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Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update.  Midday power on the exchange sold for 25 paise a unit on Wednesday.  Sellers offered half a million units in the premium power market for eight straight days and found no buyer at all.  The grid ran above its permitted frequency ceiling for 20 minutes on Wednesday - a sign of too much power, not too little.  The national despatcher told coal plants that generate at Rs 1.16 a unit to stand down through the sunlight hours.  A strengthening El Niño has officialdom warning about electricity even as the grid drowns in surplus.  Srisailam is holding one-sixteenth of the water-energy it had on this day last year.  India’s dams produced a fifth less power in June than planned - and thermal quietly filled the entire gap.  A flash flood shut down all three units of a 405 MW hydro station in Arunachal - and the operator has told the regional grid forum it happened in sixteen minutes.  Two Navratna companies signed up on Tuesday to build a 1,080 MW coal plant for making aluminium.  One wind farm in Kutch produced two stock-exchange announcements - from the company that owns it and the company that built it.  The Centre cut Gujarat’s farm-solar quota twice in three months - and both state discoms have now scrapped their tenders.  Daily forward looking import matrices.  Contracting news for the day.  The Centre’s seven big grid-linked gas power stations burned no domestic gas at all in May.  Assam’s state generation company has applied to become an electricity trader across state lines.  Uttarakhand’s regulator has cleared the ground for the state to shop for 1,320 MW of new coal power on 25-year contracts.  Power plants burned five million tonnes more coal than they received in June, and stocks are down to sixteen days.  POWER MARKETS.  GREEN MARKETS.  GRID OPS DAILY.  HYDRO, COAL & GAS LEDGER.  REGULATORY ROUNDUP.  DEVIATION & SETTLEMENT DESK.  OUTAGE & MAINTENANCE REGISTER.  CORPORATE WIRE.  TENDERS, POLICY & PEOPLE.  FORECASTS & GRID SECURITY.  Download tenders and news clips.  Live-line maintenance equipment procurement reveals contrasting competitive intensity across twin packages.  Contracting news for the day.  Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update.  Meghalaya's chief minister asked Delhi to hand the state the keys to its own coal.  Gujarat has switched off about five gigawatts of its own power plants because the market is too cheap.  NTPC's green arm will borrow Rs.2,500 crore for ten years at 7.27 per cent.  Uttar Pradesh has frozen electricity rates for a seventh straight year; the subsidy line does the moving instead.  A transmission bill arrived three years late; the regulator says the generator must still pay the interest.  A Tata Power company built its solar plant early, the buyer went silent, so the regulator let it sell to anyone.  A private company wants a licence to sell electricity in Gurugram, in competition with the state utility.  Carmakers may soon trade fuel-economy credits, and buy forgiveness from the government at Rs 2,500 a gram.  NTPC has started looking for the people who will write India's biggest nuclear tender.  The Rs.37,500-crore coal gasification race now has a clock: bids by 7 September, winners by 21 October.  The clouds did in one week what the storage fleet could not do all summer: solar waste fell from 24 GWh a day to 4.  The dams are running 11 per cent behind plan, and the south's reservoirs are metres below last year's line.  India's windmills set an all-time output record on Monday evening, and on Tuesday wind out-produced hydro.  Sellers offered power in the costliest market for eight straight days, and not one buyer showed up.  The advisers who wrote the grid's big report were proved right within hours, in the middle of the rainy season.  GRID SECURITY, FORECASTS AND SETTLEMENTS.  COMMITTEES AND PEOPLE.  GENERATION AND DEMAND LEDGER.  OUTAGE AND MAINTENANCE REGISTER.  CERC DOCKET.  REGULATORY ROUNDUP.  FUEL, SURCHARGE AND TARIFF WATCH.  GRID OPS DAILY.  GREEN MARKETS AND MANUFACTURING.  POWER MARKETS.  Download tenders and news clips.  Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update.  Contracting news for the day.  Solar loses its own label: IEX's green market trades under Wind/DRE/Other-RE flags from today - a week after solar supplied 48% of G-DAM's cleared volume.  DAM clearing price fell 58% in six sessions as sellers piled in - then the cheapest stretch of the week bought the most power.  Rs 20,000 for 13.4 MWh, then nothing: HPDAM logs seven straight zero-buyer days against 72 GWh of daily offers.  Same product, three times the price: PXIL's real-time market cleared at its Rs 10,000 ceiling while IEX RTM averaged Rs 3,353.  The 6-to-midnight premium: a full week of IEX evening-peak contracts sold flat at Rs 9,000/MWh as the grid sagged to 49.465 Hz at 19:48.  A grid overshooting both ways: 36.7% of Monday outside the frequency band - with more time spent high than low.  Hydro is running 11% behind program a quarter into FY27 - and Bhutan imports, up 90% on plan, are quietly filling the gap.  Rengali is 72 centimetres from dead storage: Odisha's hydro fleet enters July at a fifth of its May output.  Coal stocks at 67% of normative with 29 stations critical - but the fleet added coal every day it burned it.  274.5 MU un-returned and no revocation: CERC lets banking trader off with 'strong disapproval' - and flags the hole in its own rules.  Chhattisgarh fixed its FY27 RE tariffs the same day CERC opened comments on its own - and priced 2 MW solar at Rs 3.40, level with last week's exchange.  2,473 rejected life certificates in three months: PSPCL's pension digitisation is failing at the employee-ID layer.  GK Energy books a Rs 235.92-crore MSEDCL order for solar farm pumps - the 'DRE' economy shows up in the order book.  Two upgrades, one theme: CareEdge lifts Bajoli Holi to BBB and upgrades WBSEDCL - full PPA cover and pass-through mechanisms are getting paid.  1,400 outage requests on one docket: NRPC's 245th OCC plans monsoon-window grid surgery around the new Ishanagar 765 kV substation.  

Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update

Jul 09: 8Daily Excel covering new tenders and all published updates including corrigendum, amendment, addendum, clarification and status revisions, along with technical and financial bid opening, evaluation completion and final award actions including AOC and LOA issuance.
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Midday power on the exchange sold for 25 paise a unit on Wednesday

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Daily forward looking import matrices

Jul 09: It is easy to get month-old import data but it is difficult to solicit forthcoming shipment information in India. We go through a laborious process of data collection to get you full import information, including company-wise, quantity-wise, port-wise, vessel-wise cargoes which are coming into India in the next 15-to30 days.
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Contracting news for the day

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

POWER MARKETS

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

GREEN MARKETS

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

GRID OPS DAILY

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

HYDRO, COAL & GAS LEDGER

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

REGULATORY ROUNDUP

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

DEVIATION & SETTLEMENT DESK

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

OUTAGE & MAINTENANCE REGISTER

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

CORPORATE WIRE

Jul 09: 8ICRA reaffirms Adani Energy Solutions at AA+ and rates Rs 10,000 crore of new headroom
8A Rs 742 crore cable-and-EPC IPO opens today with a “subscribe” tag riding the transmission story
8Jaiprakash Power has corrected its AGM notice ahead of the vote
8HPL Electric’s postal ballot results are in - scrutinizer’s report and all
8Voltamp has called its 59th AGM and set the dividend record date
8The quarter-end compliance wire: six power-sector names certify their share registries in one day
8A listed power company reshuffled its CSR committee after a director’s exit Details

TENDERS, POLICY & PEOPLE

Jul 09: 8The Centre wants every big new building - offices, malls and housing alike - bound by energy and sustainability norms
8CERC switched Thursday’s entire hearing board to hybrid mode at a day’s notice
8Delhi’s regulator lists Tata Power Delhi’s new tariff petition for admission on 14 July
8Uttar Pradesh’s regulator has a stack of hearing notices out - three petitions to be heard on 6 August and one rescheduled to 16 July
8Punjab’s power utility is cracking down on lazy board notes - decisions must be written so they stand alone
8Kerala’s power engineers’ training centre has called for nominations - the people pipeline gets its July intake Details

FORECASTS & GRID SECURITY

Jul 09: 8All five inter-regional corridors ran a clean sheet on Wednesday - no transfer-limit or N-1 violations
8The eastern region’s hydro is running 31 per cent behind its programme for the year
8Bhutan is running 79 per cent ahead of its import programme - the grid’s quiet insurance policy is foreign water
8The grid’s afternoon and evening peaks are now eight thousand megawatts apart
8The intraday forecast beat the day-ahead model by 4.4 percentage points - the case for later gate closure writes itself
8The despatcher published its afternoon coal recall list at 3 p.m. sharp - grid security is now a daily spreadsheet Details

