jul 15:
8The IEX day-ahead average market clearing price rose from Rs 2.49/kWh on 12 July to Rs 6.33 on 14 July and Rs 6.53 on 15 July, while the real-time market climbed from Rs 3.39 to Rs 5.87 to Rs 6.74 over the same days. The High-Price Day-Ahead Market, designed to clear above the Rs 10/kWh cap, drew about 72,590 MWh of sell offers on 14 July but found no buyers all week, so the day's scarcity stopped exactly at the ceiling.
Details
India's grid ran long by day and short after dark on 14 July, meeting a 251,139 MW evening peak with a 1,057 MW shortage
Jul 15:
8Grid-India met the 20:00 hrs all-India peak of 251,139 MW but left a 1,057 MW shortage even as the system spent much of the day over-frequency and ancillary services net down-regulated 48,461 MWh. The same day's power exchange swung from a Rs 1.09/kWh midday solar trough to the Rs 10/kWh ceiling after sunset, the clearest sign that 14 July's scarcity was an evening-ramp problem, not a shortage of daytime energy.
Details
Committees, People & System Administration
Jul 15:
8CEA Load Generation Balance Report 2026-27 projects all-India surplus of 2.5% energy and 4.1% peak for the year
8LGBR 2026-27 flags Eastern Region peak deficit of 16.2% and Southern Region 9.6%, with Odisha, Assam and Telangana worst hit
8ERPC weekly DSM settlement shows Southern Region under-drawing heavily, driving East-South deviation charge of Rs 273.8 crore for 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly DSM account records Rs 266.8 crore receivable from Southern Region and Rs 263.2 crore payable to Eastern Region, 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly ancillary-service (TRAS) account has thermal providers paying back for shortfall delivery, Khargone-I refunds Rs 2.06 crore
8ERPC reactive-energy charge statement issued for 29 June-5 July 2026 covering Eastern Region 400/220/132 kV lines
8WRPC reactive-energy account issued for the week 29 June-5 July 2026
8SRPC finalises March 2026 part-load and heat-rate compensation for 14 southern ISGS thermal stations, degradation compensation totals about Rs 1,077 crore
8Southern Region frequency-response certificate for June 2026 leaves four generators below the 0.30 beta incentive threshold
8NER protection sub-committee records 47 grid disturbances in April and 22 in May 2026, most on radial feeders
8SPS maloperation blacks out Sonabil and radial areas of Assam on 1 June 2026 with about 70 MW load loss
8SPS failed to operate during 132 kV Palatana-Surajmaninagar line tripping on 28 April 2026
8NERPC proposes new SPS on 220 kV BTPS-Agia corridor as delayed 400 kV Sonapur and Rangia substations strain the Assam grid
8PTCC clearance requirement abolished for transmission-line projects with effect from 1 July 2026
8WRPC to draft POWERGRID and WRLDC into random inspection of AUFLS/UFR relays across the Western Region
8SRPC communication sub-committee sees leadership change as SE (P&C) Len J.B. retires and ED SRLDC M.K. Ramesh moves to Western Region
8SRPC posts revised part-load compensation statements for southern-region thermal generators covering FY2024-25 and FY2025-26
8SRPC issues revised final Regional Energy Account statements for April 2025 to March 2026
8SRPC calls special meeting on 31 July to review Free Governor Mode of Operation performance of southern-region generators for FY2025-26 Details
8LGBR 2026-27 flags Eastern Region peak deficit of 16.2% and Southern Region 9.6%, with Odisha, Assam and Telangana worst hit
8ERPC weekly DSM settlement shows Southern Region under-drawing heavily, driving East-South deviation charge of Rs 273.8 crore for 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly DSM account records Rs 266.8 crore receivable from Southern Region and Rs 263.2 crore payable to Eastern Region, 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly ancillary-service (TRAS) account has thermal providers paying back for shortfall delivery, Khargone-I refunds Rs 2.06 crore
8ERPC reactive-energy charge statement issued for 29 June-5 July 2026 covering Eastern Region 400/220/132 kV lines
8WRPC reactive-energy account issued for the week 29 June-5 July 2026
8SRPC finalises March 2026 part-load and heat-rate compensation for 14 southern ISGS thermal stations, degradation compensation totals about Rs 1,077 crore
8Southern Region frequency-response certificate for June 2026 leaves four generators below the 0.30 beta incentive threshold
8NER protection sub-committee records 47 grid disturbances in April and 22 in May 2026, most on radial feeders
8SPS maloperation blacks out Sonabil and radial areas of Assam on 1 June 2026 with about 70 MW load loss
8SPS failed to operate during 132 kV Palatana-Surajmaninagar line tripping on 28 April 2026
8NERPC proposes new SPS on 220 kV BTPS-Agia corridor as delayed 400 kV Sonapur and Rangia substations strain the Assam grid
8PTCC clearance requirement abolished for transmission-line projects with effect from 1 July 2026
8WRPC to draft POWERGRID and WRLDC into random inspection of AUFLS/UFR relays across the Western Region
8SRPC communication sub-committee sees leadership change as SE (P&C) Len J.B. retires and ED SRLDC M.K. Ramesh moves to Western Region
8SRPC posts revised part-load compensation statements for southern-region thermal generators covering FY2024-25 and FY2025-26
8SRPC issues revised final Regional Energy Account statements for April 2025 to March 2026
8SRPC calls special meeting on 31 July to review Free Governor Mode of Operation performance of southern-region generators for FY2025-26 Details
Corporate Wire
Jul 15:
8SECI extends bid deadline for Rs 1,000 crore external commercial borrowing / foreign-currency loan mandate to 22 July 2026
8Tata Power allots Rs 1,500 crore of 7.50% five-year unsecured NCDs on private placement
8POWER GRID commissions Khavda Phase-IV Part-E4 transmission element evacuating Gujarat RE (7 GW zone)
8REC incorporates Kesurdi Power Transmission Ltd to build 220 kV GIS at Satara, Maharashtra under TBCB
8PFC raises JPY 8.4 billion yen syndicated loan arranged by SBI Shinsei Bank
8Siemens India reports an 18-month FY2024-26 ending March 2026; 68th AGM set for August 11
8Ujaas Energy's 27th AGM appoints Geeta Mundra as Chairman and approves borrowing up to Rs 1,000 crore
8Adani's Khavda IV A transmission SPV seeks part-COD recognition for 5 of 14 bays already in service at KPS-3
8Waa Solar's bank facilities affirmed at IND BBB+/Stable/A2+ and removed from rating watch
8Adani Energy Solutions assigned Crisil ESG score of 65/100 ('Crisil ESG 65')
8Solapur Solar's Rs 20.98 crore loan stays at CARE D with issuer non-cooperating since 2021 Details
8Tata Power allots Rs 1,500 crore of 7.50% five-year unsecured NCDs on private placement
8POWER GRID commissions Khavda Phase-IV Part-E4 transmission element evacuating Gujarat RE (7 GW zone)
8REC incorporates Kesurdi Power Transmission Ltd to build 220 kV GIS at Satara, Maharashtra under TBCB
8PFC raises JPY 8.4 billion yen syndicated loan arranged by SBI Shinsei Bank
8Siemens India reports an 18-month FY2024-26 ending March 2026; 68th AGM set for August 11
8Ujaas Energy's 27th AGM appoints Geeta Mundra as Chairman and approves borrowing up to Rs 1,000 crore
8Adani's Khavda IV A transmission SPV seeks part-COD recognition for 5 of 14 bays already in service at KPS-3
8Waa Solar's bank facilities affirmed at IND BBB+/Stable/A2+ and removed from rating watch
8Adani Energy Solutions assigned Crisil ESG score of 65/100 ('Crisil ESG 65')
8Solapur Solar's Rs 20.98 crore loan stays at CARE D with issuer non-cooperating since 2021 Details
Green Markets & RE Programme Watch
Jul 15:
8All-India renewable generation 1,337 MU on 14 July; Gujarat leads wind, Rajasthan leads solar
8WRLDC reports persistent RE forecast errors in Maharashtra and Gujarat, partly from a January 2026 weather-provider switch Details
8WRLDC reports persistent RE forecast errors in Maharashtra and Gujarat, partly from a January 2026 weather-provider switch Details
State Regulatory Roundup
Jul 15:
8Meghalaya Power Distribution files for revised open-access additional surcharge of Rs 2.32/kWh for October 2025-March 2026
8HESCOM's July 2026 fuel-cost adjustment is a 4 paise/unit refund to all consumers as May power-purchase cost fell Rs 4.99 crore
8Punjab regulator admits PSPCL's Rs 6.90 crore compensation claim against Rana Sugars over 2005 co-gen PPA breach
8MERC disposes PSPCL-unrelated Khowal non-compliance petition after MSEDCL refunds Rs 6.94 lakh under new-connection scheme
8MERC closes Aspa Bandsons non-compliance case as MSEDCL awaits only Electrical Inspector approval for Amravati connection
8MERC declines Section 142 action against MSEDCL after Rs 3,000 Ombudsman-ordered connection-delay compensation is paid
8Torrent Power reports Q4 FY2025-26 T&D loss of 6.54% for Ahmedabad and under 1% for Surat in GERC quarterly filing
8Torrent Power's Dholera area shows ~50% year-on-year growth in power purchase and billing in Q4 FY2025-26
8Meghalaya regulator resets FY2026-27 tariffs for MePGCL, MePTCL and MePDCL after FY2024-25 true-ups
8Meghalaya sets FY2026-27 distribution tariff: domestic LT at Rs 5.00-5.10/kWh, industrial HT at Rs 5.55/kVAh with 20% peak ToD
8Meghalaya transmission tariff for FY2026-27 set at 64.96 paise/unit, MePTCL annual charge Rs 110.06 crore
8Rajasthan transmission utility RVPN overhauls deposit-works procedure, mandates 100% advance supervision charges and reserves 400/765 kV works to itself Details
8HESCOM's July 2026 fuel-cost adjustment is a 4 paise/unit refund to all consumers as May power-purchase cost fell Rs 4.99 crore
8Punjab regulator admits PSPCL's Rs 6.90 crore compensation claim against Rana Sugars over 2005 co-gen PPA breach
8MERC disposes PSPCL-unrelated Khowal non-compliance petition after MSEDCL refunds Rs 6.94 lakh under new-connection scheme
8MERC closes Aspa Bandsons non-compliance case as MSEDCL awaits only Electrical Inspector approval for Amravati connection
8MERC declines Section 142 action against MSEDCL after Rs 3,000 Ombudsman-ordered connection-delay compensation is paid
8Torrent Power reports Q4 FY2025-26 T&D loss of 6.54% for Ahmedabad and under 1% for Surat in GERC quarterly filing
8Torrent Power's Dholera area shows ~50% year-on-year growth in power purchase and billing in Q4 FY2025-26
8Meghalaya regulator resets FY2026-27 tariffs for MePGCL, MePTCL and MePDCL after FY2024-25 true-ups
8Meghalaya sets FY2026-27 distribution tariff: domestic LT at Rs 5.00-5.10/kWh, industrial HT at Rs 5.55/kVAh with 20% peak ToD
8Meghalaya transmission tariff for FY2026-27 set at 64.96 paise/unit, MePTCL annual charge Rs 110.06 crore
8Rajasthan transmission utility RVPN overhauls deposit-works procedure, mandates 100% advance supervision charges and reserves 400/765 kV works to itself Details
CERC Docket
Jul 15:
8CERC proposes Category-III inter-State trading licence for Carbon Resources Pvt Ltd, objections invited by 28 July 2026
Details
Hydro & Reservoir Ledger
Jul 15:
8Southern reservoirs mostly ran below year-ago levels on 14 July, with Mettur, Idukki and Srisailam all down
8National pumped-storage pipeline stands at 310,104 MW of potential against just 7,426 MW in operation
8Krishna-basin reservoirs Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar sit well below year-ago levels in early monsoon
8Tehri reservoir 10.5 m below year-ago level as northern hydro runs behind programme
8Sardar Sarovar runs about 8 m above last year's level, ahead on monsoon storage
8Odisha's Balimela hydro pond 6.5 ft below year-ago level on 14 July; three of its units out
8Hirakud (Burla) reservoir above last year and spilling with two gates open on 14 July
8Odisha's Chiplima run-of-river station generating 50 MW with all units available on 14 July
8Rengali reservoir in Odisha 7.8 m below year-ago level on 14 July, near minimum draw-down
8Upper Indravati (Mukhiguda) reservoir 3.8 m below last year; station peaked at 548 MW
8Upper Kolab (Bariniput) reservoir 2.7 m below last year with two of four units out
8Machkund hydro station generated zero on 14 July with reservoir 20 ft below last year
8Odisha OHPC hydro fleet averaged 559 MW for 13.4 MU on 14 July
8CEA data shows four of eight 250 MW Subansiri Lower units commissioned by May 2026
8Telangana's Krishna-basin usable reservoir storage down about 86% year-on-year to 39.6 TMC on 15 July 2026
8Srisailam live storage collapses to 10.3 TMC on 15 July 2026, a fraction of the 170.1 TMC held a year earlier
