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Download tenders and news clips. Contracting news for the day. IEX day-ahead price rebounds 68.6% as cleared volume slips. CERC asks who buys and sells the power in POWERGRID’s proposed storage business. Low-frequency overdrawal exposes Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh reserve-response constraints. Champa floods recur despite earlier remedies, forcing attention to drainage and bay height. A line dismantled for a VVIP helipad remains out as transmission charges become disputed. Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update. CERC asks Adani to prove why reactive-power upgrades qualify as change in law. HVPNL fails to secure a blanket loss relaxation, but keeps an audited annual route open. Haryana revokes 96 MW Dikchu approval after an unsigned PPA leaves capacity tied up. Talegaon’s rising load prompts a Rs 55 crore transformer proposal—with a competing network solution. Solapur bay mismatch brings Rs 4.68 crore upgrade proposals into a coordination dispute. SECI’s one-year storage tender puts 485 cycles and fixed-price risk on operating assets. Meghalaya draft allows four days for rural line repairs, with Rs 50 for a missed standard. APSPDCL’s 8.13% energy loss becomes 25.62% AT&C loss as collections lag. Punjab asks whether a 250 MW solar purchase beats both market buys and its own sales. Borosil Renewables pay resolution passes despite majority institutional opposition. A renewable corridor faces replacement of 43,000 insulators after faults return. UP smart-meter refunds reach 92,231 accounts; keypad replacement remains a separate task. Haryana eases renewable banking paperwork—but does not reopen past settlements. CERC clears Rs 3.39 hydrokinetic tariff over a dissent on legal and tender grounds. Gujarat curtailed 15.35 MU of renewables while buying power, WRLDC says. CERC puts future wind and solar projects on general-seller deviation rules. LATEST CERC NEWS. STATE REGULATOR NEWS. LAWS, RULES AND NOTIFICATIONS. COMPANIES AND FINANCIAL RESULTS. PROJECTS AND TENDERS. GRID AND MARKET DEVELOPMENTS. Download tenders and news clips. Contracting news for the day. Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update. Coal stocks lose 659,000 tonnes while days-of-stock remains unchanged. Pritika targets Rs 110-crore solar savings while taking 26% project equity. GK Energy’s 100-MW rooftop award combines scale with a 60-day delivery clock. Radiance outlook improves despite generation trailing its P90 benchmark. Southern Power’s profits surge while rating visibility remains impaired. Rajasthan recognises GST relief while requiring project-level tariff proof. Talcher-Kolar shutdown planning collides with unfinished corridor upgrades. Western renewable failures continue as operators miss reports and maintenance. Western grid protection remains partly blind despite telemetry deadlines. Uttarakhand meets demand only after rostering households and steel furnaces. Southern grid meets peak despite 12.1 GW of generation outages. July coal receipts rise 14% but remain below thermal-plant consumption. Telangana discoms must pay Rs 62.83 crore while surcharge dispute continues. NTPC’s shutdown events multiply while tariff rules leave costs uncovered. Kotra outage clears N-1 test but exposes Rs 300-crore to Rs 400-crore security demand. Jaipur discom turns profitable while debt and power costs stay heavy. India crosses 302 GW as 500-GW goal needs Rs 30 lakh crore. LATEST CERC NEWS. STATE REGULATOR NEWS. LAWS, RULES AND NOTIFICATIONS. PROJECTS AND TENDERS. COMPANIES AND FINANCIAL RESULTS. COMPANIES AND FINANCIAL RESULTS. GRID AND MARKET DEVELOPMENTS. POLICY AND GOVERNMENT. Contracting news for the day. Waste-to-energy bankability depends more on waste service payments than power sales. Engineers India’s Rs 15,109 crore order book shifts profit toward turnkey execution. Power Mech’s Rs 30,383 crore backlog is concentrated in contracts that run for decades. RMC’s Rs 800 crore order book arrives with 161-day collections and lower profit. Incorrect Powergrid spreadsheets put two Mundra tariff petitions on the clock. India backed down 67.23 GWh of reserves yet missed 1.57 GW after solar hours. Chhattisgarh turns Jindal’s Rs 165.22 lakh gap into a Rs 155.95 lakh surplus. Juniper’s Rs 1,800 crore IPO strengthens equity after debt reaches Rs 13,182 crore. Latest CERC and State Regulator News. POWER MARKET AND SYSTEM NEWS. Contracting news for the day. Power Ministry targets zero grid control system imports after 2030 despite low local content. Karnataka regulator sets Rs 3.89 per unit for unsubsidised rooftop solar as supported rates start at Rs 1.96. Andhra distributor records 7.88% network loss but weak collections lift total losses to 24.66%. Gorbea's Rs 2.65 solar contract cannot prevent about 38% output loss as grid access lags. Northern grid lacked 1,993 MW as nine hours hit Rs 10 per unit despite softer averages.

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Sep 01: For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Design, engineering, supply, erection, commissioning and testing of 2 nos 140 ton capacity pit less type in motion electronic rail weigh bridge Details
8Tender for supply of MS grill and fabrication & epoxy paint of stairs, railing, structure Details
8Tender for carrying out routine maintenance works of lighting in power house Details
8Tender for works contract for heightening the pillar boxes Details
8Tender for supply of tarpaulin sheet for covering of coal Details
8Tender for work of servicing & repairing of window AC, split AC and water coolers Details
8Tender for rate contract for removing, lifting, shifting, dismantling, servicing and overhauling of 2.3 kV /6.6 kV / 11 kV HT motors Details
8Tender for construction of civil work for 02 No 132 kV bay Details
8Tender for civil works related to construction of 1 No 33 kV bay Details
8Tender for execution of bypass and restoration arrangements of 33 kV /22 kV /11 kV LT lines Details
8Tender for procurement of spares for rotary feeder Details
8Tender for construction of 11kV covered conductor line using PSC poles Details
8Tender for re-babitting of thurst bearings pads of 40MW turbine Details
8Tender for supply, erection, testing and commissioning of high light mast Details
8Tender for reconstruction of the damaged geo green soil stabilization structure Details
8Tender for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of energy meter Details
8Tender for work of preventive maintenance of various 220 kV switchyard Details
8Tender for carrying out maintenance works and all types of cable related works Details
8Tender for supply, erection and commissioning of insertion type ultrasonic water flow meters Details
8Tender for work of inspection, repairing / overhauling of existing piping hangers Details
8Tender for work of attending leaky tubes, joint replacement and tube nest replacement Details
8Tender for carrying out routine maintenance works for maintenance of uninterrupted power supply Details
8Tender for construction using HT ABC Details
8Tender for construction of 110 kV substation Details
8Tender for routine maintenance and breakdown works of HT and LT motors and their related Details
8Tender for biennial rate contract for civil maintenance of entrance cabin and loading point Details
8Tender for supply, erection and commissioning of lighting poles Details
8Tender for extension of 220kV substation Details
8Tender for survey, installation, testing and commissioning of new 5 MVA 33/11kV substation Details
8Tender for regarding work of shifting of 11 kV feeder Details
8Tender for ARC for erection of HT / LT / TC and maintenance work Details
8Tender for procurement of LT three phase angle cross arm Details
8Tender for carrying out routine maintenance works of HT/LT switchgear in RWPH 5 MVA power transformer Details
8Tender for routine maintenance and breakdown works of HT motors LT motors Details
8Tender for routine breakdown maintenance works of 230 kV grid bus yard power transformers Details
8Tender for works contract for the routine maintenance of MRT equipments Details
8Tender for carrying out maintenance activities of C&I equipments in unit Details
8Tender for construction of damaged and U fencing to prevent encroachment at 220kV s/s Butari Details
8Tender for construction of damaged and U fencing to prevent encroachment at 220kV s/s Details
8Tender for outsourcing work of erection, testing and commissioning of 01 no new 66 kV substation Details
8Tender for supply of LT XLPE insulated aerial bunched cables Details
8Tender for supply of hot end and hot intermediate end baskets embedded with heating elements for air pre heater Details
8Tender for requirement of leak off control valve with pneumatic actuator for turbine gland seal steam system Details
8Tender for supply of cast basalt pipe fitting and pipes of various sizes Details
8Tender for supply of different types of GTC sleeves for various pumps, clinker grinders Details
8Tender for supply of 245kV current transformer (CT) Details
8Tender for work of providing protection structure by erection of girder pole & tower angle to transmission tower’s Details
8Tender for construction of electricity test lab Details
8Tender for special maintenance and repair works of electricity sub-station Details
8Tender for construction of store and other miscellaneous civil works at 33/11 kV substation Details
8Tender for construction of 03 Nos store and other miscellaneous civil works at 33/11 kV substation Details
8Tender for life enhancement works E and F Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance contract for conservancy work Details
8Tender for renovation of BAT supporting structures Details
8Tender for biennial rate contract for repairing and servicing of ESP rapping system gear box Details
8Tender for Supply, civil, erection, testing & commissioning for implementation of rapid restoration system for 3x105MVA, 400/220/33kV ICT II Details
8Design, engineering, supply, erection, testing & commissioning of HVWS system for 4 nos. new SFC transformer Details
8Tender for supply of ceramic blanket for 1X500 MW boiler unit Details
8Tender for work of dismantling replacement / repairing of PF pipe, orifice & PF bend of coal mills Details
8Tender for deputation of service engineer for quarterly servicing, maintenance & trouble shooting of PLC system & VFD drives of various auxiliaries Details
8Tender for work of complete o/h of MS&HRH strainers, HP&IP stop and control valves Details
8Tender for supply of submersible pump motor set capacity Details
8Tender for supply and installation of an energy efficient lubricated rotary screw air compressor Details
8Tender for work of supply and application of anti-corrosive paint on external surfaces of various structures, pipe lines & auxiliaries Details
8Tender for services for carpentry, masonry, and plumbing works etc. and operation of drinking water supply system Details
8Tender for supply of various spare of beater wheel Details
8Tender for miscellaneous fabrication and steel work in various Details
8Design, supply, installation, commissioning and maintenance of solar PV system for 5 years as a rooftop Keshod Details
8Design, supply, installation, commissioning and maintenance of solar PV system for 5 years as a rooftop Kodinar Details
8Design, supply, installation, commissioning and maintenance of solar PV system for 5 years as a rooftop Details
8Design, supply, installation, commissioning and maintenance of solar PV system Details
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8Coal India accepts resignation of ED Raja Sekhar Kinnera Details
8Coal India prepares to list MCL, SECL after board approval: B Sairam Details
8Power reforms need an urgent push Details
8Bangladesh wants Nepal’s power, but India holds the key Details
8Renewables Deliver Record One-Fifth of India’s Power in July Details
8What Are DISCOMs, India Power Distribution And Smart Meters Explained Details
8Haryana to oppose private parallel power distribution licence in Gurgaon, Nuh: Power Minister Details
8Transformer Maker Enters Nuclear Segment With Kaiga Project Order Details
8Sealmatic Eyes Growth from India’s Expanding Nuclear Sector Details
82 Green Energy Stocks With High Promoter Holding Details
8KMCC Infra Secures INR 244 Crore BSPTCL Order for 205 RKM Transmission Infrastructure in Bihar Details
8Motilal Oswal bets on Data centres, defence & transmission: Top 6 capital goods picks for FY27 Details
8How hydropower decline is reinforcing coal’s role as India’s flexible power source Details
8SJVN Completes 72-Hour Trial Run of 660 MW Buxar Unit-2; Commercial Operation Set to Begin Details
8India adds 6.6 GW of rooftop solar in H1 Details
8From solar to chips: Powering India's manufacturing rise Details
8Ceigall India commissions first 5 MW solar project under MSKVY 2.0 Details
8Tata Power Commissions 100 MW Group Captive Solar Project Details
8Waaree Renewable Technologies Wins 291 MWp Solar-BESS Project Details
8Global Solar PV Installations Forecast to Hit 638 GW by 2026 Details
8ONGC to invest Rs 1 lakh crore in deepwater exploration over next 5 years, reports 3 new discoveries Details
8India Solar Manufacturing: Module Glut and DCR Cell Shortages Details
8Solar-Plus-Storage Investments Hit $25 Billion in H1 2026 Details
8Westbridge Sells 225 MW Alberta Solar and Storage Project Details
8Fujiyama Power Adds 1 GWh Lithium Battery Capacity in Ratlam Details
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Contracting news for the day

Aug 31: 8SECI's Ramagiri Wind Tender Extends 32 Days But Leaves the Portal Schedule Unsynchronised SECI's 45.6 MW ISTS-connected wind EPC package moved its bid deadline from 17 August to 18 September 2026, but the displayed document-procurement closure and tender-opening dates remain frozen at their original mid-August positions — creating three conflicting schedule signals on the same portal page. A Rs 8.4368 crore EMD locks in serious bidders even as turbine configuration, evacuation scope and performance guarantees remain undisclosed.