Download tenders and news clips

Jul 09:  For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
 8Tender for construction of CC pavement at ash dyke-II Details
 8Tender for transportation cum loading of coal Details
 8Tender for bypassing of both circuits of the 400 kV DC line Details
 8Tender for engagement of fitters on SOS basis in various transmission lines Details
 8Tender for supply of poly carbonate anti bird spike for transmission lines Details
 8Design, manufacture, supply, transportation, installation, testing and commissioning of radiator type oil cooler system Details
 8Tender for supply of different bearings for cooling water system Details
 8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing, commissioning of on-grid solar rooftop project of 15 kW Details
 8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing, commissioning of on-grid solar rooftop project of 30 kW Details
 8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing, commissioning of on-grid solar rooftop project of 25 kW Details
 8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing, commissioning of on-grid solar rooftop project of 20 kW Details
 8Tender for selection of agency for providing FMS for operation, maintenance, monitoring and management of SCADA infrastructure Details
 8Tender for installation of chainlink fencing along Details
 8Tender for repair and upgradation of damaged fencing brick masony fencing and light poles Details
 8Tender for repairing and attending the faulty street lights Details
 8Tender for supply of wear resistant putty Details
 8Tender for supply of quarterly maintenance of wagon tipplers Details
 8Tender for supply of two layer carbon brushes for generator REF protection Details
 8Tender for procurement of consumable items Details
 8Tender for work of fabrication/ removal/ repairing /erection of metallic expansion bellows at various Details
 8Tender for rate contract for removing, lifting, shifting, dismantling and overhauling of 6.6 kV HT motors Details
 8Tender for repairing of various cards of DCS system installed Details
 8Tender for construction of RCC box culvert Details
 8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for shifting/modification work of existing various 66/132/220 kV class transmission lines Details
 8Tender for hill slope stabilization work of slide Details
 8Tender for civil repair and maintenance work Details
 8Tender for construction of one 33kV feeder Details
 8Design, supply and installation of monopole for river crossing on HTLS ACCC Details
 8Tender for construction of store shed Details
 8Tender for work of erection, testing & commissioning of 132 & 66 kV equipment, structure, control wiring, earthing etc. Details
 8Tender for work of erection of 66kV equipment, structures, control wiring, yard lighting Details
 8Tender for work of repair and dynamic balancing of shafts and impellers of 20 cumec pumps Details
 8Tender for requirement of various size and types of conveyor belt rollers Details
 8Tender for work of blue star realtors limited shifting of EHT tower Details
 8Tender for rerouting existing HT line Details
 8Tender for providing supply to the proposed 110kV substation Details
 8Tender for running of PCC pole factory Details
 8Tender for procurement of 132kV SF6 circuit breakers Details
 8Tender for procurement of complete jacking oil pump JOP assembly without motor Details
 8Tender for procurement of instrument spares of weighbridges installed Details
 8Tender for module modification (module rating 90 KW, 110 KW, 132 KW, 150 KW) by retrofitting of air circuit breaker Details
 8Tender for procurement of complete set of fluid couplings along with spares installed Details
 8Tender for work of replacement of damaged prestress cable trench covers Details
 8Tender for work of creation of 33/11 kV GSS Details
 8Tender for tower revetment work of tower Details
 8Tender for supply of hydraulic spares Details
 8Tender for supply of spares of high pressure mist fog generating system of dust suppression Details
 8Tender for work of initial inspection of generator Details
 8Tender for procurement of leakage current analyzer along with testing of 220 kV lightning arresters installed Details
 8Tender for augmentation of capacity of overloaded transformers under 33/11 kV sub-station Details
 8Tender for replacement work of damaged distribution transformers (DTRs) Details
 8Tender for construction of HT/LT line and erection of distribution transformer Details
 8Tender for supply of required materials Details
 8Tender for procurement of grinding roll and bull ring segment of XRP 1003 coal mill Details
 8Tender for service contract for emergen CY TIT bit maintenance Details
 8Tender for common procurement of HT fasteners Details
 8Tender for procurement of 25 DMT 100 percent basis caustic lye Details
 8Tender for service contract for repairing of different ducts and replacement of non-metallic bellows and servicing of associated gates dampers actuators during Details
 8Tender for service order for structure repairing and painting Details
 8Tender for operation of AHP,ESP and silo Details
 8Tender for work of providing and applying high insulation compound coating to IPS tube's, support insulators Details
 8Tender for second circuit stringing on 132kV lines along Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract for work of On-site N2 drying out for power transformers & ICT’s for various Details
 8Tender for work of testing of DGA (dissolved gas analysis) & Other parameter of T/F oil at various Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract (AMC) for overhauling, repairing & servicing of 33 kV & 11kV circuit breakers Details
 8Tender for enhancement of transformation capacity of substations by addition/replacement of T/Fs Details
 8Tender for providing & fixing of insulated rubber mat Details
 8Tender for work of supply & installation of eDAQ (energy data acquisition) and automatic log sheet generation Details
 8Tender for work of on-site N? drying out of 132/33 kV, 25 MVA transformer Details
 8Tender for work of SF6 gas replacement work of 220kV GIS bays Details
 8Tender for work of providing & fixing of additional jumpers on tension towers of the various lines Details
 8Tender for work of overhauling, servicing & repairing work of 400kV circuit breaker Details
 8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 220kV 1Cx1200 Sq.mm,2x(3+0) copper conductor XLPE U/G cable Details
 8Tender for supply of various fasteners and consumables Details
 8Design, engineering, erection, commissioning & testing of 220 V, minimum 500 AH nickle-cadmium DC battery sets Details
 8Tender for supply, erection and commissioning of new street light poles Details
 8Tender for rate contract of excavation and laying of new power / control / telephone cables, replacement of faulty/damaged cables Details
 8Tender for erection of 66 kV equipment, structures, control wiring, yard lighting & control-room electrification etc Details
 8Tender for providing and laying G. I. pipe Details
 8Tender for supply, installation, commissioning and testing of vibration monitoring system for continuous vibration measurement Details
 8Tender for supply of knife gate valve for ash handling plant Details
 8Tender for supply of low volatge control and power products Details
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 For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
 8Govt sets Jan schedule for first pact signing of coal-gasification projects Details
 8Import dependency vs domestic expansion: Can India achieve coking coal security Details
 8Coal Gasification in Odisha: Powering India’s Transition from Energy Dependence to Self-Reliance Details
 8Rajasthan Govt ties up with International Solar Alliance Details
 8NLC India and NALCO sign 50:50 joint venture for 1,080 MW thermal power plant Details
 8For the first time, half of India's electricity came from clean energy—but there's a catch Details
 8Power transmission to witness Rs 6 trillion investment over six years: Icra Details
 8Adani Power explores growth path as India expands electricity demand Details
 8Indian Firms Urge govt to Review Chinese Participation in Power Sector Tenders Details
 8India’s Power Capacity to Reach 770 GW by 2030, Tata Power Targets 30 GW Details
 8From Trombay to tomorrow: Inside India’s energy transition Details
 8Beyond Generation: Preparing India's Grid for Rising Cooling Demand Details
 864 GW Midday Drop Highlights India's Growing Storage Need Details
 8India considers Rs 40,000 crore undersea power cable to UAE: Power minister Details
 8Weak Monsoon Drags India's Hydropower Output To Steepest Fall In Over Two Years Details
 8Before you subscribe to Laser Power & Infra's IPO, read this Details
 8New Guideline Outlines Three-Stage Roadmap For Smarter Power Demand Forecasting By Indian Discoms – Report Details
 8Power transmission offers biggest long-term opportunity; textiles near bottom: Nepean Capital Details
 8Shree Cement steady on long-term capacity growth outlook. India infrastructure demand supports the story Details
 8Power Sector: Renewable generation jumps 25% in Q1 but commodity costs threaten margins Details
 8Power minister sees demand rising to 300 GW in 2027 Details
 8Weak Monsoon Cuts India’s Hydropower Output 21% In June As Reservoir Levels Fall Details
 8India's Hydropower Output Falls 21% in June Amid Low Reservoir Levels Details
 8NLC India and NALCO Sign JV Agreement for 1,080 MW Captive Thermal Power Plant in Odisha’s Angul Details
 8Tata Power vs Adani Power vs Reliance Power: Which Power Stock Is Better for Long-Term Growth Details
 8JSW Energy, NLC India Set Up 1,080 MW Thermal Power Plant Details
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Live-line maintenance equipment procurement reveals contrasting competitive intensity across twin packages

Jul 08: 8The latest commercial evaluation reveals two distinctly different pricing patterns within the same procurement.
8While one package witnessed an exceptionally close commercial contest, the other recorded a much wider bid spread, offering fresh insight into supplier competitiveness and market depth in India's specialised live-line maintenance equipment segment. Details

Contracting news for the day

Jul 08: 8Integrated coal sourcing package reshapes contractor risk beyond conventional fuel procurement
This procurement combines coal supply, transportation and quality compliance into a single responsibility framework, significantly expanding contractor obligations. The structure could alter bidding strategies by placing execution capability on par with pricing.

8Zero-value tie-up masks a harder 765 kV execution gate
A zero-value procurement frame makes the package look lighter than it is. The real contest sits in high-voltage experience, liquidity, confidentiality and pre-bid exclusivity. The tender points to a sharper procurement play behind India’s renewable evacuation build-out.

8Rs 7.14 crore grid-study tender hides a tougher consultancy test than the headline value suggests
A three-year consultancy package puts grid planning, BESS readiness and transmission feasibility under one tightly timed framework. The amount is visible, but the real pressure sits inside the study-cycle design, technical scoring and delivery obligations. One procedural wrinkle also deserves closer attention before bidders treat this as a routine consultancy call.

8No RA, no floor price, but L1 pressure remains
The bid disables reverse auction and has no buyer-defined floor price. That removes one layer of price compression. But total value-wise L1 evaluation still forces bidders to defend the entire scope within one number.

8Three Rs 100-crore-plus cable packages put execution risk behind the tariff wall
A cluster of underground 132kV EPC tenders has opened with sizeable estimates and a common delivery structure. The real signal is not just the value, but the way cable execution and bay extensions have been bundled. A date mismatch in the papers adds a quiet procurement-risk layer.

81000 MW energy storage opportunity gets another timeline reset
A major energy infrastructure procurement has received another extension before bids are opened. The repeated revisions indicate that participation remains a central priority in one of the country's significant storage developments. The implications for competition become clearer when the tender structure is examined in detail.

8The ash-handling clause quietly tightens the operating burden
A routine-looking power-plant retrofit has been reshaped through repeated corrigenda and technical amendments. The biggest signal is not in the headline scope but in how design risk, ash handling and validation duties have been redistributed. The full tender trail shows why bidders may price this package far more cautiously than the notice suggests.

8Rs 516 crore hydro EM tender turns on control-room risk, not just equipment supply
A large hydro EM package has moved through repeated extensions while its control-system obligations have become sharper. The tender value is visible, but the deeper risk sits inside SCADA, tandem operation and interface accountability. The clauses point to a procurement strategy that could reshape how bidders price future hydro packages.

8Multiple purchase orders conceal a single contractual obligation
A major industrial EPC package is relying on more than just competitive pricing. The commercial framework quietly redistributes execution responsibilities in ways that could influence bidder strategy and project economics. The deeper implications emerge only after examining how the contractual architecture has been assembled.

81000 MW-plus PWR consultancy EOI signals tougher procurement framework before main nuclear contracts
A newly issued consultancy EOI is designed to shape the technical and commercial architecture of future large PWR nuclear procurements. Rather than awarding execution work, it identifies the expertise that will define bid structures, evaluation criteria and contract strategy for the next phase.

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Meghalaya's chief minister asked Delhi to hand the state the keys to its own coal

Jul 08: 8Conrad Sangma met the coal minister on Monday to seek delegation of the Centre's powers to approve coal mining plans and grant prior approvals within the state. His argument: Meghalaya's coal belongs to tribal families in small parcels, and rules written for large blocks have shut thousands out of legal mining. Details

Gujarat has switched off about five gigawatts of its own power plants because the market is too cheap

Jul 08: 8Fifteen-odd units across the state - all four of Adani Mundra's state-contracted units, Essar's Vadinar station, Torrent's Sugen and Unosugen, and a string of state gas and coal units - sat in "reserve shutdown" on Monday, boxed up not for repairs but for lack of buyers. NTPC's Kawas and Gandhar gas units now switch off after midnight and return for the evening peak. Details

NTPC's green arm will borrow Rs.2,500 crore for ten years at 7.27 per cent

Jul 08: 8NTPC Green Energy told the exchanges it will issue unsecured debentures on Thursday through private placement, the first tranche under a board approval from May. The money goes to capital expenditure, refinancing, and loans to its project subsidiaries. Details

Uttar Pradesh has frozen electricity rates for a seventh straight year; the subsidy line does the moving instead

Jul 08: 8The state regulator has approved the 2026-27 rate schedule with domestic energy charges held at Rs 7.35 a unit before subsidy, unchanged across slabs. The state government's tariff subsidy rises to Rs 20,400 crore, from Rs 17,100 crore last year, to keep the payable rates where they were. Details

A transmission bill arrived three years late; the regulator says the generator must still pay the interest

Jul 08: 8NHPC challenged deviation charges on trial-run power from its Parbati-II project after the account for November 2020 was issued in July 2023 and the bill in December 2024. The commission held the company liable - surcharge included - while rebuking the bodies that sat on the paperwork. Details

A Tata Power company built its solar plant early, the buyer went silent, so the regulator let it sell to anyone

Jul 08: 8TP Saurya finished the 100 MW solar half of a 600 MW hybrid project before the wind half was ready, but the purchase agreement had no provision for early supply and SECI's buyers did not respond. The central commission has now allowed the company to sell that power to any third party until the contract formally kicks in. Details

A private company wants a licence to sell electricity in Gurugram, in competition with the state utility

Jul 08: 8Eleven Power Private Limited has petitioned the Haryana regulator for a distribution licence covering the revenue districts of Gurugram and Nuh, running parallel to the incumbent DHBVN. The public has been invited to object before the commission decides whether to open the state's richest power market to a second wire. Details

Carmakers may soon trade fuel-economy credits, and buy forgiveness from the government at Rs 2,500 a gram

Jul 08: 8A draft notification from the power ministry converts India's fuel-efficiency rules into a credit-and-debit system with passbooks, pooling between manufacturers, and a buyout price. Nine-tenths of the penalty money would flow to state governments in proportion to where the cars were sold. Details

NTPC has started looking for the people who will write India's biggest nuclear tender

