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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.  IEX day-ahead power price more than doubles in a day, from Rs 2.49 a unit for Sunday to Rs 5.62 for Monday delivery.   India’s grid ran persistently over-frequency on Sunday 12 July, holding above 50.05 Hz for nearly a quarter of the day.  IREDA declares Rs 672.74 crore of loans to Gensol Engineering and its EV-leasing arm as fraud and reports them to the RBI.  Enforcement Directorate provisionally attaches Rs 762.75 crore of Reliance Power shares held by Reliance Infrastructure under the money-laundering law.  Southern grid regulator names large thermal units still not in free-governor mode two years after it became mandatory.  NTPC board approves Rs 20,457 crore for two 800 MW supercritical units at Lara in Chhattisgarh.  Power Markets Daily.  Contracting news for the day.  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.  Daily forward looking import matrices.  Download tenders and news clips.  Download tenders and news clips.  Power sold on the exchange for 30 paise a unit in the middle of the day.  The power market that averaged Rs 5.2 a unit in June is trading at Rs 3.1 three weeks later.   India's solar factories had their biggest single day of the year so far.  West Bengal will spend Rs 333 crore wiring the grid to a power plant that does not exist yet.   A private developer has cleared the technical gate for a 1,560 MW water battery in Uttar Pradesh.  A 1,000 MW nuclear unit tripped on Wednesday evening - and joined a long queue of idle reactors.  The east's rivers have delivered a third less hydro power than the plan assumed.  Thirty-one power plants are running low on coal in the very weeks they should be stockpiling for winter.  Batteries and pumped-hydro plants must now cut off instantly when the grid frequency dips, the western region has decided.  One transmission line in Rajasthan's renewable belt has tripped ten times since May.  India's biggest power highway between the west and the north tripped fifteen times in one month..  A battery bolted onto a solar plant does not need its own grid connection, Bihar's regulator has ruled.  Three states moved to lock in two months of power supply on the day prices crashed.  SECI has scrapped a 1,000 MW tender for exactly the kind of power the market now gives away.   India's wind farms produced more power on Wednesday evening than ever before.  Contracting news for the day.  Daily forward looking import matrices.  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.  Bulk procurement continues to reshape transformer buying.  Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update.  Midday power on the exchange sold for 25 paise a unit on Wednesday.  Sellers offered half a million units in the premium power market for eight straight days and found no buyer at all.  The grid ran above its permitted frequency ceiling for 20 minutes on Wednesday - a sign of too much power, not too little.  The national despatcher told coal plants that generate at Rs 1.16 a unit to stand down through the sunlight hours.  A strengthening El Niño has officialdom warning about electricity even as the grid drowns in surplus.  Srisailam is holding one-sixteenth of the water-energy it had on this day last year.  India’s dams produced a fifth less power in June than planned - and thermal quietly filled the entire gap.  A flash flood shut down all three units of a 405 MW hydro station in Arunachal - and the operator has told the regional grid forum it happened in sixteen minutes.  Two Navratna companies signed up on Tuesday to build a 1,080 MW coal plant for making aluminium.  One wind farm in Kutch produced two stock-exchange announcements - from the company that owns it and the company that built it.  The Centre cut Gujarat’s farm-solar quota twice in three months - and both state discoms have now scrapped their tenders.  Daily forward looking import matrices.  Contracting news for the day.  The Centre’s seven big grid-linked gas power stations burned no domestic gas at all in May.  Assam’s state generation company has applied to become an electricity trader across state lines.  Uttarakhand’s regulator has cleared the ground for the state to shop for 1,320 MW of new coal power on 25-year contracts.  Power plants burned five million tonnes more coal than they received in June, and stocks are down to sixteen days.  POWER MARKETS.  GREEN MARKETS.  GRID OPS DAILY.  HYDRO, COAL & GAS LEDGER.  REGULATORY ROUNDUP.  DEVIATION & SETTLEMENT DESK.  OUTAGE & MAINTENANCE REGISTER.  

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. Details

IEX day-ahead power price more than doubles in a day, from Rs 2.49 a unit for Sunday to Rs 5.62 for Monday delivery

Jul 13: 8Sunday 12 July drew the week’s largest sell offer, about 743 million units, against shrunken buying, pulling the day-ahead clearing price down to Rs 2.49 a unit and to as little as about 20 paise in the solar-heavy midday blocks. As weekday demand returned for 13 July, buyers bid a week-high 413 million units and the price rebounded to Rs 5.62, a swing that shows how thin the cushion has become between midday solar surplus and evening scarcity. Details

India’s grid ran persistently over-frequency on Sunday 12 July, holding above 50.05 Hz for nearly a quarter of the day

Jul 13: 8National frequency stayed inside the 49.90–50.05 Hz band for only 71.7% of 12 July and spent 21.9% of the day above it, peaking at 50.272 Hz, as low weekend demand met heavy midday solar generation. Seven 765 kV substations touched or breached their 800 kV ceiling for up to 18% of the day, and a day earlier the western despatcher had ordered wind and solar cut by as much as 55% - the operating signature of a system carrying more midday generation than it can absorb. Details

IREDA declares Rs 672.74 crore of loans to Gensol Engineering and its EV-leasing arm as fraud and reports them to the RBI

Jul 13: 8The state renewable-energy lender told the exchanges on 10 July that Rs 453.77 crore owed by Gensol Engineering and Rs 218.97 crore owed by Gensol EV Lease had been classified as fraud, citing misappropriation, criminal breach of trust and forged documents. IREDA has already provided against 85% of both accounts, limiting the fresh hit to its books, but the formal fraud tag on a once-marquee solar engineering borrower crystallises the downfall of the Gensol group. Details

Enforcement Directorate provisionally attaches Rs 762.75 crore of Reliance Power shares held by Reliance Infrastructure under the money-laundering law

Jul 13: 8Reliance Power told the exchanges on 11 July that a 10 July provisional attachment order also covers Rs 116.96 crore it is owed by Sasan Power and Rs 141.48 crore owed by Reliance Cleangen, part of a wider investigation into the Anil Ambani group. The company put the direct financial implication at Rs 258.44 crore and said it would contest the order, which lands while the group is still working through legacy debt and asset sales. Details

Southern grid regulator names large thermal units still not in free-governor mode two years after it became mandatory

Jul 13: 8An agenda circulated on 10 July for a 31 July special meeting lists plants including HNPCL (2×520 MW), Singareni (2×600 MW), Bhadradri (4×270 MW) and NCTPP Stage-II (2×600 MW) as still running on restricted governor mode, in breach of the 2023 grid code. The same review graded Tamil Nadu and Telangana “poor” on frequency response for 2025-26 and flagged NLC’s entire Neyveli fleet, pointing to a southern region lagging on the primary defence against frequency swings. Details

NTPC board approves Rs 20,457 crore for two 800 MW supercritical units at Lara in Chhattisgarh

Jul 13: 8The 11 July investment sanction covers Lara Super Thermal Power Project Stage-III (2×800 MW), taking the Raigarh-district station towards 3,200 MW and adding to NTPC’s coal build-out. At roughly Rs 12.8 crore a megawatt the commitment underlines that, even amid the renewable push, the country’s largest generator is still sanctioning large baseload coal capacity. Details

Power Markets Daily

Jul 13: 8Green day-ahead prices climb steadily even as the conventional day-ahead market swings
8High-price and ancillary day-ahead segments drew zero clearing all week for want of buyers
8PXIL switches on a new matching engine for its three day-ahead segments and makes seller minimum quantities binding in reverse auctions
8IEX real-time market cleared 5.7 lakh MWh over 10-12 July at Rs 3.21-3.55 a unit, floor near zero, ceiling Rs 10
8IEX term-ahead daily contracts split Western and Northern regions, clearing Rs 0.45 a unit to the Rs 10 cap
8Green term-ahead contracts cleared near Rs 4.0-4.4 a unit, late 12 July blocks pushed toward the Rs 10 cap
8PXIL real-time market cleared at the Rs 10 ceiling on 11 July night; IEX intraday published no price, PXIL DSM nil Details

Contracting news for the day

Jul 13: 8The proposed consultancy extends far beyond document preparation
The assignment combines technical, commercial and contractual responsibilities within a single advisory mandate. This points towards a more integrated procurement philosophy. The full impact becomes evident when the expected consultant role is examined closely.

8Rs 402 crore transmission push places two contrasting EPC strategies before bidders
Two high-voltage packages are testing the market with sharply different distances, timelines and execution demands. Their headline values reveal only part of the opportunity, while the deeper commercial pressure sits inside the design and security provisions. A closer reading shows why bidders cannot price either contract solely by route length.

8A 400 kV intervention carries the technical weight of the Rs 85 crore package
The larger strategic challenge lies in integrating a new connection with an existing high-voltage corridor. Survey accuracy, tower selection and outage coordination will influence more than the construction schedule. The detailed risk emerges from how these obligations are tied together.

8Uncapped escalation changes the pricing equation for a long-duration EPC contract
A global EPC package has bundled pollution control, ash handling, water systems, electrical facilities and plant-wide interfaces behind a substantial bid-security threshold. Uncapped escalation offers bidders rare inflation protection, but the completion and delay framework contains a drafting fault with potentially expensive consequences. The decisive issue lies not in equipment supply alone, but in who absorbs the risk when multiple packages converge at site.

8Rs 379 crore evacuation package widens the entry gate but leaves critical bid risks unresolved
A major renewable evacuation contract has quietly opened its qualification window to a wider class of electrical EPC companies. Yet conflicting security figures and tightly transferred engineering risks could determine who is willing to compete. The most consequential details lie inside the amended experience clause and the package’s uncompromising execution conditions.

8Development order opens a tightly controlled supply opportunity with steel-linked price protection and a two-stage delivery gate
A compact supply package carries a larger test of fabrication control, approval speed and commodity-risk pricing. The first delivery unlocks the balance quantity, while a tender-specific concession changes the normal schedule-risk equation. The decisive commercial advantage lies in how the steel formula, technical clearance and development obligations interact.

8540 MW wind mandate extends far beyond turbine supply
A large wind procurement has bundled land, turbines, grid infrastructure and a decade of O&M into one contractor-controlled package. The bidding structure offers capacity flexibility but imposes an unusually sharp financial and alliance test on companies seeking both blocks. A set of less-visible qualification conditions could decide who reaches the price-bid stage.

8Full advance payment and zero security reshape a six-month structural assessment contract
A short scientific inspection has been wrapped inside a far wider six-month contract window. The owner will fund mobilisation and release the inspection charges before the field visit without demanding performance or advance-payment security. The deeper significance lies in how much technical and commercial risk remains outside the visible scope.

8Power major seeks high-stakes ash-dyke verdict under an unusually relaxed contract
A fresh consultancy package puts the stability of multiple ash lagoons and overflow structures under digital and field-level scrutiny. The assignment combines seismic, seepage and rapid-drawdown modelling with a contract that removes several conventional enforcement safeguards. The most consequential tension lies not in the software or schedule, but in who carries the risk once the fee is released.

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Grid Operations Daily

Jul 13: 8All-India peak demand met 243,428 MW at 22:28 on 12 July, with nil peak and energy shortage nationwide
8Coal supplied 61% and renewables 24% of India’s 5,744 MU gross generation on 12 July
8Western Region net-exported 358.7 MU on 12 July, most of it into a Northern Region that imported 341 MU
8Eastern Region imported 49.12 MU from Bhutan and 20.28 MU from Nepal, exported 22.8 MU to Bangladesh on 12 July
8Eastern Region met a 31,850 MW peak with zero shortage on 12 July; Bihar drew to 8,503 MW
8Southern Region 400 kV nodes ran high - Hindupur hit 435.28 kV - while Munirabad sagged to 371 kV on 12 July
8Economic despatch in June pushed generation up nearly three times as often as it pushed it down
8Eastern Region day-ahead load forecast missed 5.06% on 11 July, with a systematic overnight over-forecast peaking near 2,857 MW
8GETCO Q1 loading shows 220 kV Asoj-Jambuva peaking at 505 MW against 360 MW design; several central and south Gujarat lines over capacity
8All-India ISTS transmission loss set at 3.86% for the 13-19 July week Details

Outage & Maintenance Register

Jul 13: 8Western Region generation outage rises to 22,902 MW on 12 July, with reserve shutdowns the largest single component
8Kudankulam Unit 1 (1,000 MW), Tamil Nadu, remains off the bar since 8 July after generator protection operated
8Adani Power’s 685 MW Raipur unit (Chhattisgarh) tripped twice within a day, latest on generator protection
8765 kV Akola-Koradi-III line (Maharashtra) out since 26 June after tower collapse at location 396
8Ghatampur TPS, Uttar Pradesh: both 660 MW units (1,320 MW) out for weeks on coal-feeding problems
8Monsoon high silt forces Himachal Pradesh hydro units off the bar on 10–12 July
8Western Region carries about 2,660 MW of major thermal overhauls due back between late July and mid-August
8NLDC lists Ramagundam and PVUNL Patratu units to come on-bar on 13–14 July; several long-idle units flagged Details

Fuel & Coal Ledger

Jul 13: 8Twenty-eight thermal stations sat on critical coal stock in mid-July, but pithead plants stayed well supplied and no eastern unit lost output to coal
8India’s power generation rose almost 11% in June while Coal India’s output was flat
8Pithead coal stocks held at 102% of norm on 11 July while non-pithead plants sat at 61%
8Coal India despatched 8.5 MT more than it mined in June, drawing down pit stocks
8CEA plant-receipt and Coal India despatch registers land within ~8% of each other for coal reaching power
8NTPC Bongaigaon’s part-load secondary-fuel-oil compensation roughly doubled from April to May Details

Hydro & Reservoir Ledger

Jul 13: 8All-India hydro supplied 576 MU on 12 July, a tenth of gross generation, with the Northern Region carrying most of it
8Sardar Sarovar holds more than double last year’s energy content, standing 8 metres higher on the Narmada
8Indira Sagar and Ukai both sit below last year, their stored energy down by half and a third
8Koyna sits about 6.7 m and a quarter of its energy content below last year, yet generated little on 12 July
8Odisha’s Hirakud stands 9 feet above last year while Balimela, Rengali and the rest sit lower
8North-eastern reservoirs hold near-full at Kopili but Ranganadi ran dry; reservoir-energy columns are OCR-suspect
8Hydro and reservoir ledger: Teesta cascade still shown out on the outage register, and western reservoirs run below last year Details

CERC Docket

Jul 13: 8CERC gives VEH Green and Gadag Power two more weeks to plead new JCC evidence in fight to stretch ISTS connectivity deadlines to 2027
8CERC lets BBMB withdraw its solar-connectivity relaxation plea after Third Amendment to GNA rules makes it moot; HVPNL open-access objection left open
8AMPIN challenges CTUIL for cutting Fatehgarh-IV non-solar-hour margin from 199.5 MW to 166 MW after it won a SECI peak-supply award; CERC admits, but flags AMPIN is only an applicant
8ReNew’s force-majeure bid to void CTUIL transmission bills adjourned to September as the linked 2 June order heads to APTEL
8ACME’s Great Indian Bustard change-in-law claim against SECI moves toward decision as it files reconciliation statement and auditor’s certificate
8CERC clears NTPC’s name change to ‘NTPC Mining Limited’ and gives it eight weeks to refile the Pakri Barwadih coal-price truing-up petition
8CERC shields NLC India’s 200 MW Bhuj solar connectivity from third-party reallocation even as CTUIL’s revocation proceeds; Rs 4.5 crore bank guarantee already encashed
8Tata Power Renewables asks CERC to restore 101 MW Kallam connectivity that CTUIL revoked in December before any interim order could issue
8CERC grants two fresh inter-State trading licences, including one to the Railways’ energy-management arm Details

State Regulatory Roundup

Jul 13: 8GSECL’s claimed capital cost for 800 MW Wanakbori Unit 8 climbs to about Rs 4,469 crore after BHEL settlement; GUVNL wants a full MYT prudence check on guest-house and event spend
8GERC reserves order on whether Gujarat Hira Bourse pays 2.5% or 15% to hand its Gem & Jewellery Park network to DGVCL
8GERC reserves order on cold-storage plea for concessional tariff as discoms argue it is a back-door review of the 2022 tariff order
8Rajasthan revises merit-order dispatch for 10-12 July after central-sector tariff change; Sasan cheapest at Rs 1.37/kWh variable, gas/liquid stations near-idle above Rs 20
8Uttar Pradesh regulator approves FY2026-27 electricity rate schedule with no across-the-board tariff rise as discoms file no hike proposal
8Delhi regulator lets discoms bill a fuel surcharge above the 10% cap for May, up to 25% for BRPL Details

GREEN MARKETS & RE PROGRAMME WATCH

Jul 13: 8India’s renewable plants generated 1,230.82 MU on 9 July, with wind ahead of solar and Gujarat leading states - CEA
8MNRE reopens NISE portal to 23 July for ALMM List-II investment-protection claims
8Trom Industries wins 42 MW of rooftop solar work orders from South Bihar discom under PM Surya Ghar
8Solar capacity in the Northern grid reaches 40,494 MW, nearly double the region’s hydro fleet
8Juniper Green’s 715 MW solar-wind-battery hybrid at Fatehgarh charged into the Northern grid in May 2026 Details