8NHPC's Link-3 Barrage Tender Raises Its Estimate 2.1% While Loosening Gate Qualification NHPC's Rs 2,301.20 crore Himachal Pradesh package increased its cost estimate and correspondingly raised turnover and bid-capacity thresholds, even as it simultaneously cut the vertical-lift-gate experience requirement by more than half and deleted a TRCM credential entirely. Eight deadline extensions totaling 110 days accompanied a shift from NATM to DBM tunneling terminology and a barrage-quantity rebalancing that favors concrete-intensive contractors over pure excavation specialists.

8JdVVNL's TNTW-796 Tender Swaps Its Own Geography Mid-Procurement JdVVNL's Rs 120.01 crore RDSS package originally assigned Bikaner's DD-I, DD-II and Khajuwala divisions to TNTW-796 in its NIT and first corrigendum, but the revised SBD, portal entry and BOQ now attribute Dungargarh and Nokha to the same tender number — with no explicit clause recording the swap. A 90.7% supply-weighted cost structure sits uneasily against an anti-front-loading rule that penalizes exactly that kind of allocation.

8NTPC's Pudimadaka WTP-GIS Tender Lets Old Contracts Inflate Their Way Into Qualification NTPC's lump-sum turnkey package bundling a water treatment plant, firefighting system and substation now allows bidders to escalate historical reference-contract values by 5% per year — potentially qualifying firms whose past projects fell short at nominal prices. The amendment doesn't clarify which of three possible reference dates (completion, execution, or commissioning) controls the calculation.

8GETCO's 495-Transformer Tender States Two Different Estimates 36.6% Apart GETCO's Rs 1,386.84 crore bulk transformer procurement lists that figure in its summary table while ITB Clause 1 independently states Rs 879.62 crore — a Rs 507.23 crore discrepancy that directly affects the mandatory 10% turnover-qualification threshold. Item-wise reverse bidding with pre-auction elimination of the highest qualified bidders adds another layer of price compression before contracts are even split among suppliers.

8APTRANSCO's MPLS-TP Network Tender Corrects a Zero-Value Estimate to Rs 139.44 Crore APTRANSCO's substation communication-network corrigendum fixed an originally blank estimated contract value while nearly tripling bid security from Rs 3 crore to Rs 8.79 crore, and introduced a turnkey EPC-plus-single-OEM route with joint and several liability between contractor and manufacturer. The payment clause still references 421 units even though the corrected total procurement — including mandatory spares — is 463.

8JdVVNL's TNTW-797 Tender Times Its Financial Openings by Which Package Bids Highest First JdVVNL's Rs 91.88 crore Bikaner package is one of eight RDSS tenders opened in descending order of estimated value, with each bidder's capacity reassessed after every prior L1 outcome — meaning winning one package can silently disqualify a bidder from financial consideration on another. A two-package participation ceiling includes an exception that preserves original bidding capacity if an earlier L1 result would otherwise push a bidder over the limit.

8NTPC's Darlipali Water-Ash Package Awards at an 11% Spread With Wildly Different Cost Allocations NTPC's Rs 261.71 crore award to Zuberi Engineering for Darlipali's make-up water and ash-disposal system beat the second-place bidder by 11.0%, but the real story sits in the BOQ line items — one competitor allocated just Rs 31 lakh to local transportation against the winner's Rs 11.19 crore, revealing radically different cost-loading strategies behind similar headline totals.

8NTPC's Mouda Ash Transport Tender Lets the Client Cut Volume to Zero With No Compensation NTPC's Rs 83.17 crore, 926,575-tonne ash-haulage package permits contract quantity reduction of up to 100% while explicitly excluding idle-equipment claims — meaning a contractor mobilizing a full fleet within 15 days could see the entire volume disappear. A bid more than 10% below NTPC's estimate triggers additional security equal to half the shortfall, discouraging aggressive undercutting on a package where GeM says "no arbitration" while the incorporated SCC names Delhi as the arbitration seat.

8NTPC's Lara Ash Tender Makes Bidders Prove They Own a Dump Site Before Opening Price Bids NTPC's corrigendum for its Lara ash-disposal package converts an existing site-control requirement into a hard techno-commercial gate — bidders must now formally declare ownership or a tie-up with an abandoned quarry or low-lying area before their price bid can even be opened. A 30-day post-award deadline for securing Gram Panchayat, Mining Department and pollution-board approvals treats any delay as contractor default, regardless of whether the delay originates with the authorities themselves.

8WCL's Bhatadi Overburden Tender Sets Output Targets Without Fixing Fleet Size WCL's Rs 1,307.45 crore, 72-month overburden removal package at Chandrapur specifies minimum daily production of 52,103 CUM in dry season and 20,841 CUM during monsoon but leaves the actual number of excavators and tippers entirely to the contractor — an output-based structure that excludes idle-equipment claims entirely. A one-week bid extension left the diesel-price-variation base date frozen at the original deadline, meaning the extra preparation time carries no corresponding escalation benefit.

8Mahagenco's Parli Fly Ash Sale Reviews Its "Three-Year" Contract Every Single Year Mahagenco's fly-ash offtake tender for Parli TPS advertises a three-year term but explicitly subjects it to annual review with continuation left entirely to the generator's discretion — meaning bidders committing to seven-year silo leases and monthly advance payments have no guaranteed multi-year revenue in return. A separate clause imports unrelated Nashik TPS litigation outcomes as grounds to amend or cancel this Parli-specific agreement.

8CCL's Chandragupta Coal Haulage Tender Leaves Zero Volume Cushion Over Two Years CCL's Rs 284.12 crore, 730-day coal transport package sets a daily target of exactly 12,000 tonnes that multiplies precisely to the full 87.60 lakh tonne contract quantity — leaving no buffer for disruption before shortfall penalties or termination become live risks. The GeM portal states no performance bank guarantee is required while the incorporated SLA mandates 5% security plus 3% retention, and a specimen work order banning all escalation contradicts the same document's monthly diesel-adjustment formula.

8GUVNL's 1,000 MW Battery Storage Tender Has a Security Clause With Nothing In It GUVNL's Rs 1,000 MW/4,000 MWh BESS procurement titles Clause 20 "Payment Security" but both its subclauses are marked "Not Used," leaving buyer-side payment protection entirely undefined despite demanding Rs 25 lakh/MW in developer-side PBG. A required 50-100 MW dispatch-group architecture doesn't obviously accommodate the tender's own 65 MW minimum bid size.

8GUVNL's Firm Renewable Power Tender Lets the Buyer Move Peak Hours Every Year GUVNL's 500 MW FDRE procurement replaced fixed 6-9am and 4-8pm delivery windows with movable bands — any three hours between 5-10am and any four hours between 4pm-midnight — reset annually at GUVNL's discretion, forcing developers to design storage for the worst-case combination rather than a known schedule. A revised third-party-sale penalty now uses whichever is higher between contract-tariff value and actual market revenue, closing a pricing loophole while sharpening downside risk for excess-power sales. Details

IEX day-ahead price rebounds 68.6% as cleared volume slips

Aug 31: 8IEX’s day-ahead weighted price recovered sharply for Aug 31, 2026 after the previous day’s fall, but the exchange cleared less energy. Rising purchase bids and falling sell bids changed the auction balance without translating into higher traded volume. Details

CERC asks who buys and sells the power in POWERGRID’s proposed storage business

Aug 31: 8POWERGRID’s storage proposal has brought a basic commercial question before CERC: who is buying the charging electricity, selling the output and retaining the proceeds? The regulator has asked for that transaction model and its legal basis before the proposal moves further. Details

Low-frequency overdrawal exposes Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh reserve-response constraints

Aug 31: 8Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh were over-drawing during a low-frequency episode, but the reasons extended beyond a simple shortage of installed capacity. The western grid review records thermal restart timing, weather-driven demand changes and linked hydro constraints behind the states’ response. Details

Champa floods recur despite earlier remedies, forcing attention to drainage and bay height

Aug 31: 8Repeated flooding at Champa has moved the issue beyond a one-off restoration exercise. The latest review records generation and transmission effects despite earlier remedies, while the longer-term answer remains entangled with external drainage responsibilities and equipment design. Details

A line dismantled for a VVIP helipad remains out as transmission charges become disputed

Aug 31: 8A transmission line interrupted for a VVIP helipad in September 2024 remained unresolved in the latest western-region review. Its operator now says the outage is affecting project availability and incentives, while restoration still depends on payment, land-access and clearance issues. Details

Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update

Aug 31: 8Daily Excel covering new tenders and all published updates including corrigendum, amendment, addendum, clarification and status revisions, along with technical and financial bid opening, evaluation completion and final award actions including AOC and LOA issuance.
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CERC asks Adani to prove why reactive-power upgrades qualify as change in law

Aug 31: 8Adani’s claim for reactive-power equipment costs faces a question that goes beyond the size of the bill: what changed legally, and what was already required? CERC has asked for that distinction before deciding claims across three projects totalling 417 MW. Details

HVPNL fails to secure a blanket loss relaxation, but keeps an audited annual route open

Aug 31: 8Haryana’s transmission utility has not won a general escape from its declining loss targets. The regulator has instead kept any relief tied to audited annual facts, after the company’s own historical performance undercut an absolute claim that losses below 2% were infeasible. Details

Haryana revokes 96 MW Dikchu approval after an unsigned PPA leaves capacity tied up

Aug 31: 8Haryana has withdrawn approval to procure 96 MW from Dikchu after years without an agreed PPA. The regulator also found that the procurement framework lacked the security provisions needed to hold a supplier to a capacity commitment. Details

Talegaon’s rising load prompts a Rs 55 crore transformer proposal—with a competing network solution

Aug 31: 8A proposed Rs 55 crore transformer at Talegaon is being tested against a demand increase that could nearly double the station’s loading. But another substation due in March 2027 may alter the need, leaving the investment dependent on a fuller network study. Details

Solapur bay mismatch brings Rs 4.68 crore upgrade proposals into a coordination dispute

Aug 31: 8Two renewable-evacuation schemes at Solapur have exposed a mismatch between new connection-bay ratings and adjoining substation equipment. Proposed upgrades total about Rs 4.68 crore before GST, but the committee discussion leaves both approval and responsibility unresolved. Details

SECI’s one-year storage tender puts 485 cycles and fixed-price risk on operating assets

Aug 31: 8SECI wants an already operating storage asset for a one-year contract, with up to 485 cycles and significant performance deductions. Its tender pairs a fixed monthly capacity payment with strict efficiency and availability obligations, while the standard agreement excludes contractual change-in-law relief. Details

Meghalaya draft allows four days for rural line repairs, with Rs 50 for a missed standard

Aug 31: 8Meghalaya’s proposed service standards would give a rural utility up to 96 hours to restore certain line and transformer failures, against much shorter urban deadlines. Missing those particular standards would attract Rs 50 per default, while other service failures would generate daily compensation. Details

APSPDCL’s 8.13% energy loss becomes 25.62% AT&C loss as collections lag

Aug 31: 8APSPDCL’s first-quarter accounts show a much wider loss measure once collections are included. The gap is not evidence that a quarter of its electricity disappeared: it reflects the combined effect of billed-energy shortfalls and money collected against billing. Details