Jul 08: 8The country's largest generator invited consultants on Monday to prepare tender documents, evaluate bids and support contract award for large pressurised-water-reactor projects of 1,000 MW and above. The same day, a Mumbai engineering firm and Hindustan Construction Company announced a joint venture to chase nuclear construction work. Details

The Rs.37,500-crore coal gasification race now has a clock: bids by 7 September, winners by 21 October

Jul 08: 8The coal ministry published the final bidding document for its gasification incentive scheme on Tuesday and gave applicants two months to file. Letters of award are promised on 4 November and signed project agreements by 4 January. Details

The clouds did in one week what the storage fleet could not do all summer: solar waste fell from 24 GWh a day to 4

Jul 08: 8In May the grid threw away about 24 GWh of solar energy on an average day because it had nowhere to put it. On Monday the national curtailment log showed just 4.06 GWh, all of it in Rajasthan - the monsoon shrank midday solar and, with it, the surplus. Details

The dams are running 11 per cent behind plan, and the south's reservoirs are metres below last year's line

Jul 08: 8Hydro stations have produced 40,074 million units since 1 April against a programme of 45,196 - a shortfall of 5,122 million units, with the eastern region alone 31 per cent behind. Srisailam is 17 metres below its level on the same day last year, and Odisha's Rengali station is producing nothing at all. Details

India's windmills set an all-time output record on Monday evening, and on Tuesday wind out-produced hydro

Jul 08: 8Wind generation touched 30,954 MW at 6.14 pm on 6 July - the highest instantaneous wind output the national grid has ever logged, arriving exactly when solar was fading. The next day the wind fleet delivered 591 million units against 580 from all of India's dams. Details

Sellers offered power in the costliest market for eight straight days, and not one buyer showed up

Jul 08: 8Generators put 5.59 lakh megawatt-hours on the high-price day-ahead market between 1 and 8 July; the purchase-bid column reads zero for every single day. Buyers walked away even though Rajasthan's own merit order shows it keeps gas stations on its books that cost up to Rs 27.74 a unit. Details

The advisers who wrote the grid's big report were proved right within hours, in the middle of the rainy season

Jul 08: 8On Tuesday the exchange sold power for 40 paise a unit at lunchtime and for the full ten-rupee limit late in the evening - a gap of twenty-five times inside one day. The Prime Minister's economic advisers had published a paper that very day arguing the grid's real problem is no longer how much it can generate, but when. Details

GRID SECURITY, FORECASTS AND SETTLEMENTS

Jul 08: 8The northern grid logged 49 disturbance events in June, and one state's renewable pockets dominate the list
8Two renewable complexes lost half their output each to one fault apiece, the case for a second wire in two data points
8The east-to-north corridor failed the grid's stress tests more often than every other interface combined
8The grid ran fast for a quarter of Tuesday: the frequency chart is the surplus made visible
8The week's settlement machinery, end to end: who now bills whom, and how fast, for the grid's indiscipline
8The renewables missed their day's forecast by the output of a mid-sized power station, and the system barely noticed
8What the desk is watching next: five dates that will price this week's stories Details

COMMITTEES AND PEOPLE

Jul 08: 8The southern grid is adopting the east's homework on how a half-broken power plant gets billed
8Three regional grids convene their operations committees this fortnight, with the monsoon's homework on every table
8The eastern grid's protection engineers meet for the 160th time, with every relay misfire of the season on file
8A year later, the south is still correcting its energy accounts for the monsoon of 2025
8Haryana wants a finance chief for its grid company; the regulator next door cannot get a comment on its rules
8The regulator that will hear Gurugram's competition case is rewriting its own hiring rules the same month Details

GENERATION AND DEMAND LEDGER

Jul 08: 8The country generated within 1 per cent of its daily plan on Monday, with water doing the missing
8Bhutan is sending India 83 per cent more power than planned, the quiet fix for a dry Indian summer
8The south's reservoirs are the deficit; Gujarat's big dam is the exception nine metres in the other direction
8India needed 9 per cent more electricity this June than last, and virtually all of it was served
8June's peak came and went 416 MW short, and more than all of that was one state
8A third of new June grid records belong to the night: the system's maximums are migrating past sunset Details

OUTAGE AND MAINTENANCE REGISTER

Jul 08: 8Solapur's big unit will spend six weeks in overhaul, after a June in which the grid kept turning it down
8A fire in Panipat's turbo-generator has taken a 210 MW unit off the grid with no return date
8Thirteen units have been off the grid for more than a fortnight, and Delhi's gas station leads the list again
8Gujarat's transmission grid spent Tuesday taking lines out on purpose, and one 400 kV corridor tripped on its own
8Nine gas and coal units in Gujarat woke up at six in the evening and went back to sleep after midnight
8The maintenance ledger says October is being prepared for now: 3.8 GW of central-sector plant is down on purpose
8The register's smallest entries explain the market's biggest number: cement plants switched off their own power Details

CERC DOCKET

Jul 08: 8A Kolkata carbon-products maker is one hearing away from a national power trading licence
8An Adani transmission company got leave to pledge everything it owns to its bondholders
8A renewable-evacuation transmission company pledged half its shares to its lenders, with the regulator's blessing
8PowerGrid withdrew its review of a tariff order, saving its arguments for the true-up
8A Pune engineering firm's small trading application has become a sixteen-month scrutiny case
8Four orders, three days, one bench: the central commission's week in numbers Details

REGULATORY ROUNDUP

Jul 08: 8Uttarakhand wrote new rules for grid back-up services, and not one person sent a comment
8Ajmer's discom wrote itself four rulebooks in a day, from meter installation to how it must count its own blackouts
8A consumer's unpaid grievance has put Bihar discom officers before the regulator on contempt-like charges
8Maharashtra opened objections on a new private transmission licensee for the Jalna corridor
8Haryana went hunting for a finance director for its transmission utility, by newspaper advertisement
8The Haryana regulator wants broader degrees and new blood rules for its own officers
8REC's consultancy arm is hiring carbon auditors, a state company positioning for the compliance market Details

FUEL, SURCHARGE AND TARIFF WATCH

Jul 08: 8Kota's power station is down to 40 per cent of the coal it is supposed to hold; Ropar next door has nearly double its norm
8The costliest power on Rajasthan's books this week is gas at Rs 27.74 a unit; its cheapest coal is under Rs 4
8UP consumers will see bills fall about 4 per cent in July even though the tariff did not move
8The state power trader made its money and paid most of it out: PTC's dividend now yields about 5 per cent
8The coal ministry's own index paperwork moved this week too, quietly resetting how gasification coal will be priced
8A week of deviation bills went out to the eastern grid's members, the paperwork now running on a seven-day cycle Details

GRID OPS DAILY

Jul 08: 8The country met all its power demand on Tuesday, and the day's peak arrived closer to midnight than to noon
8States backed away from their contracted power by up to three gigawatts at a time on Tuesday
8The grid operator pre-booked nine coal stations for Wednesday evening, the cheapest at Rs 1.16 a unit
8Monday's grid ran a record wind evening; Tuesday's report shows what it cost in forecast misses
8A quarter of the north-east's power on Tuesday came from water, and the region balanced to the decimal
8One interregional corridor was overloaded for nearly ten hours in June; every other one behaved
8Five thermal units tripped in a single day, one of them with a fire in the generator Details

GREEN MARKETS AND MANUFACTURING

Jul 08: 8Premier Energies booked Rs.3,011 crore of orders in a quarter and credits one policy by name
8A small Gujarat module maker got onto the government's approved list, and told the market immediately
8Five EDF wind companies in Gujarat are quietly becoming one, and their debt is shrinking on schedule
8KKR's power venture with Anil Agarwal got a rating for a plant that will sell to a tyre maker at under four rupees
8Eleven solar companies under one Radiance umbrella kept their rating after a restructuring trimmed the club from twenty
8BHEL signed up a German electrolyser specialist to chase India's green hydrogen orders
8Adani's new copper plant got its brand registered in London, a quiet milestone for the wires the transition needs Details

POWER MARKETS

Jul 08: 8Day-ahead power sold at nearly half of last Wednesday's price as sellers kept crowding in
8The real-time market hit its ten-rupee ceiling at midnight, then sold power for 70 paise at lunch
8Green power carried a premium of about 45 paise a unit over ordinary power on Tuesday
8The rival exchange's only trade of the week was 100 units of power at the maximum legal price
8Evening power for delivery within hours traded at the full ten-rupee cap, in the middle of the monsoon
8Buyers came back only after prices had already fallen for five straight sessions
8One power market ran all week on schedule; its ancillary twin has not seen a single bid in ten days Details