8Nagarjunasagar live storage at 6.2 TMC on 15 July 2026 versus 90.4 TMC a year earlier
8Singur reservoir shows zero live storage on 15 July 2026, down from 9.5 TMC a year earlier
8Pochampad live storage down to 0.3 TMC on 15 July 2026 from 7.4 TMC a year earlier
8Telangana bright spots: Pulichintala and Nizamsagar hold more water on 15 July 2026 than a year earlier Details
8National pumped-storage pipeline stands at 310,104 MW of potential against just 7,426 MW in operation
8Krishna-basin reservoirs Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar sit well below year-ago levels in early monsoon
8Tehri reservoir 10.5 m below year-ago level as northern hydro runs behind programme
8Sardar Sarovar runs about 8 m above last year's level, ahead on monsoon storage
8Odisha's Balimela hydro pond 6.5 ft below year-ago level on 14 July; three of its units out
8Hirakud (Burla) reservoir above last year and spilling with two gates open on 14 July
8Odisha's Chiplima run-of-river station generating 50 MW with all units available on 14 July
8Rengali reservoir in Odisha 7.8 m below year-ago level on 14 July, near minimum draw-down
8Upper Indravati (Mukhiguda) reservoir 3.8 m below last year; station peaked at 548 MW
8Upper Kolab (Bariniput) reservoir 2.7 m below last year with two of four units out
8Machkund hydro station generated zero on 14 July with reservoir 20 ft below last year
8Odisha OHPC hydro fleet averaged 559 MW for 13.4 MU on 14 July
8CEA data shows four of eight 250 MW Subansiri Lower units commissioned by May 2026
8Telangana's Krishna-basin usable reservoir storage down about 86% year-on-year to 39.6 TMC on 15 July 2026
8Srisailam live storage collapses to 10.3 TMC on 15 July 2026, a fraction of the 170.1 TMC held a year earlier
8Nagarjunasagar live storage at 6.2 TMC on 15 July 2026 versus 90.4 TMC a year earlier
8Singur reservoir shows zero live storage on 15 July 2026, down from 9.5 TMC a year earlier
8Pochampad live storage down to 0.3 TMC on 15 July 2026 from 7.4 TMC a year earlier
8Telangana bright spots: Pulichintala and Nizamsagar hold more water on 15 July 2026 than a year earlier Details
Fuel & Coal Ledger
Jul 15:
8All-India power-plant coal stock holds near 42.8 million tonnes on 13 July, 66% of normative with 27 plants critical
8Telangana's 3,200 MW Yadadri TPS runs at 23% PLF on critical coal, with three 800 MW units also on outage
8Reliance Sasan 3,960 MW UMTPP holds 7% of normative coal, thinnest cover among large pithead plants
8Andhra Pradesh state thermal fleet (Dr N. Tata Rao, Rayalaseema, Damodaram Sanjeevaiah) stays on critical coal at 11-21% of normative
8Gujarat's Wanakbori and Madhya Pradesh's Shree Singaji hold 15% of normative coal on rail-supply constraints
8Adani's imported-coal coastal plants (Mundra I-III, Udupi) run 36-56% PLF on 9-11% import stock
8All-India gas-based generation 58 MU on 12 July, 28% below programme; over half of gas/liquid capacity offline
8All-India coal generation 3,442 MU on 12 July; thermal fleet 20.5% on outage, forced outages dominant
8NTPC stations generate 949 MU on 12 July, 1.8% below programme and 2% behind year-to-date target
8Northern region conventional generation 4.8% below programme on 12 July; nuclear runs 18% behind year-to-date Details
8Telangana's 3,200 MW Yadadri TPS runs at 23% PLF on critical coal, with three 800 MW units also on outage
8Reliance Sasan 3,960 MW UMTPP holds 7% of normative coal, thinnest cover among large pithead plants
8Andhra Pradesh state thermal fleet (Dr N. Tata Rao, Rayalaseema, Damodaram Sanjeevaiah) stays on critical coal at 11-21% of normative
8Gujarat's Wanakbori and Madhya Pradesh's Shree Singaji hold 15% of normative coal on rail-supply constraints
8Adani's imported-coal coastal plants (Mundra I-III, Udupi) run 36-56% PLF on 9-11% import stock
8All-India gas-based generation 58 MU on 12 July, 28% below programme; over half of gas/liquid capacity offline
8All-India coal generation 3,442 MU on 12 July; thermal fleet 20.5% on outage, forced outages dominant
8NTPC stations generate 949 MU on 12 July, 1.8% below programme and 2% behind year-to-date target
8Northern region conventional generation 4.8% below programme on 12 July; nuclear runs 18% behind year-to-date Details
Outage & Maintenance Register
Jul 15:
8Two large Southern thermal units - Coastal Energen 600 MW and SEIL 660 MW - remained on forced outage on 14 July
8Kudankulam nuclear Unit 1 (1,000 MW) offline since 8 July on generator protection operation; NPCIL targets 15 July restart
8NTPC Gadarwara Unit 1 (800 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 13 July; largest unit out in Western Region
8Telangana's Yadadri Unit 4 (800 MW) out on coal shortage since 9 July; sister Unit 1 also down for overhaul
8Two Ghatampur supercritical units (2x660 MW) offline three to four weeks on coal-feeding problems
8Obra-C TPS Unit 1 (660 MW) out to 26 July on generator fault as 765 kV Obra-C bus isolator hotspots recur
8Barh (Bihar) has both 660 MW units out - Unit 2 on overhaul after boiler leak, Unit 3 on abnormal boiler sound
8OPGC Unit 3 (660 MW) in Odisha tripped on boiler tube leak on 14 July
8WBPDCL Sagardighi Unit 5 (660 MW) tripped 14 July on critical 220V DC system failure; two-week revival
8SEIL Project-2 Unit 1 (660 MW) in Andhra Pradesh tripped on cooling-water pipeline leak on 14 July
8Adani APL Mundra has three 660 MW units down (U8 clinker, U9 cooling-water leak, U6 overhaul) even as four RSD units returned
8Adani Tiroda Unit 5 (660 MW) in Maharashtra out from 13 July on high air-preheater gearbox vibration
8MahaGenco Bhusawal Unit 6 (660 MW) out on air-preheater fault; Unit 5 (500 MW) simultaneously on capital overhaul
8Anpara-C Unit 2 (600 MW) in UP out to 20 July on hydrogen leakage in the condenser
8Vedanta's 600 MW unit in Chhattisgarh has been out on a PA-fan trip since 14 April, revival now 31 July
8MahaGenco Chandrapur Unit 7 (500 MW) out on flame failure since 6 July, revival slated 10 August
8DVC Raghunathpur (RTPS) Unit 2 (600 MW) out on high turbine vibration since mid-April; revival 11 August
8Adani Coastal Energen Unit 1 (600 MW) in Tamil Nadu tripped 14 July on condenser water-box vent leak
8TNPGCL Mettur has both a 600 MW unit and a 210 MW unit out - Unit 5 on boiler leak, Unit 1 on rotor earth fault
8Hinduja HNPCL Unit 1 (520 MW) in Andhra Pradesh out on condenser tube leak since 12 July
8NTPC Dadri-I Unit 1 (210 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 12 July
8Rajasthan's Kota TPS has two units out - Unit 4 (210 MW) on TG bearing vibration, Unit 1 (110 MW) on vacuum fault
8Harduaganj-D Unit 9 (250 MW) in UP out since 2 July on raw-water non-availability / reheater protection trip
8HPGCL Panipat Unit 6 (210 MW) tripped 14 July on loss of all fuel
8PSPCL Ropar (Guru Gobind Singh) Unit 3 (210 MW) tripped late on 14 July on boiler tube leak
8Rajwest lignite plant loses two 135 MW units to bed-material leakage within days
8Suratgarh super-critical Unit 8 (660 MW) tripped and recovered same day on generator rotor earth fault
8CLP Jhajjar Unit 2 (660 MW) back on 14 July after two-day boiler-tube-leak outage
8CSPGCL Korba East (DSPM) Unit 1 (250 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak while Unit 2 sits on annual overhaul
8GSECL Wanakbori loses two 210 MW units on 14 July to low vacuum and a boiler tube leak
8ACBIL Unit 1 (135 MW) in Chhattisgarh out on low coal stock since mid-June
8WBPDCL Kolaghat Unit 3 (210 MW) out since 18 June after a boiler fire hazard
8Tuticorin Units 1 and 2 (2x210 MW) still out 16 months after a control-room fire; revival now end-2026
8PVUNL Patratu Unit 1 (800 MW) returned 14 July after five days offline on low system demand
8KPCL Bellary Unit 1 (500 MW) tripped twice within hours on 14 July on ID-fan and reverse-power protection
8SJVN Bikaner solar plant lost ~2.5 hours of generation on 14 July after delayed charging of the 400 kV Bikaner-II/III line
8Solapur STPS Unit 1 (660 MW) and Sipat-I Unit 3 (660 MW) among NTPC monsoon overhauls trimming Western Region supply
8About 7,510 MW of thermal capacity tripped or shut on 12 July, led by 685 MW Adani Raipur unit and multiple 660 MW units
8About 6,240 MW returned to grid on 12 July, including Talwandi Sabo (660 MW), Bellary (700 MW) and Neyveli New (500 MW)
8UP's Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (660 MW each) still out since mid-June on coal-feeding-system faults
8Windstorm collapses two towers of the 400 kV Raipur PS (Durg)-Kurud D/C line in Chhattisgarh on 19 May 2026
8220 kV Vapi-II (Sterlite)-Sayali D/C line remains out since September 2024 over a helipad in the corridor
8Wrong line opened: 220 kV Indore (PG)-Ujjain-1 tripped instead of scheduled Ujjain-2 on 15 June 2026, out for over 1.5 hours
8WRLDC lists WR generators taking planned outages without the required WRLDC code, some running days late
8WRPC lists WR transmission elements that tripped repeatedly in Q1 of 2026-27
8IndiGrid seeks Rs 18 crore and change-in-law relief to raise 765 kV Dharamjaygarh-Jabalpur line after Chhattisgarh HC induction case
8WRPC finalises MoU template after Adani's proposed 30-day shutdown of 765 kV Kotra-Tamnar and Kotra-Durg lines for APL Raigarh rail works Details
8Kudankulam nuclear Unit 1 (1,000 MW) offline since 8 July on generator protection operation; NPCIL targets 15 July restart
8NTPC Gadarwara Unit 1 (800 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 13 July; largest unit out in Western Region
8Telangana's Yadadri Unit 4 (800 MW) out on coal shortage since 9 July; sister Unit 1 also down for overhaul
8Two Ghatampur supercritical units (2x660 MW) offline three to four weeks on coal-feeding problems
8Obra-C TPS Unit 1 (660 MW) out to 26 July on generator fault as 765 kV Obra-C bus isolator hotspots recur
8Barh (Bihar) has both 660 MW units out - Unit 2 on overhaul after boiler leak, Unit 3 on abnormal boiler sound
8OPGC Unit 3 (660 MW) in Odisha tripped on boiler tube leak on 14 July
8WBPDCL Sagardighi Unit 5 (660 MW) tripped 14 July on critical 220V DC system failure; two-week revival
8SEIL Project-2 Unit 1 (660 MW) in Andhra Pradesh tripped on cooling-water pipeline leak on 14 July
8Adani APL Mundra has three 660 MW units down (U8 clinker, U9 cooling-water leak, U6 overhaul) even as four RSD units returned
8Adani Tiroda Unit 5 (660 MW) in Maharashtra out from 13 July on high air-preheater gearbox vibration
8MahaGenco Bhusawal Unit 6 (660 MW) out on air-preheater fault; Unit 5 (500 MW) simultaneously on capital overhaul
8Anpara-C Unit 2 (600 MW) in UP out to 20 July on hydrogen leakage in the condenser
8Vedanta's 600 MW unit in Chhattisgarh has been out on a PA-fan trip since 14 April, revival now 31 July
8MahaGenco Chandrapur Unit 7 (500 MW) out on flame failure since 6 July, revival slated 10 August
8DVC Raghunathpur (RTPS) Unit 2 (600 MW) out on high turbine vibration since mid-April; revival 11 August
8Adani Coastal Energen Unit 1 (600 MW) in Tamil Nadu tripped 14 July on condenser water-box vent leak
8TNPGCL Mettur has both a 600 MW unit and a 210 MW unit out - Unit 5 on boiler leak, Unit 1 on rotor earth fault
8Hinduja HNPCL Unit 1 (520 MW) in Andhra Pradesh out on condenser tube leak since 12 July
8NTPC Dadri-I Unit 1 (210 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 12 July
8Rajasthan's Kota TPS has two units out - Unit 4 (210 MW) on TG bearing vibration, Unit 1 (110 MW) on vacuum fault
8Harduaganj-D Unit 9 (250 MW) in UP out since 2 July on raw-water non-availability / reheater protection trip
8HPGCL Panipat Unit 6 (210 MW) tripped 14 July on loss of all fuel
8PSPCL Ropar (Guru Gobind Singh) Unit 3 (210 MW) tripped late on 14 July on boiler tube leak
8Rajwest lignite plant loses two 135 MW units to bed-material leakage within days
8Suratgarh super-critical Unit 8 (660 MW) tripped and recovered same day on generator rotor earth fault
8CLP Jhajjar Unit 2 (660 MW) back on 14 July after two-day boiler-tube-leak outage
8CSPGCL Korba East (DSPM) Unit 1 (250 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak while Unit 2 sits on annual overhaul
8GSECL Wanakbori loses two 210 MW units on 14 July to low vacuum and a boiler tube leak
8ACBIL Unit 1 (135 MW) in Chhattisgarh out on low coal stock since mid-June
8WBPDCL Kolaghat Unit 3 (210 MW) out since 18 June after a boiler fire hazard
8Tuticorin Units 1 and 2 (2x210 MW) still out 16 months after a control-room fire; revival now end-2026