Punjab asks whether a 250 MW solar purchase beats both market buys and its own sales

Aug 31: 8Punjab’s proposed 250 MW solar purchase faces a broader price test than a comparison with other solar bids. The regulator has also asked the state utility to show solar-hour exchange prices and the prices realised from its own power sales before the procurement case is decided. Details

Borosil Renewables pay resolution passes despite majority institutional opposition

Aug 31: 8Borosil Renewables secured shareholder approval for Ashok Jain’s FY27 remuneration even though a majority of the public institutional votes cast opposed it. The result shows how strongly an overwhelming overall approval can differ from the position of a particular shareholder category. Details

A renewable corridor faces replacement of 43,000 insulators after faults return

Aug 31: 8Repeated faults on the Vadodara–Lakadia transmission line have put a much larger replacement job on the agenda. The operator says nearly 43,000 installed insulators need attention on a corridor expected to carry increasing renewable output, even after an earlier faulty batch was replaced. Details

UP smart-meter refunds reach 92,231 accounts; keypad replacement remains a separate task

Aug 31: 8Uttar Pradesh utilities have completed refunds to more than 92,000 consumers over smart-meter connection charges. The regulator has also stopped fresh keypad-meter installations, but the next requirement is a replacement roadmap—not evidence that the old devices have already been removed. Details

Haryana eases renewable banking paperwork—but does not reopen past settlements

Aug 31: 8Renewable generators in Haryana have won a less cumbersome route to banking approvals, including concurrent processing and tighter limits on extra documentation. The relief has a firm boundary: it does not turn previously lapsed energy or disputed historical settlements into fresh entitlements. Details

CERC clears Rs 3.39 hydrokinetic tariff over a dissent on legal and tender grounds

Aug 31: 8A 1 MW canal-based hydrokinetic pilot has secured a 40-year tariff approval, but not a unanimous one. CERC’s majority accepted the procurement despite the absence of technology-specific bidding guidelines; its dissenting member challenged the legal route, tender scrutiny and duration of the pilot arrangement. Details

Gujarat curtailed 15.35 MU of renewables while buying power, WRLDC says

Aug 31: 8Gujarat’s renewable curtailment on Jul 28, 2026 coincided with net market purchases and substantial under-drawal, according to the Western Regional Load Despatch Centre. The state attributed the episode to extreme-weather demand swings and the timing of thermal and renewable recovery. Details

CERC puts future wind and solar projects on general-seller deviation rules

Aug 31: 8New wind and solar projects will have to price a different imbalance-settlement exposure into their bids and operating plans. CERC has adopted general-seller treatment for specified future projects despite renewable-industry objections, while leaving an important pooled-project implementation question for a separate procedure. Details

LATEST CERC NEWS

Aug 31: 8Datta’s disputed connectivity stays protected while CERC reserves its decision
8Saimaa’s 150 MW connectivity protection continues until CERC decides
8PSPCL brings DVC’s FGD-exemption consequences before CERC
8PSPCL seeks DVC refinancing savings from Bokaro and Raghunathpur
8CERC seeks tax records and state participation in NLC’s settlement-reimbursement case
8NLC’s Neyveli lignite price case faces land-tax and asset-data questions
8A 390 MW hybrid project seeks time and ISTS-waiver relief while awaiting GNA
8CERC asks CTUIL to correct a recommendation naming a different transmission project
8CERC asks how Rajasthan IV-A schemes will be staggered without losing their need
8Kishtwar delay claim must separate disruption from work already in the schedule
8Rajasthan Sun seeks Rs 8.48 crore back from NVVN shortfall deductions
8Khidrat’s 300 MW connectivity dispute moves to CTUIL’s reply stage
8Solarcraft’s 150 MW Solapur wind case awaits CTUIL’s response on commissioning relief
8Kallam change-in-law case gets another reply window after respondents fail to appear
8NHPC accepts admissibility argument in ABC Renewable case, but quantification remains contested
8TRN coal-allocation compensation case is reserved without a payment award
8Adani contests Rs 2.77 lakh in CTUIL bills; CERC admits the case
8Gadag-II sectionaliser works enter Khavda II-C licence-amendment scrutiny
8Rajgarh Neemuch seeks consent for security creation and refinancing arrangements
8Dhule transmission dispute requires an updated project-status filing
8JSW Renew Energy GST case proceeds to replies without a change-in-law award
8CERC gives Jhabua and KSEB a reply sequence for historical supply claims
8Tata Power Renewable’s GNA dispute moves through replies and rejoinder
8Aurum, KVK and Diwakar solar cases move to October after an unopposed adjournment
8ReNew bilateral-charge cases are adjourned to October without a merits ruling
8Hindustan Electricity must comply with earlier directions before the next access hearing Details

STATE REGULATOR NEWS

Aug 31: 8Jharkhand approves a 10 MW increase in TSUISL’s DVC supply
8Bihar extends resource-adequacy consultation after receiving no comments
8Punjab gives PSPCL more time in a 220-kV consumer’s voltage-cost dispute
8Punjab reserves two biomass tariff-redetermination cases covering 16 MW
8OMSONS seeks a price for non-paddy-season surplus supply
8Haryana seeks utility replies on Avtar Steel’s green-open-access relaxation request Details

LAWS, RULES AND NOTIFICATIONS

Aug 31: 8CERC drops daily-average pricing proposal to preserve intraday deviation signals
8Standalone storage gets a Rs 2 ceiling for infirm injections-not a guaranteed tariff
8Cost-plus pumped storage gets an energy-charge reference for deviations in both modes
8DSM payment rule keeps ten days while allowing a CERC-approved alternative procedure
8West Bengal proposes timestamped photographs and itemised unauthorised-use assessments
8Meghalaya’s draft reliability measures use conflicting interruption thresholds Details

COMPANIES AND FINANCIAL RESULTS

Aug 31: 8APSPDCL’s farm-energy account relies on assessment for 94% of billed units
8POWERGRID seeks waiver after exchanges levy Rs 22.73 lakh in governance fines
8Surana Solar proposes AI and data-centre objects without committing investment
8Surana Solar approves Raviryala land-sale proposal; buyer and price remain open
8Patel Engineering completes Rs 55 crore exit from ACP Tollways stake
8Ola receives sanction for Rs 95.81 crore under auto PLI scheme
8Ola puts LFP-powered S1 Z deliveries on a December-to-March timetable
8Hitachi Energy India puts overseas related-party transactions to a postal ballot
8NHPC’s Jalpower merger hearing is postponed without a replacement date
8HCC schedules Mumbai investor meetings for Sept 3, 2026
8NHPC sets Sept 3, 2026 Mumbai appearance at Elara investor conference
8India Power creditors to consider bidder eligibility and expression-of-interest notice
8NALCO targets 20% more captive coal after FY26 supply reaches 40 lakh tonnes
8NALCO opens a 50-kg-a-day fly-ash recovery pilot, not a commercial metals plant
8NALCO’s CSR spending exceeds its stated FY26 obligation by Rs 1.64 crore
8Ola company secretary resigns; material-disclosure authority rests with chairman and CFO
8TARIL fixes dividend record date for Sept 18, 2026, with payment conditional on AGM vote
8Surana Solar appoints Buvankar Shekarnath for three-year whole-time role, subject to vote
8NTPC Green director vote passes with 99.36% support despite 9.42% institutional dissent Details

PROJECTS AND TENDERS

Aug 31: 8Waaree wins 291 MWp solar-plus-storage EPC letter of award for FY28 delivery
8KPI adds 130 MW to its hybrid project during August
8KPI subsidiary signs GUVNL storage agreements for 565 MW and 1,130 MWh
8KP Green Engineering discloses Rs 258.02 crore of orders across six product lines
8NLC–NCRTC venture signs 25-year PPA for 110 MW of Uttar Pradesh solar
8ACME secures SECI letter of award for 300 MW of peak supply at Rs 6 a unit
8POWERGRID acquires Fatehgarh-II grid-strengthening vehicle for Rs 19.11 crore
8TARIL’s Kaiga transformer order falls in Rs 100–500 crore band
8Tata Power Renewable commissions 100 MW for three group-captive consumers
8NALCO and NLC plan 1,080 MW captive station for Angul smelter expansion
8SECI schedules renewable-sector cyber-auditor pre-bid meeting for Sept 7, 2026
8UPNEDA’s government-building solar tenders span on-grid, off-grid and hybrid systems
8Allied Blenders’ Moradabad expansion puts 9.5 MW of cogeneration in ToR proposal
8Odisha committee to consider clearance-validity extension for 120 MW coal project Details

GRID AND MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

Aug 31: 8IEX real-time price falls 29%; previous evening’s four ceiling-price hours disappear
8PXIL real-time schedule finishes one-third below cleared volume on Aug 29, 2026
8IEX high-price day-ahead segment clears 68.4 MWh at Rs 20,000
8Western grid used only 239 of 599 approved July outages
8Mundra reverse-flow concern meets WRLDC’s finding that current loading is within limit
8Faulty Kawas meters lead to a one-off SCADA route for energy-charge calculations
8WRLDC says notice of Magarwada fire arrived over an hour after 133 MW loss
8Western region fixes four emergency-tower sites, with delivery expected in April
8Mumbai line faults persist after insulator replacement; root-cause report questioned
8Vapi-area flooding exposed an N-1 gap after 384 MW load loss
8Goa–Karnataka protection links await fibre-allocation concurrence
8Western states are asked for day-ahead reserve figures by 8 am Details