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Jul 08:  For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
 8Tender for procurement of spare parts of vacuum pump Details
 8Tender for civil works for construction of 01 No. 33 kV GIS bay Details
 8Tender for construction of 01 no 33kV RMU bay at 132kV substation Details
 8Tender for construction of ramp at ash dyke. Details
 8Tender for R and M of stage-1 turbine high-energy drain valves Details
 8Tender for repair and maintenance work of acid and alkali resistant bricks / tiles Details
 8Tender for annual job contract for fugitive dust control measures Details
 8Tender for SITC of network switches Details
 8Tender for supply and replacement of spectra drift eliminators along with PP spacers Details
 8Tender for housekeeping and sanitation works Details
 8Tender for supply and replacement works of S-panel tubes Details
 8Tender for supply of 145 kV draw rod/draw lead and solid stem RIP/RIS bushing for various substation Details
 8Tender for supply of 245 kV bus post insulators Details
 8Tender for supply of various types of conductor accessories up to 800 kV HVDC transmission lines Details
 8Tender for work contract for AMC of in motion rail weigh bridge Details
 8Tender for procurement of various lighting items and LED based flood tights for various Details
 8Tender for supply of canopies for DCS panels Details
 8Tender for balance civil structural and architectural works Details
 8Tender for operation and maintenance of boiler house Details
 8Tender for construction of store shed cum work Details
 8Tender for providing and fixing PUF panel operator cabin Details
 8Tender for ARC of work of erection, testing & commissioning of 66kV feeder bay, transformer bay Details
 8Tender for providing muffing on periphery of existing various steel structure of coal yard Details
 8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 6 mtr solar high mast Details
 8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing and commissioning with RMS of 60 KWp cap.grid connected solar PV power plant Details
 8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing and commissioning with RMS of 108 KWp cap.grid connected solar PV power plant Details
 8Tender for augmentation of substation by providing of 1X25 MVA 132/33kV T/F Details
 8Tender for work of complete servicing/ overhauling/ defect attending of various hoists and cranes Details
 8Tender for construction of RCC retaining wall for the protection of tower Details
 8Tender for outsourcing work of ETC of new 66 kV sub station Details
 8Tender for procurement of 1 No. telehandler/telescopic loader Details
 8Tender for fabrication of different mechanical spares as per samples for overhauling of boilers. Details
 8Tender for repair of pressure parts of TPP boilers, CPP boilers and boiler 9 Details
 8Tender for preparation of plantation bed for creation of misc plantation surrounding ash pond Details
 8Tender for dredging of overflow lagoon Details
 8Tender for procurement of 3 nos UPS including installation testing and commissioning Details
 8Tender for onsite repair of damaged bottom ring Details
 8Tender for diversion of forest land for hydro electric project 81MW including Details
 8Tender for construction of control room foundations, cable trench, retaining compound wall & misc. civil works etc. Details
 8Tender for procurement of rotating shaft sleeve for 76 MW turbines Details
 8Tender for procurement of gun metal bush for turbine Details
 8Tender for work of complete overhauling of various pumps installed for T-G set & BOP auxiliaries Details
 8Tender for supply of cooling water treatment chemicals compatible with on line monitoring and auto chemical addition control system Details
 8Tender for procurement of feed sump (bifurcating chute) of clinker grinder with installation along Details
 8Tender for procurement of HEA igniter system Details
 8Tender for procurement of NUTO H-32 oil used in MDBFP installed Details
 8Tender for construction and commissioning of 33 kV line Details
 8Tender for supply of various consumables items Details
 8Tender for supply of various type liftting tools tackles for boiler Details
 8Tender for work of constructions of new maintenance free earth pit Details
 8Tender for supply of BEE 5 star rated BLDC ceiling fan Details
 8Tender for supply of ceralined P.F. bends and orifice for coal mill Details
 8Tender for work of creation of 33/ 11 kV GSS Details
 8Tender for construction of 33/ 11 kV sub station Details
 8Tender for supply of spares for clinker grinder and jet pumps Details
 8Tender for procurement of spare parts of CW pumps Details
 8Tender for replacement of existing LT bare conductor with LT AB cable Details
 8Tender for earthing, turfing, construction and repairing of trench of 33/11kV substation Details
 8Tender for supply and installation of 990 KVA compact secondary substation Details
 8Tender for replacement of existing of LT bare conductor Details
 8Tender for supply and installation of 990 KVA compact secondary substation Details
 8Tender for engagement of 05 nos. non-listed MOS covered workers Details
 8Tender for laying concertina fencing on reconstruction of cable trench Details
 8Tender for procurement of two nos. GIS bays Details
 8Tender for procurement of primary current injection set along with associated items Details
 8Tender for erection work of 66kV S/C line on on tower/H-frame with ACSR Dog conductor Details
 8Tender for erection work of 66kV S/C line on D/C towers Details
 8Tender for erection work of 66kV S/C line Details
 8Tender for erection work of 66kV S/C line from exi. 66kV S/S Details
 8Tender for erection work of 66kV S/C line Details
 8Tender for work of annual maintenance contract for work of repair, servicing, overhauling and maintenance of window/split air conditioner Details
 8Tender for work of replacement of existing hanging/suspension type wave trap by new pedestal type wave trap along with coupling capacitor Details
 8Tender for work of providing and fixing of control room wiring for split air conditioner at various 132kV substations Details
 8Tender for work of overhauling, servicing, repair, and maintenance of 220kV & 132kV CBs at various EHV substations Details
 8Tender for supply of spares and complete mechanism overhauling of 220kV & 132kV circuit breakers Details
 8Tender for work of nano-technology based acid and alkali resistant nano modified anticorrosive coating on various rusted gantry Details
 8Tender for work of repair & upgradation of crimping tool at various substation & line Details
 8Tender for work of application of RTV coating on 33 kV tertiary bushing,33kV PT, 33kV LA & support insulators Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract for the work of repairing of ICT cooling fans & ICT oil pumps Details
 8Tender for work of condition assessment of 298.6 MVA,400/211/211/?3kV converter transformer Details
 8Tender for work of servicing, repairing & overhauling of 245 kV & 145 kV circuit breakers Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract for overhauling/ servicing/ repairing of 33kV VCBs of various make at various EHV substation Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract for carrying out works in regular outage, emergency and attending breakdown of various 400kV, 220kV, 132kV & 66kV EHV lines Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract for carrying out works in regular outage, emergency and attending breakdown of various 400kV, 220kV, 132kV & 66kV EHV lines Details
 8Tender for supply of electrical actuator Details
 8Tender for work of stub strengthening and replacement of tension and suspension hardware of 66kV line Details
 8Tender for ARC of work of erection, testing & commissioning of 66kV feeder bay, transformer Details
 8Tender for supply of energy efficient celling fan Details
 8Tender for work of servicing & repairing of window AC, split AC and water coolers Details
 8Tender for supply of EPR insulated flexible trailing power and control trailing cables Details
 8Tender for repairing of flue gas & air ducts and fabrication & erection of fan silencer, economizer & APH hopper during Details
 8Tender for supply, erection, testing and commissioning of 220 V DC, 63 AH, KPH 63P, Ni-Cd type battery set Details
 8Tender for job work of phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) on per joints Details
 8Tender for work of servicing of TG bearing/RTDs, seal liners TE/EE, servicing/overhauling of HP/IP CV, ESV, IV and misc. AOH related activities Details
 8Tender for work of conductor, insulator, hardware & earthwire replacement of 66kV D/C line Details
 8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 132kV 2x(3+0) 1Cx800sq.mm U/G cable Details
 8Tender for supply of R-22 refrigerant gas for AC plant system Details
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 For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
 8South West Pinnacle Exploration receives extension in contract from Reliance Industries Details
 8India Added Non-Fossil Capacity of Over 55 GW During Last Financial Year: Pralhad Joshi Details
 8Powering India’s industrial growth in an era of energy volatility Details
 8BHEL Partners With thyssenkrupp nucera India To Boost Green Hydrogen Manufacturing Details
 8IIFL sees strong long-term growth for Adani Power on expansion, cash flow outlook Details
 8Ashutosh Dwivedi set to be next CMD, NCL: Sources Details
 8Telangana credits sustained efforts for Tadicherla-2 coal block allocation Details
 8CERC permits TP Saurya to sell infirm power from Rajasthan solar project Details
 8CleanMax commissions over 500 MW of solar and wind capacity in Q1 FY 2027 Details
 83 BESS Stocks with Strong Expansion Plans Details
 8Amara Partners Invests Rs 75 Crore in Karamtara Pre-IPO Details
 8India’s Solar Boom Has a Waste Problem Details
 8India's rising solar penetration is causing power grid stress: EAC-PM paper Details
 8Serentica Renewables Signs 600MW FDRE PPA with SECI Details
 8Hartek Power clinches 400 MW Rajasthan solar project Details
 8How India’s energy transition is creating the next wave of manufacturing and jobs Details
 8Jupiter International Plans IPO for Rs 10,900 Crore Solar Push Details
 8India Needs Massive Battery Storage Push As Solar Reshapes Power Grid: EAC-PM Paper Details
 8Tata Power eyes 30 GW by 2030; India's power generation to reach 770 GW: Chairman Chandrasekaran Details
 8India's solar power boom faces regional imbalance, manufacturing glut Details
 8India's power grid challenge shifting from power generation to flexibility; battery storage key solution: EAC-PM report Details
 8Hitachi Energy pledges Rs 1,000 crore for Tamil Nadu technology and manufacturing expansion projects Details
 8NTPC Invites Global Consultants For Pre-Award Services On 1000 MW+ Nuclear Power Projects In India Details
 8Energy Transition: An imperative for the Maldives Details
 8Competition grows for solar industry workforce Details
 8Adani Power targets: IIFL sees Rs 240, FY28 valuation Details
 8SUGS Lloyd Secures INR 3.37 Crore Order from Madhya Pradesh Power Utility Details
 84 Nuclear Energy Stocks in India Backed by Solid Fundamentals Details
 8Quality Power Supply Must Be The Next Phase of Power Reforms: Experts Details
 8Tata Power targets Rs 1 lakh crore revenue by 2030 Details
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Contracting news for the day

Jul 07: 8Rs 418 crore transformer tender tightens grid-equipment risk controls
A large transformer package places reliability hardware, delivery discipline and auction pressure in the same frame. The structure offers variable pricing, but only within a tightly policed risk envelope. The deeper question is how much margin bidders can protect once the auction begins.

8Five-day extension points to OEM readiness pressure in high-voltage GIS tie-up
A short deadline shift has opened a wider question around bid readiness in a complex GIS package. The tender keeps the commercial risk structure intact while giving bidders more time to firm up technical and OEM documentation. The real story lies in how much risk the selected partner must absorb before the main project outcome is visible.

8Rs 744 crore transformer procurement puts grid-equipment suppliers under tighter delivery and design scrutiny
A large transformer package is carrying more than routine supply value. The bid structure links capacity addition with testing depth, warranty exposure and auction-led price pressure. The real story sits in how much risk bidders must absorb before the first unit reaches site.

8Rs 20 crore bid security frames a delayed wind race
A large wind package has moved well beyond its first bid schedule. The public tender trail shows a high entry filter and a repeated corrigenda cycle. What sits behind that timing shift could shape how bidders price similar renewable packages.

8A pre-bid partnership is quietly reshaping competition in a critical high-voltage package
The procurement strategy begins long before the main contract is awarded. A carefully structured tie-up changes how vendors position themselves for one of the sector's technically demanding opportunities. The broader competitive implications emerge only after examining the bid framework.

81320 MW thermal O&M package enters a longer bidding window
One of Rajasthan's largest thermal O&M contracts has entered a fresh phase after the procurement schedule was revised. The changes appear procedural on the surface but carry wider implications for companies evaluating long-term plant operations. The real competitive impact may become evident only after technical bids are opened.

8A high-voltage package is being framed as a turnkey accountability test
A compact EHV line package carries a larger commercial message than its route length suggests. The tender keeps the familiar two-part EPC format but adds controls that can change how bidders price risk. The sharpest tension sits between competitive quoting and the security burden that follows aggressive bids.

8Rs 5,129 crore hydro package heads for reverse auction as a mega underground construction race gathers pace
One of India's biggest hydropower construction packages is entering a procurement model that will test both engineering depth and pricing discipline. The contract combines multiple critical construction fronts under a single execution responsibility, raising the stakes for every serious contender. What this could mean for competition and future hydro tenders becomes clearer inside the full story.

8A high-voltage pre-bid tie-up puts GIS suppliers under tighter risk discipline
A transmission package linked to major grid expansion is using an early OEM lock-in to control execution risk. The structure puts technical completeness, local-content compliance and commissioning accountability at the centre of competition. The deeper commercial signal lies in how much flexibility the supplier gives up before the main award is secured. Details

Solar loses its own label: IEX's green market trades under Wind/DRE/Other-RE flags from today - a week after solar supplied 48% of G-DAM's cleared volume

Jul 07: 8From trade date 7 July, the Solar, Non-Solar and Hydro contracts are gone. The category that dominated last week's green volumes now trades as 'Other RE'. Details

DAM clearing price fell 58% in six sessions as sellers piled in - then the cheapest stretch of the week bought the most power

Jul 07: 8MCP slid from Rs 6,122 to Rs 2,551/MWh between 30 June and 5 July. For 7-July delivery, buyers took 183.9 GWh - the week's largest cleared volume - at Rs 3,037. Details

Rs 20,000 for 13.4 MWh, then nothing: HPDAM logs seven straight zero-buyer days against 72 GWh of daily offers

Jul 07: 8The high-price day-ahead segment's entire week was one ceiling-price trade on 30 June. Sellers kept posting ~72,000 MWh a day into an empty room. Details

Same product, three times the price: PXIL's real-time market cleared at its Rs 10,000 ceiling while IEX RTM averaged Rs 3,353

Jul 07: 8On 6 July, 53.8 MWh scheduled on PXIL at Rs 10,000/MWh - evening blocks - the same day IEX's RTM weighted average was about a third of that. Details

The 6-to-midnight premium: a full week of IEX evening-peak contracts sold flat at Rs 9,000/MWh as the grid sagged to 49.465 Hz at 19:48

Jul 07: 8Seven daily 18:00–24:00 contracts, 450 MWh each, all traded at exactly Rs 9,000 - near triple the week's weighted DAM. The frequency log explains why. Details

A grid overshooting both ways: 36.7% of Monday outside the frequency band - with more time spent high than low