8PVUNL Patratu Unit 1 (800 MW) returned 14 July after five days offline on low system demand
8KPCL Bellary Unit 1 (500 MW) tripped twice within hours on 14 July on ID-fan and reverse-power protection
8SJVN Bikaner solar plant lost ~2.5 hours of generation on 14 July after delayed charging of the 400 kV Bikaner-II/III line
8Solapur STPS Unit 1 (660 MW) and Sipat-I Unit 3 (660 MW) among NTPC monsoon overhauls trimming Western Region supply
8About 7,510 MW of thermal capacity tripped or shut on 12 July, led by 685 MW Adani Raipur unit and multiple 660 MW units
8About 6,240 MW returned to grid on 12 July, including Talwandi Sabo (660 MW), Bellary (700 MW) and Neyveli New (500 MW)
8UP's Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (660 MW each) still out since mid-June on coal-feeding-system faults
8Windstorm collapses two towers of the 400 kV Raipur PS (Durg)-Kurud D/C line in Chhattisgarh on 19 May 2026
8220 kV Vapi-II (Sterlite)-Sayali D/C line remains out since September 2024 over a helipad in the corridor
8Wrong line opened: 220 kV Indore (PG)-Ujjain-1 tripped instead of scheduled Ujjain-2 on 15 June 2026, out for over 1.5 hours
8WRLDC lists WR generators taking planned outages without the required WRLDC code, some running days late
8WRPC lists WR transmission elements that tripped repeatedly in Q1 of 2026-27
8IndiGrid seeks Rs 18 crore and change-in-law relief to raise 765 kV Dharamjaygarh-Jabalpur line after Chhattisgarh HC induction case
8WRPC finalises MoU template after Adani's proposed 30-day shutdown of 765 kV Kotra-Tamnar and Kotra-Durg lines for APL Raigarh rail works Details
Grid Operations Daily
Jul 15:
8All-India power demand met 251,139 MW at evening peak on 14 July with 1,057 MW national shortage
8All-India grid ran over-frequency on 14 July, outside the IEGC 49.90-50.05 Hz band 18.8% of the day
8Ancillary services were net down-regulating on 14 July, with 48,461 MWh of down despatch against 27,810 MWh up
8Northern Region met 86,204 MW evening peak with a 318 MW shortage; Uttar Pradesh carried out unscheduled load shedding
8Western Region met 71,426 MW evening peak with 200 MW shortage; Maharashtra curtailed 100 MW on a 132 kV Sakri-Dhule overload
8Southern Region carried the largest regional shortage on 14 July: 539 MW at evening peak
8Kerala short by 508 MW at maximum demand on 14 July and logged a frequency emergency on the grid code
8Eastern Region met its full 30,861 MW evening peak and ran as a large net exporter on 14 July
8North-Eastern Region met its 3,862 MW peak in full and exported surplus power on 14 July
8Northern Region imported a net 326.9 MU on 14 July, led by the 4,027 MW Champa-Kurukshetra HVDC
8Eastern Region exported 92.4 MU to the South on 14 July, chiefly over the Angul-Srikakulam 765 kV and Talcher-Kolar HVDC
8India imported 52.4 MU from Bhutan and 19.7 MU from Nepal on 14 July while exporting 41.6 MU to Bangladesh
8North-Eastern intra-regional corridors to Assam and Tripura breached TTC and ATC limits on 13 July
8Haryana and Punjab breached ATC limits and Haryana violated N-1 on Northern intra-regional corridors on 14 July
8Rajasthan hit the daily cap of deviation zero-crossing violations on 14 July, running 55 blocks without a sign change
8Eastern Region flagged N-1 violations on the 400 kV Banka-Kahalgaon and MPL-Maithon corridors on 14 July
8Gujarat curtailed about 9 MU of wind and solar on 14 July for grid security and stability
8NLDC's day-ahead SCUC for 15 July committed 48 thermal and gas units below minimum turndown, costliest at Rs 21.85/kWh
8Western Region met its 80,330 MW June 2026 peak with nil shortfall; monthly energy shortfall just 0.05%
8Maharashtra resorts to load shedding on 11 days in June 2026, peaking at 1,850 MW on 27 June
8Chhattisgarh load-sheds on eight days in June 2026, mostly late-night, peaking 779 MW on 29 June
8WRLDC flags persistent Maharashtra over-drawl at low frequency during 25-28 June 2026, with 1,700 MW of coal-hit Mahagenco capacity idle
8400 kV Navsari-Vav single-circuit line loads above 800 MW at night in early July 2026 as intra-Gujarat renewables fall
8Western Gujarat 400 kV nodes run at 432-434 kV overnight, forcing 49 line-switching operations
8Sardar Sarovar 400 kV switchyard runs at 415-420 kV when SSP machines are off, NCA seeks remedy Details
8All-India grid ran over-frequency on 14 July, outside the IEGC 49.90-50.05 Hz band 18.8% of the day
8Ancillary services were net down-regulating on 14 July, with 48,461 MWh of down despatch against 27,810 MWh up
8Northern Region met 86,204 MW evening peak with a 318 MW shortage; Uttar Pradesh carried out unscheduled load shedding
8Western Region met 71,426 MW evening peak with 200 MW shortage; Maharashtra curtailed 100 MW on a 132 kV Sakri-Dhule overload
8Southern Region carried the largest regional shortage on 14 July: 539 MW at evening peak
8Kerala short by 508 MW at maximum demand on 14 July and logged a frequency emergency on the grid code
8Eastern Region met its full 30,861 MW evening peak and ran as a large net exporter on 14 July
8North-Eastern Region met its 3,862 MW peak in full and exported surplus power on 14 July
8Northern Region imported a net 326.9 MU on 14 July, led by the 4,027 MW Champa-Kurukshetra HVDC
8Eastern Region exported 92.4 MU to the South on 14 July, chiefly over the Angul-Srikakulam 765 kV and Talcher-Kolar HVDC
8India imported 52.4 MU from Bhutan and 19.7 MU from Nepal on 14 July while exporting 41.6 MU to Bangladesh
8North-Eastern intra-regional corridors to Assam and Tripura breached TTC and ATC limits on 13 July
8Haryana and Punjab breached ATC limits and Haryana violated N-1 on Northern intra-regional corridors on 14 July
8Rajasthan hit the daily cap of deviation zero-crossing violations on 14 July, running 55 blocks without a sign change
8Eastern Region flagged N-1 violations on the 400 kV Banka-Kahalgaon and MPL-Maithon corridors on 14 July
8Gujarat curtailed about 9 MU of wind and solar on 14 July for grid security and stability
8NLDC's day-ahead SCUC for 15 July committed 48 thermal and gas units below minimum turndown, costliest at Rs 21.85/kWh
8Western Region met its 80,330 MW June 2026 peak with nil shortfall; monthly energy shortfall just 0.05%
8Maharashtra resorts to load shedding on 11 days in June 2026, peaking at 1,850 MW on 27 June
8Chhattisgarh load-sheds on eight days in June 2026, mostly late-night, peaking 779 MW on 29 June
8WRLDC flags persistent Maharashtra over-drawl at low frequency during 25-28 June 2026, with 1,700 MW of coal-hit Mahagenco capacity idle
8400 kV Navsari-Vav single-circuit line loads above 800 MW at night in early July 2026 as intra-Gujarat renewables fall
8Western Gujarat 400 kV nodes run at 432-434 kV overnight, forcing 49 line-switching operations
8Sardar Sarovar 400 kV switchyard runs at 415-420 kV when SSP machines are off, NCA seeks remedy Details
Power Markets Daily
Jul 15:
8IEX Day-Ahead Market clears at Rs 6.33/kWh average on 14 July, evening and night blocks pinned to the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8IEX Real-Time Market clears 172,398 MWh at Rs 5.87/kWh average on 14 July, peaks at the ceiling
8IEX Green Day-Ahead Market clears just 28,423 MWh at Rs 5.97/kWh on 14 July as green buy bids run ~4.8x green supply
8IEX High-Price Day-Ahead Market clears nothing for a seventh straight day despite ~72,000 MWh/day of sell offers
8IEX Term-Ahead Market daily and intraday contracts clear at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8IEX Green Term-Ahead Market: solar/daily-contingency legs clear near the Rs 10/kWh ceiling, wind contracts at Rs 5.90/kWh
8PXIL Real-Time Market clears 650 MWh on 14 July, entirely at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8PXIL contingency/DSM auction clears ~956 MW of buy across three evening blocks at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8Third exchange RTM clears only 50 MWh on 14 July, all at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8UPPCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy up to 315 MW of evening-peak power for September 2026
8WBSEDCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy 300 MW off-peak and 300 MW peak power for August 2026 Details
8IEX Real-Time Market clears 172,398 MWh at Rs 5.87/kWh average on 14 July, peaks at the ceiling
8IEX Green Day-Ahead Market clears just 28,423 MWh at Rs 5.97/kWh on 14 July as green buy bids run ~4.8x green supply
8IEX High-Price Day-Ahead Market clears nothing for a seventh straight day despite ~72,000 MWh/day of sell offers
8IEX Term-Ahead Market daily and intraday contracts clear at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8IEX Green Term-Ahead Market: solar/daily-contingency legs clear near the Rs 10/kWh ceiling, wind contracts at Rs 5.90/kWh
8PXIL Real-Time Market clears 650 MWh on 14 July, entirely at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8PXIL contingency/DSM auction clears ~956 MW of buy across three evening blocks at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8Third exchange RTM clears only 50 MWh on 14 July, all at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8UPPCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy up to 315 MW of evening-peak power for September 2026
8WBSEDCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy 300 MW off-peak and 300 MW peak power for August 2026 Details
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Jul 15:
For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Tender for supply of multipurpose grease, lithium base grease and oil Details
8Tender for supply, installation commissioning of C and I spares for Jockey pump, hydrant pump, cable gallery Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for C and I part of FDPS (fire detection and protection system) installed Details
8Tender for construction of 02 Nos. fire wall at GT yard Details
8Tender for supply design erection testing and commissioning of 11kV HT line Details
8Tender for levelling, laying PCC, gravel and construction of trench covers at 132/33/11 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for providing newly proposed 11/0.4 kV 63 KVA S/stn. Details
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 220kV & 66kV equipments & materials Details
8Tender for work of erection and commissioning of 220kV and 132kV equipment, structures, control wiring etc Details
8Tender for Bi- annual rate contract for work of erection of 66kV transmission towers Details
8Tender for work of boiler tube surface preparation, thickness survey measurement with party’s D-meter Details
8Design, supply, installation, retrofitting, testing and commissioning of 220kV bus barpanel/scheme, 220 kV bus coupler relay scheme Details
8Tender for supply of 90/10 cupronickel condenser tubes Details
8Tender for supply of various lighting products Details
8Tender for work of penthouse roof restrengthening and repairing in boilers Details
8Tender for work of IN SITU repairing/overhauling of high energy drain valves and other low/medium/high pressure and temperature steam/water valves Details
8Tender for work of constructions of new maintenance free earth pit at 220 kV & 400kV switchyard Details
8Tender for supply of MS grill and fabrication & epoxy paint of stairs, railing, structure Details
8Tender for work of removal, supply and application of spray thermal insulation on drive turbines Details
8Tender for work of preventive maintenance of various 220 kV switchyard Details
8Tender for constructing new 11kV UG cable Details
8Tender for construction of 33 kV link line Details
8Tender for separation of 33 kV line Details
8Tender for work of transportation installation and commissioning of emergency restoration system ERS tower Details
8Tender for increasing capacity at 220 kV substation Details
8Tender for construction work of multipurpose seed store Details
8Tender for repairing and renovation of 09 Nos. existing bore holes and lowering and lifting Details
8Tender for carrying out miscellaneous job Details
8Tender for day to day comprehensive maintenance of civil and electrical works Details
8Tender for distribution of plant saplings Details
8Tender for supplying and laying of filled bag Details
8Tender for construction of 400kV (quad moose) 2nd D/C line Details
8Tender for purchase of sewage treatment plant Details
8Tender for construction of store in yard at 220 kV GSS Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing along with end bays Details