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Aug 31: For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with remote monitoring system of total 453 kW grid connected SPV plant Details
8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with remote monitoring system of total 258 kW grid connected SPV plant Details
8Tender for civil works regarding switchyard extension 4 No. 132 kV bay at 132 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for supply of LT single phase channel cross arm Details
8Tender for supply of stay set complete Details
8Tender for construction of retaining wall, gravel filling and formation for introduction of additional 100 MVA transformer Details
8Tender for supply of 11 kV ,200A AB switch horizontal type with 11 kV post type insulators Details
8Tender for supply and ETC of 12 No 30 M lighting mast Details
8Tender for civil maintenance of S - 1, S-2 ash dyke and overflow lagoon Details
8Tender for biennial work for maintenance of barrage and reservoir Details
8Tender for supply, installation and commissioning of laboratory gas distribution system Details
8Tender for installing 160 kVA transformer Details
8Tender for supply of TLSA for 400 kV transmission lines Details
8Tender for supply of 765 kV circuit breakers (With PIR) substation Details
8Tender for supply of automatic contact resistance meter kit Details
8Tender for estimate for the 33/11 kV new substation Details
8Tender for procurement of 33kV vacuum circuit breaker alongwith Details
8Tender for supply of hydrochloric acid Details
8Tender for formation of new 110 kV yard at 66 kV substation Details
8Tender for replacement of old and defective bay equipments C R panels and communication equipments of existing 220kV line bays along Details
8Tender for setting up of 100 kW rooftop solar PV power project Details
8Tender for utilization of 100 MWh (50 MW x 2 Hrs.) standalone energy storage system Details
8Design, manufacture, testing, supply and delivery of 150W LED lighting along Details
8Design, manufacture, testing, supply and delivery of 1561 nos. 11kV vacuum interrupters (Max. voltage 12KV, Normal amperes 2000A, Min. rupturing capacity 25KA) of various types suitable for various Details
8Tender for repair of old U fencing at 220kV s/s Details
8Tender for patch work with bituminous concrete 40 mm thick Details
8Tender for construction of new 220kV substation Details
8Tender for construction of 2 no. 220 kV bays for 220 kv DC line Details
8Tender for Re development of yard, repair of broken trench and trench covers other civil works at 220 kV substation Details
8Tender for civil and electrical repair works Details
8Tender for day to day operation of pumps and valves installed Details
8Tender for procurement of Hi-chrome grinding media balls Details
8Tender for supply and painting of pipes, structures, equipments Details
8Tender for supply, erection, testing and commissioning of firefighting pipe line Details
8Tender for providing and laying 2.50 cm thick premix carpet surface Details
8Tender for renovation of stores with earth filling Details
8Tender for construction of new 33 kV underground crossing Details
8Tender for preventive and break down maintenance works HP 803 bowl milling system Details
8Tender for routine maintenance attending boiler tube puncture Details
8Tender for civil estimates for deviation of 110 kV line Details
8Tender for procurement of 22kV vertical type air break GOS switches Details
8Tender for supply of LT three phase angle cross arm Details
8Tender for attending preventive break down works in ACW pumps ASWB pumps Details
8Tender for attending breakdown works in ESP and condition monitoring and attending minor repair works Details
8Tender for attending breakdown preventive maintenance work in feed water system Details
8Tender for procurement of telescopic earth rod Details
8Tender for new 33 by 11 kV sub-stations augmentation or addition capacity including associated line and other works Details
8Tender for supply and ETC of architectural fasade lighting system Details
8Tender for SITC of electric submersible agitator slurry and sand pump and dewatering pump including hose pipe cable and their DOL control panel Details
8Tender for work of supply, civil and ETC (excluding supply of 400kV ICT, CB & isolator Details
8Tender for work of supply and ETC of 2nd ckt stringing work of 132 kV line Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract (AMC) for overhauling, repairing & servicing of 33 kV & 11kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for work of replacement of damaged/deteriorated old 0.5 ACSR quadruple bus conductor, jumpers, spacers Details
8Tender for annual rate contract for providing expert services for troubleshooting of AC/DC equipments and control/ protection system Details
8Tender for rate contract for the work of chemical cleaning of dust/bird shit contaminated insulator strings Details
8Tender for supply of spares for 400kV ABB SF6 breaker Details
8Tender for supply of 245kV AC filter CT & 145kV DC filter CT Details
8Tender for work of PID testing of various tower various 132 kV, 220 kV & 400 kV lines Details
8Tender for work of cold line cleaning (manually) of insulators strings of various 220/132/110kV EHV lines Details
8Tender for rate contract for attending emergency breakdown and planned outage works on various 400 kV lines Details
8Tender for supply of staircase step grills for crusher house Details
8Tender for supply of lighting arrester for 220kV & 400kV switchyard Details
8Tender for supply of various consumables, measuring instruments, tools tackles, CPVC and fasteners items Details
8Tender for supply and repairing of various duct of ventilation system and overhauling of Various air centrifugal fan of ventilation & exhaust air system Details
8Tender for supply of acid bulk tank for DM plant Details
8Tender for work of complete overhauling of boilers with air pre heater Details
8Tender for providing and laying NON shrink grouting material, yard work of micro levelling, yard Details
8Tender for supplying, lowering, lying, jointing and testing of D.I.(K-9) pipeline shifting at 66kV S/S Details
8Tender for supply of control panel spares of pump house Details
8Tender for supply & application work of inside coating in pipelines Details
8Tender for supply of various instruments for CHP & BOP Details
8Tender for supply of various size of tool holders and its spares of vvarious lathe machines Details
8Tender for work of replacement of CT/PT/CVT & LA of 220KV / 400kV switchyard Details
8Tender for supply of EPR insulated flexible trailing power and control trailing cables Details
8Tender for supply of flap gate assembly with motorized linier actuator for coal handling plant Details
8Tender for supply of various fasteners and consumables Details
8Tender for supply, erection, testing and commissioning of 220V DC, 510AH, KBH, Ni-Cd type battery set 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 types of contactors for LTMCC of 500 MW Details
8Design, supply, installation, testing & commissioning of 220 V DC compartment type distribution board including Details
8Tender for turnkey execution of design, supply, installation, testing & commissioning of RTCC panels of transformers Details
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For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
8Global Power Demand To Cross 30,000 TWh By 2027, Renewables Set To Surpass Coal In 2026 Details
8Bengal coal-to-gas project moves ahead; global technology hunt begins Details
8India has a 46-GW nuclear gap. What will make private players invest Details
8CleanMax Signs Term Sheet With Envision Energy For 1.55 GW Wind Turbines Details
8EDF Power Solutions Signs PPA for 142.5 MW Diana Wind Farm Phase 1 in Brazil Details
8KP Green Engineering bags Rs 258 crore in fresh orders across segments Details
8Namo Bharat corridor to be powered by pioneering 110-MW captive solar plant Details
8AI, IoT Tech Drives $100M Energy Platform Details
8Renewable energy news: Amazon, Brookfield’s Lumara, Nala Renewables Details
8Rajasthan Launches 172-Unit Battery Project to Manage Solar Surplus Details
8India Gas Power Usage Jumps 340% on Record Grid Demand Details
8NTPC REL Wins 500 MW Renewable Energy Contract In SECI Auction At INR 6/kWh Details
8There’s a lot wrong in Indian RE sector Details
8ACME Solar Signs 130 MW RTC PPA With Northeast Frontier Railway At INR 4.35/kWh For 25 Years Details
8Oil India subsidiary signs MoU with four Municipalities of Haryana Details
8ACME Solar Commissions Phase III of 11.429 MW BESS Project in Rajasthan Details
8Gaurs Group buys 35 acre land parcels along Yamuna Expressway for Rs 700 crore Details
8India Renewable Energy Sector Hits 300 GW Mark Amid Grid Risks Details
8Transformers & Rectifiers stock jumps 7% on NPCIL order; firm enters nuclear power sector- key details to know Details
8Kashmir’s Power Paradox: Fix Losses before Raising Tariff Part-I Details
8Tata Power Renewables Commissions 190.5 MW FDRE Project in Rajasthan Details
8TARIL enters nuclear power sector with first transformer order from NPCIL Details
8NTPC Targets 244 GW Capacity By 2037 With INR 16.86 Lakh Crore Investment Plan Details
8Centre notifies rules mandating IST as single common time reference Details
8Scaling Wind: What rising capacity means for EPC, supply chains, and project execution Details
8Tata Power and Bhutan's DGPC Expand Clean Energy Partnership, Add 404 MW Nyera Amari Hydropower Project to Portfolio Details
8Adani Power posts record Rs 4,867 crore Q1FY27 profit on volume surge Details
8India Data Centres Enter A New Infrastructure Race Details
8NLC India Renewables Signs 25-Year PPA for 110 MW Solar Project with NCRTC Details
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Contracting news for the day

Aug 28: 8UJVN's Lakhwar Hydro-Mechanical Design Tender Sets 20 BOQ Lines Against a 23-Item Scope UJVN's Rs 2.70 crore consultancy for pre-EPC design of Lakhwar's gates, penstocks and SCADA carries a price schedule that omits standalone billing for tender preparation and revised cost estimation — outputs Appendix III explicitly treats as separately payable. The same document simultaneously requires 120-day and six-month bid validity, and bars price adjustment in one clause while permitting it in another.

8TGGENCO's Naini-Yadadri Coal Logistics Tender Can't Decide If It's Moving 3 or 6 Million Tonnes TGGENCO's Rs 21 crore-EMD road-rail coal transport package states "3.0 million tonnes per annum for two years" in one clause and "approximately 3.0 million tonnes across two years" in another — a contradiction that could double or halve the real contracted volume. An exclusive-siding requirement demanding prior government-utility operating history, combined with a consortium ban, narrows the field to firms already embedded in the Khurda Road Division's coal network.

8ECL's RailTel Connectivity Award Closes 6.3% Above Its Own Displayed L1 Offer ECL's single-source, five-year Rs 145.47 crore managed-connectivity contract with RailTel shows a displayed offer of Rs 136.86 crore against an executed contract value Rs 8.61 crore higher — with no reconciliation supplied and no competing bid to benchmark against. GeM marks both EMD and ePBG as "No" even as the underlying conditions of contract require 5% performance security and 3% running-bill retention.

8UJVN's Second Lakhwar Design Tender Repeats the Same Radial-Gate Threshold Contradiction This companion filing on UJVN's hydro-mechanical design consultancy shows qualification clause 1.4.1(B)(iii) stating a 40% experience threshold while assigning it a rupee figure equal to 80% of the estimate — a discrepancy that could exclude or admit very different bidder pools depending on which figure controls. The tender also retains JV application forms despite explicitly barring joint-venture participation.

8NTPC REL's Nokhra Solar Tender Posts a Corrigendum 37 Minutes After Its Own Deadline NTPC Renewable Energy's 300 MW solar EPC package shows its first corrigendum timestamped at 15:37 on 22 June — just after the original 15:00 submission deadline on the same day — before seven total corrigenda and five addenda stretched the closing date by 60 days. A Rs 20 crore EMD locks in serious bidders even as land, evacuation and performance-guarantee terms remain undisclosed in the notice.

8NTPC's Farakka Pipeline-Bridge Assessment Is a Competitive Tender Wrapped Around a Named Consultant NTPC's structural-diagnostics assignment for ash-slurry pipeline bridges repeatedly identifies CSIR-SERC as the executing agency throughout its scope and payment clauses, despite running as a domestic competitive bid — and pays the entire preliminary-inspection fee in advance with no bank guarantee, no LD and no defect liability.

8WBSETCL's 22-Unit Transformer Tender Rebalances Delivery Without Extending Its Deadline WBSETCL's addendum cut the first delivery tranche from five transformers to three while pushing it 30 days later, keeping the 510-day completion date fixed — meaning later batches now carry a steeper production ramp. A pre-declared 14:8 split lets a second supplier win a share of the order, but only by matching the L1 price exactly.

8NHPC's Sawalkot Dam Tender Raises Its Estimate 5.6% and Moves Its Deadline 171 Days NHPC's Rs 5,416.94 crore Lot-1 package for the Sawalkot hydroelectric project quietly changed the plant's stated capacity from 1856 MW to 1800 MW mid-procurement while increasing turnover, working-capital and bid-capacity thresholds in step with the higher estimate. Thirty-four of 121 technical drawings were revised after original issue, and two separate documents both bear the label "Corrigendum No. 3."

8AEGCL's Umrangshu Financing EOI Attaches the Wrong Project's Supporting Documents AEGCL's EOI seeking a Rs 554 crore term loan for its 400/132 kV Umrangshu substation includes a prudential-norm attachment that actually belongs to an unrelated APDCL transformer-augmentation scheme, while the tender reference number itself alternates between "Tech-26" and "Tech-28" across different pages of the same notice.

8TNPGCL's North Chennai FGD Tender Keeps Extending a Procurement Its Own Notes Say Should Be Scrapped TNPGCL's seawater-FGD EPC package for two 600 MW units has moved its bid opening from April to August 2026 — a 143-day drift — even though an internal administrative note explicitly states that floated tenders "shall be revisited and fresh tenders shall be floated" after committee approval. The unchanged 24-month execution clock and deleted-escalation clause mean bidders keep refreshing offers for a process that may not survive in its current form.

8HPPTCL's World Bank Transformer Tender Ships With a Hidden Pricing Sheet From an Older Contract HPPTCL's ten-transformer procurement for Paonta Sahib, Kala Amb and Kunihar contains concealed spreadsheet tabs carrying historical rates and the name of a different contractor from an earlier turnkey package — a document-integrity failure sitting alongside an unresolved conflict over whether the current contractor's scope includes erection and commissioning or only supervision.

8BHEL's Darlipali Ash Handling Tender Locks Payment to Where Bidders Put Their Money BHEL's ash-handling EPC package for NTPC Darlipali penalizes bidders who price installation below 10% or civil work outside a 30-50% band by withholding that portion, non-interest-bearing, until physical milestones catch up — while a completeness clause makes any unlisted-but-necessary item the contractor's cost regardless of BOQ coverage.

8BHEL's Companion Darlipali Ash Tender Extends Three Times While Its Risk Stack Compounds A second BHEL filing for the same Darlipali ash-handling package shows three deadline extensions totaling 21 days against an unchanged 34-month delivery clock, with functional LD reaching 12% of contract price stacked atop a separate 5% delay-LD ceiling and layered security deposits — a cumulative exposure that may exceed what any single clause suggests.