CORPORATE WIRE

Jul 13: 8Reliance Infrastructure unit MMOPL restructures Rs 2,771 crore NARCL debt, cutting dues by over Rs 1,100 crore and ending insolvency
8GE Power India seeks shareholder vote on demerger of loss-making Durgapur unit to JSW Energy, offering 10 JSW Energy shares per 139 held
8JSW Energy step-down unit wins Rs 443.74 crore order to supply 200 MW / 400 MWh battery storage to Bondada Renewable
8TMC Transformers files DRHP for Rs 550 crore all-fresh IPO to fund EHV greenfield plant and working capital
8PFC prices US$300 million three-year floating-rate notes at SOFR plus 110 bps
8Adani Energy Solutions receives first ESG rating from CareEdge, scoring 86.2 out of 100
8Jindal Steel CEO Gautam Malhotra to leave on 15 July
8CareEdge upgrades Clean Max Aditya Power to CARE A on parent’s improved profile
8POWERGRID wins TBCB mandate for Krishnagiri renewable-zone evacuation, to build two 765/400 kV substations in Andhra Pradesh
8POWERGRID secures second TBCB mandate in two days for Bhadla-III, Ramgarh and Kanpur substation augmentation
8Triveni Power Transmission constitutes board and committees ahead of listing under Triveni composite scheme
8BHEL’s FY2025-26 net profit roughly triples to Rs 1,578 crore on 19% higher revenue
8BHEL order book reaches Rs 2.39 lakh crore, powered by 10 GW of thermal orders and a first coal-gasification contract Details

COMMITTEES, PEOPLE & SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

Jul 13: 8A single un-backed relay dropped 190 MW across six western Mumbai suburbs, and a rodent felled 721 MW at NTPC’s Khavda hub, western grid panel finds
8SRPC grades Tamil Nadu and Telangana control areas ‘Poor’ on FY2025-26 frequency response; Kerala ‘Excellent’
8NLDC sets FY2026-27 frequency-response obligations for Southern states; Tamil Nadu highest at 1,214 MW/Hz in solar hours
8Coal Ministry gazettes SECL’s ‘Ke Sushrut’ NEET-coaching CSR scheme, a first for a coal PSU
8UP power regulator defers Rs 13,337-crore surplus question as discoms counterclaim a Rs 34,867-crore regulatory asset
8Northern grid logged 46 disturbances and incidents in May 2026 while peak demand of 87,675 MW stayed below the all-time high Details

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Jul 13:  For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
 8Tender for protection work for safeguarding the roof and structural components of the 33/11kV sub-station Details
 8Tender for augmentation of 33/11 kV s/stn Details
 8Tender for unserviceable/condemned iron scrap, scrap of copper, brass , alluminum, PVC wire, cable scrap Details
 8Tender for annual electrical M&R work Details
 8Tender for development of MRI based billing system for 5 kW Details
 8Tender for shifting of 132 kV transmission lines Details
 8Tender for aesthetic finishing works Details
 8Tender for renovation and modernisation of ABB DCS valves Details
 8Tender for upgradation of LVS to laser based projection system Details
 8Tender for balance of plant (BOP) EPC package Details
 8Tender for track fitting renewal (TFR) work for the existing Details
 8Tender for work for repairing and renewal coat of internal Details
 8Tender for protection work of bridge abutment and its return wall Details
 8Tender for repair and renovation works of type-III Details
 8Tender for drilling of borewell along with all pipelines works to water supply Details
 8Tender for supply of 500KVA 11/0.43kV distribution transformer Details
 8Tender for RCA for procurement of 11 kV (70 KN) and 33 kV (90 KN) strain hardware fittings Details
 8Tender for filling and leveling, fencing, retaining wall works Details
 8Tender for assistance in ESP control room operation in all three shift of 2x600 MW, SSTPP Details
 8Tender for carrying routine patrolling preventive breakdown maintenance of 220kV SC transmission line Details
 8Design, engineering, supply of materials equipment, erection, testing commissioning of 02 nos. 220 kV line feeder bay Details
 8Tender for construction of 1 No. 3rd addl. 20 MVA 132/11 kV T/F plinth and allied civil works Details
 8Tender for rotation and replacement with painting of ash disposal line Details
 8Tender for construction of allied works Details
 8Tender for procurement of 6 Nos. 100 kVA and 01 No. 250 kVA DG set Details
 8Tender for work of providing junior meter technicians Details
 8Tender for work of installation of one (01) No. 12.5 MVA power transformer Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract (AMC) for the maintenance of the associated electrical lines and redressal of consumer complaints under 33/11 kV power sub-station Details
 8Tender for supply, erection and commissioning of LT ACB 800 Amp. for 250/400 KVA DTRs Details
 8Tender for increasing capacity from 100 KVA to 250 KVA transformers Details
 8Tender for increasing capacity of transformers and construction of new transformers Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract (AMC) for the maintenance of the associated electrical lines Details
 8Tender for work of servicing & overhauling of 11/22/33kV indoor & outdoor circuit breakers at various substations Details
 8Tender for AMC of optical fiber network and LAN for ERP and internet connectivity Details
 8Tender for rate contract for annual maintenance contract for optical fiber network Details
 8Tender for work of testing of EHV grade transformer oil samples at site by mobile testing laboratory at various Details
 8Tender for supply of equipments/ material, erection, testing and commissioning for the work augmentation by providing additional 1 x 50 MVA, 132- 110/33 kV T/F Details
 8Tender for procurement of 400kV grading capacitors for 400kV CBs at 400kV substation Details
 8Tender for procurement of 33kV circuit breaker Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract for attending all emergency /break down /schedule/maintenance repairs works etc. of various 132kV, 220kV EHV substations Details
 8Tender for work of overhead termination arrangement of hybrid bay at 132 kV S/S Details
 8Tender for work of providing and fixing of OTI and WTI meters at various Details
 8Tender for procurement of supply / spares parts (AMC) for maintenance, servicing & repairing of 220 VDC & 48 VDC battery sets and battery chargers Details
 8Tender for work of replacement of old centralized HVAC system Details
 8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 132/33 kV, 50 MVA power T/F along Details
 8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of an additional 1X50 MVA 220/33kV power transformer Details
 8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of an additional 1X25 MVA 132/33kV power transformer along with HV, LV bay Details
 8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of an additional 1X25 MVA 132/33kV power transformer along Details
 8Tender for providing & fixing of portable & programmable battery charger suitable for 48V, 110V & 220V-50Amp with DC voltage monitoring Details
 
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8JSW Energy Subsidiary Wins INR 444 Crore BESS Order from Bondada Renewable Energy Details
 
8India is building the world’s largest green energy park in a remote desert, and it could employ 15,000 people Details
 
8How CERC Plans to Revive 16 GW of Stalled Renewable Energy Projects Details
 
8SCCL officials to assess coal gasification projects across India Details
 
8Jindal Steel Deploys Indigenous Coal Gasification in Global First for Steelmaking Details
 
8RIL plans development of second CBM asset to boost gas output Details
 
8Hyderabad Telangana SCCL Explores Diversified Energy Transition Details
 
8Top stocks in news: LTM, Power Grid, NTPC, DMart, SBI, IndiGo, RITES, Adani Green, Mankind Details
 
8India’s Power Sector Set For Massive Growth With Solar, Storage And Grid Investments By FY32 – Report Details
 
8Solar panel firm calls for future policy certainty Details
 
8Suzlon Energy, Inox Wind: Share price targets, Q1 results preview Details
 
830 crore eligible homes, just 40 lakh installations: 3 companies riding India’s Rs 97,021 crore rooftop solar growth Details
 
8Why tapped solar electricity is going down the drain in India Details
 
8Electricity, not AI models, could become India’s biggest AI opportunity: Report Details
 
8India's Power Sector Surges: A Multi-Year Transformation Driven by Renewables Details
 
8ONGC Drills Second Geothermal Well in Ladakh, Moves Closer to India’s First Geothermal Power Plant Details
 
8Editorial: Boost for India’s nuclear energy ambitions Details
 
8Telangana clears way for country’s first agriculture-only power discom Details
 
8India's power utilities to double down on capex, leverage to peak by FY30: Equirus Details
 
8SCCL Coal Gasification Pilot Project: UCG in Godavari Valley Details
 
8Power Grid Wins Transmission Project for Renewable Energy Grid Details
 
8Cable, wire market seen at Rs 1.7 lakh crore by FY30 on power, data centre boom Details
 
8NTPC Approves Rs 20,457 Crore Lara Thermal Power Expansion Details
 
84 Smart Meter Stocks to Watch Amid India’s 25 Crore Installation Push Details
 
8Energy Security & Power Grid Management Are Key To Solving India’s Power Crisis Details
 
8Is India’s Biggest AI Bet Actually Electricity What a New Report Reveals Details
 
8Holtec International Plans US IPO To Fund India Nuclear Projects Details
 
8350-Tonne Coal-Laden Vessel Stranded in Ganga Near Mokamaghat, Disrupts Coal Supply to NTPC Barh Details
 
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Jul 11:  For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
 
8Tender for filling and leveling, fencing, retening wall works Details
 
8Tender for work of 33kV line for 33 kV feeder Details
 
8Tender for construction of 33kV substation, installing of 2 Nos 5MVA 33/11kV transformers Details
 
8Tender for re routing of 11 kV line Details
 
8Tender for work of feeder re-orientation Details
 
8Tender for supply of 36kV copper XLPE power cable Details
 
8Tender for shifting height raising of 220 kV line Details
 
8Tender for height raising work of 132 kV line Details
 
8Tender for construction of 132 kV TSS bay at 132 kV substation Details
 
8Tender for construction of 132 kV TSS bay Details
 
8Tender for inceasing capacity from 2x63 MVA to 3x63 MVA with allied bay related civil works Details
 
8Tender for construction of civil work for increasing capacity Details
 
8Tender for civil and interior work Details
 
8Tender for supply of digital insulation tester Details
 
8Tender for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of control switching device Details
 
8Tender for supply of 765kV 210 kN CLR insulator Details
 
8Tender for supply of fire hose pipes Details
 
8Tender for erection of estimate for new substation Details
 
8Tender for creation installation of new 33/11 kV substation Details
 
8Tender for rate contract for supply of various size of LT XLPE single core unarmoured cable Details
 
8Tender for miscellaneous civil & electrical works Details
 
8Tender for supply of MS angles, channels and plates Details
 
8Tender for procurement of paints for quantity Details
 
8Tender for procurement of 1 No 50 MVA power transformer for 132/33 kV GSS Details
 
8Tender for item rate for day to day civil maintenance work Details
 
8Tender for supply of 3 over current and 1 earth fault relay Details
 
8Tender for supply of scraper bar for scraper chain conveyor system Details
 
8Tender for work of erection and commissioning of vortex finder in boiler Details
 
8Tender for supply of fire system pumps Details
 
8Tender for work of removal of existing MS/CS pipe & fittings and fabrication, erection, testing & commissioning of new SS 316L pipe and fittings Details
 
8Tender for medium repair of LT motors Details
 
8Tender for centralized rate contract for procurement of MS fasteners Details
 
8Tender for operation and maintenance of water supply and sewerage system Details
 
8Tender for SITC of automatic fire detection system and associated works Details
 
8Tender for replacement of old conventional lights of all platforms Details
 
8Tender for turnkey based contract for conversion of existing 11 kV HT line and LT line network Details
 
8Tender for repair works of 11kV substation Details
 
8Tender for repair of damaged runners of 20MW francis hydro turbine Details
 
8Tender for procurement of XLPE power and control cables Details
 
8Tender for revival of 220kV line-I by constructing D/C towers along Details
 
8Tender for construction of 11kV spur line and installation of transformer Details
 
8Tender for construction of 33kV MVCC line to shift 5 nos. of 33kV feeders at 132/33kV GIS along Details
 
8Tender for work of 24 Hr ground patrolling of underground EHV cables Details
 
8Tender for area drainage works of coal mining project. Details
 
8Tender for repair and protection of RCC structures Details
 
8Tender for supply and installation of 200 Nos solar street lights Details
 
8Tender for supply of 33 kV double circuit ungalvanized steel lattice structure Details
 
8Design, engineering, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 1,00,000 nos. of consumers 1.1 kWp on each consumer through net metering Details
 
8Tender for construction work for new proposed 33/11 kV substation Details
 
8Tender for modification of 220kV line Details
 
8Tender for maintenance work of overhead HT/LT line Details
 
8Tender for construction work of new 33/11kV substation Details
 
8Tender for manufacturing, stacking, curing and testing of 45,600 no. 9m long PCC poles Details
 
8Tender for procurement of 04 nos of complete tube bundle sets of heat exchanger/ cooler Details
 
8Tender for work of supply, installation and commissioning of 100% hot redundancy based continuously available Details
 
8Tender for biennial rate contract for thermal insulation and refractory works Details
 
8Tender for service contact for statutory inspection, examination, testing and certification of dangerous machinery Details
 
8Tender for supply delivery and installation of spares for different type of transducers installed Details
 
8Tender for renovation of CRB in terms of lowering plinth height painting and allied works Details
 
8Tender for laying of 33 kV, 1 x 1000 sqmm XLPE UG cable Details
 
8Tender for work for shifting of electric meter Details
 
8Tender for maintenance of lines and attending the consumers complaint of 33/11kV substation Kotdwar Details
 
8Tender for maintenance of lines and attending the consumers complaint of 33/11kV substation Details
 
8Tender for work of double circuit 33 kV line Details
 
8Tender for maintenance of lines and attending the consumers complaint of 33/11kV substation Details
 
8Tender for work of providing and fixing of non-conductive turbo wind driven conical bird guards Details
 
8Tender for work of complete overhauling of 400kV breakers pole Details
 
8Tender for supply of equipments/ material, erection, testing and commissioning for the work augmentation by providing additional 1 x 50MVA, 132- 110/33 kV T/F along Details
 
8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of new 2x80 MVAR 400kV switchable line reactors Details
 
8Tender for work of attending the punch point of 220kV DC line Details
 
8Tender for supply of lighting arrester for 220kV & 400kV switchyard Details
 
8Tender for turnkey contract for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 11 kV medium voltage covered conductor Details
 
8Tender for turnkey contract for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 11 kV medium voltage covered conductor (MVCC) with its accessories and allied items Details
 
8Tender for providing and fixing of chain link fencing around transformer Details
 
8Tender for annual rate contract for providing and fixing of 11 kV heat shrinkable outdoor, indoor & straight through joint type cable termination kit Details
 
8Tender for erection work of 66kV D/C on D/C panther tower with D/C ACSR panther conductor line Details
 
8Tender for work of 66kV D/C on D/C panther tower Details
 
8Tender for erection work of LILO to proposed 66kV sub-station Details
 
8Tender for erection work of LILO to Prop.66kV S/S Details
 
8Tender for supply of IE4 class LT motors Details
 
8Tender for supply of 90/10 cupronickel condenser tubes Details
 
8Tender for erection of HT, LT line & TC work Details
 
8Tender for work of complete overhauling / breakdown maintenance of C.W pumps Details
 
8Tender for supply, installation, and commissioning of non-contact type radar level transmitters Details
 
8Tender for supply of spares for EOT crane (135T / 30T) installed Details
 
8Tender for work of design, fabrication, erection of L-6 conveyor structure including rail alignment Details
 
8Tender for supply of fire sealing chemical and fire barrier mineral wool board system for sealing / coating for cable fire protection Details
 
8Tender for entire maintenance works of central air conditioning system, package AC's and tower Details
 
8Tender for work of complete overhauling of 20 cumecs capacity pump Details
 
8Tender for supply of Bed material for CFBC boiler Details
 
8Tender for work of complete overhauling of boiler and its auxiliaries including air pre heater and ducts Details
 
8Design, supply, fabrication, and erection work of 10,000 M3(cubic meter) capacity Details
 
8Tender for repair of electronic actuator cards, ESP controllers, relays & compressor controllers Details
 
8Tender for supply of network cables for network maintenance Details
 
8Tender for supply, erection, testing and commissioning of 220V DC, 510AH, KBH, Ni-Cd type battery set Details
 
8Tender for supply of castable refractory for ash handling plant Details
 
8Tender for supply, erection & commissioning of 11 kV lines with MVCC conductor & dismantling of existing open conductor 11 kV lines Details
 
8Tender for supply of various fly ash spares Details
 
8Tender for purchase of HDPE PVC pipe Details
 
8Tender for supply of wireless LCM kit for 220kV and 66kV class switchyard Details
 
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For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
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World Bank to mobilise $4.2 billion for India's rooftop solar programme Details
 
8India adds 26 GW of solar, 2.9 GW of wind power in H1 2026 Details
 
8Serentica bags USD 345m-loan for Karnataka wind-solar project Details
 
8Only 8 of 23 coal blocks get bids in latest commercial mine auction round Details
 
8Iron ore leads Q1 as aluminium gains, coal lags: Equirus Details
 
8Utilising Reserves: Coal gasification potential, initiatives and challenges Details
 
8Elevated coal costs seen capping Q1 margin recovery for steel firms Details
 
8SECL's 'Sushrut' Becomes First Coal PSU CSR Scheme in Gazette Details
 
8India's energy storage pipeline hits 140 GWh, says Shripad Yesso Naik Details
 
8Assam targets energy independence with Rs 77,353-crore power sector investment Details
 