8Tender for assistance for maintenance and repair of electrical equipment Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of boilers Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of various Details
8Tender for tit bit civil work Details
8Tender for day-to-day operation of pumps, motors, and valves for the water supply system Details
8Tender for repair and renovation of the pump house Details
8Tender for misc. civil works inside Details
8Tender for upgradation/revamping of fire fighting facilities Details
8Tender for construction of pavement quality concrete Details
8Tender for construction of shed for hydro-mechanical (HM) works Details
8Tender for construction of damaged retaining wall on right bank Details
8Tender for work of HT LE using UG cable Details
8Tender for procurement of steel section quantity Details
8Tender for supply erection and commissioning of 20 torch panel welding machine Details
8Tender for balance civil and architectural works of main plant FGD civil works Details
8Tender for strengthening of crusher house Details
8Tender for development of water recharge shafts Details
8Tender for repair & rehabilitation works of 220 M height RCC chimney Details
8Tender for supply and installation of fills for stage 2 cooling tower Details
8Tender for earth mat extension and metalling work beyond 220kV fencing side at 220kV substation Details
8Tender for replacement of insulators from 110 kV substation Details
8Tender for award of contract for system strengthening works for survey, installation, testing and commissioning of new 5 MVA 33/11kV substation Details
8Tender for construction of RR masonry revetment wall at various Details
8Tender for procurement of power contactor and auxiliary contactor relays Details
8Tender for procurement of pneumatic fittings, tubings, hose and valves Details
8Tender for construction of coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for construction of road between coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for procurement of pressure switches and differential pressure switches Details
8Tender for supply of 9M long PCC poles Details
8Tender for supply of 10 KVA 11/0.433 kV aluminium wound EEL1 completely self protected (CSP) distribution transformers Details
8Tender for supply of 33kV single circuit ungalvanized steel lattice structure Details
8Tender for purchase of suspension type wave trap Details
8Tender for requirement of spares for service transformers installed Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for supply of TC fuse wire 12 SWG and 14 SWG Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance of minor civil and structural work Details
8Tender for procurement of conveyor belt Details
8Tender for service contract for evacuation job of accumulated ash and coal from all ducts of boiler during Details
8Tender for intermidiate additional pole between long spans in 11 kV and LT line Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines and 11/0.4 kV DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for augmentation of substation by replacement of 1X25 MVA 220/33kV T/F Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by replacement of 2x100MVA, 220/132kV ICTs Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by providing addition 1X100MVA 220/132kV ICT along with HV & LV bays Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for carrying out work of dismantling, erection & other allied activities in planned outage & emergency/breakdown for power transformers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 245 & 145 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 36 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for AMC for CTR make nitrogen injection fire protection system (NIFPS) for ICTs & transformer Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on existing of 132kV SCDC line Details
8Tender for second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract (AMC) for the demonstration, preventive maintenance as well as repairing work including supply of required spare of nitrogen injection fire protection systems Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance contract for the work of restoration of collapsed towers in emergency/breakdown situation of EHV lines Details
8Tender for work of dismantling of existing 132kV & 220kV various equipments Details
8Tender for work of supply, civil and ETC of replacement of 220kV & 132kV CTs and PTs Details
8Tender for work of erection, testing and commissioning of dedicated 400kV metering current transformer Details
8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 50MVA, 132/33kV power T/F along Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation capacity of substation by providing 1x100MVA, 220/132kV ICT along Details
8Tender for work of SITC of SCADA system along with integration of 25Nos. of bays and replacement of existing faulty relays Details
8Tender for work of establishment of 132-110/33 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for work of establishment of link line between 220kV phase 1 sub-station Details
8Tender for AMC for regular maintenance work, outage work and attending emergency breakdown work of 220 kV & 400 kV transmission lines Details
8Tender for works of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 1 x 100 MVA, 220/132 kV ICT along with bay equipments Details
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For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
8Linde India raises stake in Zenataris Renewable Energy Details
8India's renewable energy expansion to be driven by domestic firms: EY, Centrum Details
8India Rooftop Solar Market Surges in 2026 as PM Surya Ghar Drives Record Residential Adoption Details
8Eco Solutions Subsidiary Bags Rs 72.06 Crore Orders for Solar Inverters and BESS Details
8Waaree Energies Share: UBS Reduces Its Valuation and Sees Multiple Risks in the Company Details
8KEC International shares up 4%: Bags Rs 1,180 crore orders across T&D, renewables, civil businesses Details
8Manufacturing Lines: Building flexibility into solar production for the next technology shift Details
8From Coal to Code: How India’s Top PSUs Are Embracing AI Details
8ECL Signs MoU with WBFDCL to Plant 2.11 Lakh Saplings in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman Details
8Coal gasification can cut imports, but at a high cost Details
8India Hits Record 57 GW Wind Capacity Details
8Shell divests 5GW of wind and solar assets in India, with local energy group acquiring them to expand its footprint. Details
8Wheels India Board Approves Fund Raising of Up to Rs 400 Crore to Support Growth Plans Details
8Blueleaf Energy Secures $75M Debt for 850MW Renewable Projects Details
8Top 33 Power Sector Stocks to Watch in India 2026 Details
8India’s power demand growth to drive INR 50 trillion investment by FY32 Details
8APTEL Judgment Reinforces Regulatory Certainty And Boosts Investor Confidence In India’s Power Sector Details
8Tata Power share price target: 29% upside Why MOFSL is bullish on this Tata stock post AGM Details
8Vedanta Targets Major Expansion in Metals, Oil, and Power Sectors Details
8Birla's power play to reshape India's green grid Details
8NICCI Senior Advisor Attends India–Nepal Power Sector Luncheon Meeting Details
8Adani Group Breaks Into India's Top 10 Most Valuable Brands; Adani Power Leads Energy Rankings Details
8Green Energy Sector Shows Pockets Of Strength In Weak Market Session Details
8How ethanol and green energy changed Uttar Pradesh’s sugar industry Details
8India moves closer to its first geothermal power plant as ONGC drills second geothermal well in Ladakh Details
8GERC Invites Consultants To Develop Simplified And Future-Ready Retail Electricity Tariff Framework In Gujarat Details
8Centre to launch eighth critical mineral auction, offering 20 blocks Details
8WTTC projects India to become world’s fourth-largest Travel & Tourism economy by 2036 Details
8Data Centres and manufacturing may drive Rs 50 trillion power investment, but risks hitting a transmission wall Details
8RECPDCL Signs MoA for 1 MW Solar Power Plant at Gandhigram Rural Institute to Boost Clean Energy Adoption Details
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8Tender for supply of multipurpose grease, lithium base grease and oil Details
8Tender for supply, installation commissioning of C and I spares for Jockey pump, hydrant pump, cable gallery Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for C and I part of FDPS (fire detection and protection system) installed Details
8Tender for construction of 02 Nos. fire wall at GT yard Details
8Tender for supply design erection testing and commissioning of 11kV HT line Details
8Tender for levelling, laying PCC, gravel and construction of trench covers at 132/33/11 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for providing newly proposed 11/0.4 kV 63 KVA S/stn. Details
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 220kV & 66kV equipments & materials Details
8Tender for work of erection and commissioning of 220kV and 132kV equipment, structures, control wiring etc Details
8Tender for Bi- annual rate contract for work of erection of 66kV transmission towers Details
8Tender for work of boiler tube surface preparation, thickness survey measurement with party’s D-meter Details
8Design, supply, installation, retrofitting, testing and commissioning of 220kV bus barpanel/scheme, 220 kV bus coupler relay scheme Details
8Tender for supply of 90/10 cupronickel condenser tubes Details
8Tender for supply of various lighting products Details
8Tender for work of penthouse roof restrengthening and repairing in boilers Details
8Tender for work of IN SITU repairing/overhauling of high energy drain valves and other low/medium/high pressure and temperature steam/water valves Details
8Tender for work of constructions of new maintenance free earth pit at 220 kV & 400kV switchyard Details
8Tender for supply of MS grill and fabrication & epoxy paint of stairs, railing, structure Details
8Tender for work of removal, supply and application of spray thermal insulation on drive turbines Details
8Tender for work of preventive maintenance of various 220 kV switchyard Details
8Tender for constructing new 11kV UG cable Details
8Tender for construction of 33 kV link line Details
8Tender for separation of 33 kV line Details
8Tender for work of transportation installation and commissioning of emergency restoration system ERS tower Details
8Tender for increasing capacity at 220 kV substation Details
8Tender for construction work of multipurpose seed store Details
8Tender for repairing and renovation of 09 Nos. existing bore holes and lowering and lifting Details
8Tender for carrying out miscellaneous job Details
8Tender for day to day comprehensive maintenance of civil and electrical works Details
8Tender for distribution of plant saplings Details
8Tender for supplying and laying of filled bag Details
8Tender for construction of 400kV (quad moose) 2nd D/C line Details
8Tender for purchase of sewage treatment plant Details
8Tender for construction of store in yard at 220 kV GSS Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing along with end bays Details
8Tender for assistance for maintenance and repair of electrical equipment Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of boilers Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of various Details
8Tender for tit bit civil work Details
8Tender for day-to-day operation of pumps, motors, and valves for the water supply system Details
8Tender for repair and renovation of the pump house Details
8Tender for misc. civil works inside Details
8Tender for upgradation/revamping of fire fighting facilities Details
8Tender for construction of pavement quality concrete Details
8Tender for construction of shed for hydro-mechanical (HM) works Details
8Tender for construction of damaged retaining wall on right bank Details
8Tender for work of HT LE using UG cable Details
8Tender for procurement of steel section quantity Details
8Tender for supply erection and commissioning of 20 torch panel welding machine Details
8Tender for balance civil and architectural works of main plant FGD civil works Details
8Tender for strengthening of crusher house Details
8Tender for development of water recharge shafts Details
8Tender for repair & rehabilitation works of 220 M height RCC chimney Details