8RECPDCL's Apta 765 kV Substation Tender Narrows to Two Bidders After a Documentation Rejection RECPDCL's Maharashtra transmission tender for the 765/400/220 kV Apta substation excluded Shivalaya Construction for failing to submit requested documents within the evaluation window — leaving only Adani Energy Solutions and Resonia to compete in a process that has already drifted 191 days past its original qualification-announcement date.

8SECI's One-Year Battery Storage Tender Threatens to Zero Out a Month's Entire Payment SECI's short-term 50 MW/100 MWh storage procurement requires an already-commissioned asset and imposes a sliding penalty scale where round-trip efficiency below 70% in any month eliminates that month's capacity payment entirely — on top of standard availability damages — while missing the 1 November 2026 start date triggers full PBG encashment and termination.

8SECI's NIWE Rooftop Tender Buries Its Core Technical Spec in a Separately Attached Annexure SECI's 100 kW hybrid rooftop replacement at NIWE's Chennai campus — requiring dismantling the existing plant and achieving seamless grid-to-island transition — defers the actual storage sizing, control architecture and performance-test methodology to an Annexure-B that isn't included in the main RfP, making bid comparability impossible without that missing document.

8POWERGRID's 765 kV Reactor Award Lands 11.3% Below Estimate With Freight Costs Still Unset POWERGRID's Rs 166.74 crore award to CG Power for 15 single-phase 765 kV reactors came in well under the Rs 187.90 crore indicative benchmark, but freight and insurance charges remain unpriced pending destination confirmation — meaning the apparent discount doesn't yet reflect the full delivered cost.

8POWERGRID's Bushing Tender Extended Ten Times Yet Still Contains Conflicting Delivery Dates POWERGRID's Rs 18.144 crore award to Hitachi Energy for 48 EHV bushings moved its closing date across ten separate extensions spanning 71 days while simultaneously cutting turnover and liquidity qualification thresholds by 25% each — yet the final award record still shows an 18-month consignee-table deadline alongside a corrigendum-amended 24-month schedule that were never formally reconciled. Details

Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update

Aug 28: 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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Coal stocks lose 659,000 tonnes while days-of-stock remains unchanged

Aug 28: 8CEA’s coal-stock reports show stocks at linked thermal power plants fell from 25.045 million tonnes on Aug 24, 2026 to 24.387 million tonnes on Aug 26, 2026, a two-day decline of 659,000 tonnes or about 2.6%. Details

Pritika targets Rs 110-crore solar savings while taking 26% project equity

Aug 28: 8Pritika Engineering Components signed a memorandum of understanding with Spark Grid for solar-power supply over 25 years. Details

GK Energy’s 100-MW rooftop award combines scale with a 60-day delivery clock

Aug 28: 8GK Energy received a letter of empanelment from a state government-owned distribution utility for 100,000 one-kilowatt rooftop solar systems, aggregating to 100 MW. Details

Radiance outlook improves despite generation trailing its P90 benchmark

Aug 28: 8ICRA reaffirmed Radiance MH Solar Power’s BBB-plus rating and revised the outlook to Stable from Negative on Rs 11.66 crore of term loans. Details

Southern Power’s profits surge while rating visibility remains impaired

Aug 28: 8ICRA kept Southern Power Equipment Company’s Rs 10-crore bank facilities at B-minus with a Stable outlook and A4 in the issuer non-cooperating category. Details

Rajasthan recognises GST relief while requiring project-level tariff proof

Aug 28: 8Rajasthan’s electricity regulator held that the cut in GST on renewable-energy equipment from 12% to 5%, effective Sept 22, 2025, is a change-in-law event under the state’s power-purchase agreements. Details

Talcher-Kolar shutdown planning collides with unfinished corridor upgrades

Aug 28: 8SRPC’s meeting record says regional grid bodies are planning a 15-day shutdown of the ±500-kV Talcher–Kolar HVDC bipole in November for NHAI diversion work and maintenance. Details

Western renewable failures continue as operators miss reports and maintenance

Aug 28: 8WRPC’s renewable-energy subcommittee recorded repeated evacuation trips linked to insulator failures, flashovers and protection problems at western renewable pooling stations. Details

Western grid protection remains partly blind despite telemetry deadlines

Aug 28: 8WRLDC says missing real-time telemetry prevents it from comparing the combined load on under-frequency-relay feeders with the load assumed when the automatic protection scheme was designed. Details

Uttarakhand meets demand only after rostering households and steel furnaces

Aug 28: 8Reports from the Uttarakhand State Load Despatch Centre recorded demand of 52.94 million units on Aug 26, 2026 against total availability of 52.39 million units, leaving a 0.55-million-unit gap. Details

Southern grid meets peak despite 12.1 GW of generation outages

Aug 28: 8Southern Regional Load Despatch Centre (SRLDC) reports show the region met an evening peak of 57,266 MW on Aug 27, 2026 without recorded peak shortage and supplied 1,372.38 million units during the day. Details

July coal receipts rise 14% but remain below thermal-plant consumption

Aug 28: 8CEA’s July 2026 statement covers 224,157.51 MW of coal-fired capacity and shows all-India coal receipts rising to 73.2 million tonnes from 64.1 million tonnes a year earlier, an increase of about 14.2%. Details

Telangana discoms must pay Rs 62.83 crore while surcharge dispute continues

Aug 28: 8CERC directed Telangana’s distribution companies to pay Rs 62.83 crore of admitted late-payment surcharge within two weeks. Details

NTPC’s shutdown events multiply while tariff rules leave costs uncovered

Aug 28: 8NTPC told CERC that unit-shutdown events rose to 118 in FY26 from the usual 15–16 a year. It is seeking recovery of auxiliary power consumption and transmission charges incurred during shutdowns, along with relaxation of start-up-oil norms. Details

Kotra outage clears N-1 test but exposes Rs 300-crore to Rs 400-crore security demand

Aug 28: 8WRLDC found the system N-1 compliant during the proposed 765-kV Kotra–Tamnar double-circuit outage for APL Raigarh’s railway diversion work. Details

Jaipur discom turns profitable while debt and power costs stay heavy

Aug 28: 8Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam reported a Rs 282-crore profit after tax in the first quarter of FY27, reversing a Rs 541-crore loss a year earlier. Details

India crosses 302 GW as 500-GW goal needs Rs 30 lakh crore

Aug 28: 8The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) said India’s installed non-fossil capacity had reached about 302–303 GW by Aug 27, 2026, up from 80.3 GW twelve years earlier. Details

LATEST CERC NEWS

Aug 28: Current Central Electricity Regulatory Commission proceedings on payments, connectivity, project schedules and tariff claims

8CERC admits Angul transmission petition to create lender security
8Adani solar projects press for payment of GST change-in-law claims
8CERC reserves POWERGRID Bikaner delay-and-cost case for order
8CERC presses CTUIL to finish delayed KPS1 committee minutes
8CERC tells CTUIL to act on GRT Jewellers bank guarantees
8AMPIN pursues 199 MW of non-solar-hour access
8Interim protection continues for 300-MW Bikaner solar project
8CERC orders fuel-wise data in long-running Reliance dispute
8DB Power emission-control tariff cases move to November
8CERC adjourns ReNew financial-closure timeline dispute to October
8WRLDC and CTUIL claims against MPSEZ move to late October
8Vena Energy wind change-in-law case advances to October
8Teesta power-contract disputes get dedicated hearing date
8JSL’s Rs 19.05-crore payment claim enters fresh filing round
8CERC moves NTPC-KSEB review petition to October hearing Details

STATE REGULATOR NEWS

Aug 28: State-level tariff, renewable-project and hearing developments with a current procedural or operative effect

8Rajasthan discoms ordered to notify PM-KUSUM developers
8Nagaland seeks FY27 tariff approval and prior-year true-up
8Jharkhand regulator shifts two hearing blocks into September Details

LAWS, RULES AND NOTIFICATIONS

Aug 28: New rules, draft codes, tribunal notices and statutory directions affecting power-sector obligations

8PTCUL bans strikes immediately under essential-services law
8APTEL shifts Court-I matters after cancelling sitting
8Karnataka notifies 2026 regulations for grid-connected distributed solar plants
8Karnataka proposes new supply code for metering, billing and connections Details

PROJECTS AND TENDERS

Aug 28: Awards, procurements, auctions and project steps that change capacity, work scope or execution timing

8Adani Energy Solutions wins Rs 4,700-crore Satara transmission project
8ACME Solar wins 300-MW peak-power tender at Rs 6 a unit
8Tata Power Renewables commissions 72.5-MW Tata Steel solar plant
8Sunpower assets head to auction, but sale depends on reserve-clearing bids
8Om Power wins Rs 12.78-crore GETCO cable order
8Viviana Power Tech lands Rs 9.74-crore GETCO contract
8Radiance MH Solar Park brings 199.5 MWp into operation
8MahaGenco seeks adviser for Uran green-hydrogen project
8Chhattisgarh regulator extends tariff-consultancy tender after weak response
8Nagaland’s 15-MW solar plan carries Zone-V seismic and execution risks
8Tripura regulator invites adviser for two tariff cycles
8TGTRANSCO seeks telecom maintenance contractors in two divisions
8TGTRANSCO seeks surge monitors for substations in Nizamabad circle
8Warangal transmission maintenance tender receives a second bid extension Details

COMPANIES AND FINANCIAL RESULTS

Aug 28: Corporate finance, governance, credit, shareholder and operating developments from current filings

8Waaree Renewable sets September AGM and electronic-voting window
8Inox Green secures AA-minus rating with stable outlook
8IRCON schedules one-to-one and group investor meetings in Mumbai
8NLC India lines up institutional meetings in Mumbai
8ACME Solar schedules consecutive investor meetings across Mumbai and Delhi
8Adani Power sells pre-revenue land subsidiary to related party for Rs 535.69 crore
8Indo Tech Transformers seeks Rs 500-crore borrowing ceiling
8Indo Tech proposes 200,000-share ESOP, but dilution is not immediate
8Genus Power fixes record date for 50-paise dividend
8Bharat Coking Coal faces Rs 22.25-lakh exchange fines
8AHAsolar director appointment awaits shareholder regularisation
8Inox Wind promoter group transfers three million shares
8Power Mech proposes 15% final dividend for shareholder approval
8Power Mech seeks votes on employee dilution and Rs 10-lakh director commissions
8CG Power proposes new auditor at 7% higher fee after SRBC exit
8Coal India receives Rs 25.32-lakh governance fines
8IRCON fined Rs 19.33 lakh over board and committee composition
8BF Utilities pays Rs 3.66-lakh exchange fines
8RattanIndia Power opens remote voting before its annual shareholder meeting
8POWERGRID receives Rs 22.73-lakh governance fines and seeks waiver
8BHEL fined Rs 22.07 lakh for board-composition lapses
8BHEL corporate-operations head Sumeet Salhotra retires from senior management
8Jindal Steel schedules direct investor meeting in Mumbai
8Shera Energy lifts quarterly revenue 26% and EBITDA 50%
8Shera builds 46,750-tonne non-ferrous processing base
8Shera targets 25%-30% annual growth through FY30
8O2 Renewable rating withdrawn after bank debt repayment
8O2 Renewable keeps most wind capacity exposed to merchant prices
8Radiance solar park beats P90 output and retains BBB-plus
8India Power sends fifth creditors’ meeting agenda to vote
8Borosil Renewables seeks authority to raise fresh capital
8Borosil seeks advance approval for director term starting in May 2027
8Azad India Mobility sets September AGM and voting cut-off
8Azad India Mobility reappoints internal auditor for FY27
8Jaipur discom revenue rises 23%, but power costs climb 9.4%
8Jaipur discom improves collection and lowers AT&C loss
8Jaipur discom triples interstate sales, but channel remains under 10% of total Details

COMPANIES AND FINANCIAL RESULTS

GRID AND MARKET DEVELOPMENTS

Aug 28: System operations, market prices, transfer limits, outages, generation and reservoir movements