8India’s peak power demand to reach 300 GW in 2027 Details
 
8KSEB Seeks KSERC Approval for 200 MW Solar-Plus-Storage Procurement at 2.93/kWh Details
 
8IntelliSmart Inaugurates Centre of Excellence in Palsana to Power India’s Next Generation of Energy Professionals Details
 
8SEIL Energy Named Among India’s Best Workplaces in Energy Sector Details
 
8REC Signs Rs 10,000 Crore MoU with Tripura Govt for Power Infrastructure Details
 
8Nuclear Equipment Makers Expand Capacity as India Opens the Sector Details
 
8India clears Chinese investment in strategic sectors Details
 
8Assam Budget 2026: 2 lakh govt jobs, Rs 72,000 crore power push and no new taxes Details
 
8REC Signs Rs 15,000 Crore MoUs with Tripura Govt for Power Infrastructure and Renewable Energy Projects Details
 
8India Renewable Energy Capacity Hits 297 GW, Solar Leads Details
 
8India’s Renewable Sector is Moving Beyond ‘Plain Vanilla Solar’ Details
 
8SHANTI Act 2025: India Opens Nuclear Power Sector to Private Firms Details
 
8Semiconductor Stock Powering India’s Defence, Railways, EVs and Data Centres with Indigenous Technology Details
 
8Advait Energy Transitions Shares In Focus After Bagging Rs 250.59 Crore Turnkey Contracts From PGVCL Details
 
8Weak Rains, Bigger Risks: S&P Explains What A Poor Monsoon Could Mean For India Details
 
8Coal India, REC, Infosys Among 5 High Dividend Stocks Details
 
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Power sold on the exchange for 30 paise a unit in the middle of the day

Jul 10: 8Sellers offered seven times more electricity than buyers wanted between noon and 2 pm, and the day-ahead price sat at Rs 0.30 for two straight hours. The grid operator then ordered generators to back down by 1,11,671 units of down-regulation - a hundred times more than it asked them to ramp up. Details

The power market that averaged Rs 5.2 a unit in June is trading at Rs 3.1 three weeks later

Jul 10: 8IEX's own June update celebrated prices up 32 per cent on the year, driven by heatwaves and the driest June in a decade. Then the monsoon covered the whole country in five weeks, wind broke the national record, and a third of the price disappeared. Details

India's solar factories had their biggest single day of the year so far

Jul 10: 8Premier Energies switched on a 5.6 GW module plant in Telangana and broke ground on a 6 GWh battery factory, while two module makers announced orders worth Rs 1,187 crore between them. The buyers tell the story - one order is from NTPC's renewable arm. Details

West Bengal will spend Rs 333 crore wiring the grid to a power plant that does not exist yet

Jul 10: 8The state regulator has approved, in principle, a 400 kV loop-in-loop-out line of about 68 kilometres to the premises of JSW's proposed thermal plant at Salboni. It is the first regulatory money committed to connecting the project. Details

A private developer has cleared the technical gate for a 1,560 MW water battery in Uttar Pradesh

Jul 10: 8The CEA's authority meeting of 16 June appraised the Chichilik pumped-storage project in favour of Avaada - the formal letter is still to be issued. It joins a queue of concurred hydro schemes totalling 6,340 MW that have yet to pour concrete. Details

A 1,000 MW nuclear unit tripped on Wednesday evening - and joined a long queue of idle reactors

Jul 10: 8Kudankulam's unit 1 went off the grid when its generator protection operated, with a return pencilled for 12 July. Behind it sits a quieter ledger: Kaiga-1 out since March 2025, Madras-1 out since January 2018, and the northern region's nuclear output 18 per cent behind its annual programme. Details

The east's rivers have delivered a third less hydro power than the plan assumed

Jul 10: 8India's hydro stations are 11 per cent behind their April-to-July programme, and the eastern region alone is 31 per cent short. At Srisailam in the south, the reservoir is 18 metres below last year's level - and five of six generating units are away for overhaul anyway. Details

Thirty-one power plants are running low on coal in the very weeks they should be stockpiling for winter

Jul 10: 8The national fleet holds 42.7 million tonnes - only two-thirds of what the norms require - and it burnt more coal than it received on the latest reporting day. Wanakbori in Gujarat is down to 14 per cent of its normative stock. Details

Batteries and pumped-hydro plants must now cut off instantly when the grid frequency dips, the western region has decided

Jul 10: 8Pumping and charging loads at 49.5 Hz will trip with no time delay at all - the two-minute grace at one Maharashtra plant is gone. Three newly built battery stations are named, and one of them cannot yet do it automatically. Details

One transmission line in Rajasthan's renewable belt has tripped ten times since May

Jul 10: 8The northern grid's own register lists six lines in the Western Rajasthan renewable complex that have each failed three times or more in two months, right where solar and wind farms feed the national grid. Every trip risks bottling up green power that has nowhere else to go. Details

India's biggest power highway between the west and the north tripped fifteen times in one month.

Jul 10: 8The 800 kV Champa–Kurukshetra line, which carries surplus western power into Delhi's hinterland, kept blocking its poles through May, and the northern grid operator has written three letters about it. PowerGrid has a fix - but says it will install it only after peak summer. Details

A battery bolted onto a solar plant does not need its own grid connection, Bihar's regulator has ruled

Jul 10: 8The state transmission utility wanted the Kajra project to hold connectivity for 230.4 MW - the solar plant plus the battery added together. The commission cut it to 185 MW, the solar capacity alone, because the battery only charges from the plant itself. Details

Three states moved to lock in two months of power supply on the day prices crashed

Jul 10: 8Ten separate buy-side auctions appeared on the exchange in one day - Chhattisgarh alone floated six windows of 300 MW each covering August and September round the clock. Rajasthan wants 1,000 MW for September and Goa is topping up its evenings. Details

SECI has scrapped a 1,000 MW tender for exactly the kind of power the market now gives away

Jul 10: 8The tender asked existing renewable plants to sell their surplus solar-hour output to SECI on medium-term contracts. It died in the same week that solar-hour power traded at 30 paise a unit on the exchange. Details

India's wind farms produced more power on Wednesday evening than ever before

Jul 10: 8Grid-India's renewable-energy desk logged 31,276 MW of wind generation at 5.20 pm on 8 July - the highest instantaneous wind output the country has recorded, entered into the all-time register the same evening. The record came as the monsoon, after the driest June in years, finally covered the whole country. Details

Contracting news for the day

Jul 10: 8A 19-day deadline reset opens a deeper risk window in a multi-voltage transmission package
A strategically important grid package has moved beyond its original bidding calendar as developers confront a tightly linked GIS, LILO and transmission-line scope. The additional bidding window may improve diligence, but it also draws attention to risks buried across land, interfaces, procurement and revenue sequencing. The decisive issue lies in how much of that uncertainty bidders ultimately price into the reverse auction.

8The extension offers 37 additional days but does not soften the execution deadline
The extension may appear administrative, but it changes the quality of risk that bidders can investigate before quoting. Route, land and existing-substation conditions can now receive closer scrutiny. Whether that produces higher contingencies or more aggressive bidding remains unresolved.

8Daily delay damages escalate after the first 60 days
The transmission agreement applies damages by reference to monthly transmission charges for each day of delay. The applicable rate rises once slippage crosses the initial period. The resulting cashflow exposure becomes more severe than the headline percentage first suggests.

8Rs 627 crore rooftop-solar package puts 1,00,000 consumer connections and decade-long performance risk into one contract
A mass rooftop-solar rollout is being packaged as a single integrated engineering, installation and long-term service mandate. The scale promises rare execution visibility but carries consumer-level risks that conventional EPC pricing may not absorb. A buried fee inconsistency and a sizeable security requirement reveal where the first bidding pressures may emerge.

8Financial security provisions reinforce performance expectations
Contract securities are structured to support sustained project delivery rather than short-term completion. This creates a different balance between commercial opportunity and financial commitment. The approach signals a stronger focus on accountability.

8Rs 225 crore security backs a high-capacity transmission package as bidding enters its decisive phase
One of the country's largest renewable transmission projects is approaching a decisive stage after multiple procurement updates. The package combines technical complexity with a commercial framework that could influence bidder strategy and future transmission planning. The key implications become clear only after examining the engineering and contractual provisions together.

8Integrated ash logistics package worth Rs 243 crore puts execution strategy under the spotlight
A high-value ash logistics tender is testing more than transportation capability. Several commercial and operational provisions quietly reshape execution responsibilities for bidders. The full impact only becomes apparent after examining the contract structure clause by clause.

8110 MW rooftop solar programme adopts a long-term performance model with decade-long contractor accountability
A large-scale rooftop solar procurement is reshaping how EPC contractors approach both execution and long-term service commitments. While the project size immediately attracts attention, the underlying contractual framework reveals a broader shift in risk allocation, competition and lifecycle accountability. The implications extend beyond installation targets and could influence bidding strategies in future distributed solar programmes.

8A major transmission package moves into the competitive bidding stage
A new transmission opportunity is set to test how developers balance competitive pricing with long-term project responsibility. The contractual framework quietly reshapes execution, financing and operational risk without altering the familiar bidding format. The broader implications become evident only after examining how the project has been structured behind the tender documents.

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COMMITTEES, PEOPLE & SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

Jul 10: 8The plan to island Shimla's power supply in a grid collapse is now in place - Delhi's is still on a screen somewhere.
8Two automatic protection schemes got the committee's stamp - one because a new power plant changed the mathematics.
8Northern power stations are rehearsing how they would restart a dead grid.
8The western committee's other business: a plant told to re-check its settings, and lines measured for stray voltage.
8The CEA reshuffled its regional engineers and published its quarterly report card on thermal construction.
8Punjab's power company spent the day on promotions, training nominations and duty exemptions - the utility as employer. Details

CORPORATE WIRE

Jul 10: 8Borosil Renewables jumped 10 per cent on deal talk - and told the exchange it has nothing to disclose.
8The country's largest private transmission company had its AA+ rating reaffirmed - with new headroom added.
8Enel borrowed a billion euros with a German export-credit agency standing behind the banks.
8The ratings desk had a full day in power: one downgrade, one upgrade, three reaffirmations.
8A major state discom's rating is stuck at BB+ because it will not answer the rating agency's letters.
8A power-cable maker's Rs 742 crore IPO opened with a "subscribe" tag on its first morning.
8A turnkey contractor won repeat business from Gujarat's discom, and three boardrooms set results dates. Details

GREEN MARKETS & RE PROGRAMME WATCH

Jul 10: 8The market for renewable-energy certificates has all but vanished - down 92 per cent in a year.
8The smaller exchange is rebuilding its green shop window around three new contract types.
8Andhra's renewable agency is hunting for rooftop solar installers for systems from one kilowatt to half a megawatt.
8The same agency wants suppliers on call for solar systems where the grid does not reach.
8The June renewable ledger now names every small generator and its joint meter reading.
8India has approved 6,340 MW of hydro projects that nobody has started building. Details

STATE REGULATORY ROUNDUP

Jul 10: 8Punjab's plan to waive night-time wheeling charges hit a paperwork snag at the finish line.
8Punjab wants grain markets to pay Rs 1,000 a season to switch their power back on.
8A hydro tariff fight from 2017 is back in Punjab on orders from the appeals tribunal.
8Uttarakhand's discom says the benchmark price changed after it had already awarded the contracts.
8The state generator wants Uttarakhand's solar cost benchmarks reviewed weeks after they were set.
8The energy-efficiency regulator's penalty case against New Delhi's civic body is ready for a verdict.
8Jodhpur's power company has written itself rulebooks for outages, reliability data and tariff notices - all in one week. Details

CERC DOCKET

Jul 10: 8A 300 MW solar project wants its supply-start date moved because its grid connection was not ready.
8ReNew's fight over transmission bills worth crores was adjourned because the arguing lawyer was unavailable.
8A solar transmission company says SECI still has not paid what a two-year-old GST order promised.
8JSW's 540 MW wind project asks for more time, blaming events beyond its control.
8GMR wants Tamil Nadu's discom to pay a disputed bill for costlier substitute coal.
8A new company has applied for a licence to build the transmission road out of the Siang valley.
8Twelve years on, the CERC is still hearing whether the sun over Rajasthan was mis-measured. Details

HYDRO & RESERVOIR LEDGER

Jul 10: 8The south's biggest peaking reservoir holds one-tenth of the energy it was built to store.
8The Himalayan reservoirs that power the north are running five to thirteen metres below last year.
8Gujarat's giant dam is nine metres fuller than last year - the monsoon paid the west first.
8The east's hydro stations have delivered barely two-thirds of what the plan asked.
8Odisha's dam operators opened the gates and ran the machines at once - the filling season has flipped.
8Telangana parked 750 MW of its best peaking machines in the driest window - and gets them back on Sunday. Details

FUEL & COAL LEDGER

Jul 10: 8India's power plants burnt more coal than they received - in the season meant for stockpiling.
8Thirty-one plants are on the official critical list, and two-thirds of them burn domestic coal.
8A brand-new 3,200 MW power station is running at a quarter of its capacity with two weeks of coal.
8Plants at the mine mouth hold more coal than the rules require; plants at the end of the railway hold barely half.
8The coal watchlist has a second keeper - and its two registers do not quite agree.
8The exchange price of power is now doing the coal ministry's rationing for it. Details

OUTAGE & MAINTENANCE REGISTER

Jul 10: 8Nearly 55,000 MW of generating capacity sat idle across India on Thursday.
8Power stations queued up to switch off - eight units went for the same reason in one day.
8The west has 11,383 MW down for maintenance and another 7,808 MW broken.
8A unit that caught fire on Monday was fixed by Wednesday - and then switched off for lack of buyers.
8One reactor has been off the grid for eight and a half years, and the register barely blinks.
8One relay fault in Andhra knocked out a transmission line and a transformer in the same second.
8Next fortnight's shutdown diary is already written - and it is full of renewable-belt wiring. Details

GRID OPERATIONS DAILY

Jul 10: 8India met a 2.34 lakh MW evening peak with no shortage recorded anywhere.
8The grid ran fast, not slow: frequency spent a quarter of the day outside its band, mostly on the high side.
8The grid's balancing desk spent the day telling generators to slow down - by a hundred to one.
8The west shipped out 372 million units in a day - every neighbour took its power.
8India was a net power exporter to its neighbours on Thursday.
8The south ran its morning on sunshine and its evening on imports.
8Not one big substation in the east spent a single minute outside its voltage limits. Details

POWER MARKETS DAILY

Jul 10: 8The day-ahead market spent the afternoon below one rupee a unit.
8Buyers took more real-time power on Thursday than on any day this week - because it was cheap.
8Power for Friday delivery jumped back above four rupees as buyers returned.
8Green power held its price at Rs 4.20 all day while ordinary power fell to 30 paise.
8On the smaller exchange, sellers offered power for twenty-four hours and found no buyer at all.
8Traders paid Rs 1.73 a unit for next-week power in the west and Rs 3.64 for green blocks.
8A new intraday green segment is filling up with sellers and still waiting for its first buyer. Details

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Jul 10:  For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
 
8Tender for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of new 5 MVA 33/11kV substation Details
 
8Tender for drawing 11 kV new feeder Details
 
8Tender for protection work for safeguarding the roof and structural components of the 33/11kV sub-station Details
 
8Tender for protection work by providing a retaining wall at the 33 kV double-pole structure Details
 
8Tender for construction of 33/11kV GSS Details
 
8Tender for construction of 33/11kV GSS alongwith associated Details
 
8Tender for construction of 33/11kV GSS alongwith associated 33kV and 11kV lines Details
 
8Design, manufacture, shop testing including assembly testing of engine and alternator, Dispatch and transportation to site erection, testing and commissioning with all equipment or materials Details
 
8Tender for supply of digital level meter cum level generator kit at various Details
 
8Tender for supply of automatic relay test kit to various Details
 
8Tender for supply of equipments/ material, erection, testing and commissioning for the work augmentation by providing additional 1 x 25 MVA, 132- 110/33 kV T/F Details
 
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for weed control work at 400kV, 220kV, 33kV switchyard Details
 
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 220 kV 1C x 1200 sq. mm aluminum conductor XLPE underground cable Details
 
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of LILO of one circuit of the 220 kV D/C transmission line Details
 
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 220kV D/C overhead line Details
 
8Tender for work of construction of double poles, 11/0.4 kV sub-stations Details
 
8Tender for construction of 220kV bay Details
 
8Tender for procurement of ring hammers for ring granulators Details
 
8Tender for empanelment of agencies for restoration of distribution infrastructure during Details
 
8Tender for procurement of spares of various couplings Details
 
8Tender for electrical works for capital items Details
 
8Tender for setting up of 110 MW STU connected SPP Details
 
8Design, manufacture, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of total 30 nos. solar based LED street light systems Details
 
8Tender for construction of allied civil works Details
 
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing along Details
 
8Tender for contract for supply I and C and CAMC of data transmission of EQMS Details
 
8Tender for supply, installation and commissioning of FRP street light poles Details
 
8Tender for infrastructure development of a PESO approved liquid nitrogen filling facility Details
 
8Tender for annual maintenance of 3X20 MW hydro-generating units Details
 
8Tender for repair in stilling basin Details
 
8Tender for construction of trench weir, power intake including river diversion arrangements, desilting tank, feeder pipe, tunnel, surge shaft, power house, hydro mechanical works Details
 