8Tender for supply and installation of fills for stage 2 cooling tower Details
8Tender for earth mat extension and metalling work beyond 220kV fencing side at 220kV substation Details
8Tender for replacement of insulators from 110 kV substation Details
8Tender for award of contract for system strengthening works for survey, installation, testing and commissioning of new 5 MVA 33/11kV substation Details
8Tender for construction of RR masonry revetment wall at various Details
8Tender for procurement of power contactor and auxiliary contactor relays Details
8Tender for procurement of pneumatic fittings, tubings, hose and valves Details
8Tender for construction of coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for construction of road between coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for procurement of pressure switches and differential pressure switches Details
8Tender for supply of 9M long PCC poles Details
8Tender for supply of 10 KVA 11/0.433 kV aluminium wound EEL1 completely self protected (CSP) distribution transformers Details
8Tender for supply of 33kV single circuit ungalvanized steel lattice structure Details
8Tender for purchase of suspension type wave trap Details
8Tender for requirement of spares for service transformers installed Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for supply of TC fuse wire 12 SWG and 14 SWG Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance of minor civil and structural work Details
8Tender for procurement of conveyor belt Details
8Tender for service contract for evacuation job of accumulated ash and coal from all ducts of boiler during Details
8Tender for intermidiate additional pole between long spans in 11 kV and LT line Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines and 11/0.4 kV DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for augmentation of substation by replacement of 1X25 MVA 220/33kV T/F Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by replacement of 2x100MVA, 220/132kV ICTs Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by providing addition 1X100MVA 220/132kV ICT along with HV & LV bays Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for carrying out work of dismantling, erection & other allied activities in planned outage & emergency/breakdown for power transformers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 245 & 145 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 36 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for AMC for CTR make nitrogen injection fire protection system (NIFPS) for ICTs & transformer Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on existing of 132kV SCDC line Details
8Tender for second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract (AMC) for the demonstration, preventive maintenance as well as repairing work including supply of required spare of nitrogen injection fire protection systems Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance contract for the work of restoration of collapsed towers in emergency/breakdown situation of EHV lines Details
8Tender for work of dismantling of existing 132kV & 220kV various equipments Details
8Tender for work of supply, civil and ETC of replacement of 220kV & 132kV CTs and PTs Details
8Tender for work of erection, testing and commissioning of dedicated 400kV metering current transformer Details
8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 50MVA, 132/33kV power T/F along Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation capacity of substation by providing 1x100MVA, 220/132kV ICT along Details
8Tender for work of SITC of SCADA system along with integration of 25Nos. of bays and replacement of existing faulty relays Details
8Tender for work of establishment of 132-110/33 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for work of establishment of link line between 220kV phase 1 sub-station Details
8Tender for AMC for regular maintenance work, outage work and attending emergency breakdown work of 220 kV & 400 kV transmission lines Details
8Tender for works of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 1 x 100 MVA, 220/132 kV ICT along with bay equipments Details
You can also click on Tenders for more
For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
8Linde India raises stake in Zenataris Renewable Energy Details
8India's renewable energy expansion to be driven by domestic firms: EY, Centrum Details
8India Rooftop Solar Market Surges in 2026 as PM Surya Ghar Drives Record Residential Adoption Details
8Eco Solutions Subsidiary Bags Rs 72.06 Crore Orders for Solar Inverters and BESS Details
8Waaree Energies Share: UBS Reduces Its Valuation and Sees Multiple Risks in the Company Details
8KEC International shares up 4%: Bags Rs 1,180 crore orders across T&D, renewables, civil businesses Details
8Manufacturing Lines: Building flexibility into solar production for the next technology shift Details
8From Coal to Code: How India’s Top PSUs Are Embracing AI Details
8ECL Signs MoU with WBFDCL to Plant 2.11 Lakh Saplings in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman Details
8Coal gasification can cut imports, but at a high cost Details
8India Hits Record 57 GW Wind Capacity Details
8Shell divests 5GW of wind and solar assets in India, with local energy group acquiring them to expand its footprint. Details
8Wheels India Board Approves Fund Raising of Up to Rs 400 Crore to Support Growth Plans Details
8Blueleaf Energy Secures $75M Debt for 850MW Renewable Projects Details
8Top 33 Power Sector Stocks to Watch in India 2026 Details
8India’s power demand growth to drive INR 50 trillion investment by FY32 Details
8APTEL Judgment Reinforces Regulatory Certainty And Boosts Investor Confidence In India’s Power Sector Details
8Tata Power share price target: 29% upside Why MOFSL is bullish on this Tata stock post AGM Details
8Vedanta Targets Major Expansion in Metals, Oil, and Power Sectors Details
8Birla's power play to reshape India's green grid Details
8NICCI Senior Advisor Attends India–Nepal Power Sector Luncheon Meeting Details
8Adani Group Breaks Into India's Top 10 Most Valuable Brands; Adani Power Leads Energy Rankings Details
8Green Energy Sector Shows Pockets Of Strength In Weak Market Session Details
8How ethanol and green energy changed Uttar Pradesh’s sugar industry Details
8India moves closer to its first geothermal power plant as ONGC drills second geothermal well in Ladakh Details
8GERC Invites Consultants To Develop Simplified And Future-Ready Retail Electricity Tariff Framework In Gujarat Details
8Centre to launch eighth critical mineral auction, offering 20 blocks Details
8WTTC projects India to become world’s fourth-largest Travel & Tourism economy by 2036 Details
8Data Centres and manufacturing may drive Rs 50 trillion power investment, but risks hitting a transmission wall Details
8RECPDCL Signs MoA for 1 MW Solar Power Plant at Gandhigram Rural Institute to Boost Clean Energy Adoption Details
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Jul 15:
8Daily Excel covering new tenders and all published updates including corrigendum, amendment, addendum, clarification and status revisions, along with technical and financial bid opening, evaluation completion and final award actions including AOC and LOA issuance.
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POWER MARKETS DAILY
Jul 14:
8IEX Real-Time Market clears at a weekly high of Rs 5.25 a unit on the thinnest volume of the week
8Green Day-Ahead Market firms to Rs 4.02 a unit, the only active green segment
8Term-ahead trades cling to the price ceiling; PXIL deviation market clears nothing
8Hydro day-ahead segment draws sellers but no buyers all week
8Intraday volume-profile products barely trade, and only at the cap Details
8Green Day-Ahead Market firms to Rs 4.02 a unit, the only active green segment
8Term-ahead trades cling to the price ceiling; PXIL deviation market clears nothing
8Hydro day-ahead segment draws sellers but no buyers all week
8Intraday volume-profile products barely trade, and only at the cap Details
GRID OPERATIONS DAILY
Jul 14:
8All-India demand held near 251 GW on 13 July with an energy shortage of just 0.17%
8Frequency stayed in band 84% of the day but spent twice as long high as low
8Reliability indices clean nationally; localised violations at Dadra & Nagar Haveli and voltage deviations in Rajasthan and Karnataka
8Ancillary despatch ran firmly downward on 13 July - but far less than mid-week
8Regional peaks reconcile; the only material residual shortage is a Kerala pocket Details
8Frequency stayed in band 84% of the day but spent twice as long high as low
8Reliability indices clean nationally; localised violations at Dadra & Nagar Haveli and voltage deviations in Rajasthan and Karnataka
8Ancillary despatch ran firmly downward on 13 July - but far less than mid-week
8Regional peaks reconcile; the only material residual shortage is a Kerala pocket Details
OUTAGE & MAINTENANCE REGISTER
Jul 14:
8Kudankulam-1 (1,000 MW nuclear) remains out since 8 July on generator protection
8Gadarwara-1 (800 MW, NTPC) trips fresh on a boiler-tube leak
8Adani Power Maharashtra Tiroda-5 (660 MW) out on air-pre-heater vibration
8Mettur-5 (600 MW) forced out on a boiler-tube leak
8Both Ghatampur units (660 MW each) remain out since June on coal-feeding failure
8Other large forced units carried over on 13 July
8Six large units returned to the bar, cushioning the evening peak
8Kanpur GIS 400 kV Bus-1 out on busbar protection for a process-bus upgrade
8765 kV Kurnool–Maheshwaram-2 remains out on an R-N fault
8765 kV Raichur–Sholapur-2 out on an isolator hot-spot
8Other notable transmission elements out on 13 July
8Forward maintenance diary: a heavy annual-overhaul slate through the year
8Register-reading cautions: artefacts and mirrored entries Details
8Gadarwara-1 (800 MW, NTPC) trips fresh on a boiler-tube leak
8Adani Power Maharashtra Tiroda-5 (660 MW) out on air-pre-heater vibration
8Mettur-5 (600 MW) forced out on a boiler-tube leak
8Both Ghatampur units (660 MW each) remain out since June on coal-feeding failure
8Other large forced units carried over on 13 July
8Six large units returned to the bar, cushioning the evening peak
8Kanpur GIS 400 kV Bus-1 out on busbar protection for a process-bus upgrade
8765 kV Kurnool–Maheshwaram-2 remains out on an R-N fault
8765 kV Raichur–Sholapur-2 out on an isolator hot-spot
8Other notable transmission elements out on 13 July
8Forward maintenance diary: a heavy annual-overhaul slate through the year
8Register-reading cautions: artefacts and mirrored entries Details
FUEL & COAL LEDGER
Jul 14:
8Coal stocks stable at about 17 days; not one plant officially critical, but Niwari TPP is down to a single day
8Renewable generation climbed through the week to 1,349 MU, led by Rajasthan and Gujarat
8Ministry of Coal opens two decriminalisation and penalty consultations
8The gas fleet again sits idle on economics, not fuel Details
8Renewable generation climbed through the week to 1,349 MU, led by Rajasthan and Gujarat
8Ministry of Coal opens two decriminalisation and penalty consultations
8The gas fleet again sits idle on economics, not fuel Details
HYDRO & RESERVOIR LEDGER
Jul 14:
8Odisha reservoirs mostly below last year; Hirakud the exception, passing heavy inflow
8Odisha hydro generation about 504 MW; two stations idle
8Coverage note: no national reservoir bulletin this edition Details
8Odisha hydro generation about 504 MW; two stations idle
8Coverage note: no national reservoir bulletin this edition Details
Contracting news for the day
Jul 14:
8Rs 128 crore cable procurement tightens quality filters as technical scrutiny reshapes competition
A large procurement has quietly become a test of manufacturing capability rather than simply price competitiveness. Technical scrutiny significantly narrowed the competitive field before commercial bids assumed importance. The outcome signals broader changes in how future utility procurements may increasingly evaluate suppliers
8Rs 289 crore reactor award carries a far longer risk tail than the contract value suggests
This latest reactor package carries implications that extend well beyond equipment procurement. The technical framework, contractual structure and award outcome collectively indicate a procurement strategy that could influence future transmission packages. The deeper significance becomes evident only after examining the tender clause by clause.