8Uttarakhand August demand swings across a 11.7-MU range
8Punjab import headroom reaches 5,203 MW for August 2027
8DNH and Daman-Diu import margin narrows to 139 MW
8Southern transfer corridor carries 5,276-MW temporary-access margin
8NLDC revises cross-border transfer limits for August 2027
8Regional ATC map shows 7.6-GW east-to-north capability
8Northeast transfer corridors breach limits for more than eight hours
8Northeast frequency remains outside band for nearly five hours
8Northeast meets 4,168-MW evening peak without recorded shortage
8SCUC-up requirement runs 2.4 times the down schedule
8All-India peak shortage reaches 1,940 MW as north tightens
8Non-fossil share reaches 35.98%, leaving fossil sources at 64.02%
8SCUC offer costs stretch from Rs 1.24 to Rs 28.60 a unit
8Eastern region carries 5.09 GW of generation outages
8Northern region records 1,890-MW evening shortage led by Punjab
8Punjab contributes 9.78 MU of northern energy deficit
8Renewables supply 32.3% at solar peak, then fall to 9.9% at evening peak
8National frequency remains outside normal band for 25.95% of day
8National transfer corridors complete the day without ATC violations
8PXIL real-time demand outstrips supply four-to-one at price ceiling
8HPX real-time trade revives at ceiling as only 6% of demand clears
8IEX real-time volume rises while weighted price falls
8IEX high-price day-ahead market clears only 209 MWh
8IEX green day-ahead volume rises 4.7% as weighted price jumps 5.9%
8IEX day-ahead demand jumps 18% as cleared volume rises 5.6%
8Renewable generation rises 11.4% as Rajasthan drives daily increase
8Rajasthan drives a large share of the renewable rise
8Offline conventional capacity rises 1.92 GW between daily reports
8Thermal availability falls 2.05 GW as nuclear availability improves
8NTPC output swings from above plan to below plan
8Long-duration outage capacity falls by 295 MW
8Yamuna Nagar tube leak leads new daily unit outages
8Conventional generation falls 2.1% as thermal output declines
8Telangana reservoir energy almost doubles year on year
8Odisha hydro holds 32.83 MU as outages hit six units
8Communication audits trace major outages to fibre cuts and ageing gear
8APL accepts 15% interest on delayed outage compensation
8Western committee reviews flood outages and recurring 765-kV failures
8WRPC calls its 607th operations coordination meeting for September
8Vindhyachal frequency response trails peer benchmark by 40%–56%
8Interregional links drive Rs 194.63-crore northern deviation payables
8Northern reactive-energy pool pays Rs 1.25 crore against Rs 57 lakh collected
8NRPC revises weekly ancillary-services and regional-SCUC settlement account
8Southern operations panel schedules its 242nd coordination meeting in Hampi
8Eastern voltage stays compliant except for two-minute Motihari breach
8Dichpally and Tumkur lead southern high-voltage breaches
8Four southern transmission elements trip in one day
8Collapsed towers keep major southern lines out of service Details

POLICY AND GOVERNMENT

Aug 28: Government programmes and utility administration measures with current funding, capacity or implementation consequences

8PSPCL flags slow progress in service-record digitisation
8India adds 17 GW in four months, but 500-GW goal needs Rs 30 lakh crore
8Maharashtra sets 65-GW target without detailing sanctioned pipeline
8BRPL allocates Rs 25.33 crore to active CSR projects
8Rajasthan transmission utility relaxes experience rule for vacancies Details

Contracting news for the day

Aug 27: 8OPTCL's Pandiabil-Gopalpur 400 kV Line Tender Can't Agree on Its Own Bidding Structure OPTCL's Rs 745.49 crore, 157.363 km Quad Moose transmission line repeats the familiar "single stage two part" versus "Two Stages" conflict seen across its other tenders, alongside a header dated three months after the notice itself was signed. Route access, ROW responsibility, completion period and LD terms are all absent from the notice, leaving the headline estimate largely uninformative about actual execution risk.

8HPPCL's Green Hydrogen Offtake Notice Blurs Market Sounding With Formal Procurement HPPCL's EoI for offtake from its 1 MW Dabhota plant sets a token Rs 1 EMD and marks "Is Tender: No," yet schedules a formal cost-opening event just one hour after submission closes — leaving unclear whether this is genuine demand discovery or a binding commercial process. No hydrogen volume, purity, pressure or delivery-point boundary is specified, making any submitted price impossible to compare across respondents.

8OPTCL's Palaspanga-Barbil-Unchabali Tender Shows a Hundredfold Estimate Error OPTCL's turnkey substation-and-line package lists its own cost as both Rs 3.15 crore and Rs 315.27 crore in different parts of the same document — a discrepancy that maps suspiciously close to the actual EMD figure. Two technically distinct lots are bundled into one indivisible contract, concentrating GIS, cable and 400 kV overhead-line risk in a single balance sheet despite three competing bid-deadline versions in the record.

8TNGECL's Velimalai Pumped Storage Tender Freezes Bidder-Declared Efficiency for 40 Years TNGECL's 1,000 MW/6,000 MWh PSP concession prices declared cycle efficiency directly into the bid formula, then locks that same figure into monthly revenue reconciliation for the entire concession term — creating a direct tension between winning the auction and defending a bankable long-term operating assumption. Five deadline extensions accompanied progressive release of geophysical and layout data, even as the RFP continues to disclaim reliability of TNGECL's own site information.

8NPCIL's 220 MWe BSR Engineering Tender Bans Subcontracting Its Own Core Deliverable NPCIL's Rs 128.22 crore plant-engineering contract requires an integrated CADMATIC 3D model spanning 10,000 support qualifications and 8,500 piping isometrics, but forbids delegating that modelling work to any subcontractor — concentrating single-point failure risk in whichever firm wins. A late corrigendum superseded all prior buyer-added conditions wholesale rather than amending individual clauses, adding interpretive uncertainty just before technical evaluation.

8NTPC's Telangana Ash Handling Tender Cuts Disposal Redundancy From Five Streams to Four NTPC's ash handling package for three 800 MW units reduced bottom-ash slurry disposal from five pipelines to four while simultaneously tightening aeration, weighbridge coverage and conveyor-belt specifications elsewhere — a design trade that leaves only two working streams designated to serve three generating units. A disputed 8mm bottom-ash sizing requirement was relaxed to 25mm at intermediate silos, but the downstream secondary-crushing obligation bidders called commercially unproven remains unresolved.

8DVC's Durgapur Switchyard R&M Tender Carries a 92-Month Security Obligation for an 18-Month Job DVC's Rs 133.63 crore brownfield GIS conversion at old DTPS calculates performance-security validity out to 92 months — nearly five times the contractual completion period — while simultaneously barring the contractor from claiming delay-related escalation or overstay costs even where DVC itself causes the delay. Five deadline extensions accompanied unresolved BOQ numbering errors that survived bidder challenge.

8UJVN's Tankul SHP Tender Moves Its Deadline Three Times Without Explaining Why UJVN's Rs 87.90 crore small-hydro package combining river diversion, tunnelling, powerhouse construction and hydro-mechanical works pushed its submission date from 10 July to 18 July, then 20 July, before the tender portal independently displayed 4 August — a cumulative 25-day drift with no stated technical justification recorded in the extension notices.

8NTPC's Pudimadaka WTP-Substation Tender Corrects a 10x Access-Road Error NTPC's lump-sum turnkey package bundling a water treatment plant, firefighting system and 132/33 kV GIS substation fixed an access road mistakenly specified as 45 metres wide instead of 4.5 metres, while separately expanding the electrical battery limit from 300 to 800 metres — a net scope shift that removes one civil-cost distortion while adding cable and routing exposure elsewhere. A strict 90% RO-recovery guarantee and 110% design-margin requirement now bind process performance directly to the lump-sum price.

8BHEL's Darlipali-Telangana ACC Tender Monetises Auxiliary Power Consumption in Bid Evaluation BHEL's combined air-cooled condenser package for four 800 MW units evaluates Darlipali and Telangana separately but loads bid prices for guaranteed power consumption and civil RCC quantities before ranking — meaning the cheapest ACC on paper may not win once turbine-cycle efficiency losses are capitalised. Complete technical specifications are withheld until bidders sign a confidentiality agreement, delaying full technical assessment until deep into the bidding window.

8NPCIL's Gorakhpur Ground Remediation Tender Pays for Grout Once, Not Twice NPCIL's Rs 576.86 crore TAM-grouting package beneath GHAVP's cooling towers and turbine island measures treatment points only once, leaving pipe damage, blocked packers and rejected grout batches as entirely non-payable contractor risk. Four deadline extensions totaling 36 days preceded a specialist proof-consultancy requirement naming a specific external firm alongside mandatory AERB-facing review visits.

8NTPC's Ramagundam LP Rotor Tender Closes With Exactly One Bid After Five Months NTPC's turbine spare procurement for a GE-retrofitted 210 MW unit drew zero bids at one stage before GE Power India Limited alone submitted an offer at Rs 94.25 crore — well over five months after the original March deadline — while NTPC quietly reinstated a 5% performance guarantee that the original tender had explicitly waived. Three conflicting delivery dates (12 months, 365 days, and a fixed calendar date) remain unreconciled in the award record.

8UPPTCL's Sirsira GIS Completion Tender Caps Payment for Rates 10% Above Its Own Benchmark UPPTCL's Rs 80.47 crore brownfield substation-completion package now withholds 30% of invoiced value whenever a bidder's quoted rate exceeds UPPTCL's benchmark by more than 10% — deferring the excess until erection milestones are met. Three deadline extensions totaling 41 days accompanied a rewritten joint-venture qualification clause and a BOQ correction changing GIS erection units from individual counts to complete functional sets.

8DHBVN's Faridabad SCADA Tender Awards at a 0.1% Margin Between L1 and L2 DHBVN's Rs 95.69 crore RDSS automation award for SCADA, DMS and OMS infrastructure saw the winning and second-place bids separated by barely 0.1%, while the third bidder priced roughly 6% higher — a spread suggesting sharply different assessments of GIS-integration and cybersecurity risk. The performance-security clause itself contains an unresolved conflict between 30-day and 90-day post-defect-liability validity periods. Details

Waste-to-energy bankability depends more on waste service payments than power sales

Aug 27: 8A Dun & Bradstreet India review of more than 100 waste-to-energy mandates argues that municipal solid-waste power projects cannot be financed on electricity revenue alone. The plant provides a waste-treatment service whose value is not fully reflected in a commodity power tariff, so successful contracts combine long-term power or gas offtake with tipping fees, minimum tonnage guarantees, land support or viability-gap funding. Details

Engineers India’s Rs 15,109 crore order book shifts profit toward turnkey execution

Aug 27: 8Engineers India secured Rs 7,978 crore of business in FY2025-26, lifting its order book to a record Rs 15,109 crore from Rs 11,717 crore. Consultancy contributed Rs 6,009 crore of the inflow and turnkey assignments Rs 1,968 crore. Details

Power Mech’s Rs 30,383 crore backlog is concentrated in contracts that run for decades

Aug 27: 8Power Mech Projects ended FY2025-26 with a Rs 30,383 crore order backlog after Rs 7,210 crore of order inflow. Mining development and operation contracts and renewables supplied nearly three-quarters of the backlog even though they were a small share of new orders, because the underlying contracts run much longer than conventional EPC packages. Details

RMC’s Rs 800 crore order book arrives with 161-day collections and lower profit

Aug 27: 8RMC Switchgears closed FY2025-26 with more than Rs 800 crore of confirmed orders and over Rs 1,500 crore of active tenders, against consolidated revenue from operations of Rs 401.59 crore. The company says its historical tender conversion is about 30% to 35%, so the tender pool is an opportunity measure rather than contracted revenue. Details