8Tender for construction of ash water settling pit Details
 
8Tender for supply and replacement of existing 40 mm GI cooling water branch pipeline and fittings Details
 
8Tender for construction of new 110kV substation Details
 
8Tender for air seal application contract Details
 
8Tender for bulk procurement of RTD Details
 
8Tender for rate contract for bulk procurement of sodium chlorite Details
 
8Tender for roof water proofing treatment work Details
 
8Tender for airseal application at various Details
 
8Tender for carrying out revetment work at tower Details
 
8Tender for supply of current transformer Details
 
8Tender for work of new 33 kV line from 132/33 kV EHV substation Details
 
8Tender for work of 33 kV interconnection work of feeder from 33/11 kV substation Details
 
8Tender for work of new 33 kV line from 132/33 kV EHV substation Details
 
8Tender for procurement of motorized programmable timer drain ball valve Details
 
8Tender for work contract for overhauling of diesel engine installed Details
 
8Tender for supply and application dosing for enhancement in coal flowability of wet coal Details
 
8Tender for work of computerized flow analysis Details
 
8Tender for raising the height of existing Details
 
8Tender for providing and installation of 70 nos. 1.5 ton, 5-star inverter technology split ACs Details
 
8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for the work of shifting / height raising of various 66/132/220 existing transmission lines Details
 
8Design, engineering, supply, installation, testing & commissioning of 5 years for grid connected rooftop solar plants Details
 
8Tender for construction of yard foundation cable trenches and levelling and dressing work at 220 kV GSS Details
 
8Tender for construction of control room store shed Details
 
8Tender for supply and ETC of refrigeration type hydrogen gas drier Details
 
8Tender for supply of new transformer oil for use in gas turbine power stations Details
 
8Tender for procurement of different types of CCP bends Details
 
8Tender for procurement and retrofitting of 415 V LT circuit breakers Details
 
8Tender for annual maintenance contract of field instruments Details
 
8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for coal cleaning and housekeeping Details
 
8Tender for procurement of 07 sets grinding element with buy back for 10E10 coal mill Details
 
8Tender for civil and electrical works Details
 
8Tender for laying of 11 kV UG cable 3 core XLPE 300 Sqmm Details
 
8Tender for supply and delivery of 30 numbers of LT feeder piller box Details
 
8Tender for procurement of transformer oil filtration machine Details
 
8Tender for providing and fixing of insulated sheet Details
 
8Tender for providing and fixing of insulated sheet for ST pole Details
 
8Tender for providing and fixing of insulated sheet Details
 
8Tender for SITC of numerical line differential cum distance protection relay Details
 
8Tender for work of annual maintenance contract for work of overhauling / servicing & alignment of various make 220 kV, 132 kV & 33 kV isolator installed Details
 
8Tender for providing & fixing of portable & programmable battery charger suitable Details
 
8Tender for work of providing & applying nano technology basedacid and alkali resistant nano modified anti corrosivecoating paint on EHV gantry and equipment Details
 
8Tender for work of application of nanotechnology based acid and alkali resistant Nano-modified anti corrosive coating on rusted transmission line tower’s Details
 
8Tender for repair & replacement of chainlink fencing Details
 
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for civil works Details
 
8Tender for work of supply and installation of advance multi cable transit system Details
 
8Tender for Bi-annual maintenance contract for work of repairs, servicing & alignment for 220kV, 132kV, 33kV isolators along Details
 
8Tender for work of providing & applying nano technology basedacid and alkali resistant nano modified anti corrosive coating paint on EHV gantry Details
 
8Tender for work of annual maintenance contract for attending emergency breakdown & allied maintenance of any EHV line Details
 
8Tender for work of servicing / overhauling of 145kV SF6 circuit breakers at various substations Details
 
8Tender for supply, installation, testing & commissioning of 250kVA diesel generator (DG) set Details
 
8Tender for work of annual maintenance contract for repairing / overhauling of OLTC of ICTs / transformers Details
 
8Tender for work of replacement of various spares of drive system Details
 
8Tender for work of fabrication/ removal/ repairing /erection of metallic expansion bellows at various locations of air / flue gas ducts Details
 
8Tender for supply of electrical actuator for seal steam and leak control valve Details
 
8Tender for work of Re-tubing of tube nests Details
 
8Tender for work of overhauling / servicing of gear box, & rail alignment of gantry crane Details
 
8Tender for construction of RCC retaining wall Details
 
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For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
 
8PM Modi ensured Tadicherla coal allocation to Singareni Collieries, insists Kishan Reddy Details
 
8Coal Gasification Project Proposals Sought from Industry Details
 
8CISF Intensifies operations, recovers 428 Metric Tonnes of Illegal Coal in WB, Jharkhand Details
 
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8Power companies may report strong Q1 earnings as electricity demand jumps Details
 
8TNEB inks MoU with IIT to improve power generation, reduce cost Details
 
8India's energy intensity falls 30% since 1991, easing oil shock risks Details
 
8India requires major transmission buildout as renewable energy curtailment reaches 33%: ICRA Details
 
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Jul 09: 8Large consolidated packages remain the preferred procurement model. Standardisation and execution efficiency continue driving purchasing decisions.
8The implications extend beyond a single project. Details

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Midday power on the exchange sold for 25 paise a unit on Wednesday

Jul 09: 8Sellers offered seven times more electricity than buyers wanted at one o’clock, and the auction cleared at the floor of the day. Twelve hours earlier, at midnight, the same market had paid twenty times as much. Details

Sellers offered half a million units in the premium power market for eight straight days and found no buyer at all

Jul 09: 8The segment built for scarcity - where prices may run up to Rs 50 a unit - has recorded zero purchase bids every single day since 2 July. The country met its full evening peak of 233,509 MW on Wednesday without a megawatt of shortfall, which is exactly why nobody is paying up. Details

The grid ran above its permitted frequency ceiling for 20 minutes on Wednesday - a sign of too much power, not too little

Jul 09: 8For nearly seven hours of the day the frequency sat outside the band grid rules prescribe, and for a quarter of the day it was above 50.05 Hz. The last time operators worried about frequency, the problem was the opposite one. Details

The national despatcher told coal plants that generate at Rs 1.16 a unit to stand down through the sunlight hours

Jul 09: 8Grid-India’s day-ahead optimiser listed more than a dozen big pit-head stations for backing down between roughly nine in the morning and half past four in the afternoon. When solar power floods in at midday, even the cheapest coal in India is too expensive to run. Details

A strengthening El Niño has officialdom warning about electricity even as the grid drowns in surplus

Jul 09: 8The power ministry’s electrical inspectorate has written to every distribution company and consumer in the country about air-conditioner fires and above-normal heat. The forecasters it cites have since confirmed the El Niño and predicted below-normal rain over India through September - which threatens hydro and the monsoon cushion now holding prices down. Details

Srisailam is holding one-sixteenth of the water-energy it had on this day last year

Jul 09: 8Telangana’s biggest reservoir stood at 821.7 feet on Thursday against 882.1 feet a year ago, with usable storage down from 167.8 TMC to 10.6 TMC. The energy locked in that water has shrunk from 923 million units to just 58. Details

India’s dams produced a fifth less power in June than planned - and thermal quietly filled the entire gap

Jul 09: 8Hydro stations generated 13,362 million units against a programme of 16,915, and a fifth less than last June. Coal and gas plants ran 12.5 per cent above last year to cover for the missing water. Details

A flash flood shut down all three units of a 405 MW hydro station in Arunachal - and the operator has told the regional grid forum it happened in sixteen minutes

Jul 09: 8Floodwater carrying sludge entered the powerhouse service bay of NEEPCO’s Panyor Lower station at 6:25 on the morning of 24 June, and by 6:41 every unit was under emergency shutdown. Press reports since confirm one death, four people missing, and about two dozen staff quarters washed away in the township nearby. Details

Two Navratna companies signed up on Tuesday to build a 1,080 MW coal plant for making aluminium

Jul 09: 8NLC India and NALCO will hold half each of a venture to put up four 270 MW units at Angul in Odisha, feeding NALCO’s smelter. The signing happened in front of the coal and mines minister - a statement that new coal is still being sanctioned for industry even as the grid backs existing coal down at noon. Details

One wind farm in Kutch produced two stock-exchange announcements - from the company that owns it and the company that built it

Jul 09: 8NTPC Green declared commercial operation of the first 50.4 MW of its Vanki wind project from midnight on 8 July, taking the NTPC group past 90,950 MW. Hours later, KP Energy told the exchanges it had developed and commissioned the very same sixteen turbines. Details

The Centre cut Gujarat’s farm-solar quota twice in three months - and both state discoms have now scrapped their tenders

Jul 09: 8Gujarat’s allocation under Component-A of the farm-solar scheme fell from 500 MW to 300 MW in December and then to 175 MW in February, and the renewable energy ministry has said in writing that no more is coming. Uttar Gujarat and Paschim Gujarat discoms have withdrawn their tariff petitions, cancelled the bids, and left bidders waiting for their deposits. Details

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Contracting news for the day

Jul 09: 8Rs 300 crore ash transport rate contract tightens the real test beyond headline bidding
A large ash-transport package turns routine haulage into a controlled logistics and compliance exercise. The bid structure gives contractors a route to volume, but not a guarantee of work. The sharper story sits inside the allocation, certification and cashflow clauses.

8A 201 MW package is split by a 50 MW bidder ceiling
The tender opens a sizeable market but prevents full concentration. That cap can widen competition while complicating portfolio strategy. The final pattern will depend on how bidders allocate capacity across substations.

8Rs 7.25 crore bid security sits inside a compliance EPC tender now caught in a committee-review pause
A major emissions-control EPC package has moved beyond a routine date extension into a governance question. The latest note extends the bid window even as it records that floated tenders were to be revisited after committee approval. The real issue is not only time, but how much risk bidders must price before the tender’s final shape is settled.

8A six-day bid extension keeps the procurement spine intact
The bid submission deadline has shifted from 9 July to 15 July. Techno-commercial opening, price bid and award dates also move by about a week. The extension changes timing, not the risk allocation.

8Rooftop solar deadline shifts, but the core bargain stays intact
The calendar has moved, but the contract architecture has not. Bidders get more time to file, not more room to price. That distinction will matter when tariff discovery begins.

8Transformer scope turns a supply order into a grid-reliability package
The requirement covers 160 MVA, 220/132 kV auto transformers for UPPTCL substations. The package includes OLTC, oil, fire protection, testing, tools and site supervision. That makes delivery capability as important as quoted equipment price.

8Hydro EPC qualification window widens from 10 years to 15 years
The most important entry-barrier change is hidden inside the qualification clauses. Older hydro credentials can now return to the competitive field. That may reshape the bidder pool without fully diluting technical screening.

8A 400 kV bypass package hides high interface risk
The work is physically compact but technically dense. It combines stringing, destringing, dismantling and OPGW handling at a substation end. The risk sits in sequencing, not distance.

8Rs 392 crore filter raises the bar in a pre-bid transmission tie-up
A high-voltage transmission package has been structured less like a routine EPC tender and more like an early-stage competitive-bid alliance. The financial gate is visible, but the sharper risk sits in the conditional award, exclusivity and document-access controls. The full tender shows why contractors may have to trade market optionality for a shot at future execution.

8A 400/220 kV node brings high-voltage interface risk into the package
The project involves a 1 × 500 MVA transformation asset with associated 220 kV bay work. That makes protection, civil works, switchyard layout and commissioning discipline central to delivery. The headline scope hides a much wider interface burden.

8This tender opens major solar package with long-term lifecycle contracting model
A new utility-scale solar procurement reveals far more than another EPC opportunity. The contractual architecture quietly redistributes technical responsibility, commercial leverage and long-term operational risk across multiple agreements. The implications extend well beyond a single project and could influence how future public-sector renewable contracts are structured.

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The Centre’s seven big grid-linked gas power stations burned no domestic gas at all in May

Jul 09: 8Plants allotted 26.49 mmscmd of domestic gas - Faridabad, Anta, Auraiya, Dadri, Gandhar, Kawas and Ratnagiri - recorded zero consumption of it, running entirely on 2.82 mmscmd of imported LNG. Delhi’s gas stations show the same pattern into June: every cubic metre burned was imported. Details

Assam’s state generation company has applied to become an electricity trader across state lines

Jul 09: 8Assam Power Generation Corporation has petitioned the central regulator for a Category-II inter-state trading licence, complete with three years of accounts and organisational credentials. A state genco seeking a trading badge is a company positioning to sell surplus - or buy cheap - beyond its own borders. Details

Uttarakhand’s regulator has cleared the ground for the state to shop for 1,320 MW of new coal power on 25-year contracts

Jul 09: 8The Commission has given in-principle room to Uttarakhand Power Corporation’s plan to tender 1,320 MW of round-the-clock coal supply, while demanding the board analysis behind the number and prior approval of the contract before anything is signed. A Himalayan hydro state buying big thermal is the day’s clearest demand-side vote against relying on water. Details

Power plants burned five million tonnes more coal than they received in June, and stocks are down to sixteen days

Jul 09: 8Coal arrivals covered 92 per cent of what stations needed for the month, so the gap came out of stockyards: 49.2 million tonnes on 1 June became 44.1 million tonnes by 30 June. Gujarat’s state generator is holding barely a quarter of its normative stock going into the monsoon. Details

POWER MARKETS

Jul 09: 8The day-ahead price has swung between Rs 2.55 and Rs 4.89 a unit inside one week
8Sellers offered more than twice the power buyers wanted for Thursday delivery
8Power for immediate delivery averaged Rs 3.29 a unit on Wednesday, then slid a quarter for Thursday
8On the smaller exchanges, sellers posted power all day and not one buyer turned up
8Even the penalty-price market recorded nothing but zeros
8An aluminium smelter went shopping for power through four reverse auctions in one day, capping its price at Rs 10 a unit
8The same market that pays Rs 5 at midnight pays 25 paise at lunch - a twenty-fold spread inside one trading day Details

GREEN MARKETS

Jul 09: 8In the green power market, buyers wanted two and a half times what sellers offered
8One exchange’s green day-ahead market has now traded nothing for nine straight days
8SECI is tendering 700 MW of solar so one industrial buyer in Odisha can run its export unit on sun power
8A 1,000 MW renewable pool kept its AA+ rating after a year of wind-turbine bearing trouble
8A PETRONAS-owned solar company kept its rating as its parent’s India portfolio touches 7.5 GW
8ICRA sees Rs 5–6 lakh crore of transmission building in six years - and says a third of renewable output was curtailed in May
8The renewable ministry has quietly amended its month-old rooftop solar memorandum Details

GRID OPS DAILY

Jul 09: 8India met a 233,509 MW evening peak on Wednesday with not one megawatt of shortage anywhere
8Gujarat drew 15 million units less than its schedule in a single day
8India imported 63 million units from Bhutan and Nepal on Wednesday and sent 59 million to Bangladesh
8A 400 kV transformer in Karnataka came back after 38 days out - with its main tank found bulging
8Nearly 55,000 MW of generation sat on outage - and the states own the bigger half
8A Union-territory discom violated its import limit for six hours - a quarter of the day
8The eastern grid’s day-ahead demand forecast missed by 9.35 per cent - about 4,000 MW through the night Details

HYDRO, COAL & GAS LEDGER

Jul 09: 8Odisha’s Rengali reservoir is ten metres below last year and its hydro units are producing nothing
8Gujarat’s state coal fleet is holding 28 per cent of the stock it should - while Chhattisgarh sits on nearly double its norm
8Coal India’s own register shows the plants it supplies holding 14 to 39 days of stock - with none yet in the critical column
8Ratnagiri burned the most gas of any central plant in May - all of it imported
8Delhi’s two gas station operators filed six months of fuel forms - and the domestic gas column is zero in every one
8Wind farms lifted their output by nine per cent in a day as the monsoon westerlies strengthened Details

REGULATORY ROUNDUP

Jul 09: 8CERC throws out a renewable group’s plea against a Rs 3 crore connectivity bank guarantee demand
8A tribunal member refused to step aside from the six-year-old relinquishment charges battle - and the stay comes up for vacation on 30 July
8ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel loses its jurisdiction appeal - Gujarat’s regulator will decide its cross-subsidy surcharge fight
8Meghalaya’s discom wants a revised additional surcharge on big open-access consumers for last winter - and the regulator has let the petition in
8Mizoram has a draft grid code out - and a fresh tariff order that trues up the past and sets FY27 rates
8Jindal Steel wants Chhattisgarh’s regulator to review last July’s order on its distribution business
8Two solar developers’ fight with Uttarakhand’s discom over a grid connection that never came moves to written arguments Details

DEVIATION & SETTLEMENT DESK

Jul 09: 8Tripura and Assam owe the deviation pool nearly Rs 4 crore for one June week
8The east-to-north corridor account alone carries Rs 135 crore payable in the northern region’s weekly deviation books
8The western region’s deviation ledger swung Rs 540 crore across its corridor accounts in one statement
8The northern ancillary account paid Rs 1.35 crore to reserve providers - and clawed Rs 16.7 lakh back from tertiary ones
8The north-east’s ancillary bill went out the same day - payable in fifteen days, with a 0.04 per cent daily meter running
8Guwahati’s islanding scheme is stuck over who pays for a fibre link - while Assam and Tripura keep breaching their import limits Details