Jul 07: 8172 excursions above 50.03 Hz against 100 below 49.97; TRAS despatched 72,854 MWh downward against 12,382 up. Surplus, not scarcity, is doing the damage. Details

Hydro is running 11% behind program a quarter into FY27 - and Bhutan imports, up 90% on plan, are quietly filling the gap

Jul 07: 8CEA's ledger to 4 July: hydro 38,992 MU against a 43,894 MU program. Eastern-region hydro is 30% short. Bhutan has already sent 1,477 MU against a 778 MU program. Details

Rengali is 72 centimetres from dead storage: Odisha's hydro fleet enters July at a fifth of its May output

Jul 07: 8OHPC's own reservoir sheet: Rengali at 110.44 m against 121.11 m a year ago; Machkund at zero; state hydro averaging ~4 MU a day against ~18 in May. Details

Coal stocks at 67% of normative with 29 stations critical - but the fleet added coal every day it burned it

Jul 07: 843.13 MT on hand against a 63.91 MT norm; APPDCL at 11% and APGENCO at 21%. Receipts beat consumption by ~102 kT on the day. Details

274.5 MU un-returned and no revocation: CERC lets banking trader off with 'strong disapproval' - and flags the hole in its own rules

Jul 07: 8HPPC's banked power came back at roughly 1 MU a day. The order finds APPCPL's conduct against the intent of the Trading Licence Regulations, then stops there. Details

Chhattisgarh fixed its FY27 RE tariffs the same day CERC opened comments on its own - and priced 2 MW solar at Rs 3.40, level with last week's exchange

Jul 07: 8CSERC's 3-July order sets small-solar at Rs 3.40/kWh just as the week's weighted DAM averaged Rs 3.30. The central proposal takes comments till 21 July. Details

2,473 rejected life certificates in three months: PSPCL's pension digitisation is failing at the employee-ID layer

Jul 07: 8The utility's own Jeevan Pramaan rejection file: 1,796 bounced for 'Empid not found', 53 for missing DDO mapping - verified pensioners, unverifiable records. Details

GK Energy books a Rs 235.92-crore MSEDCL order for solar farm pumps - the 'DRE' economy shows up in the order book

Jul 07: 8Design-to-commissioning of 3, 5 and 7.5 HP solar agricultural pumps across Maharashtra under Magel Tyala Saur Krushi Pump Yojana. Details

Two upgrades, one theme: CareEdge lifts Bajoli Holi to BBB and upgrades WBSEDCL - full PPA cover and pass-through mechanisms are getting paid

Jul 07: 8The 180 MW GMR hydro plant's Rs 2,017-crore debt moves up from BBB-; the Bengal discom's rating rides its fuel-cost pass-through. Same agency, same week, same logic. Details

1,400 outage requests on one docket: NRPC's 245th OCC plans monsoon-window grid surgery around the new Ishanagar 765 kV substation

Jul 07: 8Orai–Jabalpur and allied 765 kV corridors queue up for commissioning shutdowns; 232 ICT and 16 HVDC line-items ride the same program. Details

Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update

Jul 09: 8Daily Excel covering new tenders and all published updates including corrigendum, amendment, addendum, clarification and status revisions, along with technical and financial bid opening, evaluation completion and final award actions including AOC and LOA issuance.
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Midday power on the exchange sold for 25 paise a unit on Wednesday

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Contracting news for the day

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

POWER MARKETS

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

GREEN MARKETS

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

GRID OPS DAILY

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

HYDRO, COAL & GAS LEDGER

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

REGULATORY ROUNDUP

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

DEVIATION & SETTLEMENT DESK

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

OUTAGE & MAINTENANCE REGISTER

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

CORPORATE WIRE

Jul 09: 8ICRA reaffirms Adani Energy Solutions at AA+ and rates Rs 10,000 crore of new headroom
8A Rs 742 crore cable-and-EPC IPO opens today with a “subscribe” tag riding the transmission story
8Jaiprakash Power has corrected its AGM notice ahead of the vote
8HPL Electric’s postal ballot results are in - scrutinizer’s report and all
8Voltamp has called its 59th AGM and set the dividend record date
8The quarter-end compliance wire: six power-sector names certify their share registries in one day
8A listed power company reshuffled its CSR committee after a director’s exit Details

TENDERS, POLICY & PEOPLE

Jul 09: 8The Centre wants every big new building - offices, malls and housing alike - bound by energy and sustainability norms
8CERC switched Thursday’s entire hearing board to hybrid mode at a day’s notice
8Delhi’s regulator lists Tata Power Delhi’s new tariff petition for admission on 14 July
8Uttar Pradesh’s regulator has a stack of hearing notices out - three petitions to be heard on 6 August and one rescheduled to 16 July
8Punjab’s power utility is cracking down on lazy board notes - decisions must be written so they stand alone
8Kerala’s power engineers’ training centre has called for nominations - the people pipeline gets its July intake Details

FORECASTS & GRID SECURITY

Jul 09: 8All five inter-regional corridors ran a clean sheet on Wednesday - no transfer-limit or N-1 violations
8The eastern region’s hydro is running 31 per cent behind its programme for the year
8Bhutan is running 79 per cent ahead of its import programme - the grid’s quiet insurance policy is foreign water
8The grid’s afternoon and evening peaks are now eight thousand megawatts apart
8The intraday forecast beat the day-ahead model by 4.4 percentage points - the case for later gate closure writes itself
8The despatcher published its afternoon coal recall list at 3 p.m. sharp - grid security is now a daily spreadsheet Details

Download tenders and news clips

Jul 09:  For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
 8Tender for construction of CC pavement at ash dyke-II Details
 8Tender for transportation cum loading of coal Details
 8Tender for bypassing of both circuits of the 400 kV DC line Details
 8Tender for engagement of fitters on SOS basis in various transmission lines Details
 8Tender for supply of poly carbonate anti bird spike for transmission lines Details
 8Design, manufacture, supply, transportation, installation, testing and commissioning of radiator type oil cooler system Details
 8Tender for supply of different bearings for cooling water system Details
 8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing, commissioning of on-grid solar rooftop project of 15 kW Details
 8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing, commissioning of on-grid solar rooftop project of 30 kW Details
 8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing, commissioning of on-grid solar rooftop project of 25 kW Details
 8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing, commissioning of on-grid solar rooftop project of 20 kW Details
 8Tender for selection of agency for providing FMS for operation, maintenance, monitoring and management of SCADA infrastructure Details
 8Tender for installation of chainlink fencing along Details
 8Tender for repair and upgradation of damaged fencing brick masony fencing and light poles Details
 8Tender for repairing and attending the faulty street lights Details
 8Tender for supply of wear resistant putty Details
 8Tender for supply of quarterly maintenance of wagon tipplers Details
 8Tender for supply of two layer carbon brushes for generator REF protection Details
 8Tender for procurement of consumable items Details
 8Tender for work of fabrication/ removal/ repairing /erection of metallic expansion bellows at various Details
 8Tender for rate contract for removing, lifting, shifting, dismantling and overhauling of 6.6 kV HT motors Details
 8Tender for repairing of various cards of DCS system installed Details
 8Tender for construction of RCC box culvert Details
 8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for shifting/modification work of existing various 66/132/220 kV class transmission lines Details
 8Tender for hill slope stabilization work of slide Details
 8Tender for civil repair and maintenance work Details
 8Tender for construction of one 33kV feeder Details
 8Design, supply and installation of monopole for river crossing on HTLS ACCC Details
 8Tender for construction of store shed Details
 8Tender for work of erection, testing & commissioning of 132 & 66 kV equipment, structure, control wiring, earthing etc. Details
 8Tender for work of erection of 66kV equipment, structures, control wiring, yard lighting Details
 8Tender for work of repair and dynamic balancing of shafts and impellers of 20 cumec pumps Details
 8Tender for requirement of various size and types of conveyor belt rollers Details
 8Tender for work of blue star realtors limited shifting of EHT tower Details
 8Tender for rerouting existing HT line Details
 8Tender for providing supply to the proposed 110kV substation Details
 8Tender for running of PCC pole factory Details
 8Tender for procurement of 132kV SF6 circuit breakers Details
 8Tender for procurement of complete jacking oil pump JOP assembly without motor Details
 8Tender for procurement of instrument spares of weighbridges installed Details
 8Tender for module modification (module rating 90 KW, 110 KW, 132 KW, 150 KW) by retrofitting of air circuit breaker Details
 8Tender for procurement of complete set of fluid couplings along with spares installed Details
 8Tender for work of replacement of damaged prestress cable trench covers Details
 8Tender for work of creation of 33/11 kV GSS Details
 8Tender for tower revetment work of tower Details
 8Tender for supply of hydraulic spares Details
 8Tender for supply of spares of high pressure mist fog generating system of dust suppression Details
 8Tender for work of initial inspection of generator Details
 8Tender for procurement of leakage current analyzer along with testing of 220 kV lightning arresters installed Details
 8Tender for augmentation of capacity of overloaded transformers under 33/11 kV sub-station Details
 8Tender for replacement work of damaged distribution transformers (DTRs) Details
 8Tender for construction of HT/LT line and erection of distribution transformer Details
 8Tender for supply of required materials Details
 8Tender for procurement of grinding roll and bull ring segment of XRP 1003 coal mill Details
 8Tender for service contract for emergen CY TIT bit maintenance Details
 8Tender for common procurement of HT fasteners Details
 8Tender for procurement of 25 DMT 100 percent basis caustic lye Details
 8Tender for service contract for repairing of different ducts and replacement of non-metallic bellows and servicing of associated gates dampers actuators during Details
 8Tender for service order for structure repairing and painting Details
 8Tender for operation of AHP,ESP and silo Details
 8Tender for work of providing and applying high insulation compound coating to IPS tube's, support insulators Details
 8Tender for second circuit stringing on 132kV lines along Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract for work of On-site N2 drying out for power transformers & ICT’s for various Details
 8Tender for work of testing of DGA (dissolved gas analysis) & Other parameter of T/F oil at various Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract (AMC) for overhauling, repairing & servicing of 33 kV & 11kV circuit breakers Details
 8Tender for enhancement of transformation capacity of substations by addition/replacement of T/Fs Details
 8Tender for providing & fixing of insulated rubber mat Details
 8Tender for work of supply & installation of eDAQ (energy data acquisition) and automatic log sheet generation Details
 8Tender for work of on-site N? drying out of 132/33 kV, 25 MVA transformer Details
 8Tender for work of SF6 gas replacement work of 220kV GIS bays Details
 8Tender for work of providing & fixing of additional jumpers on tension towers of the various lines Details
 8Tender for work of overhauling, servicing & repairing work of 400kV circuit breaker Details
 8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 220kV 1Cx1200 Sq.mm,2x(3+0) copper conductor XLPE U/G cable Details
 8Tender for supply of various fasteners and consumables Details
 8Design, engineering, erection, commissioning & testing of 220 V, minimum 500 AH nickle-cadmium DC battery sets Details
 8Tender for supply, erection and commissioning of new street light poles Details
 8Tender for rate contract of excavation and laying of new power / control / telephone cables, replacement of faulty/damaged cables Details
 8Tender for erection of 66 kV equipment, structures, control wiring, yard lighting & control-room electrification etc Details
 8Tender for providing and laying G. I. pipe Details
 8Tender for supply, installation, commissioning and testing of vibration monitoring system for continuous vibration measurement Details
 8Tender for supply of knife gate valve for ash handling plant Details
 8Tender for supply of low volatge control and power products Details
 You can also click on Tenders for more
 For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
 8Govt sets Jan schedule for first pact signing of coal-gasification projects Details
 8Import dependency vs domestic expansion: Can India achieve coking coal security Details
 8Coal Gasification in Odisha: Powering India’s Transition from Energy Dependence to Self-Reliance Details
 8Rajasthan Govt ties up with International Solar Alliance Details
 8NLC India and NALCO sign 50:50 joint venture for 1,080 MW thermal power plant Details
 8For the first time, half of India's electricity came from clean energy—but there's a catch Details
 8Power transmission to witness Rs 6 trillion investment over six years: Icra Details
 8Adani Power explores growth path as India expands electricity demand Details
 8Indian Firms Urge govt to Review Chinese Participation in Power Sector Tenders Details
 8India’s Power Capacity to Reach 770 GW by 2030, Tata Power Targets 30 GW Details
 8From Trombay to tomorrow: Inside India’s energy transition Details
 8Beyond Generation: Preparing India's Grid for Rising Cooling Demand Details
 864 GW Midday Drop Highlights India's Growing Storage Need Details
 8India considers Rs 40,000 crore undersea power cable to UAE: Power minister Details
 8Weak Monsoon Drags India's Hydropower Output To Steepest Fall In Over Two Years Details
 8Before you subscribe to Laser Power & Infra's IPO, read this Details
 8New Guideline Outlines Three-Stage Roadmap For Smarter Power Demand Forecasting By Indian Discoms – Report Details
 8Power transmission offers biggest long-term opportunity; textiles near bottom: Nepean Capital Details
 8Shree Cement steady on long-term capacity growth outlook. India infrastructure demand supports the story Details
 8Power Sector: Renewable generation jumps 25% in Q1 but commodity costs threaten margins Details
 8Power minister sees demand rising to 300 GW in 2027 Details
 8Weak Monsoon Cuts India’s Hydropower Output 21% In June As Reservoir Levels Fall Details
 8India's Hydropower Output Falls 21% in June Amid Low Reservoir Levels Details
 8NLC India and NALCO Sign JV Agreement for 1,080 MW Captive Thermal Power Plant in Odisha’s Angul Details
 8Tata Power vs Adani Power vs Reliance Power: Which Power Stock Is Better for Long-Term Growth Details
 8JSW Energy, NLC India Set Up 1,080 MW Thermal Power Plant Details
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Live-line maintenance equipment procurement reveals contrasting competitive intensity across twin packages