Incorrect Powergrid spreadsheets put two Mundra tariff petitions on the clock

Aug 27: 8The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission has told Power Grid Corporation of India to correct mismatched and unrelated spreadsheets in two petitions seeking the true-up of 2019-24 transmission tariffs and determination of 2024-29 tariffs for assets associated with the Mundra Ultra Mega Power Project. Details

India backed down 67.23 GWh of reserves yet missed 1.57 GW after solar hours

Aug 27: 8India’s grid dispatched 67,227 MWh of downward ancillary reserves on 26 August, more than double the 33,261 MWh used a day earlier. Upward reserve dispatch moved the other way, falling from 23,308 MWh to 17,058 MWh. The system therefore spent much of the day reducing scheduled generation, but still recorded a 1,565 MW shortage at 19:23 during non-solar hours. Details

Chhattisgarh turns Jindal’s Rs 165.22 lakh gap into a Rs 155.95 lakh surplus

Aug 27: 8Jindal Steel Limited Transmission asked the Chhattisgarh State Electricity Regulatory Commission to recognise a Rs 165.22 lakh revenue gap after carrying costs. The commission instead found a Rs 155.95 lakh surplus. The difference between the two positions is Rs 321.17 lakh and directly changes the amount that the transmission licensee may recover in FY 2026-27. Details

Juniper’s Rs 1,800 crore IPO strengthens equity after debt reaches Rs 13,182 crore

Aug 27: 8Juniper Green Energy’s August 2026 initial public offering brought in Rs 1,800 crore of primary capital after the renewable developer ended June with total debt of Rs 13,182 crore. The company reported net debt of Rs 11,217 crore and net worth of Rs 3,463 crore at 30 June, putting net debt at 3.24 times net worth. It says post-issue net worth has risen to about Rs 5,200 crore. Details

Latest CERC and State Regulator News

Aug 27: Tariff decisions, filing defects, compliance deadlines and regulatory consequences

8CERC makes Bhachau transformer tariff depend on a documented cost overrun
8CERC asks Powergrid to account for delay in Gwalior reactor conversion
8Government-controlled board vacancies cost eight state companies Rs 1.78 crore across both exchanges

Projects and Tenders

Awards, signed contracts, live procurements and the execution obligations attached to them

8Adani’s Rs 4,700 crore corridor must arrive alongside the 4,500 MW storage it serves
8GK Energy’s Rs 454.50 crore rooftop award puts 100,000 homes on 60-day work orders
8ACME wins 300 MW of peak supply but the project still awaits its power contract
8ACME fixes continuous railway power at Rs 4.35 for twenty five years
8Suzlon’s new 250 MW order takes Torrent partnership above 1.3 GW
8L&T wins three Middle East batteries totalling 6 GWh without naming value
8DMR’s Laos hydropower win extends overseas work but adds only USD 200,000 over twelve months
8Meghalaya seeks 180 fault-sensor sets while warranty and response clauses remain unresolved
8REC opens Pirpainti’s 2,400 MW evacuation bid before disclosing network value or award date
8REC creates Alkud vehicle before Maharashtra selects its transmission provider

Companies and Financial Results

Operating results, balance-sheet exposure, legal developments and decisions that change company scope

8KPI energises 630 MW in three months after taking seventeen years for 533 MW
8Juniper’s quarterly profit grows 54 per cent behind a 72 per cent generation rise
8RMC’s revenue rises 26 per cent while profit falls 27 per cent
8Power Mech grows profit 18 per cent while returns on capital decline
8Refex’s bio-gas revenue reaches Rs 5.04 crore as losses widen
8GR Infra disputes a Rs 321.60 crore GST notice before liability is established
8Tata Power loses Singapore award challenge and prepares an appeal
8Modern Transformers’ improving FY 2025 numbers remain behind an unmonitored rating
8Siemens Energy separates a profitable unit to prioritise generation and grids
8Quality Power packs six fund meetings into one day but rules out new price-sensitive disclosure

Grid and Market Developments

Daily and monthly evidence on adequacy, balancing, renewable output, fuel and market operation

8Rs 876.97 crore of upward scheduling leaves the national ancillary pool Rs 50.52 crore short
8July’s ancillary market procures no upward energy but 751 MU downward
8Security-constrained scheduling creates Rs 40.68 crore of the western grid’s Rs 41.97 crore charge
8Wind and solar meet one third of demand before the evening shift
8Four large state plants hold less than one sixth of normative coal

LATEST CERC TARIFF AND REGULATORY NEWS

Seven further tariff instruments put capital cost, delay evidence and liquidated damages under examination

8Contractor penalties could reduce Powergrid’s claimed tariff for two Raipur reactors
8Powergrid must correct interest across four assets before CERC settles its communication tariff
8A Rs 3,000 mismatch prevents Powergrid’s northern transformer tariff record from closing
8Contractor penalties could reduce Powergrid’s Koteshwar and Roorkee bay tariffs
8Powergrid cannot charge Bhatapara transformer costs already recovered from contractors
8Powergrid’s tariff now turns on whether Tripura’s downstream network was ready
8CERC ties Bikaner-II tariff to proof of who caused each commissioning delay

STATE REGULATOR NEWS

The Chhattisgarh order creates a time-limited transmission discount and a hard commissioning cliff for solar projects.

8Chhattisgarh’s 33% solar transmission charge ends for projects commissioned after 2026

COMPANY, FINANCING AND GOVERNANCE NEWS

New filings expose control changes, related-party capacity, credit withdrawals and board-composition costs.

8KPI Green seeks to lift a Rs 1,000 crore related-party ceiling for Sun Drops
8Promoter buys 10.83 lakh Onix Solar shares to push its voting stake above 53%
8REC’s board-composition gap costs Rs 21.55 lakh at each exchange
8BF Utilities pays Rs 3.66 lakh after failing to appoint an independent woman director
8Juniper’s 150 MW Solapur project loses a public rating after lender consent
8Refex’s biogas expansion rests on shareholder support after losses deepen
8Urja Global’s standalone growth is offset by a weaker consolidated result
8Power Mech’s 10 lakh employee options would dilute holders after profit rises 18% Details

POWER MARKET AND SYSTEM NEWS

Aug 27: Exchange and system files show scarcity prices outside solar hours, zero-clearing products and a sharp day-ahead price retreat

8Day-ahead power prices retreat after 24 August’s Rs 7,299 ceiling
8Real-time power reaches the Rs 10,000 cap despite 172.92 GWh clearing
8High-price day-ahead volume slips to 209 MWh while price stays near Rs 19,000
8PXIL’s deviation-settlement market records bids but no trade

INTERNATIONAL AND TECHNOLOGY NEWS

A carbon-market review shows falling reported coal emissions can coexist with rising on-site pollution.

8Australian coal mines approach the entire methane-credit supply without cutting gross emissions

NORTHERN REGION MONTHLY GRID NEWS

The July report adds four independent system findings beyond the daily operational files.

8Northern grid adds 2,790 MVA as 394 MW of renewables raises evacuation pressure
8Rajasthan curtailed 40.66 million units of renewable power in twelve active July days
8Punjab exceeded transfer limits for 37.25 hours while Haryana breached both ATC and TTC
8Northern demand reached 92.7 GW without peak shortage, but daily energy still fell short

STATE HYDRO AND RESERVOIR NEWS

8Telangana’s reservoir energy falls 46% as Nagarjunasagar storage contracts

TENDERS, RATINGS AND UTILITY OPERATIONS

8NEEPCO gives 98 solar streetlights 120 days and a five-year security tail
8OPG Energy’s rating exit follows negative operating margin and an expired gas contract
8PSPCL sets a 5.6 efficiency floor for new five-star split air conditioners through 2028
8PVVNL plans two-to-four-hour outages to underground lines and rebuild distribution assets

SHAREHOLDER AND AUDIT NEWS

8EKI director vote passes after 60% of participating public holders oppose it
8CG Power proposes a Rs 1.58 crore auditor after SRBC resigns
8REC shareholders approve private-placement authority while the PFC merger remains in view

CURRENT GRID AND SYSTEM DATA

Compatible daily series reveal where demand, shortage, outages, forecast accuracy and scheduling actually moved.

8Northeast evening shortage rises to 50 MW and remains entirely in Manipur
8Eastern day-ahead forecast error improves despite a blank published summary
8Eastern forced outages fall 330 MW while Teesta and delayed returns keep risk visible
8Zero corridor breaches hide worsening voltage stress at Nizamabad
8Northern evening demand rises as shortage falls by nearly one third
8Grid scheduling adds low-cost coal while leaving seven expensive gas units unused
8Southern region serves more energy with zero peak shortage
8Southern load-forecast error rises to 1.61% but stays below 2%
8Southern forced outages fall 800 MW after one unit returns

CURRENT EXCHANGE AND TRADE DATA

Current market series show price caps persisting, demand going unmatched and one-day trades failing to become continuous liquidity.

8A Rs 10,000 price survives even as real-time volume halves
8Intraday buy interest more than doubles but no seller clears
8Ancillary spot market records ten straight days without an upward trade
8One Rs 10,000 real-time trade disappears on the next two days
8Green term-ahead prices stay at Rs 10,000 across both reported days
8Western term-ahead discounts vanish as every listed contract reaches Rs 10,000
8Green day-ahead volume rises 4.7% while buyers pay 5.9% more Details

Contracting news for the day

Aug 26: 8CTUIL's Ratle-Kiru Independent Engineer Tender Turns One Consultant Into a Future Claims Referee CTUIL's QCBS-based appointment for the 400 kV Kishtwar-Samba-Jalandhar evacuation scheme goes well beyond routine site inspection — the same Independent Engineer will later assess time-extension claims, change-in-law events and cost reasonableness for the transmission service provider. A seven-month consultancy term sits uneasily against the scheme's 24-month COD, raising the question of whether surveillance coverage will actually last through commissioning.

8WAPCOS's Balangir Design Tender Locks In a Binding 25% Option Clause With No Corresponding Bidder Consent WAPCOS's architectural-design consultancy for a Rs 62.09 crore Odisha complex carries an estimated fee of just Rs 49.67 lakh, yet the buyer can expand quantity or duration by up to 25% post-award without the consultant's agreement. A 45-day payment cycle and no ePBG requirement further tilt working-capital exposure toward the design firm.

8TGGENCO's Grinding-Roll Rate Contract Shows a Rs 1 Portal Estimate Against a Rs 1.15 Crore EMD TGGENCO's two-year rate contract for bowl-mill grinding rolls and bull ring segments treats failure of either wear component as failure of the entire matched set — an aggressive reliability transfer layered onto a tender whose own portal-listed estimated value is commercially incompatible with its EMD and turnover thresholds. No minimum purchase quantity is guaranteed despite the extensive security stack required to participate.

8RRECL's Seven-City EV Charging Tender Extends 20 Days While Its Own Cover Count Stays Unreconciled RRECL's Rs 99.77 crore PM E-DRIVE rollout across Jaipur, Udaipur, Kota, Ajmer, Alwar and Jodhpur pushed its bid deadline by three weeks, but the RFP still describes the financial bid as "Cover 3" even though the portal configuration uses only two covers. An H1 revenue-share award model means the winning bidder profits from promising the most to RRECL — not from building the cheapest network.

8NHPC's Kamala Dam Tender Defers Hydro-Mechanical Vendor Vetting to After Award NHPC's Rs 5,541 crore Lot-1 package for the 216-metre Kamala dam pushed its bid deadline by 64 days across five extensions while quietly moving specialist gate-manufacturer qualification from bid stage to six months before execution — a deliberate loosening of entry barriers that keeps the underlying technical benchmark untouched. Disposal zones were also cut from four to two, both now shared with the adjoining Lot-2 contractor.

8NHPC's Uri-I Stage-II E&M Package Raises Idling Compensation Just as It Extends Bidding by 47 Days NHPC's Rs 641.11 crore underground turbine-generator package for the 240 MW Uri-I Stage-II project increased its idling-cost recovery ceiling from 4% to 5% of contract value and introduced partial operational acceptance, but continued to reject contractor requests to cap liquidated damages or shorten latent-defect exposure. Performance-equalisation rates for turbine and generator efficiency were also raised, sharpening the evaluated-price penalty for weaker guarantees.