OUTAGE & MAINTENANCE REGISTER

Jul 09: 8Sikkim’s flood-hit hydro units are still down 33 months after the disaster
8A 366 MW gas station has sat idle for nine days for one stated reason: no one wants its power
8The south’s overhaul season is running to calendar: Ramagundam unit 3 back by 16 July, Vallur by 23 July
8Meerut’s discom published its shutdown list for Thursday: two-hour cuts, feeder by feeder, for meter work
8Rajasthan has written a standard procedure for what happens to smart meters pulled off walls
8Gujarat’s private wires filed their annual report cards: accidents, restoration times and all Details

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. Details

IEX day-ahead power price more than doubles in a day, from Rs 2.49 a unit for Sunday to Rs 5.62 for Monday delivery

Jul 13: 8Sunday 12 July drew the week’s largest sell offer, about 743 million units, against shrunken buying, pulling the day-ahead clearing price down to Rs 2.49 a unit and to as little as about 20 paise in the solar-heavy midday blocks. As weekday demand returned for 13 July, buyers bid a week-high 413 million units and the price rebounded to Rs 5.62, a swing that shows how thin the cushion has become between midday solar surplus and evening scarcity. Details

India’s grid ran persistently over-frequency on Sunday 12 July, holding above 50.05 Hz for nearly a quarter of the day

Jul 13: 8National frequency stayed inside the 49.90–50.05 Hz band for only 71.7% of 12 July and spent 21.9% of the day above it, peaking at 50.272 Hz, as low weekend demand met heavy midday solar generation. Seven 765 kV substations touched or breached their 800 kV ceiling for up to 18% of the day, and a day earlier the western despatcher had ordered wind and solar cut by as much as 55% - the operating signature of a system carrying more midday generation than it can absorb. Details

IREDA declares Rs 672.74 crore of loans to Gensol Engineering and its EV-leasing arm as fraud and reports them to the RBI

Jul 13: 8The state renewable-energy lender told the exchanges on 10 July that Rs 453.77 crore owed by Gensol Engineering and Rs 218.97 crore owed by Gensol EV Lease had been classified as fraud, citing misappropriation, criminal breach of trust and forged documents. IREDA has already provided against 85% of both accounts, limiting the fresh hit to its books, but the formal fraud tag on a once-marquee solar engineering borrower crystallises the downfall of the Gensol group. Details

Enforcement Directorate provisionally attaches Rs 762.75 crore of Reliance Power shares held by Reliance Infrastructure under the money-laundering law

Jul 13: 8Reliance Power told the exchanges on 11 July that a 10 July provisional attachment order also covers Rs 116.96 crore it is owed by Sasan Power and Rs 141.48 crore owed by Reliance Cleangen, part of a wider investigation into the Anil Ambani group. The company put the direct financial implication at Rs 258.44 crore and said it would contest the order, which lands while the group is still working through legacy debt and asset sales. Details

Southern grid regulator names large thermal units still not in free-governor mode two years after it became mandatory

Jul 13: 8An agenda circulated on 10 July for a 31 July special meeting lists plants including HNPCL (2×520 MW), Singareni (2×600 MW), Bhadradri (4×270 MW) and NCTPP Stage-II (2×600 MW) as still running on restricted governor mode, in breach of the 2023 grid code. The same review graded Tamil Nadu and Telangana “poor” on frequency response for 2025-26 and flagged NLC’s entire Neyveli fleet, pointing to a southern region lagging on the primary defence against frequency swings. Details

NTPC board approves Rs 20,457 crore for two 800 MW supercritical units at Lara in Chhattisgarh

Jul 13: 8The 11 July investment sanction covers Lara Super Thermal Power Project Stage-III (2×800 MW), taking the Raigarh-district station towards 3,200 MW and adding to NTPC’s coal build-out. At roughly Rs 12.8 crore a megawatt the commitment underlines that, even amid the renewable push, the country’s largest generator is still sanctioning large baseload coal capacity. Details

Power Markets Daily

Jul 13: 8Green day-ahead prices climb steadily even as the conventional day-ahead market swings
8High-price and ancillary day-ahead segments drew zero clearing all week for want of buyers
8PXIL switches on a new matching engine for its three day-ahead segments and makes seller minimum quantities binding in reverse auctions
8IEX real-time market cleared 5.7 lakh MWh over 10-12 July at Rs 3.21-3.55 a unit, floor near zero, ceiling Rs 10
8IEX term-ahead daily contracts split Western and Northern regions, clearing Rs 0.45 a unit to the Rs 10 cap
8Green term-ahead contracts cleared near Rs 4.0-4.4 a unit, late 12 July blocks pushed toward the Rs 10 cap
8PXIL real-time market cleared at the Rs 10 ceiling on 11 July night; IEX intraday published no price, PXIL DSM nil Details

Contracting news for the day

Jul 13: 8The proposed consultancy extends far beyond document preparation
The assignment combines technical, commercial and contractual responsibilities within a single advisory mandate. This points towards a more integrated procurement philosophy. The full impact becomes evident when the expected consultant role is examined closely.

8Rs 402 crore transmission push places two contrasting EPC strategies before bidders
Two high-voltage packages are testing the market with sharply different distances, timelines and execution demands. Their headline values reveal only part of the opportunity, while the deeper commercial pressure sits inside the design and security provisions. A closer reading shows why bidders cannot price either contract solely by route length.

8A 400 kV intervention carries the technical weight of the Rs 85 crore package
The larger strategic challenge lies in integrating a new connection with an existing high-voltage corridor. Survey accuracy, tower selection and outage coordination will influence more than the construction schedule. The detailed risk emerges from how these obligations are tied together.

8Uncapped escalation changes the pricing equation for a long-duration EPC contract
A global EPC package has bundled pollution control, ash handling, water systems, electrical facilities and plant-wide interfaces behind a substantial bid-security threshold. Uncapped escalation offers bidders rare inflation protection, but the completion and delay framework contains a drafting fault with potentially expensive consequences. The decisive issue lies not in equipment supply alone, but in who absorbs the risk when multiple packages converge at site.

8Rs 379 crore evacuation package widens the entry gate but leaves critical bid risks unresolved
A major renewable evacuation contract has quietly opened its qualification window to a wider class of electrical EPC companies. Yet conflicting security figures and tightly transferred engineering risks could determine who is willing to compete. The most consequential details lie inside the amended experience clause and the package’s uncompromising execution conditions.

8Development order opens a tightly controlled supply opportunity with steel-linked price protection and a two-stage delivery gate
A compact supply package carries a larger test of fabrication control, approval speed and commodity-risk pricing. The first delivery unlocks the balance quantity, while a tender-specific concession changes the normal schedule-risk equation. The decisive commercial advantage lies in how the steel formula, technical clearance and development obligations interact.

8540 MW wind mandate extends far beyond turbine supply
A large wind procurement has bundled land, turbines, grid infrastructure and a decade of O&M into one contractor-controlled package. The bidding structure offers capacity flexibility but imposes an unusually sharp financial and alliance test on companies seeking both blocks. A set of less-visible qualification conditions could decide who reaches the price-bid stage.

8Full advance payment and zero security reshape a six-month structural assessment contract
A short scientific inspection has been wrapped inside a far wider six-month contract window. The owner will fund mobilisation and release the inspection charges before the field visit without demanding performance or advance-payment security. The deeper significance lies in how much technical and commercial risk remains outside the visible scope.

8Power major seeks high-stakes ash-dyke verdict under an unusually relaxed contract
A fresh consultancy package puts the stability of multiple ash lagoons and overflow structures under digital and field-level scrutiny. The assignment combines seismic, seepage and rapid-drawdown modelling with a contract that removes several conventional enforcement safeguards. The most consequential tension lies not in the software or schedule, but in who carries the risk once the fee is released.

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Grid Operations Daily

Jul 13: 8All-India peak demand met 243,428 MW at 22:28 on 12 July, with nil peak and energy shortage nationwide
8Coal supplied 61% and renewables 24% of India’s 5,744 MU gross generation on 12 July
8Western Region net-exported 358.7 MU on 12 July, most of it into a Northern Region that imported 341 MU
8Eastern Region imported 49.12 MU from Bhutan and 20.28 MU from Nepal, exported 22.8 MU to Bangladesh on 12 July
8Eastern Region met a 31,850 MW peak with zero shortage on 12 July; Bihar drew to 8,503 MW
8Southern Region 400 kV nodes ran high - Hindupur hit 435.28 kV - while Munirabad sagged to 371 kV on 12 July
8Economic despatch in June pushed generation up nearly three times as often as it pushed it down
8Eastern Region day-ahead load forecast missed 5.06% on 11 July, with a systematic overnight over-forecast peaking near 2,857 MW
8GETCO Q1 loading shows 220 kV Asoj-Jambuva peaking at 505 MW against 360 MW design; several central and south Gujarat lines over capacity
8All-India ISTS transmission loss set at 3.86% for the 13-19 July week Details

Outage & Maintenance Register

Jul 13: 8Western Region generation outage rises to 22,902 MW on 12 July, with reserve shutdowns the largest single component
8Kudankulam Unit 1 (1,000 MW), Tamil Nadu, remains off the bar since 8 July after generator protection operated
8Adani Power’s 685 MW Raipur unit (Chhattisgarh) tripped twice within a day, latest on generator protection
8765 kV Akola-Koradi-III line (Maharashtra) out since 26 June after tower collapse at location 396
8Ghatampur TPS, Uttar Pradesh: both 660 MW units (1,320 MW) out for weeks on coal-feeding problems
8Monsoon high silt forces Himachal Pradesh hydro units off the bar on 10–12 July
8Western Region carries about 2,660 MW of major thermal overhauls due back between late July and mid-August
8NLDC lists Ramagundam and PVUNL Patratu units to come on-bar on 13–14 July; several long-idle units flagged Details

Fuel & Coal Ledger

Jul 13: 8Twenty-eight thermal stations sat on critical coal stock in mid-July, but pithead plants stayed well supplied and no eastern unit lost output to coal
8India’s power generation rose almost 11% in June while Coal India’s output was flat
8Pithead coal stocks held at 102% of norm on 11 July while non-pithead plants sat at 61%
8Coal India despatched 8.5 MT more than it mined in June, drawing down pit stocks
8CEA plant-receipt and Coal India despatch registers land within ~8% of each other for coal reaching power
8NTPC Bongaigaon’s part-load secondary-fuel-oil compensation roughly doubled from April to May Details

Hydro & Reservoir Ledger

Jul 13: 8All-India hydro supplied 576 MU on 12 July, a tenth of gross generation, with the Northern Region carrying most of it
8Sardar Sarovar holds more than double last year’s energy content, standing 8 metres higher on the Narmada
8Indira Sagar and Ukai both sit below last year, their stored energy down by half and a third
8Koyna sits about 6.7 m and a quarter of its energy content below last year, yet generated little on 12 July
8Odisha’s Hirakud stands 9 feet above last year while Balimela, Rengali and the rest sit lower
8North-eastern reservoirs hold near-full at Kopili but Ranganadi ran dry; reservoir-energy columns are OCR-suspect
8Hydro and reservoir ledger: Teesta cascade still shown out on the outage register, and western reservoirs run below last year Details

CERC Docket

Jul 13: 8CERC gives VEH Green and Gadag Power two more weeks to plead new JCC evidence in fight to stretch ISTS connectivity deadlines to 2027
8CERC lets BBMB withdraw its solar-connectivity relaxation plea after Third Amendment to GNA rules makes it moot; HVPNL open-access objection left open
8AMPIN challenges CTUIL for cutting Fatehgarh-IV non-solar-hour margin from 199.5 MW to 166 MW after it won a SECI peak-supply award; CERC admits, but flags AMPIN is only an applicant
8ReNew’s force-majeure bid to void CTUIL transmission bills adjourned to September as the linked 2 June order heads to APTEL
8ACME’s Great Indian Bustard change-in-law claim against SECI moves toward decision as it files reconciliation statement and auditor’s certificate
8CERC clears NTPC’s name change to ‘NTPC Mining Limited’ and gives it eight weeks to refile the Pakri Barwadih coal-price truing-up petition
8CERC shields NLC India’s 200 MW Bhuj solar connectivity from third-party reallocation even as CTUIL’s revocation proceeds; Rs 4.5 crore bank guarantee already encashed
8Tata Power Renewables asks CERC to restore 101 MW Kallam connectivity that CTUIL revoked in December before any interim order could issue
8CERC grants two fresh inter-State trading licences, including one to the Railways’ energy-management arm Details

State Regulatory Roundup

Jul 13: 8GSECL’s claimed capital cost for 800 MW Wanakbori Unit 8 climbs to about Rs 4,469 crore after BHEL settlement; GUVNL wants a full MYT prudence check on guest-house and event spend
8GERC reserves order on whether Gujarat Hira Bourse pays 2.5% or 15% to hand its Gem & Jewellery Park network to DGVCL
8GERC reserves order on cold-storage plea for concessional tariff as discoms argue it is a back-door review of the 2022 tariff order
8Rajasthan revises merit-order dispatch for 10-12 July after central-sector tariff change; Sasan cheapest at Rs 1.37/kWh variable, gas/liquid stations near-idle above Rs 20
8Uttar Pradesh regulator approves FY2026-27 electricity rate schedule with no across-the-board tariff rise as discoms file no hike proposal
8Delhi regulator lets discoms bill a fuel surcharge above the 10% cap for May, up to 25% for BRPL Details

GREEN MARKETS & RE PROGRAMME WATCH

Jul 13: 8India’s renewable plants generated 1,230.82 MU on 9 July, with wind ahead of solar and Gujarat leading states - CEA
8MNRE reopens NISE portal to 23 July for ALMM List-II investment-protection claims
8Trom Industries wins 42 MW of rooftop solar work orders from South Bihar discom under PM Surya Ghar
8Solar capacity in the Northern grid reaches 40,494 MW, nearly double the region’s hydro fleet
8Juniper Green’s 715 MW solar-wind-battery hybrid at Fatehgarh charged into the Northern grid in May 2026 Details

CORPORATE WIRE

Jul 13: 8Reliance Infrastructure unit MMOPL restructures Rs 2,771 crore NARCL debt, cutting dues by over Rs 1,100 crore and ending insolvency
8GE Power India seeks shareholder vote on demerger of loss-making Durgapur unit to JSW Energy, offering 10 JSW Energy shares per 139 held
8JSW Energy step-down unit wins Rs 443.74 crore order to supply 200 MW / 400 MWh battery storage to Bondada Renewable
8TMC Transformers files DRHP for Rs 550 crore all-fresh IPO to fund EHV greenfield plant and working capital
8PFC prices US$300 million three-year floating-rate notes at SOFR plus 110 bps
8Adani Energy Solutions receives first ESG rating from CareEdge, scoring 86.2 out of 100
8Jindal Steel CEO Gautam Malhotra to leave on 15 July
8CareEdge upgrades Clean Max Aditya Power to CARE A on parent’s improved profile
8POWERGRID wins TBCB mandate for Krishnagiri renewable-zone evacuation, to build two 765/400 kV substations in Andhra Pradesh
8POWERGRID secures second TBCB mandate in two days for Bhadla-III, Ramgarh and Kanpur substation augmentation
8Triveni Power Transmission constitutes board and committees ahead of listing under Triveni composite scheme
8BHEL’s FY2025-26 net profit roughly triples to Rs 1,578 crore on 19% higher revenue
8BHEL order book reaches Rs 2.39 lakh crore, powered by 10 GW of thermal orders and a first coal-gasification contract Details

COMMITTEES, PEOPLE & SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

Jul 13: 8A single un-backed relay dropped 190 MW across six western Mumbai suburbs, and a rodent felled 721 MW at NTPC’s Khavda hub, western grid panel finds
8SRPC grades Tamil Nadu and Telangana control areas ‘Poor’ on FY2025-26 frequency response; Kerala ‘Excellent’
8NLDC sets FY2026-27 frequency-response obligations for Southern states; Tamil Nadu highest at 1,214 MW/Hz in solar hours
8Coal Ministry gazettes SECL’s ‘Ke Sushrut’ NEET-coaching CSR scheme, a first for a coal PSU
8UP power regulator defers Rs 13,337-crore surplus question as discoms counterclaim a Rs 34,867-crore regulatory asset
8Northern grid logged 46 disturbances and incidents in May 2026 while peak demand of 87,675 MW stayed below the all-time high Details