8A familiar GIS package introduces an unfamiliar procurement structure
A new procurement structure quietly changes where project risk begins and who carries it first. The commercial framework appears straightforward, but several clauses reshape competitive positioning well before the owner awards the contract. The biggest implications emerge only after the document is read clause by clause.
81000 MW renewable procurement signals another important step in India's evolving RTC power market
A utility-scale renewable procurement has returned to the spotlight after a series of developments during the bidding process. The headline capacity is only one part of what makes this opportunity strategically significant for developers and investors alike. The real story emerges after examining how the procurement framework has gradually evolved.
8Tender extends timeline for Rs solar park infrastructure tender, giving bidders more room before the next procurement milestone
A revised schedule has quietly reshaped the bidding calendar for one of Rajasthan's key renewable infrastructure packages. The change appears procedural, but its impact could extend beyond just the submission date. The implications for competition and bid strategy become clearer inside the document.
8A 70-day deadline shift redraws the competitive field for the Chitradurga project
The tender covers more than isolated equipment procurement. Its balance-of-system structure brings several engineering and construction interfaces under one competitive package. The allocation of those interfaces will shape bidder appetite and execution exposure.
8Environmental compliance takes centre stage as a major EPC package advances
A major environmental upgrade package has entered a crucial phase after fresh revisions altered the procurement timeline without changing the project's technical ambition. The contract combines engineering, construction and long-term performance responsibility into a single execution model that raises the competitive threshold for bidders. The real significance, however, lies in how the procurement strategy could influence both participation and execution quality.
8A critical thermal EPC package quietly raises the bar for execution and competition
A technically important package is doing far more than inviting bids for an auxiliary system. The procurement structure reveals a deliberate shift in how execution responsibility, commercial discipline and bidder capability are being balanced before work even begins. The implications extend well beyond this individual contract and become evident only after examining the tender in detail.
8The engineering design quietly raises the technical benchmark for future transmission projects
The project's configuration reflects decisions that extend beyond routine EPC execution. Equipment choices indicate a longer-term network strategy rather than a conventional asset replacement. Their significance only becomes evident when viewed collectively.
8A Rs 142 crore EPC contest has stayed open 110 days longer, but its hardest conditions remain untouched
A major turnkey procurement has undergone four deadline extensions without any corresponding easing of its commercial or technical obligations. The extra preparation window sits alongside fixed pricing, heavy security commitments and a long post-handover responsibility. What the unchanged clauses reveal about the intended bidder pool is more significant than the revised calendar itself. Details
A large procurement has quietly become a test of manufacturing capability rather than simply price competitiveness. Technical scrutiny significantly narrowed the competitive field before commercial bids assumed importance. The outcome signals broader changes in how future utility procurements may increasingly evaluate suppliers
8Rs 289 crore reactor award carries a far longer risk tail than the contract value suggests
This latest reactor package carries implications that extend well beyond equipment procurement. The technical framework, contractual structure and award outcome collectively indicate a procurement strategy that could influence future transmission packages. The deeper significance becomes evident only after examining the tender clause by clause.
8A familiar GIS package introduces an unfamiliar procurement structure
A new procurement structure quietly changes where project risk begins and who carries it first. The commercial framework appears straightforward, but several clauses reshape competitive positioning well before the owner awards the contract. The biggest implications emerge only after the document is read clause by clause.
81000 MW renewable procurement signals another important step in India's evolving RTC power market
A utility-scale renewable procurement has returned to the spotlight after a series of developments during the bidding process. The headline capacity is only one part of what makes this opportunity strategically significant for developers and investors alike. The real story emerges after examining how the procurement framework has gradually evolved.
8Tender extends timeline for Rs solar park infrastructure tender, giving bidders more room before the next procurement milestone
A revised schedule has quietly reshaped the bidding calendar for one of Rajasthan's key renewable infrastructure packages. The change appears procedural, but its impact could extend beyond just the submission date. The implications for competition and bid strategy become clearer inside the document.
8A 70-day deadline shift redraws the competitive field for the Chitradurga project
The tender covers more than isolated equipment procurement. Its balance-of-system structure brings several engineering and construction interfaces under one competitive package. The allocation of those interfaces will shape bidder appetite and execution exposure.
8Environmental compliance takes centre stage as a major EPC package advances
A major environmental upgrade package has entered a crucial phase after fresh revisions altered the procurement timeline without changing the project's technical ambition. The contract combines engineering, construction and long-term performance responsibility into a single execution model that raises the competitive threshold for bidders. The real significance, however, lies in how the procurement strategy could influence both participation and execution quality.
8A critical thermal EPC package quietly raises the bar for execution and competition
A technically important package is doing far more than inviting bids for an auxiliary system. The procurement structure reveals a deliberate shift in how execution responsibility, commercial discipline and bidder capability are being balanced before work even begins. The implications extend well beyond this individual contract and become evident only after examining the tender in detail.
8The engineering design quietly raises the technical benchmark for future transmission projects
The project's configuration reflects decisions that extend beyond routine EPC execution. Equipment choices indicate a longer-term network strategy rather than a conventional asset replacement. Their significance only becomes evident when viewed collectively.
8A Rs 142 crore EPC contest has stayed open 110 days longer, but its hardest conditions remain untouched
A major turnkey procurement has undergone four deadline extensions without any corresponding easing of its commercial or technical obligations. The extra preparation window sits alongside fixed pricing, heavy security commitments and a long post-handover responsibility. What the unchanged clauses reveal about the intended bidder pool is more significant than the revised calendar itself. Details
CERC DOCKET
Jul 14:
8MPPMCL v OPTCL - order reserved on a long-running wheeling-charge refund
8Saimaa Solar v CTUIL - interim protection for 150 MW at Bikaner-III
8Avaada v CTUIL - anti-revocation relief sought
8Ayana v CTUIL - land-bank-BG to LOA conversion dispute
8EG Mega Urja v CTUIL - round-the-clock and non-solar-hour access
8NTPC Renewable v CTUIL - land-document extension for 900 MW at Mandsaur
8SJVN v ReNew - round-the-clock tariff adoption for 448 of 1,200 MW
8APNRL v HPPC - fuel-cost adjustment and late-payment surcharge
8Eight renewable developers seek SCSD extensions from NHPC and NTPC
8CREHTPL v SJVN - a further SCSD-extension plea
8Adani Renewable, ReNew and Anupavan v SECI - bid-nullity dispute adjourned
8NLCIL v Angul Sundargarh Transmission - LILO-line charges review admitted
8POWERGRID v AVVNL - transmission-tariff review
8WRLDC/CTUIL v MPSEZ Utilities - RLDC fees and transmission dues Details
8Saimaa Solar v CTUIL - interim protection for 150 MW at Bikaner-III
8Avaada v CTUIL - anti-revocation relief sought
8Ayana v CTUIL - land-bank-BG to LOA conversion dispute
8EG Mega Urja v CTUIL - round-the-clock and non-solar-hour access
8NTPC Renewable v CTUIL - land-document extension for 900 MW at Mandsaur
8SJVN v ReNew - round-the-clock tariff adoption for 448 of 1,200 MW
8APNRL v HPPC - fuel-cost adjustment and late-payment surcharge
8Eight renewable developers seek SCSD extensions from NHPC and NTPC
8CREHTPL v SJVN - a further SCSD-extension plea
8Adani Renewable, ReNew and Anupavan v SECI - bid-nullity dispute adjourned
8NLCIL v Angul Sundargarh Transmission - LILO-line charges review admitted
8POWERGRID v AVVNL - transmission-tariff review
8WRLDC/CTUIL v MPSEZ Utilities - RLDC fees and transmission dues Details
STATE REGULATORY ROUNDUP
Jul 14:
8West Bengal orders all utilities into the Ninth Control Period MYT filing
8Kerala regulator dismisses two KSEBL-linked matters on maintainability
8Delhi relaxes security deposits for Kanwar-season temporary connections
8Gujarat’s PGVCL reports an 11.17% Q4 distribution loss
8Haryana ash-utilisation returns and an Uttarakhand disclosure refresh Details
8Kerala regulator dismisses two KSEBL-linked matters on maintainability
8Delhi relaxes security deposits for Kanwar-season temporary connections
8Gujarat’s PGVCL reports an 11.17% Q4 distribution loss
8Haryana ash-utilisation returns and an Uttarakhand disclosure refresh Details
GREEN MARKETS & RE PROGRAMME WATCH
Jul 14:
8GUVNL and TANGEDCO launch large firm-power reverse auctions on HPX
8Fraunhofer benchmark puts world solar near 2,974 GW with module prices around US$0.10/Wp
8Mangalam Worldwide commissions a 10.4 MW captive solar plant
8Pace Digitek’s Lineage Power signs a third BESS supply framework
8International context: UK puts public support behind long-duration storage Details
8Fraunhofer benchmark puts world solar near 2,974 GW with module prices around US$0.10/Wp
8Mangalam Worldwide commissions a 10.4 MW captive solar plant
8Pace Digitek’s Lineage Power signs a third BESS supply framework
8International context: UK puts public support behind long-duration storage Details
CORPORATE WIRE
Jul 14:
8Siemens reports an 18-month transition year: Rs 33,868 crore of orders and a 900% dividend
8Transformers & Rectifiers India affirmed IND A+/A1+ with a larger rated book; results due 20 July
8SJVN Green Energy - CARE reaffirms AA and enlarges the facility to Rs 14,844.71 crore
8SJVN Ltd - AA+/A1+ reaffirmed on a strong parent credit
8Supreme Power Equipment wins a Rs 13.6 crore transformer order
8Sarda Energy to weigh a fund-raise alongside Q1 results
8Jaiprakash Power Ventures board meets 20 July for Q1 results
8Sterling and Wilson Renewable holds a Q1 earnings call on 17 July
8Torrent Power sets its 22nd AGM for 3 August
8Adani Enterprises converts partly paid rights shares to fully paid
8Viaton Energy notched down to CARE B- as the issuer keeps its agency in the dark
8IL&FS Wind Energy’s Rs 200 crore debentures stay in default - a shell the wind farms already left
8SJVN Arun-3’s AA+ is a borrowed rating - strip the guarantee and it is BBB+, on a project slipping to 2028 Details
8Transformers & Rectifiers India affirmed IND A+/A1+ with a larger rated book; results due 20 July
8SJVN Green Energy - CARE reaffirms AA and enlarges the facility to Rs 14,844.71 crore
8SJVN Ltd - AA+/A1+ reaffirmed on a strong parent credit
8Supreme Power Equipment wins a Rs 13.6 crore transformer order
8Sarda Energy to weigh a fund-raise alongside Q1 results
8Jaiprakash Power Ventures board meets 20 July for Q1 results
8Sterling and Wilson Renewable holds a Q1 earnings call on 17 July
8Torrent Power sets its 22nd AGM for 3 August
8Adani Enterprises converts partly paid rights shares to fully paid
8Viaton Energy notched down to CARE B- as the issuer keeps its agency in the dark
8IL&FS Wind Energy’s Rs 200 crore debentures stay in default - a shell the wind farms already left
8SJVN Arun-3’s AA+ is a borrowed rating - strip the guarantee and it is BBB+, on a project slipping to 2028 Details
COMMITTEES, PEOPLE & SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
Jul 14:
8Southern RPC advances pre-islanding load-shedding, grid-forming BESS and black-start ahead of its 58th meeting
8Northern RPC’s 245th coordination meeting takes up islanding, black-start trials and the Kanpur busbar upgrade
8Grid-India’s minimum-turndown support settlements: Rs 51 lakh in April, Rs 24 lakh in May
8Western RPC coordination: Khavda dynamic compensation, IEGC self-audits and the annual overhaul plan
8People: Punjab reshuffles senior engineers; Himachal invites Ombudsman applications; a coal retention
8A northern RE sub-committee meeting and two southern operational milestones Details
8Northern RPC’s 245th coordination meeting takes up islanding, black-start trials and the Kanpur busbar upgrade
8Grid-India’s minimum-turndown support settlements: Rs 51 lakh in April, Rs 24 lakh in May
8Western RPC coordination: Khavda dynamic compensation, IEGC self-audits and the annual overhaul plan
8People: Punjab reshuffles senior engineers; Himachal invites Ombudsman applications; a coal retention
8A northern RE sub-committee meeting and two southern operational milestones Details
Power Finance Corporation floats the Satara Power Transmission SPV to evacuate up to 4,500 MW of pumped storage in the Western Region
Jul 14:
8PFC has incorporated a wholly owned special-purpose vehicle, Satara Power Transmission Ltd, to build a Western-Region transmission scheme sized to serve pumped-storage potential of up to 4,500 MW near Satara in Maharashtra. As the bid-process coordinator, PFC (through PFC Consulting) will develop the SPV and transfer it to the winning bidder under the tariff-based competitive-bidding route.
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A wave of connectivity-revocation challenges hits the CERC as CTUIL tightens on financial closure - developers race to protect grid access
Jul 14:
8The Central Transmission Utility’s harder line on connectivity milestones has produced a cluster of developer challenges now live at the CERC, heard together on 9 July. In 319/MP/2026 Saimaa Solar contested CTUIL’s 10 June revocation of its connectivity for missing financial closure and won interim protection - the Commission directed that 150 MW at the Bikaner-III pooling station not be re-allocated while CTUIL verifies the financial-closure documents on affidavit, with the matter listed for 25 August. It does not stand alone: Avaada (186/MP/2026) is seeking anti-revocation relief, Ayana (109/MP/2026) is contesting a land-bank-BG to LOA conversion, and EG Mega Urja (317/MP/2026) is fighting over round-the-clock/non-solar-hour access.
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NHPC seeks an interim tariff for the 2,000 MW Subansiri Lower project while SJVN’s 900 MW Arun-3 slips to 2028 - the Himalayan hydro pipeline is straining at both ends
Jul 14:
8Two of the country’s largest under-construction hydro stations moved in opposite-but-related ways in today’s file. At the CERC, NHPC’s petition 258/GT/2026 against UPPCL seeks a generation tariff - with an interim tariff pressed - for the 2,000 MW Subansiri Lower project, with revised tariff forms due by 27 July and the matter listed for 27 August. Separately, CARE’s rating rationale on SJVN Arun-3 records the 900 MW Nepal project’s scheduled commissioning slipping from December 2025 to March 2028 on geological grounds, with a cost overrun flagged.
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The grid curtailed wind and solar and pushed generators down even as renewable output climbed - an oversupply signature, not a shortage
Jul 14:
8The system spent 13 July leaning against surplus, not scarcity. Frequency sat above the 50.05 Hz ceiling for 10.57% of the day and below 49.90 Hz for only 5.32%; net ancillary despatch was 56,691 MWh downward against 11,781 MWh up; and the day-ahead price collapsed to around Rs 0.50 a unit in the midday solar hours before the evening peak. On the renewable side, the REMC report for 12 July shows variable renewable output actually rising - 1,349 MU nationally, wind climbing through the week - yet with heavy curtailment attributed to “high frequency and heavy underdrawal.”
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A single CT failure at Fatehgarh-III cascades through the 400/220 kV network, tripping about a dozen renewable-evacuation feeders in Rajasthan
Jul 14:
8At around 17:44 on 13 July an R-phase current-transformer failure at the POWERGRID Fatehgarh-III substation in Rajasthan set off a cascade recorded in the Northern Region outage register: a 765/400 kV, 1,500 MVA interconnecting transformer, seven 400/220 kV 500 MVA ICTs, four 220 kV buses and roughly twelve renewable-evacuation feeders tripped together. Fatehgarh is a backbone node for evacuating desert wind and solar, so the event reads as an equipment-protection failure with direct renewable-dispatch consequences.
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India’s generation ran 4.7% below programme on 11 July - the cause was broken units, not short coal
Jul 14:
8All-India generation excluding renewables came in at 4,309.74 MU on 11 July against a programme of 4,521.78 MU, a shortfall of 4.7%. Coal stocks were not the constraint: 148 monitored plants held about 36.2 million tonnes, roughly 17 days of cover, with not one plant flagged critical.
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NHPC restarts two Teesta-V units in Sikkim as the 1,200 MW Teesta-III below it stays stranded and fights for change-in-law relief
Jul 14:
8NHPC told the exchanges that Units 1 and 2 of its 510 MW Teesta-V station - 170 MW each, 340 MW together - resumed commercial generation at 17:00 on 13 July after grid synchronisation, with the third unit to follow. Twenty kilometres downstream, the 1,200 MW Teesta-III remains out nearly two years after the October 2023 glacial-lake-outburst flood destroyed its dam, and its owner Sikkim Urja is still before the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission seeking to pass through Sikkim’s ecosystem water charge as change-in-law.
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IEX day-ahead price for 14 July delivery jumps to Rs 6.33 a unit as buy bids overtake sell offers
Jul 14:
8The average day-ahead clearing price on the Indian Energy Exchange for delivery on 14 July settled at Rs 6,328.93 per MWh - Rs 6.33 a unit - up from Rs 2.49 a unit as recently as 12 July. For the first time in the week, purchase bids (523,267 MWh) exceeded sell bids (462,625 MWh), the signature of a supply-tight session rather than a demand collapse.
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APERC opens the FY2025-26 fuel-cost true-up for Andhra Pradesh’s three DISCOMs, with objections due by 3 August
Jul 14:
8The Andhra Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission has admitted fuel-and-power-purchase-cost adjustment (FPPCA) true-up petitions for FY2025-26 from all three state distribution companies - APSPDCL (OP 32/2026), APCPDCL (OP 33/2026) and APEPDCL (OP 34/2026) - and set a public-objection window closing 3 August, with DISCOM replies due by 13 August. The petitions reconcile the actual fuel and power-purchase cost the utilities incurred against what tariff already recovered.
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Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update
Jul 14:
8Daily Excel covering new tenders and all published updates including corrigendum, amendment, addendum, clarification and status revisions, along with technical and financial bid opening, evaluation completion and final award actions including AOC and LOA issuance.