8DVC's Chandrapura Cable Diversion Tender Splits Into Two Contracts But Keeps One Bidder Fully Liable DVC's Rs 90.20 crore 220 kV line-diversion package for the 2×800 MW CTPS expansion now awards supply and erection as two separate contracts to the same lowest bidder, doubling the performance-security instruments without diluting single-point technical accountability. An asymmetric qualification route still lets an overhead-line contractor bring in a cable specialist, but not the reverse.

8UJVN's Chilla BESS Tender Raises Its Tariff Ceiling by 3.8% After Bidder Pushback UJVN's 90 MW/225 MWh storage project near Chilla HEP corrected its capacity-charge ceiling to Rs 3,30,400/MW/month and admitted Insurance Surety Bonds as an EMD alternative, but kept the free-transfer BOOT structure, limited VGF coverage of just 60 MWh, and rejected a cure period for delayed financial closure. Two mandatory daily charge-discharge cycles over 12 years put degradation and augmentation costs squarely on the developer.

8BHEL's Talabira Ash Handling Tender Hits Its 14th Deadline Extension BHEL's EPC package for ash and mill-reject handling at the 3x800 MW NLC Talabira project has now moved 101 days past its original May deadline through 14 separate corrigenda, while every technical, financial and liability threshold remains untouched. The pattern suggests BHEL is using time — not qualification relief — to manage a persistently thin or slow-forming bidder field.

8NTPC's Ramagundam Transformer Swap Halves Site Time While Waiving a Costly Short-Circuit Retest NTPC's replacement of two 250 MVA autotransformers with 500 MVA units kept its 30-month deadline fixed but reallocated it — cutting erection and commissioning from six months to three while extending factory time to 27 months. Manufacturers with an already-tested similar 500 MVA design can skip a fresh dynamic short-circuit test, quietly narrowing the practical vendor pool to firms with that specific reference design.

8MPPGCL's Birsinghpur Solar Tender Adds a ±10% Land-Driven Price Corridor MPPGCL's 30 MWac solar EPC-plus-O&M package now lets contracted capacity, price, O&M charges and schedule all move by up to 10% if the final usable land differs from the tentative parcel — while separately deleting an extra 3% security once imposed on every non-lead consortium partner. Interim O&M payment before final acceptance testing rose from zero to 75% of applicable charges, easing cashflow for a plant already delivering power to the grid.

8TANTRANSCO's Samugarengapuram GIS Tender Refuses a Schedule Extension Despite a 32-Month Transformer Lead Time TANTRANSCO corrected a mislabelled BOQ item showing an autotransformer where a 420 kV, 3150A SF6 breaker was intended, but held firm on its 24-month completion period even after a bidder cited roughly 32-month manufacturing lead times for the required transformers. A parallel conflict over whether TANTRANSCO or the contractor supplies the autotransformers remains unresolved between the invitation document and Appendix 4.

8GSECL's Ukai Protection Retrofit Tender Adds Full Cabling Scope After Original Issue GSECL's busbar and transformer protection modernisation at Ukai now includes newly specified copper cabling for 12 existing bays plus a mandatory new GPS clock synchronising every legacy 220 kV relay — obligations absent from the original specification. A "most stringent clause governs" rule resolves internal contradictions in the buyer's favour, including an unexplained shift from a four-zone to a two-zone busbar protection scheme.

8JVVNL's 25,000-Unit Transformer Tender Ties Future Allocation to Past Repair Performance JVVNL's Rs 160.25 crore distribution-transformer procurement withdraws the old vendor-registration security exemption and introduces a distributed award formula capping L1 at just 20% of quantity — while suppliers whose historical guarantee-period repair rate falls below 75% can find their price bid rejected outright regardless of current compliance. Zero positive tolerance on losses and CTL-gated payment convert factory testing into a continuous field-performance obligation.

8SJVN's Panipat BESS Tender Shrinks Its Commissioning Window While Demanding 100% Grid-Forming Compliance SJVN's 265 MW/530 MWh battery storage tender for UHBVNL cut SCOD from 18 months to 15 and tightened availability from a 95% annual average to a stricter 95% monthly floor — even as a new CEA advisory now mandates full grid-forming inverter capability across the entire capacity. The fixed 13-acre site allocation arrives with no geotechnical, drainage or contamination data, leaving developers to self-investigate a plot bidders argue may be undersized.

8NHPC's Dulhasti Stage-II E&M Tender Inserts an Entire Crane Specification Mid-Bid NHPC's Rs 496.90 crore Lot-2a package for the 260 MW Dulhasti Stage-II project added a complete new chapter covering powerhouse and cavern cranes after the original tender issue, while separately lowering the minimum guaranteed turbine efficiency threshold from 94.5% to 94% to keep more bidders responsive. A revised 22-item interface matrix now ties this lot's cabling and protection scope directly to a second, separately contracted package.

8MCL's Lingaraj Surface-Mining Tender Lets Machines Be Reassigned Across Mines Without Compensation MCL's Rs 90.91 crore, 1.99 crore cubic-metre surface-mining contract at Lingaraj OCP permits company-wide relocation of contracted equipment "without additional claims," turning what looks like a site-specific award into a mobile fleet commitment. A ten-day mobilisation clock and a contract-precedence conflict — between the GeM-generated contract and a separately issued LOA — add further uncertainty before bidding even closes.

8RVUNL's Bodana Pooling Station Tender Repeatedly Dilutes Its Own JV Threshold RVUNL's Rs 497.34 crore twin pooling-station package for the Bodana solar park cut the lead joint-venture partner's required financial contribution from 50% to just 25% across two separate corrigenda, and now accepts a secured order still under execution as qualifying experience — a marked widening of entry after five deadline extensions totaling 60 days. A single 20-month completion obligation still binds both stations together despite unresolved conflicts between the tender's 180-day and 240-day bid-validity clauses. Details

Power Ministry targets zero grid control system imports after 2030 despite low local content

Aug 26: 8The Power Ministry has directed that the software and hardware used to monitor and operate electricity grids, formally called supervisory control and data acquisition systems, should not be imported beyond 2030. Details

Karnataka regulator sets Rs 3.89 per unit for unsubsidised rooftop solar as supported rates start at Rs 1.96

Aug 26: 8Karnataka's electricity regulator has set purchase tariffs for new distributed solar projects commissioned, or applied for, from 25 August 2026 through 30 June 2029. Details

Andhra distributor records 7.88% network loss but weak collections lift total losses to 24.66%

Aug 26: 8Southern Power Distribution Company of Andhra Pradesh reported combined losses from electricity lost in the network and bills not collected of 24.66% in the year ended March 2026, up from 7.99% a year earlier. Details

Gorbea's Rs 2.65 solar contract cannot prevent about 38% output loss as grid access lags

Aug 26: 8Gorbea Solar's 300 MW project in Rajasthan could not send about 38% of its potential output to the grid during the first ten months of the year ended March 2026 because it was operating through temporary access while the permanent transmission system was delayed. Details

Northern grid lacked 1,993 MW as nine hours hit Rs 10 per unit despite softer averages

Aug 26: 8Northern India could supply only 79,148 MW against an evening requirement of 81,141 MW on 25 August, leaving a 1,993 MW gap at 8 p.m. by our arithmetic. The region also recorded 7.82 million units of unmet energy over the day. Details

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Contracting news for the day

IEX day-ahead price rebounds 68.6% as cleared volume slips

CERC asks who buys and sells the power in POWERGRID’s proposed storage business

Low-frequency overdrawal exposes Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh reserve-response constraints

Champa floods recur despite earlier remedies, forcing attention to drainage and bay height

A line dismantled for a VVIP helipad remains out as transmission charges become disputed

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CERC asks Adani to prove why reactive-power upgrades qualify as change in law

HVPNL fails to secure a blanket loss relaxation, but keeps an audited annual route open

Haryana revokes 96 MW Dikchu approval after an unsigned PPA leaves capacity tied up

Talegaon’s rising load prompts a Rs 55 crore transformer proposal—with a competing network solution

Solapur bay mismatch brings Rs 4.68 crore upgrade proposals into a coordination dispute

SECI’s one-year storage tender puts 485 cycles and fixed-price risk on operating assets

Meghalaya draft allows four days for rural line repairs, with Rs 50 for a missed standard

APSPDCL’s 8.13% energy loss becomes 25.62% AT&C loss as collections lag

Punjab asks whether a 250 MW solar purchase beats both market buys and its own sales

Borosil Renewables pay resolution passes despite majority institutional opposition

A renewable corridor faces replacement of 43,000 insulators after faults return

UP smart-meter refunds reach 92,231 accounts; keypad replacement remains a separate task

Haryana eases renewable banking paperwork—but does not reopen past settlements

CERC clears Rs 3.39 hydrokinetic tariff over a dissent on legal and tender grounds

Gujarat curtailed 15.35 MU of renewables while buying power, WRLDC says

CERC puts future wind and solar projects on general-seller deviation rules

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Coal stocks lose 659,000 tonnes while days-of-stock remains unchanged

Pritika targets Rs 110-crore solar savings while taking 26% project equity

Aug 28: 8Pritika Engineering Components signed a memorandum of understanding with Spark Grid for solar-power supply over 25 years. Details

GK Energy’s 100-MW rooftop award combines scale with a 60-day delivery clock

Aug 28: 8GK Energy received a letter of empanelment from a state government-owned distribution utility for 100,000 one-kilowatt rooftop solar systems, aggregating to 100 MW. Details

Radiance outlook improves despite generation trailing its P90 benchmark

Aug 28: 8ICRA reaffirmed Radiance MH Solar Power’s BBB-plus rating and revised the outlook to Stable from Negative on Rs 11.66 crore of term loans. Details

Southern Power’s profits surge while rating visibility remains impaired

Aug 28: 8ICRA kept Southern Power Equipment Company’s Rs 10-crore bank facilities at B-minus with a Stable outlook and A4 in the issuer non-cooperating category. Details

Rajasthan recognises GST relief while requiring project-level tariff proof

Talcher-Kolar shutdown planning collides with unfinished corridor upgrades

Aug 28: 8SRPC’s meeting record says regional grid bodies are planning a 15-day shutdown of the ±500-kV Talcher–Kolar HVDC bipole in November for NHAI diversion work and maintenance. Details

Western renewable failures continue as operators miss reports and maintenance

Aug 28: 8WRPC’s renewable-energy subcommittee recorded repeated evacuation trips linked to insulator failures, flashovers and protection problems at western renewable pooling stations. Details

Western grid protection remains partly blind despite telemetry deadlines

Uttarakhand meets demand only after rostering households and steel furnaces

Southern grid meets peak despite 12.1 GW of generation outages

July coal receipts rise 14% but remain below thermal-plant consumption

Telangana discoms must pay Rs 62.83 crore while surcharge dispute continues

Aug 28: 8CERC directed Telangana’s distribution companies to pay Rs 62.83 crore of admitted late-payment surcharge within two weeks. Details

NTPC’s shutdown events multiply while tariff rules leave costs uncovered

Kotra outage clears N-1 test but exposes Rs 300-crore to Rs 400-crore security demand

Aug 28: 8WRLDC found the system N-1 compliant during the proposed 765-kV Kotra–Tamnar double-circuit outage for APL Raigarh’s railway diversion work. Details

Jaipur discom turns profitable while debt and power costs stay heavy

Aug 28: 8Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam reported a Rs 282-crore profit after tax in the first quarter of FY27, reversing a Rs 541-crore loss a year earlier. Details

India crosses 302 GW as 500-GW goal needs Rs 30 lakh crore

Aug 28: 8The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) said India’s installed non-fossil capacity had reached about 302–303 GW by Aug 27, 2026, up from 80.3 GW twelve years earlier. Details

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Aug 26: 8Karnataka's electricity regulator has set purchase tariffs for new distributed solar projects commissioned, or applied for, from 25 August 2026 through 30 June 2029. Details

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