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Jul 13:  For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
 8Tender for protection work for safeguarding the roof and structural components of the 33/11kV sub-station Details
 8Tender for augmentation of 33/11 kV s/stn Details
 8Tender for unserviceable/condemned iron scrap, scrap of copper, brass , alluminum, PVC wire, cable scrap Details
 8Tender for annual electrical M&R work Details
 8Tender for development of MRI based billing system for 5 kW Details
 8Tender for shifting of 132 kV transmission lines Details
 8Tender for aesthetic finishing works Details
 8Tender for renovation and modernisation of ABB DCS valves Details
 8Tender for upgradation of LVS to laser based projection system Details
 8Tender for balance of plant (BOP) EPC package Details
 8Tender for track fitting renewal (TFR) work for the existing Details
 8Tender for work for repairing and renewal coat of internal Details
 8Tender for protection work of bridge abutment and its return wall Details
 8Tender for repair and renovation works of type-III Details
 8Tender for drilling of borewell along with all pipelines works to water supply Details
 8Tender for supply of 500KVA 11/0.43kV distribution transformer Details
 8Tender for RCA for procurement of 11 kV (70 KN) and 33 kV (90 KN) strain hardware fittings Details
 8Tender for filling and leveling, fencing, retaining wall works Details
 8Tender for assistance in ESP control room operation in all three shift of 2x600 MW, SSTPP Details
 8Tender for carrying routine patrolling preventive breakdown maintenance of 220kV SC transmission line Details
 8Design, engineering, supply of materials equipment, erection, testing commissioning of 02 nos. 220 kV line feeder bay Details
 8Tender for construction of 1 No. 3rd addl. 20 MVA 132/11 kV T/F plinth and allied civil works Details
 8Tender for rotation and replacement with painting of ash disposal line Details
 8Tender for construction of allied works Details
 8Tender for procurement of 6 Nos. 100 kVA and 01 No. 250 kVA DG set Details
 8Tender for work of providing junior meter technicians Details
 8Tender for work of installation of one (01) No. 12.5 MVA power transformer Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract (AMC) for the maintenance of the associated electrical lines and redressal of consumer complaints under 33/11 kV power sub-station Details
 8Tender for supply, erection and commissioning of LT ACB 800 Amp. for 250/400 KVA DTRs Details
 8Tender for increasing capacity from 100 KVA to 250 KVA transformers Details
 8Tender for increasing capacity of transformers and construction of new transformers Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract (AMC) for the maintenance of the associated electrical lines Details
 8Tender for work of servicing & overhauling of 11/22/33kV indoor & outdoor circuit breakers at various substations Details
 8Tender for AMC of optical fiber network and LAN for ERP and internet connectivity Details
 8Tender for rate contract for annual maintenance contract for optical fiber network Details
 8Tender for work of testing of EHV grade transformer oil samples at site by mobile testing laboratory at various Details
 8Tender for supply of equipments/ material, erection, testing and commissioning for the work augmentation by providing additional 1 x 50 MVA, 132- 110/33 kV T/F Details
 8Tender for procurement of 400kV grading capacitors for 400kV CBs at 400kV substation Details
 8Tender for procurement of 33kV circuit breaker Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract for attending all emergency /break down /schedule/maintenance repairs works etc. of various 132kV, 220kV EHV substations Details
 8Tender for work of overhead termination arrangement of hybrid bay at 132 kV S/S Details
 8Tender for work of providing and fixing of OTI and WTI meters at various Details
 8Tender for procurement of supply / spares parts (AMC) for maintenance, servicing & repairing of 220 VDC & 48 VDC battery sets and battery chargers Details
 8Tender for work of replacement of old centralized HVAC system Details
 8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 132/33 kV, 50 MVA power T/F along Details
 8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of an additional 1X50 MVA 220/33kV power transformer Details
 8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of an additional 1X25 MVA 132/33kV power transformer along with HV, LV bay Details
 8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of an additional 1X25 MVA 132/33kV power transformer along Details
 8Tender for providing & fixing of portable & programmable battery charger suitable for 48V, 110V & 220V-50Amp with DC voltage monitoring Details
 
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8JSW Energy Subsidiary Wins INR 444 Crore BESS Order from Bondada Renewable Energy Details
 
8India is building the world’s largest green energy park in a remote desert, and it could employ 15,000 people Details
 
8How CERC Plans to Revive 16 GW of Stalled Renewable Energy Projects Details
 
8SCCL officials to assess coal gasification projects across India Details
 
8Jindal Steel Deploys Indigenous Coal Gasification in Global First for Steelmaking Details
 
8RIL plans development of second CBM asset to boost gas output Details
 
8Hyderabad Telangana SCCL Explores Diversified Energy Transition Details
 
8Top stocks in news: LTM, Power Grid, NTPC, DMart, SBI, IndiGo, RITES, Adani Green, Mankind Details
 
8India’s Power Sector Set For Massive Growth With Solar, Storage And Grid Investments By FY32 – Report Details
 
8Solar panel firm calls for future policy certainty Details
 
8Suzlon Energy, Inox Wind: Share price targets, Q1 results preview Details
 
830 crore eligible homes, just 40 lakh installations: 3 companies riding India’s Rs 97,021 crore rooftop solar growth Details
 
8Why tapped solar electricity is going down the drain in India Details
 
8Electricity, not AI models, could become India’s biggest AI opportunity: Report Details
 
8India's Power Sector Surges: A Multi-Year Transformation Driven by Renewables Details
 
8ONGC Drills Second Geothermal Well in Ladakh, Moves Closer to India’s First Geothermal Power Plant Details
 
8Editorial: Boost for India’s nuclear energy ambitions Details
 
8Telangana clears way for country’s first agriculture-only power discom Details
 
8India's power utilities to double down on capex, leverage to peak by FY30: Equirus Details
 
8SCCL Coal Gasification Pilot Project: UCG in Godavari Valley Details
 
8Power Grid Wins Transmission Project for Renewable Energy Grid Details
 
8Cable, wire market seen at Rs 1.7 lakh crore by FY30 on power, data centre boom Details
 
8NTPC Approves Rs 20,457 Crore Lara Thermal Power Expansion Details
 
84 Smart Meter Stocks to Watch Amid India’s 25 Crore Installation Push Details
 
8Energy Security & Power Grid Management Are Key To Solving India’s Power Crisis Details
 
8Is India’s Biggest AI Bet Actually Electricity What a New Report Reveals Details
 
8Holtec International Plans US IPO To Fund India Nuclear Projects Details
 
8350-Tonne Coal-Laden Vessel Stranded in Ganga Near Mokamaghat, Disrupts Coal Supply to NTPC Barh Details
 
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Jul 11:  For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
 
8Tender for filling and leveling, fencing, retening wall works Details
 
8Tender for work of 33kV line for 33 kV feeder Details
 
8Tender for construction of 33kV substation, installing of 2 Nos 5MVA 33/11kV transformers Details
 
8Tender for re routing of 11 kV line Details
 
8Tender for work of feeder re-orientation Details
 
8Tender for supply of 36kV copper XLPE power cable Details
 
8Tender for shifting height raising of 220 kV line Details
 
8Tender for height raising work of 132 kV line Details
 
8Tender for construction of 132 kV TSS bay at 132 kV substation Details
 
8Tender for construction of 132 kV TSS bay Details
 
8Tender for inceasing capacity from 2x63 MVA to 3x63 MVA with allied bay related civil works Details
 
8Tender for construction of civil work for increasing capacity Details
 
8Tender for civil and interior work Details
 
8Tender for supply of digital insulation tester Details
 
8Tender for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of control switching device Details
 
8Tender for supply of 765kV 210 kN CLR insulator Details
 
8Tender for supply of fire hose pipes Details
 
8Tender for erection of estimate for new substation Details
 
8Tender for creation installation of new 33/11 kV substation Details
 
8Tender for rate contract for supply of various size of LT XLPE single core unarmoured cable Details
 
8Tender for miscellaneous civil & electrical works Details
 
8Tender for supply of MS angles, channels and plates Details
 
8Tender for procurement of paints for quantity Details
 
8Tender for procurement of 1 No 50 MVA power transformer for 132/33 kV GSS Details
 
8Tender for item rate for day to day civil maintenance work Details
 
8Tender for supply of 3 over current and 1 earth fault relay Details
 
8Tender for supply of scraper bar for scraper chain conveyor system Details
 
8Tender for work of erection and commissioning of vortex finder in boiler Details
 
8Tender for supply of fire system pumps Details
 
8Tender for work of removal of existing MS/CS pipe & fittings and fabrication, erection, testing & commissioning of new SS 316L pipe and fittings Details
 
8Tender for medium repair of LT motors Details
 
8Tender for centralized rate contract for procurement of MS fasteners Details
 
8Tender for operation and maintenance of water supply and sewerage system Details
 
8Tender for SITC of automatic fire detection system and associated works Details
 
8Tender for replacement of old conventional lights of all platforms Details
 
8Tender for turnkey based contract for conversion of existing 11 kV HT line and LT line network Details
 
8Tender for repair works of 11kV substation Details
 
8Tender for repair of damaged runners of 20MW francis hydro turbine Details
 
8Tender for procurement of XLPE power and control cables Details
 
8Tender for revival of 220kV line-I by constructing D/C towers along Details
 
8Tender for construction of 11kV spur line and installation of transformer Details
 
8Tender for construction of 33kV MVCC line to shift 5 nos. of 33kV feeders at 132/33kV GIS along Details
 
8Tender for work of 24 Hr ground patrolling of underground EHV cables Details
 
8Tender for area drainage works of coal mining project. Details
 
8Tender for repair and protection of RCC structures Details
 
8Tender for supply and installation of 200 Nos solar street lights Details
 
8Tender for supply of 33 kV double circuit ungalvanized steel lattice structure Details
 
8Design, engineering, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 1,00,000 nos. of consumers 1.1 kWp on each consumer through net metering Details
 
8Tender for construction work for new proposed 33/11 kV substation Details
 
8Tender for modification of 220kV line Details
 
8Tender for maintenance work of overhead HT/LT line Details
 
8Tender for construction work of new 33/11kV substation Details
 
8Tender for manufacturing, stacking, curing and testing of 45,600 no. 9m long PCC poles Details
 
8Tender for procurement of 04 nos of complete tube bundle sets of heat exchanger/ cooler Details
 
8Tender for work of supply, installation and commissioning of 100% hot redundancy based continuously available Details
 
8Tender for biennial rate contract for thermal insulation and refractory works Details
 
8Tender for service contact for statutory inspection, examination, testing and certification of dangerous machinery Details
 
8Tender for supply delivery and installation of spares for different type of transducers installed Details
 
8Tender for renovation of CRB in terms of lowering plinth height painting and allied works Details
 
8Tender for laying of 33 kV, 1 x 1000 sqmm XLPE UG cable Details
 
8Tender for work for shifting of electric meter Details
 
8Tender for maintenance of lines and attending the consumers complaint of 33/11kV substation Kotdwar Details
 
8Tender for maintenance of lines and attending the consumers complaint of 33/11kV substation Details
 
8Tender for work of double circuit 33 kV line Details
 
8Tender for maintenance of lines and attending the consumers complaint of 33/11kV substation Details
 
8Tender for work of providing and fixing of non-conductive turbo wind driven conical bird guards Details
 
8Tender for work of complete overhauling of 400kV breakers pole Details
 
8Tender for supply of equipments/ material, erection, testing and commissioning for the work augmentation by providing additional 1 x 50MVA, 132- 110/33 kV T/F along Details
 
8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of new 2x80 MVAR 400kV switchable line reactors Details
 
8Tender for work of attending the punch point of 220kV DC line Details
 
8Tender for supply of lighting arrester for 220kV & 400kV switchyard Details
 
8Tender for turnkey contract for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 11 kV medium voltage covered conductor Details
 
8Tender for turnkey contract for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 11 kV medium voltage covered conductor (MVCC) with its accessories and allied items Details
 
8Tender for providing and fixing of chain link fencing around transformer Details
 
8Tender for annual rate contract for providing and fixing of 11 kV heat shrinkable outdoor, indoor & straight through joint type cable termination kit Details
 
8Tender for erection work of 66kV D/C on D/C panther tower with D/C ACSR panther conductor line Details
 
8Tender for work of 66kV D/C on D/C panther tower Details
 
8Tender for erection work of LILO to proposed 66kV sub-station Details
 
8Tender for erection work of LILO to Prop.66kV S/S Details
 
8Tender for supply of IE4 class LT motors Details
 
8Tender for supply of 90/10 cupronickel condenser tubes Details
 
8Tender for erection of HT, LT line & TC work Details
 
8Tender for work of complete overhauling / breakdown maintenance of C.W pumps Details
 
8Tender for supply, installation, and commissioning of non-contact type radar level transmitters Details
 
8Tender for supply of spares for EOT crane (135T / 30T) installed Details
 
8Tender for work of design, fabrication, erection of L-6 conveyor structure including rail alignment Details
 
8Tender for supply of fire sealing chemical and fire barrier mineral wool board system for sealing / coating for cable fire protection Details
 
8Tender for entire maintenance works of central air conditioning system, package AC's and tower Details
 
8Tender for work of complete overhauling of 20 cumecs capacity pump Details
 
8Tender for supply of Bed material for CFBC boiler Details
 
8Tender for work of complete overhauling of boiler and its auxiliaries including air pre heater and ducts Details
 
8Design, supply, fabrication, and erection work of 10,000 M3(cubic meter) capacity Details
 
8Tender for repair of electronic actuator cards, ESP controllers, relays & compressor controllers Details
 
8Tender for supply of network cables for network maintenance Details
 
8Tender for supply, erection, testing and commissioning of 220V DC, 510AH, KBH, Ni-Cd type battery set Details
 
8Tender for supply of castable refractory for ash handling plant Details
 
8Tender for supply, erection & commissioning of 11 kV lines with MVCC conductor & dismantling of existing open conductor 11 kV lines Details
 
8Tender for supply of various fly ash spares Details
 
8Tender for purchase of HDPE PVC pipe Details
 
8Tender for supply of wireless LCM kit for 220kV and 66kV class switchyard Details
 
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World Bank to mobilise $4.2 billion for India's rooftop solar programme Details
 
8India adds 26 GW of solar, 2.9 GW of wind power in H1 2026 Details
 
8Serentica bags USD 345m-loan for Karnataka wind-solar project Details
 
8Only 8 of 23 coal blocks get bids in latest commercial mine auction round Details
 
8Iron ore leads Q1 as aluminium gains, coal lags: Equirus Details
 
8Utilising Reserves: Coal gasification potential, initiatives and challenges Details
 
8Elevated coal costs seen capping Q1 margin recovery for steel firms Details
 
8SECL's 'Sushrut' Becomes First Coal PSU CSR Scheme in Gazette Details
 
8India's energy storage pipeline hits 140 GWh, says Shripad Yesso Naik Details
 
8Assam targets energy independence with Rs 77,353-crore power sector investment Details
 
8India’s peak power demand to reach 300 GW in 2027 Details
 
8KSEB Seeks KSERC Approval for 200 MW Solar-Plus-Storage Procurement at 2.93/kWh Details
 
8IntelliSmart Inaugurates Centre of Excellence in Palsana to Power India’s Next Generation of Energy Professionals Details
 
8SEIL Energy Named Among India’s Best Workplaces in Energy Sector Details
 
8REC Signs Rs 10,000 Crore MoU with Tripura Govt for Power Infrastructure Details
 
8Nuclear Equipment Makers Expand Capacity as India Opens the Sector Details
 
8India clears Chinese investment in strategic sectors Details
 
8Assam Budget 2026: 2 lakh govt jobs, Rs 72,000 crore power push and no new taxes Details
 
8REC Signs Rs 15,000 Crore MoUs with Tripura Govt for Power Infrastructure and Renewable Energy Projects Details
 
8India Renewable Energy Capacity Hits 297 GW, Solar Leads Details
 
8India’s Renewable Sector is Moving Beyond ‘Plain Vanilla Solar’ Details
 
8SHANTI Act 2025: India Opens Nuclear Power Sector to Private Firms Details
 
8Semiconductor Stock Powering India’s Defence, Railways, EVs and Data Centres with Indigenous Technology Details
 
8Advait Energy Transitions Shares In Focus After Bagging Rs 250.59 Crore Turnkey Contracts From PGVCL Details
 
8Weak Rains, Bigger Risks: S&P Explains What A Poor Monsoon Could Mean For India Details
 
8Coal India, REC, Infosys Among 5 High Dividend Stocks Details
 
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Power sold on the exchange for 30 paise a unit in the middle of the day

Jul 10: 8Sellers offered seven times more electricity than buyers wanted between noon and 2 pm, and the day-ahead price sat at Rs 0.30 for two straight hours. The grid operator then ordered generators to back down by 1,11,671 units of down-regulation - a hundred times more than it asked them to ramp up. Details

The power market that averaged Rs 5.2 a unit in June is trading at Rs 3.1 three weeks later

Jul 10: 8IEX's own June update celebrated prices up 32 per cent on the year, driven by heatwaves and the driest June in a decade. Then the monsoon covered the whole country in five weeks, wind broke the national record, and a third of the price disappeared. Details

India's solar factories had their biggest single day of the year so far

Jul 10: 8Premier Energies switched on a 5.6 GW module plant in Telangana and broke ground on a 6 GWh battery factory, while two module makers announced orders worth Rs 1,187 crore between them. The buyers tell the story - one order is from NTPC's renewable arm. Details

West Bengal will spend Rs 333 crore wiring the grid to a power plant that does not exist yet

Jul 10: 8The state regulator has approved, in principle, a 400 kV loop-in-loop-out line of about 68 kilometres to the premises of JSW's proposed thermal plant at Salboni. It is the first regulatory money committed to connecting the project. Details

A private developer has cleared the technical gate for a 1,560 MW water battery in Uttar Pradesh

Jul 10: 8The CEA's authority meeting of 16 June appraised the Chichilik pumped-storage project in favour of Avaada - the formal letter is still to be issued. It joins a queue of concurred hydro schemes totalling 6,340 MW that have yet to pour concrete. Details

A 1,000 MW nuclear unit tripped on Wednesday evening - and joined a long queue of idle reactors

Jul 10: 8Kudankulam's unit 1 went off the grid when its generator protection operated, with a return pencilled for 12 July. Behind it sits a quieter ledger: Kaiga-1 out since March 2025, Madras-1 out since January 2018, and the northern region's nuclear output 18 per cent behind its annual programme. Details

The east's rivers have delivered a third less hydro power than the plan assumed

Jul 10: 8India's hydro stations are 11 per cent behind their April-to-July programme, and the eastern region alone is 31 per cent short. At Srisailam in the south, the reservoir is 18 metres below last year's level - and five of six generating units are away for overhaul anyway. Details

Thirty-one power plants are running low on coal in the very weeks they should be stockpiling for winter

Jul 10: 8The national fleet holds 42.7 million tonnes - only two-thirds of what the norms require - and it burnt more coal than it received on the latest reporting day. Wanakbori in Gujarat is down to 14 per cent of its normative stock. Details

Batteries and pumped-hydro plants must now cut off instantly when the grid frequency dips, the western region has decided

Jul 10: 8Pumping and charging loads at 49.5 Hz will trip with no time delay at all - the two-minute grace at one Maharashtra plant is gone. Three newly built battery stations are named, and one of them cannot yet do it automatically. Details

One transmission line in Rajasthan's renewable belt has tripped ten times since May

Jul 10: 8The northern grid's own register lists six lines in the Western Rajasthan renewable complex that have each failed three times or more in two months, right where solar and wind farms feed the national grid. Every trip risks bottling up green power that has nowhere else to go. Details

India's biggest power highway between the west and the north tripped fifteen times in one month.