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Jul 14:
For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Tender for supply of various sizes diaphragm valves Details
8Tender for supply of 11 kV vertical GOS AB switch with PT insulator Details
8Tender for supply of 11 kV transfromer structure material Details
8Tender for supply of GI stem bolt and nut Details
8Tender for procurement of 8 Nos of ethernet switches with necessary accessories for various Details
8Tender for supply of consumable material Details
8Tender for procurement of hydraulic hoses for CHP hydraulic system Details
8Tender for supply of sulphuric acid Details
8Tender for estimate for 33 kV feeder Details
8Tender for supply of 03 Nos. SPS for ICTs at 400kV substations Details
8Tender for procurement of various LED lights Details
8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with RMS of 46 KWp grid connected solar PV power plant Details
8Tender for work of power/control instrument cable tray cleaning, cable tracing & redressing and miscellaneous works Details
8Tender for various maintenance works of wagon tippler Details
8Tender for work of ash lifting of ESP Details
8Tender for civil other other miscellaneous works Details
8Tender for work of carry out corrosive test of various MS structure of coal handling plant Details
8Tender for procurement of 400kV current transformer Details
8Tender for repairing and maintenance contract of rolling shutters Details
8Tender for supply of MS rods along with buts bolts and lugs for tower earthing Details
8Tender for purchase of HDPE PVC pipe 140mm Details
8Tender for purchase of three phase 200kVA (aluminium wound) level 1/star-1 rated CRGO/amorphous core distribution transformers Details
8Tender for supply of ceralined P.F. bends and orifice for coal mill Details
8Tender for supply of cooler for ID fan motor Details
8Tender for procurement of collecting electrode of ESP Details
8Tender for providing protection measures against shooting and falling of stones Details
8Tender for providing comprehensive slope stabilization and protection works on the upstream slope Details
8Tender for supply of materials Details
8Tender for supply of non-asbestos gaskets Details
8Tender for supply of pneumatic drain isolating valve Details
8Tender for SCADA integration of 13 No 33 kV GIS bays Details
8Design, manufacturing, testing and supply of 220kV emergency restoration system tower Details
8Tender for supply of LT 3phase channel cross arm. Details
8Tender for installing new 200MVA, 220/110kV 3 ph Trfr station in existing spare bay available Details
8Design, engineering, manufacturing factory test inspection supply supervision of installation and commissioning of 11kV RMUs Details
8Tender for rerouting and standisation of 11kV line Details
8Tender for rerouting of 11kV line Details
8Tender for work of extension of switch house at 66 kV sub station Details
8Tender for construction of 33 kV substation Details
8Tender for erection of 0.15 Kms S/C 33 kV line Details
8Tender for supply of pneumatic knife gate valves Details
8Tender for retrofitting/replacement work of vertical waterwall, repair and checking work of stirrup with buckstays, wall and tie beam/bar Details
8Tender for supply of PIP pipe for fly ash conveying system of ESP Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for replacement of damaged disc insulators string of 132kV transmission line Details
8Tender for AMC for work of overhauling/servicing with spares of 33kV circuit breakers of various make at various substations Details
8Tender for supply of micro pulveriser, jaw type coal sampler and coal sampler crusher Details
8Tender for work of shifting the electrical assets Details
8Tender for supply of various consumables, measuring instruments, Tools tackles, CPVC and fasteners items Details
8Tender for supply of CPVC pipe & fittings Details
8Tender for supply of fire water pump-3 with motor Details
8Tender for work related to reconstruction of damaged T/F fencing Details
8Tender for replacement of existing 11 kV ACSR conductor with 11 kV Dog conductor Details
8Tender for construction work of double circuit 11 kV line Details
8Tender for work of MRI and bill distribution of KCC, non KCC, solar Details
8Tender for work of installing insulated covered conductor in place of ACSR weasel conductor Details
8Tender for work of installing insulated covered conductor Details
8Tender for work of MRI and bill distribution of KCC, non KCC, solar, STW/PTW consumers Details
8Tender for work of installing insulated covered conductor in place of ACSR wessel conductor in 11 kV power line Details
8Tender for biennial service contract of job related to chemical solution preparation and chemical handling Details
8Tender for procurement of different spares of bowl mill Details
8Tender for procurement of 200 MT hydrochloric acid and 50 MT caustic soda flakes Details
8Tender for procurement of steel materials and fasteners for pressure and non-pressure parts Details
8Tender for service contract for repairing of air/flue gas duct, pipe line Details
8Tender for procurement of grinding rollers and bull ring segments for coal mill Details
8Tender for procurement of straight pipe for repairing of coal carrying pipe Details
8Tender for refurbishment of under carriage set Details
8Tender for coal mill performance test of unit Details
8Tender for service contract for overhauling of mechanical system for ash handling plant Details
8Tender for various civil jobs Details
8Tender for augmentation of substation by providing additional 1x50MVA, 132/33kV TF Details
8Tender for work of augmentation of substation by addition of 25MVA, 132/33kV power transformer along Details
8Tender for work of providing and fixing of additional 33kV PT set along Details
8Tender for annual contract for the work of loading, unloading, winching and transportation of various EHV power transformers/ICT’s Details
8Tender for work of annual rate contract for attending on site minor repairs/ maintenance work/ OLTC overhauling of EHV class power transformers/ ICTs at various Details
8Tender for supply of equipments/ material, erection, testing and commissioning for the work augmentation by providing additional 1 x 25MVA, 132- 110/33 kV T/F Details
8Tender for supply, erection and commissioning of new street light poles with cable laying Details
8Tender for misc. civil works Details
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 66kV D/C line on D/C panther tower Details
8Tender for repair, maintenance, and installation of plant/ systems/equipments Details
8Tender for supply of various items Details
8Tender for supply of knife gate valve for ash handling plant Details
8Tender for work of misc pressure part related activity of boiler stage Details
8Tender for supply of various ratings LT motor Details
8Design, supply erection commissioning and testing of water distribution system Details
8Tender for fabrication and erection of wind barrier in LHP stack yard. Details
8Tender for work of collection of fly ash, bed ash Details
8Tender for procurement of various type of control transformers Details
8Tender for supply & application of high insulation floor coating at switchgear Details
8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for transportation of material including loading, unloading and stacking of any store material Details
8Tender for turnkey based contract for conversion of existing 11kV LT line network Details
8Tender for purchase of 4CX185mm2 LT PVC cable Details
8Tender for supply of special 414 TXM coupling set TXM-301865 & its gasket for pulverized fuel pipes of boiler Details
8Tender for supply of tool kit and service kit for single point automatic lubrication system Details
8Tender for turnkey based contract for conversion of existing overhead LT line network Details
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For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
8FGD-exempted coal power plants within 300 km of NCR behind 81 pc SO2 emissions in this sector: Report Details
8Most sulphur dioxide around Delhi comes from coal plants exempted from pollution rules: CREA Details
8Avaada activates first phase of 6 GW TOPCon solar cell plant Details
8CERC tells clean energy firms to lose grid connection or generate power Details
8Power sector: Equirus starts coverage on JSW Energy, Torrent; NTPC top pick Details
8Tamil Nadu Signs Rs 15,037 Crore Deal with Vikram Solar to Expand Battery Energy Storage Manufacturing Details
8Why tapped solar electricity is going down the drain in India Details
8THDCIL Celebrates 39th Foundation Day, Reaffirms Commitment to India’s Clean Energy Future Details
8Most sulphur dioxide around Delhi comes from coal plants exempted from pollution rules: CREA Details
8Aditya Birla Group acquires Shell’s India renewable arm Sprng for $1.8 bn Details
8India’s Power Transmission Sector to See Rs 5-6 Trillion Capex by FY32 Amid Renewable Energy Expansion: ICRA Details
8GUVNL Awards 250 MW Phase XI Wind Projects To NLC India Renewables, Juniper Green, Powerica & Cu-Built At INR3.51/kWh Details
8Why India's growing solar surplus is going unused despite record demand Details
8FGD-Exempted Coal Power Plants Within 300 Km of NCR Behind 81 pc SO2 Emissions in This Sector: Report Details
8Campaign against ethanol is sponsored; my focus is on national interest: Nitin Gadkari Details
8Why India’s C&I sector is slow to embrace battery storage Details
8NHPC’s Phukot Karnali Project, Cross-Border Power Trade to Dominate Nepal-India Energy Talks Details
8Honda India Power Products recommends Rs 23 dividend, schedules AGM Details
8TERI urges national push for solar thermal energy to decarbonise India’s industrial sector Details
8How Renewable Energy Companies Are Redefining Environmental Sustainability in India Details
8NTPC Board Approves Rs 20,456.70 Crore Investment for 1,600 MW Lara Stage-III Thermal Power Project Details
8Equirus Securities Initiates Coverage on JSW Energy, Torrent Power Details
8Rajasthan prioritises financial strength of DISCOMs, pushes renewable energy for sustainable power sector Details
8Subsidy support masks discom stress; reforms key: S&P Details
8Rolls-Royce mtu Generators Power New INS Mahendragiri Frigate Details
8NHPC resumes commercial operation of two units at Teesta-V Power Station Details
8Power Stock in Focus After Receiving Rs 443 Crore BESS and PCS Order from Bondada Renewable Energy Details
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8Tender for supply of various sizes diaphragm valves Details
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8Tender for estimate for 33 kV feeder Details
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8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with RMS of 46 KWp grid connected solar PV power plant Details
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8Tender for procurement of 400kV current transformer Details
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8Tender for purchase of three phase 200kVA (aluminium wound) level 1/star-1 rated CRGO/amorphous core distribution transformers Details
8Tender for supply of ceralined P.F. bends and orifice for coal mill Details
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8Tender for SCADA integration of 13 No 33 kV GIS bays Details
8Design, manufacturing, testing and supply of 220kV emergency restoration system tower Details
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8Tender for installing new 200MVA, 220/110kV 3 ph Trfr station in existing spare bay available Details
8Design, engineering, manufacturing factory test inspection supply supervision of installation and commissioning of 11kV RMUs Details
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8FGD-exempted coal power plants within 300 km of NCR behind 81 pc SO2 emissions in this sector: Report Details
8Most sulphur dioxide around Delhi comes from coal plants exempted from pollution rules: CREA Details
8Avaada activates first phase of 6 GW TOPCon solar cell plant Details
8CERC tells clean energy firms to lose grid connection or generate power Details
8Power sector: Equirus starts coverage on JSW Energy, Torrent; NTPC top pick Details
8Tamil Nadu Signs Rs 15,037 Crore Deal with Vikram Solar to Expand Battery Energy Storage Manufacturing Details
8Why tapped solar electricity is going down the drain in India Details
8THDCIL Celebrates 39th Foundation Day, Reaffirms Commitment to India’s Clean Energy Future Details
8Most sulphur dioxide around Delhi comes from coal plants exempted from pollution rules: CREA Details
8Aditya Birla Group acquires Shell’s India renewable arm Sprng for $1.8 bn Details
8India’s Power Transmission Sector to See Rs 5-6 Trillion Capex by FY32 Amid Renewable Energy Expansion: ICRA Details
8GUVNL Awards 250 MW Phase XI Wind Projects To NLC India Renewables, Juniper Green, Powerica & Cu-Built At INR3.51/kWh Details
8Why India's growing solar surplus is going unused despite record demand Details
8FGD-Exempted Coal Power Plants Within 300 Km of NCR Behind 81 pc SO2 Emissions in This Sector: Report Details
8Campaign against ethanol is sponsored; my focus is on national interest: Nitin Gadkari Details
8Why India’s C&I sector is slow to embrace battery storage Details
8NHPC’s Phukot Karnali Project, Cross-Border Power Trade to Dominate Nepal-India Energy Talks Details
8Honda India Power Products recommends Rs 23 dividend, schedules AGM Details
8TERI urges national push for solar thermal energy to decarbonise India’s industrial sector Details
8How Renewable Energy Companies Are Redefining Environmental Sustainability in India Details
8NTPC Board Approves Rs 20,456.70 Crore Investment for 1,600 MW Lara Stage-III Thermal Power Project Details
8Equirus Securities Initiates Coverage on JSW Energy, Torrent Power Details
8Rajasthan prioritises financial strength of DISCOMs, pushes renewable energy for sustainable power sector Details
8Subsidy support masks discom stress; reforms key: S&P Details
8Rolls-Royce mtu Generators Power New INS Mahendragiri Frigate Details
8NHPC resumes commercial operation of two units at Teesta-V Power Station Details
8Power Stock in Focus After Receiving Rs 443 Crore BESS and PCS Order from Bondada Renewable Energy Details
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Jul 14:
It is easy to get month-old import data but it is difficult to solicit forthcoming shipment information in India. We go through a laborious process of data collection to get you full import information, including company-wise, quantity-wise, port-wise, vessel-wise cargoes which are coming into India in the next 15-to30 days.
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Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update
Jul 13:
8Daily Excel covering new tenders and all published updates including corrigendum, amendment, addendum, clarification and status revisions, along with technical and financial bid opening, evaluation completion and final award actions including AOC and LOA issuance.
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CERC opens a 60-day window to free 22,054 MW of grid connectivity held by projects that never signed power-purchase agreements
Jul 13:
8In a suo-motu order dated 10 July, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission found that of 40,420 MW of connectivity granted through letters of award between January 2019 and May 2025, developers had signed purchase agreements for only 2,338 MW, leaving 22,054 MW blocked without a buyer. Rather than cancel the idle grants outright, the Commission has offered a voluntary menu of exit, substitution or surrender, and will auction released capacity from a Rs 3 lakh per MW base - a softer route adopted after developers argued that forced surrender would require a change in the regulations.
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- Jul 15: Telangana's Krishna-basin reservoir storage was down about 86% year-on-year on 15 July, with Srisailam at 10.3 TMC against 170.1 a year earlier:Details
- Jul 15: UPPCL and WBSEDCL floated cross-exchange reverse auctions for August-September peak-hour power on Hindustan Power Exchange:Details
- Jul 15: Gujarat's 'interim' Rs 1.50/unit green banking charge is extended again to 31 August 2026, a fixture nearly three years on:Details
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