Jul 08: 8The latest commercial evaluation reveals two distinctly different pricing patterns within the same procurement.
8While one package witnessed an exceptionally close commercial contest, the other recorded a much wider bid spread, offering fresh insight into supplier competitiveness and market depth in India's specialised live-line maintenance equipment segment. Details

Contracting news for the day

Jul 08: 8Integrated coal sourcing package reshapes contractor risk beyond conventional fuel procurement
This procurement combines coal supply, transportation and quality compliance into a single responsibility framework, significantly expanding contractor obligations. The structure could alter bidding strategies by placing execution capability on par with pricing.

8Zero-value tie-up masks a harder 765 kV execution gate
A zero-value procurement frame makes the package look lighter than it is. The real contest sits in high-voltage experience, liquidity, confidentiality and pre-bid exclusivity. The tender points to a sharper procurement play behind India’s renewable evacuation build-out.

8Rs 7.14 crore grid-study tender hides a tougher consultancy test than the headline value suggests
A three-year consultancy package puts grid planning, BESS readiness and transmission feasibility under one tightly timed framework. The amount is visible, but the real pressure sits inside the study-cycle design, technical scoring and delivery obligations. One procedural wrinkle also deserves closer attention before bidders treat this as a routine consultancy call.

8No RA, no floor price, but L1 pressure remains
The bid disables reverse auction and has no buyer-defined floor price. That removes one layer of price compression. But total value-wise L1 evaluation still forces bidders to defend the entire scope within one number.

8Three Rs 100-crore-plus cable packages put execution risk behind the tariff wall
A cluster of underground 132kV EPC tenders has opened with sizeable estimates and a common delivery structure. The real signal is not just the value, but the way cable execution and bay extensions have been bundled. A date mismatch in the papers adds a quiet procurement-risk layer.

81000 MW energy storage opportunity gets another timeline reset
A major energy infrastructure procurement has received another extension before bids are opened. The repeated revisions indicate that participation remains a central priority in one of the country's significant storage developments. The implications for competition become clearer when the tender structure is examined in detail.

8The ash-handling clause quietly tightens the operating burden
A routine-looking power-plant retrofit has been reshaped through repeated corrigenda and technical amendments. The biggest signal is not in the headline scope but in how design risk, ash handling and validation duties have been redistributed. The full tender trail shows why bidders may price this package far more cautiously than the notice suggests.

8Rs 516 crore hydro EM tender turns on control-room risk, not just equipment supply
A large hydro EM package has moved through repeated extensions while its control-system obligations have become sharper. The tender value is visible, but the deeper risk sits inside SCADA, tandem operation and interface accountability. The clauses point to a procurement strategy that could reshape how bidders price future hydro packages.

8Multiple purchase orders conceal a single contractual obligation
A major industrial EPC package is relying on more than just competitive pricing. The commercial framework quietly redistributes execution responsibilities in ways that could influence bidder strategy and project economics. The deeper implications emerge only after examining how the contractual architecture has been assembled.

81000 MW-plus PWR consultancy EOI signals tougher procurement framework before main nuclear contracts
A newly issued consultancy EOI is designed to shape the technical and commercial architecture of future large PWR nuclear procurements. Rather than awarding execution work, it identifies the expertise that will define bid structures, evaluation criteria and contract strategy for the next phase.

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Meghalaya's chief minister asked Delhi to hand the state the keys to its own coal

Jul 08: 8Conrad Sangma met the coal minister on Monday to seek delegation of the Centre's powers to approve coal mining plans and grant prior approvals within the state. His argument: Meghalaya's coal belongs to tribal families in small parcels, and rules written for large blocks have shut thousands out of legal mining. Details

Gujarat has switched off about five gigawatts of its own power plants because the market is too cheap

Jul 08: 8Fifteen-odd units across the state - all four of Adani Mundra's state-contracted units, Essar's Vadinar station, Torrent's Sugen and Unosugen, and a string of state gas and coal units - sat in "reserve shutdown" on Monday, boxed up not for repairs but for lack of buyers. NTPC's Kawas and Gandhar gas units now switch off after midnight and return for the evening peak. Details

NTPC's green arm will borrow Rs.2,500 crore for ten years at 7.27 per cent

Jul 08: 8NTPC Green Energy told the exchanges it will issue unsecured debentures on Thursday through private placement, the first tranche under a board approval from May. The money goes to capital expenditure, refinancing, and loans to its project subsidiaries. Details

Uttar Pradesh has frozen electricity rates for a seventh straight year; the subsidy line does the moving instead

Jul 08: 8The state regulator has approved the 2026-27 rate schedule with domestic energy charges held at Rs 7.35 a unit before subsidy, unchanged across slabs. The state government's tariff subsidy rises to Rs 20,400 crore, from Rs 17,100 crore last year, to keep the payable rates where they were. Details

A transmission bill arrived three years late; the regulator says the generator must still pay the interest

Jul 08: 8NHPC challenged deviation charges on trial-run power from its Parbati-II project after the account for November 2020 was issued in July 2023 and the bill in December 2024. The commission held the company liable - surcharge included - while rebuking the bodies that sat on the paperwork. Details

A Tata Power company built its solar plant early, the buyer went silent, so the regulator let it sell to anyone

Jul 08: 8TP Saurya finished the 100 MW solar half of a 600 MW hybrid project before the wind half was ready, but the purchase agreement had no provision for early supply and SECI's buyers did not respond. The central commission has now allowed the company to sell that power to any third party until the contract formally kicks in. Details

A private company wants a licence to sell electricity in Gurugram, in competition with the state utility

Jul 08: 8Eleven Power Private Limited has petitioned the Haryana regulator for a distribution licence covering the revenue districts of Gurugram and Nuh, running parallel to the incumbent DHBVN. The public has been invited to object before the commission decides whether to open the state's richest power market to a second wire. Details

Carmakers may soon trade fuel-economy credits, and buy forgiveness from the government at Rs 2,500 a gram

Jul 08: 8A draft notification from the power ministry converts India's fuel-efficiency rules into a credit-and-debit system with passbooks, pooling between manufacturers, and a buyout price. Nine-tenths of the penalty money would flow to state governments in proportion to where the cars were sold. Details

NTPC has started looking for the people who will write India's biggest nuclear tender

Jul 08: 8The country's largest generator invited consultants on Monday to prepare tender documents, evaluate bids and support contract award for large pressurised-water-reactor projects of 1,000 MW and above. The same day, a Mumbai engineering firm and Hindustan Construction Company announced a joint venture to chase nuclear construction work. Details

The Rs.37,500-crore coal gasification race now has a clock: bids by 7 September, winners by 21 October

Jul 08: 8The coal ministry published the final bidding document for its gasification incentive scheme on Tuesday and gave applicants two months to file. Letters of award are promised on 4 November and signed project agreements by 4 January. Details

The clouds did in one week what the storage fleet could not do all summer: solar waste fell from 24 GWh a day to 4

Jul 08: 8In May the grid threw away about 24 GWh of solar energy on an average day because it had nowhere to put it. On Monday the national curtailment log showed just 4.06 GWh, all of it in Rajasthan - the monsoon shrank midday solar and, with it, the surplus. Details

The dams are running 11 per cent behind plan, and the south's reservoirs are metres below last year's line

Jul 08: 8Hydro stations have produced 40,074 million units since 1 April against a programme of 45,196 - a shortfall of 5,122 million units, with the eastern region alone 31 per cent behind. Srisailam is 17 metres below its level on the same day last year, and Odisha's Rengali station is producing nothing at all. Details

India's windmills set an all-time output record on Monday evening, and on Tuesday wind out-produced hydro

Jul 08: 8Wind generation touched 30,954 MW at 6.14 pm on 6 July - the highest instantaneous wind output the national grid has ever logged, arriving exactly when solar was fading. The next day the wind fleet delivered 591 million units against 580 from all of India's dams. Details

Sellers offered power in the costliest market for eight straight days, and not one buyer showed up

Jul 08: 8Generators put 5.59 lakh megawatt-hours on the high-price day-ahead market between 1 and 8 July; the purchase-bid column reads zero for every single day. Buyers walked away even though Rajasthan's own merit order shows it keeps gas stations on its books that cost up to Rs 27.74 a unit. Details

The advisers who wrote the grid's big report were proved right within hours, in the middle of the rainy season

Jul 08: 8On Tuesday the exchange sold power for 40 paise a unit at lunchtime and for the full ten-rupee limit late in the evening - a gap of twenty-five times inside one day. The Prime Minister's economic advisers had published a paper that very day arguing the grid's real problem is no longer how much it can generate, but when. Details

GRID SECURITY, FORECASTS AND SETTLEMENTS

Jul 08: 8The northern grid logged 49 disturbance events in June, and one state's renewable pockets dominate the list
8Two renewable complexes lost half their output each to one fault apiece, the case for a second wire in two data points
8The east-to-north corridor failed the grid's stress tests more often than every other interface combined
8The grid ran fast for a quarter of Tuesday: the frequency chart is the surplus made visible
8The week's settlement machinery, end to end: who now bills whom, and how fast, for the grid's indiscipline
8The renewables missed their day's forecast by the output of a mid-sized power station, and the system barely noticed
8What the desk is watching next: five dates that will price this week's stories Details