Jul 10: 8The 800 kV Champa–Kurukshetra line, which carries surplus western power into Delhi's hinterland, kept blocking its poles through May, and the northern grid operator has written three letters about it. PowerGrid has a fix - but says it will install it only after peak summer. Details

A battery bolted onto a solar plant does not need its own grid connection, Bihar's regulator has ruled

Jul 10: 8The state transmission utility wanted the Kajra project to hold connectivity for 230.4 MW - the solar plant plus the battery added together. The commission cut it to 185 MW, the solar capacity alone, because the battery only charges from the plant itself. Details

Three states moved to lock in two months of power supply on the day prices crashed

Jul 10: 8Ten separate buy-side auctions appeared on the exchange in one day - Chhattisgarh alone floated six windows of 300 MW each covering August and September round the clock. Rajasthan wants 1,000 MW for September and Goa is topping up its evenings. Details

SECI has scrapped a 1,000 MW tender for exactly the kind of power the market now gives away

Jul 10: 8The tender asked existing renewable plants to sell their surplus solar-hour output to SECI on medium-term contracts. It died in the same week that solar-hour power traded at 30 paise a unit on the exchange. Details

India's wind farms produced more power on Wednesday evening than ever before

Jul 10: 8Grid-India's renewable-energy desk logged 31,276 MW of wind generation at 5.20 pm on 8 July - the highest instantaneous wind output the country has recorded, entered into the all-time register the same evening. The record came as the monsoon, after the driest June in years, finally covered the whole country. Details

Contracting news for the day

Jul 10: 8A 19-day deadline reset opens a deeper risk window in a multi-voltage transmission package
A strategically important grid package has moved beyond its original bidding calendar as developers confront a tightly linked GIS, LILO and transmission-line scope. The additional bidding window may improve diligence, but it also draws attention to risks buried across land, interfaces, procurement and revenue sequencing. The decisive issue lies in how much of that uncertainty bidders ultimately price into the reverse auction.

8The extension offers 37 additional days but does not soften the execution deadline
The extension may appear administrative, but it changes the quality of risk that bidders can investigate before quoting. Route, land and existing-substation conditions can now receive closer scrutiny. Whether that produces higher contingencies or more aggressive bidding remains unresolved.

8Daily delay damages escalate after the first 60 days
The transmission agreement applies damages by reference to monthly transmission charges for each day of delay. The applicable rate rises once slippage crosses the initial period. The resulting cashflow exposure becomes more severe than the headline percentage first suggests.

8Rs 627 crore rooftop-solar package puts 1,00,000 consumer connections and decade-long performance risk into one contract
A mass rooftop-solar rollout is being packaged as a single integrated engineering, installation and long-term service mandate. The scale promises rare execution visibility but carries consumer-level risks that conventional EPC pricing may not absorb. A buried fee inconsistency and a sizeable security requirement reveal where the first bidding pressures may emerge.

8Financial security provisions reinforce performance expectations
Contract securities are structured to support sustained project delivery rather than short-term completion. This creates a different balance between commercial opportunity and financial commitment. The approach signals a stronger focus on accountability.

8Rs 225 crore security backs a high-capacity transmission package as bidding enters its decisive phase
One of the country's largest renewable transmission projects is approaching a decisive stage after multiple procurement updates. The package combines technical complexity with a commercial framework that could influence bidder strategy and future transmission planning. The key implications become clear only after examining the engineering and contractual provisions together.

8Integrated ash logistics package worth Rs 243 crore puts execution strategy under the spotlight
A high-value ash logistics tender is testing more than transportation capability. Several commercial and operational provisions quietly reshape execution responsibilities for bidders. The full impact only becomes apparent after examining the contract structure clause by clause.

8110 MW rooftop solar programme adopts a long-term performance model with decade-long contractor accountability
A large-scale rooftop solar procurement is reshaping how EPC contractors approach both execution and long-term service commitments. While the project size immediately attracts attention, the underlying contractual framework reveals a broader shift in risk allocation, competition and lifecycle accountability. The implications extend beyond installation targets and could influence bidding strategies in future distributed solar programmes.

8A major transmission package moves into the competitive bidding stage
A new transmission opportunity is set to test how developers balance competitive pricing with long-term project responsibility. The contractual framework quietly reshapes execution, financing and operational risk without altering the familiar bidding format. The broader implications become evident only after examining how the project has been structured behind the tender documents.

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8Fertilizers
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COMMITTEES, PEOPLE & SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

Jul 10: 8The plan to island Shimla's power supply in a grid collapse is now in place - Delhi's is still on a screen somewhere.
8Two automatic protection schemes got the committee's stamp - one because a new power plant changed the mathematics.
8Northern power stations are rehearsing how they would restart a dead grid.
8The western committee's other business: a plant told to re-check its settings, and lines measured for stray voltage.
8The CEA reshuffled its regional engineers and published its quarterly report card on thermal construction.
8Punjab's power company spent the day on promotions, training nominations and duty exemptions - the utility as employer. Details

CORPORATE WIRE

Jul 10: 8Borosil Renewables jumped 10 per cent on deal talk - and told the exchange it has nothing to disclose.
8The country's largest private transmission company had its AA+ rating reaffirmed - with new headroom added.
8Enel borrowed a billion euros with a German export-credit agency standing behind the banks.
8The ratings desk had a full day in power: one downgrade, one upgrade, three reaffirmations.
8A major state discom's rating is stuck at BB+ because it will not answer the rating agency's letters.
8A power-cable maker's Rs 742 crore IPO opened with a "subscribe" tag on its first morning.
8A turnkey contractor won repeat business from Gujarat's discom, and three boardrooms set results dates. Details

GREEN MARKETS & RE PROGRAMME WATCH

Jul 10: 8The market for renewable-energy certificates has all but vanished - down 92 per cent in a year.
8The smaller exchange is rebuilding its green shop window around three new contract types.
8Andhra's renewable agency is hunting for rooftop solar installers for systems from one kilowatt to half a megawatt.
8The same agency wants suppliers on call for solar systems where the grid does not reach.
8The June renewable ledger now names every small generator and its joint meter reading.
8India has approved 6,340 MW of hydro projects that nobody has started building. Details

STATE REGULATORY ROUNDUP

Jul 10: 8Punjab's plan to waive night-time wheeling charges hit a paperwork snag at the finish line.
8Punjab wants grain markets to pay Rs 1,000 a season to switch their power back on.
8A hydro tariff fight from 2017 is back in Punjab on orders from the appeals tribunal.
8Uttarakhand's discom says the benchmark price changed after it had already awarded the contracts.
8The state generator wants Uttarakhand's solar cost benchmarks reviewed weeks after they were set.
8The energy-efficiency regulator's penalty case against New Delhi's civic body is ready for a verdict.
8Jodhpur's power company has written itself rulebooks for outages, reliability data and tariff notices - all in one week. Details

CERC DOCKET

Jul 10: 8A 300 MW solar project wants its supply-start date moved because its grid connection was not ready.
8ReNew's fight over transmission bills worth crores was adjourned because the arguing lawyer was unavailable.
8A solar transmission company says SECI still has not paid what a two-year-old GST order promised.
8JSW's 540 MW wind project asks for more time, blaming events beyond its control.
8GMR wants Tamil Nadu's discom to pay a disputed bill for costlier substitute coal.
8A new company has applied for a licence to build the transmission road out of the Siang valley.
8Twelve years on, the CERC is still hearing whether the sun over Rajasthan was mis-measured. Details

HYDRO & RESERVOIR LEDGER

Jul 10: 8The south's biggest peaking reservoir holds one-tenth of the energy it was built to store.
8The Himalayan reservoirs that power the north are running five to thirteen metres below last year.
8Gujarat's giant dam is nine metres fuller than last year - the monsoon paid the west first.
8The east's hydro stations have delivered barely two-thirds of what the plan asked.
8Odisha's dam operators opened the gates and ran the machines at once - the filling season has flipped.
8Telangana parked 750 MW of its best peaking machines in the driest window - and gets them back on Sunday. Details

FUEL & COAL LEDGER

Jul 10: 8India's power plants burnt more coal than they received - in the season meant for stockpiling.
8Thirty-one plants are on the official critical list, and two-thirds of them burn domestic coal.
8A brand-new 3,200 MW power station is running at a quarter of its capacity with two weeks of coal.
8Plants at the mine mouth hold more coal than the rules require; plants at the end of the railway hold barely half.
8The coal watchlist has a second keeper - and its two registers do not quite agree.
8The exchange price of power is now doing the coal ministry's rationing for it. Details

OUTAGE & MAINTENANCE REGISTER

Jul 10: 8Nearly 55,000 MW of generating capacity sat idle across India on Thursday.
8Power stations queued up to switch off - eight units went for the same reason in one day.
8The west has 11,383 MW down for maintenance and another 7,808 MW broken.
8A unit that caught fire on Monday was fixed by Wednesday - and then switched off for lack of buyers.
8One reactor has been off the grid for eight and a half years, and the register barely blinks.
8One relay fault in Andhra knocked out a transmission line and a transformer in the same second.
8Next fortnight's shutdown diary is already written - and it is full of renewable-belt wiring. Details

GRID OPERATIONS DAILY

Jul 10: 8India met a 2.34 lakh MW evening peak with no shortage recorded anywhere.
8The grid ran fast, not slow: frequency spent a quarter of the day outside its band, mostly on the high side.
8The grid's balancing desk spent the day telling generators to slow down - by a hundred to one.
8The west shipped out 372 million units in a day - every neighbour took its power.
8India was a net power exporter to its neighbours on Thursday.
8The south ran its morning on sunshine and its evening on imports.
8Not one big substation in the east spent a single minute outside its voltage limits. Details

POWER MARKETS DAILY

Jul 10: 8The day-ahead market spent the afternoon below one rupee a unit.
8Buyers took more real-time power on Thursday than on any day this week - because it was cheap.
8Power for Friday delivery jumped back above four rupees as buyers returned.
8Green power held its price at Rs 4.20 all day while ordinary power fell to 30 paise.
8On the smaller exchange, sellers offered power for twenty-four hours and found no buyer at all.
8Traders paid Rs 1.73 a unit for next-week power in the west and Rs 3.64 for green blocks.
8A new intraday green segment is filling up with sellers and still waiting for its first buyer. Details

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Jul 10:  For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
 
8Tender for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of new 5 MVA 33/11kV substation Details
 
8Tender for drawing 11 kV new feeder Details
 
8Tender for protection work for safeguarding the roof and structural components of the 33/11kV sub-station Details
 
8Tender for protection work by providing a retaining wall at the 33 kV double-pole structure Details
 
8Tender for construction of 33/11kV GSS Details
 
8Tender for construction of 33/11kV GSS alongwith associated Details
 
8Tender for construction of 33/11kV GSS alongwith associated 33kV and 11kV lines Details
 
8Design, manufacture, shop testing including assembly testing of engine and alternator, Dispatch and transportation to site erection, testing and commissioning with all equipment or materials Details
 
8Tender for supply of digital level meter cum level generator kit at various Details
 
8Tender for supply of automatic relay test kit to various Details
 
8Tender for supply of equipments/ material, erection, testing and commissioning for the work augmentation by providing additional 1 x 25 MVA, 132- 110/33 kV T/F Details
 
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for weed control work at 400kV, 220kV, 33kV switchyard Details
 
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 220 kV 1C x 1200 sq. mm aluminum conductor XLPE underground cable Details
 
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of LILO of one circuit of the 220 kV D/C transmission line Details
 
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 220kV D/C overhead line Details
 
8Tender for work of construction of double poles, 11/0.4 kV sub-stations Details
 
8Tender for construction of 220kV bay Details
 
8Tender for procurement of ring hammers for ring granulators Details
 
8Tender for empanelment of agencies for restoration of distribution infrastructure during Details
 
8Tender for procurement of spares of various couplings Details
 
8Tender for electrical works for capital items Details
 
8Tender for setting up of 110 MW STU connected SPP Details
 
8Design, manufacture, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of total 30 nos. solar based LED street light systems Details
 
8Tender for construction of allied civil works Details
 
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing along Details
 
8Tender for contract for supply I and C and CAMC of data transmission of EQMS Details
 
8Tender for supply, installation and commissioning of FRP street light poles Details
 
8Tender for infrastructure development of a PESO approved liquid nitrogen filling facility Details
 
8Tender for annual maintenance of 3X20 MW hydro-generating units Details
 
8Tender for repair in stilling basin Details
 
8Tender for construction of trench weir, power intake including river diversion arrangements, desilting tank, feeder pipe, tunnel, surge shaft, power house, hydro mechanical works Details
 
8Tender for construction of ash water settling pit Details
 
8Tender for supply and replacement of existing 40 mm GI cooling water branch pipeline and fittings Details
 
8Tender for construction of new 110kV substation Details
 
8Tender for air seal application contract Details
 
8Tender for bulk procurement of RTD Details
 
8Tender for rate contract for bulk procurement of sodium chlorite Details
 
8Tender for roof water proofing treatment work Details
 
8Tender for airseal application at various Details
 
8Tender for carrying out revetment work at tower Details
 
8Tender for supply of current transformer Details
 
8Tender for work of new 33 kV line from 132/33 kV EHV substation Details
 
8Tender for work of 33 kV interconnection work of feeder from 33/11 kV substation Details
 
8Tender for work of new 33 kV line from 132/33 kV EHV substation Details
 
8Tender for procurement of motorized programmable timer drain ball valve Details
 
8Tender for work contract for overhauling of diesel engine installed Details
 
8Tender for supply and application dosing for enhancement in coal flowability of wet coal Details
 
8Tender for work of computerized flow analysis Details
 
8Tender for raising the height of existing Details
 
8Tender for providing and installation of 70 nos. 1.5 ton, 5-star inverter technology split ACs Details
 
8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for the work of shifting / height raising of various 66/132/220 existing transmission lines Details
 
8Design, engineering, supply, installation, testing & commissioning of 5 years for grid connected rooftop solar plants Details
 
8Tender for construction of yard foundation cable trenches and levelling and dressing work at 220 kV GSS Details
 
8Tender for construction of control room store shed Details
 
8Tender for supply and ETC of refrigeration type hydrogen gas drier Details
 
8Tender for supply of new transformer oil for use in gas turbine power stations Details
 
8Tender for procurement of different types of CCP bends Details
 
8Tender for procurement and retrofitting of 415 V LT circuit breakers Details
 
8Tender for annual maintenance contract of field instruments Details
 
8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for coal cleaning and housekeeping Details
 
8Tender for procurement of 07 sets grinding element with buy back for 10E10 coal mill Details
 
8Tender for civil and electrical works Details
 
8Tender for laying of 11 kV UG cable 3 core XLPE 300 Sqmm Details
 
8Tender for supply and delivery of 30 numbers of LT feeder piller box Details
 
8Tender for procurement of transformer oil filtration machine Details
 
8Tender for providing and fixing of insulated sheet Details
 
8Tender for providing and fixing of insulated sheet for ST pole Details
 
8Tender for providing and fixing of insulated sheet Details
 
8Tender for SITC of numerical line differential cum distance protection relay Details
 
8Tender for work of annual maintenance contract for work of overhauling / servicing & alignment of various make 220 kV, 132 kV & 33 kV isolator installed Details
 
8Tender for providing & fixing of portable & programmable battery charger suitable Details
 
8Tender for work of providing & applying nano technology basedacid and alkali resistant nano modified anti corrosivecoating paint on EHV gantry and equipment Details
 
8Tender for work of application of nanotechnology based acid and alkali resistant Nano-modified anti corrosive coating on rusted transmission line tower’s Details
 
8Tender for repair & replacement of chainlink fencing Details
 
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for civil works Details
 
8Tender for work of supply and installation of advance multi cable transit system Details
 
8Tender for Bi-annual maintenance contract for work of repairs, servicing & alignment for 220kV, 132kV, 33kV isolators along Details
 
8Tender for work of providing & applying nano technology basedacid and alkali resistant nano modified anti corrosive coating paint on EHV gantry Details
 
8Tender for work of annual maintenance contract for attending emergency breakdown & allied maintenance of any EHV line Details
 
8Tender for work of servicing / overhauling of 145kV SF6 circuit breakers at various substations Details
 
8Tender for supply, installation, testing & commissioning of 250kVA diesel generator (DG) set Details
 
8Tender for work of annual maintenance contract for repairing / overhauling of OLTC of ICTs / transformers Details
 
8Tender for work of replacement of various spares of drive system Details
 
8Tender for work of fabrication/ removal/ repairing /erection of metallic expansion bellows at various locations of air / flue gas ducts Details
 
8Tender for supply of electrical actuator for seal steam and leak control valve Details
 
8Tender for work of Re-tubing of tube nests Details
 
8Tender for work of overhauling / servicing of gear box, & rail alignment of gantry crane Details
 
8Tender for construction of RCC retaining wall Details
 
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For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
 
8PM Modi ensured Tadicherla coal allocation to Singareni Collieries, insists Kishan Reddy Details
 
8Coal Gasification Project Proposals Sought from Industry Details
 
8CISF Intensifies operations, recovers 428 Metric Tonnes of Illegal Coal in WB, Jharkhand Details
 
8India’s power import-reduction mindset struggles to keep pace with manufacturing growth Details
 
8Power companies may report strong Q1 earnings as electricity demand jumps Details
 
8TNEB inks MoU with IIT to improve power generation, reduce cost Details
 
8India's energy intensity falls 30% since 1991, easing oil shock risks Details
 
8India requires major transmission buildout as renewable energy curtailment reaches 33%: ICRA Details
 
8India’s Power Transmission Sector to See Rs 5-6 Lakh Crore Capex by FY32 Details
 
8Auto sector to grow at 22-24% in Q1 FY27, among top drivers of corporate growth: Crisil Details
 
8India’s vast reserves of surplus crop residue could power global aviation sector: Report Details
 
8Why Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh are poised to power India’s multibillion-dollar data-centre boom | Explained Details
 
8Renewable Power Projects Face 60% Curtailment Risk Amid Grid Delays Details
 
8HEC Infra Projects Shares Surge 7% on Securing Rs 18.67 Crore Power Plant EPC Order Details
 
8NTPC Achieves Major Breakthrough in 520 MW Tapovan Vishnugad Hydro Power Project Details
 
8Transformer Stock Delivers 140% Returns in Just 3 Months; Is It in Your Portfolio Details
 
8Rs 55,100 Crore Order Book: Power Stock With Multi-Year Growth Across Power, Mining, and Infra Details
 
8World Bank Backs India's Solar Rooftop Initiative Details
 
8India Adds Over 26 GW Solar Capacity In H1 2026 As Industry Eyes ALMM Impact In Second Half Details
 
8Defence Stocks To Buy: Nuvama Bets On Solar Industries, BEL Over HAL And BDL Details
 
8Premier Energies inaugurates 5.6 GW solar module manufacturing facility in Telangana Details
 
8Havells takes aim at a Rs 12,000 crore energy storage market Details
 
8Serentica secures ADB-led debt financing for 200 MW hybrid project in Karnataka Details
 
8Rising Battery Costs Threaten India’s Low-Tariff Energy Storage Projects Details
 
8Navigating Headwinds: Policy suggestions for the wind power sector Details
 
8BlackSoil Enters Solar Financing with Acquisition of Credit Fair Details
 
8India Targets 6,27,000 ckm Grid To Support 900 GW Renewable Energy Details
 
8Gujarat contributes 18 pc of India’s renewable energy capacity, leads in wind and rooftop solar Details
 
8Insolation Energy Bags Rs 558 Crore NTPC Order, Stock Jumps 15% Details
 
8Solex Energy bags Rs 628.37 crore solar module supply order from leading independent power producer Details
 
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Bulk procurement continues to reshape transformer buying

Jul 09: 8Large consolidated packages remain the preferred procurement model. Standardisation and execution efficiency continue driving purchasing decisions.
8The implications extend beyond a single project. Details

Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update

Jul 09: 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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Midday power on the exchange sold for 25 paise a unit on Wednesday

Jul 09: 8Sellers offered seven times more electricity than buyers wanted at one o’clock, and the auction cleared at the floor of the day. Twelve hours earlier, at midnight, the same market had paid twenty times as much. Details

Sellers offered half a million units in the premium power market for eight straight days and found no buyer at all

Jul 09: 8The segment built for scarcity - where prices may run up to Rs 50 a unit - has recorded zero purchase bids every single day since 2 July. The country met its full evening peak of 233,509 MW on Wednesday without a megawatt of shortfall, which is exactly why nobody is paying up. Details

The grid ran above its permitted frequency ceiling for 20 minutes on Wednesday - a sign of too much power, not too little

Jul 09: 8For nearly seven hours of the day the frequency sat outside the band grid rules prescribe, and for a quarter of the day it was above 50.05 Hz. The last time operators worried about frequency, the problem was the opposite one. Details

The national despatcher told coal plants that generate at Rs 1.16 a unit to stand down through the sunlight hours

Jul 09: 8Grid-India’s day-ahead optimiser listed more than a dozen big pit-head stations for backing down between roughly nine in the morning and half past four in the afternoon. When solar power floods in at midday, even the cheapest coal in India is too expensive to run. Details

A strengthening El Niño has officialdom warning about electricity even as the grid drowns in surplus

Jul 09: 8The power ministry’s electrical inspectorate has written to every distribution company and consumer in the country about air-conditioner fires and above-normal heat. The forecasters it cites have since confirmed the El Niño and predicted below-normal rain over India through September - which threatens hydro and the monsoon cushion now holding prices down. Details

Srisailam is holding one-sixteenth of the water-energy it had on this day last year

Jul 09: 8Telangana’s biggest reservoir stood at 821.7 feet on Thursday against 882.1 feet a year ago, with usable storage down from 167.8 TMC to 10.6 TMC. The energy locked in that water has shrunk from 923 million units to just 58. Details

India’s dams produced a fifth less power in June than planned - and thermal quietly filled the entire gap

Jul 09: 8Hydro stations generated 13,362 million units against a programme of 16,915, and a fifth less than last June. Coal and gas plants ran 12.5 per cent above last year to cover for the missing water. Details

A flash flood shut down all three units of a 405 MW hydro station in Arunachal - and the operator has told the regional grid forum it happened in sixteen minutes

Jul 09: 8Floodwater carrying sludge entered the powerhouse service bay of NEEPCO’s Panyor Lower station at 6:25 on the morning of 24 June, and by 6:41 every unit was under emergency shutdown. Press reports since confirm one death, four people missing, and about two dozen staff quarters washed away in the township nearby. Details

Two Navratna companies signed up on Tuesday to build a 1,080 MW coal plant for making aluminium

Jul 09: 8NLC India and NALCO will hold half each of a venture to put up four 270 MW units at Angul in Odisha, feeding NALCO’s smelter. The signing happened in front of the coal and mines minister - a statement that new coal is still being sanctioned for industry even as the grid backs existing coal down at noon. Details

One wind farm in Kutch produced two stock-exchange announcements - from the company that owns it and the company that built it

Jul 09: 8NTPC Green declared commercial operation of the first 50.4 MW of its Vanki wind project from midnight on 8 July, taking the NTPC group past 90,950 MW. Hours later, KP Energy told the exchanges it had developed and commissioned the very same sixteen turbines. Details

The Centre cut Gujarat’s farm-solar quota twice in three months - and both state discoms have now scrapped their tenders

Jul 09: 8Gujarat’s allocation under Component-A of the farm-solar scheme fell from 500 MW to 300 MW in December and then to 175 MW in February, and the renewable energy ministry has said in writing that no more is coming. Uttar Gujarat and Paschim Gujarat discoms have withdrawn their tariff petitions, cancelled the bids, and left bidders waiting for their deposits. Details

Daily forward looking import matrices

Jul 09: 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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8LNG
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Contracting news for the day

Jul 09: 8Rs 300 crore ash transport rate contract tightens the real test beyond headline bidding
A large ash-transport package turns routine haulage into a controlled logistics and compliance exercise. The bid structure gives contractors a route to volume, but not a guarantee of work. The sharper story sits inside the allocation, certification and cashflow clauses.

8A 201 MW package is split by a 50 MW bidder ceiling
The tender opens a sizeable market but prevents full concentration. That cap can widen competition while complicating portfolio strategy. The final pattern will depend on how bidders allocate capacity across substations.

8Rs 7.25 crore bid security sits inside a compliance EPC tender now caught in a committee-review pause
A major emissions-control EPC package has moved beyond a routine date extension into a governance question. The latest note extends the bid window even as it records that floated tenders were to be revisited after committee approval. The real issue is not only time, but how much risk bidders must price before the tender’s final shape is settled.

8A six-day bid extension keeps the procurement spine intact
The bid submission deadline has shifted from 9 July to 15 July. Techno-commercial opening, price bid and award dates also move by about a week. The extension changes timing, not the risk allocation.

8Rooftop solar deadline shifts, but the core bargain stays intact
The calendar has moved, but the contract architecture has not. Bidders get more time to file, not more room to price. That distinction will matter when tariff discovery begins.

8Transformer scope turns a supply order into a grid-reliability package
The requirement covers 160 MVA, 220/132 kV auto transformers for UPPTCL substations. The package includes OLTC, oil, fire protection, testing, tools and site supervision. That makes delivery capability as important as quoted equipment price.

8Hydro EPC qualification window widens from 10 years to 15 years
The most important entry-barrier change is hidden inside the qualification clauses. Older hydro credentials can now return to the competitive field. That may reshape the bidder pool without fully diluting technical screening.

8A 400 kV bypass package hides high interface risk
The work is physically compact but technically dense. It combines stringing, destringing, dismantling and OPGW handling at a substation end. The risk sits in sequencing, not distance.

8Rs 392 crore filter raises the bar in a pre-bid transmission tie-up
A high-voltage transmission package has been structured less like a routine EPC tender and more like an early-stage competitive-bid alliance. The financial gate is visible, but the sharper risk sits in the conditional award, exclusivity and document-access controls. The full tender shows why contractors may have to trade market optionality for a shot at future execution.

8A 400/220 kV node brings high-voltage interface risk into the package
The project involves a 1 × 500 MVA transformation asset with associated 220 kV bay work. That makes protection, civil works, switchyard layout and commissioning discipline central to delivery. The headline scope hides a much wider interface burden.

8This tender opens major solar package with long-term lifecycle contracting model
A new utility-scale solar procurement reveals far more than another EPC opportunity. The contractual architecture quietly redistributes technical responsibility, commercial leverage and long-term operational risk across multiple agreements. The implications extend well beyond a single project and could influence how future public-sector renewable contracts are structured.

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The Centre’s seven big grid-linked gas power stations burned no domestic gas at all in May

Jul 09: 8Plants allotted 26.49 mmscmd of domestic gas - Faridabad, Anta, Auraiya, Dadri, Gandhar, Kawas and Ratnagiri - recorded zero consumption of it, running entirely on 2.82 mmscmd of imported LNG. Delhi’s gas stations show the same pattern into June: every cubic metre burned was imported. Details

Assam’s state generation company has applied to become an electricity trader across state lines

Jul 09: 8Assam Power Generation Corporation has petitioned the central regulator for a Category-II inter-state trading licence, complete with three years of accounts and organisational credentials. A state genco seeking a trading badge is a company positioning to sell surplus - or buy cheap - beyond its own borders. Details

Uttarakhand’s regulator has cleared the ground for the state to shop for 1,320 MW of new coal power on 25-year contracts

Jul 09: 8The Commission has given in-principle room to Uttarakhand Power Corporation’s plan to tender 1,320 MW of round-the-clock coal supply, while demanding the board analysis behind the number and prior approval of the contract before anything is signed. A Himalayan hydro state buying big thermal is the day’s clearest demand-side vote against relying on water. Details

Power plants burned five million tonnes more coal than they received in June, and stocks are down to sixteen days

Jul 09: 8Coal arrivals covered 92 per cent of what stations needed for the month, so the gap came out of stockyards: 49.2 million tonnes on 1 June became 44.1 million tonnes by 30 June. Gujarat’s state generator is holding barely a quarter of its normative stock going into the monsoon. Details

POWER MARKETS

Jul 09: 8The day-ahead price has swung between Rs 2.55 and Rs 4.89 a unit inside one week
8Sellers offered more than twice the power buyers wanted for Thursday delivery
8Power for immediate delivery averaged Rs 3.29 a unit on Wednesday, then slid a quarter for Thursday
8On the smaller exchanges, sellers posted power all day and not one buyer turned up
8Even the penalty-price market recorded nothing but zeros
8An aluminium smelter went shopping for power through four reverse auctions in one day, capping its price at Rs 10 a unit
8The same market that pays Rs 5 at midnight pays 25 paise at lunch - a twenty-fold spread inside one trading day Details

GREEN MARKETS

Jul 09: 8In the green power market, buyers wanted two and a half times what sellers offered
8One exchange’s green day-ahead market has now traded nothing for nine straight days
8SECI is tendering 700 MW of solar so one industrial buyer in Odisha can run its export unit on sun power
8A 1,000 MW renewable pool kept its AA+ rating after a year of wind-turbine bearing trouble
8A PETRONAS-owned solar company kept its rating as its parent’s India portfolio touches 7.5 GW
8ICRA sees Rs 5–6 lakh crore of transmission building in six years - and says a third of renewable output was curtailed in May
8The renewable ministry has quietly amended its month-old rooftop solar memorandum Details

GRID OPS DAILY

Jul 09: 8India met a 233,509 MW evening peak on Wednesday with not one megawatt of shortage anywhere
8Gujarat drew 15 million units less than its schedule in a single day
8India imported 63 million units from Bhutan and Nepal on Wednesday and sent 59 million to Bangladesh
8A 400 kV transformer in Karnataka came back after 38 days out - with its main tank found bulging
8Nearly 55,000 MW of generation sat on outage - and the states own the bigger half
8A Union-territory discom violated its import limit for six hours - a quarter of the day
8The eastern grid’s day-ahead demand forecast missed by 9.35 per cent - about 4,000 MW through the night Details

HYDRO, COAL & GAS LEDGER

Jul 09: 8Odisha’s Rengali reservoir is ten metres below last year and its hydro units are producing nothing
8Gujarat’s state coal fleet is holding 28 per cent of the stock it should - while Chhattisgarh sits on nearly double its norm
8Coal India’s own register shows the plants it supplies holding 14 to 39 days of stock - with none yet in the critical column
8Ratnagiri burned the most gas of any central plant in May - all of it imported
8Delhi’s two gas station operators filed six months of fuel forms - and the domestic gas column is zero in every one
8Wind farms lifted their output by nine per cent in a day as the monsoon westerlies strengthened Details

REGULATORY ROUNDUP

Jul 09: 8CERC throws out a renewable group’s plea against a Rs 3 crore connectivity bank guarantee demand
8A tribunal member refused to step aside from the six-year-old relinquishment charges battle - and the stay comes up for vacation on 30 July
8ArcelorMittal Nippon Steel loses its jurisdiction appeal - Gujarat’s regulator will decide its cross-subsidy surcharge fight
8Meghalaya’s discom wants a revised additional surcharge on big open-access consumers for last winter - and the regulator has let the petition in
8Mizoram has a draft grid code out - and a fresh tariff order that trues up the past and sets FY27 rates
8Jindal Steel wants Chhattisgarh’s regulator to review last July’s order on its distribution business
8Two solar developers’ fight with Uttarakhand’s discom over a grid connection that never came moves to written arguments Details

DEVIATION & SETTLEMENT DESK

Jul 09: 8Tripura and Assam owe the deviation pool nearly Rs 4 crore for one June week
8The east-to-north corridor account alone carries Rs 135 crore payable in the northern region’s weekly deviation books
8The western region’s deviation ledger swung Rs 540 crore across its corridor accounts in one statement
8The northern ancillary account paid Rs 1.35 crore to reserve providers - and clawed Rs 16.7 lakh back from tertiary ones
8The north-east’s ancillary bill went out the same day - payable in fifteen days, with a 0.04 per cent daily meter running
8Guwahati’s islanding scheme is stuck over who pays for a fibre link - while Assam and Tripura keep breaching their import limits Details

OUTAGE & MAINTENANCE REGISTER

Jul 09: 8Sikkim’s flood-hit hydro units are still down 33 months after the disaster
8A 366 MW gas station has sat idle for nine days for one stated reason: no one wants its power
8The south’s overhaul season is running to calendar: Ramagundam unit 3 back by 16 July, Vallur by 23 July
8Meerut’s discom published its shutdown list for Thursday: two-hour cuts, feeder by feeder, for meter work
8Rajasthan has written a standard procedure for what happens to smart meters pulled off walls
8Gujarat’s private wires filed their annual report cards: accidents, restoration times and all Details
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