COMMITTEES AND PEOPLE

Jul 08: 8The southern grid is adopting the east's homework on how a half-broken power plant gets billed
8Three regional grids convene their operations committees this fortnight, with the monsoon's homework on every table
8The eastern grid's protection engineers meet for the 160th time, with every relay misfire of the season on file
8A year later, the south is still correcting its energy accounts for the monsoon of 2025
8Haryana wants a finance chief for its grid company; the regulator next door cannot get a comment on its rules
8The regulator that will hear Gurugram's competition case is rewriting its own hiring rules the same month Details

GENERATION AND DEMAND LEDGER

Jul 08: 8The country generated within 1 per cent of its daily plan on Monday, with water doing the missing
8Bhutan is sending India 83 per cent more power than planned, the quiet fix for a dry Indian summer
8The south's reservoirs are the deficit; Gujarat's big dam is the exception nine metres in the other direction
8India needed 9 per cent more electricity this June than last, and virtually all of it was served
8June's peak came and went 416 MW short, and more than all of that was one state
8A third of new June grid records belong to the night: the system's maximums are migrating past sunset Details

OUTAGE AND MAINTENANCE REGISTER

Jul 08: 8Solapur's big unit will spend six weeks in overhaul, after a June in which the grid kept turning it down
8A fire in Panipat's turbo-generator has taken a 210 MW unit off the grid with no return date
8Thirteen units have been off the grid for more than a fortnight, and Delhi's gas station leads the list again
8Gujarat's transmission grid spent Tuesday taking lines out on purpose, and one 400 kV corridor tripped on its own
8Nine gas and coal units in Gujarat woke up at six in the evening and went back to sleep after midnight
8The maintenance ledger says October is being prepared for now: 3.8 GW of central-sector plant is down on purpose
8The register's smallest entries explain the market's biggest number: cement plants switched off their own power Details

CERC DOCKET

Jul 08: 8A Kolkata carbon-products maker is one hearing away from a national power trading licence
8An Adani transmission company got leave to pledge everything it owns to its bondholders
8A renewable-evacuation transmission company pledged half its shares to its lenders, with the regulator's blessing
8PowerGrid withdrew its review of a tariff order, saving its arguments for the true-up
8A Pune engineering firm's small trading application has become a sixteen-month scrutiny case
8Four orders, three days, one bench: the central commission's week in numbers Details

REGULATORY ROUNDUP

Jul 08: 8Uttarakhand wrote new rules for grid back-up services, and not one person sent a comment
8Ajmer's discom wrote itself four rulebooks in a day, from meter installation to how it must count its own blackouts
8A consumer's unpaid grievance has put Bihar discom officers before the regulator on contempt-like charges
8Maharashtra opened objections on a new private transmission licensee for the Jalna corridor
8Haryana went hunting for a finance director for its transmission utility, by newspaper advertisement
8The Haryana regulator wants broader degrees and new blood rules for its own officers
8REC's consultancy arm is hiring carbon auditors, a state company positioning for the compliance market Details

FUEL, SURCHARGE AND TARIFF WATCH

Jul 08: 8Kota's power station is down to 40 per cent of the coal it is supposed to hold; Ropar next door has nearly double its norm
8The costliest power on Rajasthan's books this week is gas at Rs 27.74 a unit; its cheapest coal is under Rs 4
8UP consumers will see bills fall about 4 per cent in July even though the tariff did not move
8The state power trader made its money and paid most of it out: PTC's dividend now yields about 5 per cent
8The coal ministry's own index paperwork moved this week too, quietly resetting how gasification coal will be priced
8A week of deviation bills went out to the eastern grid's members, the paperwork now running on a seven-day cycle Details

GRID OPS DAILY

Jul 08: 8The country met all its power demand on Tuesday, and the day's peak arrived closer to midnight than to noon
8States backed away from their contracted power by up to three gigawatts at a time on Tuesday
8The grid operator pre-booked nine coal stations for Wednesday evening, the cheapest at Rs 1.16 a unit
8Monday's grid ran a record wind evening; Tuesday's report shows what it cost in forecast misses
8A quarter of the north-east's power on Tuesday came from water, and the region balanced to the decimal
8One interregional corridor was overloaded for nearly ten hours in June; every other one behaved
8Five thermal units tripped in a single day, one of them with a fire in the generator Details

GREEN MARKETS AND MANUFACTURING

Jul 08: 8Premier Energies booked Rs.3,011 crore of orders in a quarter and credits one policy by name
8A small Gujarat module maker got onto the government's approved list, and told the market immediately
8Five EDF wind companies in Gujarat are quietly becoming one, and their debt is shrinking on schedule
8KKR's power venture with Anil Agarwal got a rating for a plant that will sell to a tyre maker at under four rupees
8Eleven solar companies under one Radiance umbrella kept their rating after a restructuring trimmed the club from twenty
8BHEL signed up a German electrolyser specialist to chase India's green hydrogen orders
8Adani's new copper plant got its brand registered in London, a quiet milestone for the wires the transition needs Details

POWER MARKETS

Jul 08: 8Day-ahead power sold at nearly half of last Wednesday's price as sellers kept crowding in
8The real-time market hit its ten-rupee ceiling at midnight, then sold power for 70 paise at lunch
8Green power carried a premium of about 45 paise a unit over ordinary power on Tuesday
8The rival exchange's only trade of the week was 100 units of power at the maximum legal price
8Evening power for delivery within hours traded at the full ten-rupee cap, in the middle of the monsoon
8Buyers came back only after prices had already fallen for five straight sessions
8One power market ran all week on schedule; its ancillary twin has not seen a single bid in ten days Details

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Jul 08:  For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
 8Tender for procurement of spare parts of vacuum pump Details
 8Tender for civil works for construction of 01 No. 33 kV GIS bay Details
 8Tender for construction of 01 no 33kV RMU bay at 132kV substation Details
 8Tender for construction of ramp at ash dyke. Details
 8Tender for R and M of stage-1 turbine high-energy drain valves Details
 8Tender for repair and maintenance work of acid and alkali resistant bricks / tiles Details
 8Tender for annual job contract for fugitive dust control measures Details
 8Tender for SITC of network switches Details
 8Tender for supply and replacement of spectra drift eliminators along with PP spacers Details
 8Tender for housekeeping and sanitation works Details
 8Tender for supply and replacement works of S-panel tubes Details
 8Tender for supply of 145 kV draw rod/draw lead and solid stem RIP/RIS bushing for various substation Details
 8Tender for supply of 245 kV bus post insulators Details
 8Tender for supply of various types of conductor accessories up to 800 kV HVDC transmission lines Details
 8Tender for work contract for AMC of in motion rail weigh bridge Details
 8Tender for procurement of various lighting items and LED based flood tights for various Details
 8Tender for supply of canopies for DCS panels Details
 8Tender for balance civil structural and architectural works Details
 8Tender for operation and maintenance of boiler house Details
 8Tender for construction of store shed cum work Details
 8Tender for providing and fixing PUF panel operator cabin Details
 8Tender for ARC of work of erection, testing & commissioning of 66kV feeder bay, transformer bay Details
 8Tender for providing muffing on periphery of existing various steel structure of coal yard Details
 8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing and commissioning of 6 mtr solar high mast Details
 8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing and commissioning with RMS of 60 KWp cap.grid connected solar PV power plant Details
 8Design, fabrication, supply, installation, testing and commissioning with RMS of 108 KWp cap.grid connected solar PV power plant Details
 8Tender for augmentation of substation by providing of 1X25 MVA 132/33kV T/F Details
 8Tender for work of complete servicing/ overhauling/ defect attending of various hoists and cranes Details
 8Tender for construction of RCC retaining wall for the protection of tower Details
 8Tender for outsourcing work of ETC of new 66 kV sub station Details
 8Tender for procurement of 1 No. telehandler/telescopic loader Details
 8Tender for fabrication of different mechanical spares as per samples for overhauling of boilers. Details
 8Tender for repair of pressure parts of TPP boilers, CPP boilers and boiler 9 Details
 8Tender for preparation of plantation bed for creation of misc plantation surrounding ash pond Details
 8Tender for dredging of overflow lagoon Details
 8Tender for procurement of 3 nos UPS including installation testing and commissioning Details
 8Tender for onsite repair of damaged bottom ring Details
 8Tender for diversion of forest land for hydro electric project 81MW including Details
 8Tender for construction of control room foundations, cable trench, retaining compound wall & misc. civil works etc. Details
 8Tender for procurement of rotating shaft sleeve for 76 MW turbines Details
 8Tender for procurement of gun metal bush for turbine Details
 8Tender for work of complete overhauling of various pumps installed for T-G set & BOP auxiliaries Details
 8Tender for supply of cooling water treatment chemicals compatible with on line monitoring and auto chemical addition control system Details
 8Tender for procurement of feed sump (bifurcating chute) of clinker grinder with installation along Details
 8Tender for procurement of HEA igniter system Details
 8Tender for procurement of NUTO H-32 oil used in MDBFP installed Details
 8Tender for construction and commissioning of 33 kV line Details
 8Tender for supply of various consumables items Details
 8Tender for supply of various type liftting tools tackles for boiler Details
 8Tender for work of constructions of new maintenance free earth pit Details
 8Tender for supply of BEE 5 star rated BLDC ceiling fan Details
 8Tender for supply of ceralined P.F. bends and orifice for coal mill Details
 8Tender for work of creation of 33/ 11 kV GSS Details
 8Tender for construction of 33/ 11 kV sub station Details
 8Tender for supply of spares for clinker grinder and jet pumps Details
 8Tender for procurement of spare parts of CW pumps Details
 8Tender for replacement of existing LT bare conductor with LT AB cable Details
 8Tender for earthing, turfing, construction and repairing of trench of 33/11kV substation Details
 8Tender for supply and installation of 990 KVA compact secondary substation Details
 8Tender for replacement of existing of LT bare conductor Details
 8Tender for supply and installation of 990 KVA compact secondary substation Details
 8Tender for engagement of 05 nos. non-listed MOS covered workers Details
 8Tender for laying concertina fencing on reconstruction of cable trench Details
 8Tender for procurement of two nos. GIS bays Details
 8Tender for procurement of primary current injection set along with associated items Details
 8Tender for erection work of 66kV S/C line on on tower/H-frame with ACSR Dog conductor Details
 8Tender for erection work of 66kV S/C line on D/C towers Details
 8Tender for erection work of 66kV S/C line Details
 8Tender for erection work of 66kV S/C line from exi. 66kV S/S Details
 8Tender for erection work of 66kV S/C line Details
 8Tender for work of annual maintenance contract for work of repair, servicing, overhauling and maintenance of window/split air conditioner Details
 8Tender for work of replacement of existing hanging/suspension type wave trap by new pedestal type wave trap along with coupling capacitor Details
 8Tender for work of providing and fixing of control room wiring for split air conditioner at various 132kV substations Details
 8Tender for work of overhauling, servicing, repair, and maintenance of 220kV & 132kV CBs at various EHV substations Details
 8Tender for supply of spares and complete mechanism overhauling of 220kV & 132kV circuit breakers Details
 8Tender for work of nano-technology based acid and alkali resistant nano modified anticorrosive coating on various rusted gantry Details
 8Tender for work of repair & upgradation of crimping tool at various substation & line Details
 8Tender for work of application of RTV coating on 33 kV tertiary bushing,33kV PT, 33kV LA & support insulators Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract for the work of repairing of ICT cooling fans & ICT oil pumps Details
 8Tender for work of condition assessment of 298.6 MVA,400/211/211/?3kV converter transformer Details
 8Tender for work of servicing, repairing & overhauling of 245 kV & 145 kV circuit breakers Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract for overhauling/ servicing/ repairing of 33kV VCBs of various make at various EHV substation Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract for carrying out works in regular outage, emergency and attending breakdown of various 400kV, 220kV, 132kV & 66kV EHV lines Details
 8Tender for annual maintenance contract for carrying out works in regular outage, emergency and attending breakdown of various 400kV, 220kV, 132kV & 66kV EHV lines Details
 8Tender for supply of electrical actuator Details
 8Tender for work of stub strengthening and replacement of tension and suspension hardware of 66kV line Details
 8Tender for ARC of work of erection, testing & commissioning of 66kV feeder bay, transformer Details
 8Tender for supply of energy efficient celling fan Details
 8Tender for work of servicing & repairing of window AC, split AC and water coolers Details
 8Tender for supply of EPR insulated flexible trailing power and control trailing cables Details
 8Tender for repairing of flue gas & air ducts and fabrication & erection of fan silencer, economizer & APH hopper during Details
 8Tender for supply, erection, testing and commissioning of 220 V DC, 63 AH, KPH 63P, Ni-Cd type battery set Details
 8Tender for job work of phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) on per joints Details
 8Tender for work of servicing of TG bearing/RTDs, seal liners TE/EE, servicing/overhauling of HP/IP CV, ESV, IV and misc. AOH related activities Details
 8Tender for work of conductor, insulator, hardware & earthwire replacement of 66kV D/C line Details
 8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 132kV 2x(3+0) 1Cx800sq.mm U/G cable Details
 8Tender for supply of R-22 refrigerant gas for AC plant system Details
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 For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
 8South West Pinnacle Exploration receives extension in contract from Reliance Industries Details
 8India Added Non-Fossil Capacity of Over 55 GW During Last Financial Year: Pralhad Joshi Details
 8Powering India’s industrial growth in an era of energy volatility Details
 8BHEL Partners With thyssenkrupp nucera India To Boost Green Hydrogen Manufacturing Details
 8IIFL sees strong long-term growth for Adani Power on expansion, cash flow outlook Details
 8Ashutosh Dwivedi set to be next CMD, NCL: Sources Details
 8Telangana credits sustained efforts for Tadicherla-2 coal block allocation Details
 8CERC permits TP Saurya to sell infirm power from Rajasthan solar project Details
 8CleanMax commissions over 500 MW of solar and wind capacity in Q1 FY 2027 Details
 83 BESS Stocks with Strong Expansion Plans Details
 8Amara Partners Invests Rs 75 Crore in Karamtara Pre-IPO Details
 8India’s Solar Boom Has a Waste Problem Details
 8India's rising solar penetration is causing power grid stress: EAC-PM paper Details
 8Serentica Renewables Signs 600MW FDRE PPA with SECI Details
 8Hartek Power clinches 400 MW Rajasthan solar project Details
 8How India’s energy transition is creating the next wave of manufacturing and jobs Details
 8Jupiter International Plans IPO for Rs 10,900 Crore Solar Push Details
 8India Needs Massive Battery Storage Push As Solar Reshapes Power Grid: EAC-PM Paper Details
 8Tata Power eyes 30 GW by 2030; India's power generation to reach 770 GW: Chairman Chandrasekaran Details
 8India's solar power boom faces regional imbalance, manufacturing glut Details
 8India's power grid challenge shifting from power generation to flexibility; battery storage key solution: EAC-PM report Details
 8Hitachi Energy pledges Rs 1,000 crore for Tamil Nadu technology and manufacturing expansion projects Details
 8NTPC Invites Global Consultants For Pre-Award Services On 1000 MW+ Nuclear Power Projects In India Details
 8Energy Transition: An imperative for the Maldives Details
 8Competition grows for solar industry workforce Details
 8Adani Power targets: IIFL sees Rs 240, FY28 valuation Details
 8SUGS Lloyd Secures INR 3.37 Crore Order from Madhya Pradesh Power Utility Details
 84 Nuclear Energy Stocks in India Backed by Solid Fundamentals Details
 8Quality Power Supply Must Be The Next Phase of Power Reforms: Experts Details
 8Tata Power targets Rs 1 lakh crore revenue by 2030 Details
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Contracting news for the day

Jul 07: 8Rs 418 crore transformer tender tightens grid-equipment risk controls
A large transformer package places reliability hardware, delivery discipline and auction pressure in the same frame. The structure offers variable pricing, but only within a tightly policed risk envelope. The deeper question is how much margin bidders can protect once the auction begins.

8Five-day extension points to OEM readiness pressure in high-voltage GIS tie-up
A short deadline shift has opened a wider question around bid readiness in a complex GIS package. The tender keeps the commercial risk structure intact while giving bidders more time to firm up technical and OEM documentation. The real story lies in how much risk the selected partner must absorb before the main project outcome is visible.

8Rs 744 crore transformer procurement puts grid-equipment suppliers under tighter delivery and design scrutiny
A large transformer package is carrying more than routine supply value. The bid structure links capacity addition with testing depth, warranty exposure and auction-led price pressure. The real story sits in how much risk bidders must absorb before the first unit reaches site.

8Rs 20 crore bid security frames a delayed wind race
A large wind package has moved well beyond its first bid schedule. The public tender trail shows a high entry filter and a repeated corrigenda cycle. What sits behind that timing shift could shape how bidders price similar renewable packages.

8A pre-bid partnership is quietly reshaping competition in a critical high-voltage package
The procurement strategy begins long before the main contract is awarded. A carefully structured tie-up changes how vendors position themselves for one of the sector's technically demanding opportunities. The broader competitive implications emerge only after examining the bid framework.

81320 MW thermal O&M package enters a longer bidding window
One of Rajasthan's largest thermal O&M contracts has entered a fresh phase after the procurement schedule was revised. The changes appear procedural on the surface but carry wider implications for companies evaluating long-term plant operations. The real competitive impact may become evident only after technical bids are opened.

8A high-voltage package is being framed as a turnkey accountability test
A compact EHV line package carries a larger commercial message than its route length suggests. The tender keeps the familiar two-part EPC format but adds controls that can change how bidders price risk. The sharpest tension sits between competitive quoting and the security burden that follows aggressive bids.

8Rs 5,129 crore hydro package heads for reverse auction as a mega underground construction race gathers pace
One of India's biggest hydropower construction packages is entering a procurement model that will test both engineering depth and pricing discipline. The contract combines multiple critical construction fronts under a single execution responsibility, raising the stakes for every serious contender. What this could mean for competition and future hydro tenders becomes clearer inside the full story.

8A high-voltage pre-bid tie-up puts GIS suppliers under tighter risk discipline
A transmission package linked to major grid expansion is using an early OEM lock-in to control execution risk. The structure puts technical completeness, local-content compliance and commissioning accountability at the centre of competition. The deeper commercial signal lies in how much flexibility the supplier gives up before the main award is secured. Details

Solar loses its own label: IEX's green market trades under Wind/DRE/Other-RE flags from today - a week after solar supplied 48% of G-DAM's cleared volume

Jul 07: 8From trade date 7 July, the Solar, Non-Solar and Hydro contracts are gone. The category that dominated last week's green volumes now trades as 'Other RE'. Details

DAM clearing price fell 58% in six sessions as sellers piled in - then the cheapest stretch of the week bought the most power

Jul 07: 8MCP slid from Rs 6,122 to Rs 2,551/MWh between 30 June and 5 July. For 7-July delivery, buyers took 183.9 GWh - the week's largest cleared volume - at Rs 3,037. Details

Rs 20,000 for 13.4 MWh, then nothing: HPDAM logs seven straight zero-buyer days against 72 GWh of daily offers

Jul 07: 8The high-price day-ahead segment's entire week was one ceiling-price trade on 30 June. Sellers kept posting ~72,000 MWh a day into an empty room. Details

Same product, three times the price: PXIL's real-time market cleared at its Rs 10,000 ceiling while IEX RTM averaged Rs 3,353

Jul 07: 8On 6 July, 53.8 MWh scheduled on PXIL at Rs 10,000/MWh - evening blocks - the same day IEX's RTM weighted average was about a third of that. Details

The 6-to-midnight premium: a full week of IEX evening-peak contracts sold flat at Rs 9,000/MWh as the grid sagged to 49.465 Hz at 19:48

Jul 07: 8Seven daily 18:00–24:00 contracts, 450 MWh each, all traded at exactly Rs 9,000 - near triple the week's weighted DAM. The frequency log explains why. Details

A grid overshooting both ways: 36.7% of Monday outside the frequency band - with more time spent high than low

Jul 07: 8172 excursions above 50.03 Hz against 100 below 49.97; TRAS despatched 72,854 MWh downward against 12,382 up. Surplus, not scarcity, is doing the damage. Details

Hydro is running 11% behind program a quarter into FY27 - and Bhutan imports, up 90% on plan, are quietly filling the gap

Jul 07: 8CEA's ledger to 4 July: hydro 38,992 MU against a 43,894 MU program. Eastern-region hydro is 30% short. Bhutan has already sent 1,477 MU against a 778 MU program. Details

Rengali is 72 centimetres from dead storage: Odisha's hydro fleet enters July at a fifth of its May output

Jul 07: 8OHPC's own reservoir sheet: Rengali at 110.44 m against 121.11 m a year ago; Machkund at zero; state hydro averaging ~4 MU a day against ~18 in May. Details

Coal stocks at 67% of normative with 29 stations critical - but the fleet added coal every day it burned it

Jul 07: 843.13 MT on hand against a 63.91 MT norm; APPDCL at 11% and APGENCO at 21%. Receipts beat consumption by ~102 kT on the day. Details

274.5 MU un-returned and no revocation: CERC lets banking trader off with 'strong disapproval' - and flags the hole in its own rules

Jul 07: 8HPPC's banked power came back at roughly 1 MU a day. The order finds APPCPL's conduct against the intent of the Trading Licence Regulations, then stops there. Details

Chhattisgarh fixed its FY27 RE tariffs the same day CERC opened comments on its own - and priced 2 MW solar at Rs 3.40, level with last week's exchange

Jul 07: 8CSERC's 3-July order sets small-solar at Rs 3.40/kWh just as the week's weighted DAM averaged Rs 3.30. The central proposal takes comments till 21 July. Details

2,473 rejected life certificates in three months: PSPCL's pension digitisation is failing at the employee-ID layer

Jul 07: 8The utility's own Jeevan Pramaan rejection file: 1,796 bounced for 'Empid not found', 53 for missing DDO mapping - verified pensioners, unverifiable records. Details

GK Energy books a Rs 235.92-crore MSEDCL order for solar farm pumps - the 'DRE' economy shows up in the order book

Jul 07: 8Design-to-commissioning of 3, 5 and 7.5 HP solar agricultural pumps across Maharashtra under Magel Tyala Saur Krushi Pump Yojana. Details

Two upgrades, one theme: CareEdge lifts Bajoli Holi to BBB and upgrades WBSEDCL - full PPA cover and pass-through mechanisms are getting paid

Jul 07: 8The 180 MW GMR hydro plant's Rs 2,017-crore debt moves up from BBB-; the Bengal discom's rating rides its fuel-cost pass-through. Same agency, same week, same logic. Details

1,400 outage requests on one docket: NRPC's 245th OCC plans monsoon-window grid surgery around the new Ishanagar 765 kV substation

Jul 07: 8Orai–Jabalpur and allied 765 kV corridors queue up for commissioning shutdowns; 232 ICT and 16 HVDC line-items ride the same program. Details
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