Download tenders and news clips.  Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update.  More than 55,000 MW was outside the online fleet in CEA’s monitored snapshot - while generation still reached 98.2% of programme.  India has certified 78 green-steel units and advanced specialty-steel incentives - but neither measure yet proves how much cleaner steel is being produced.  BCCL put a new 2.0 MTPA washery into operation and monetised another - but profit collapsed nearly 90% as production and offtake weakened.  Coal India spent Rs. 19,607 crore and added 100 MW of solar - but coal output fell to 768.19 million tonnes, 168.81 million tonnes below its own target.  PFC’s loan book reached Rs. 5.80 lakh crore and net NPAs fell to 0.15% - but annual sanctions dropped Rs. 75,094 crore as fresh commitments slowed.   Inox Wind’s order book reached about 4.4 GW - but quarterly profit fell 34% as its shift toward equipment sales held income growth to 1%.  Premier Energies lifted profit 53% and opened 5.6 GW of module capacity - but the new factory must convert nameplate scale into sustained sales and margin.  Hitachi Energy’s orders and revenue surged - while Rs. 1,841.66 crore of QIP money still sat unused.  Amazon’s proposed Mumbai data-centre campus would demand 473 MW and install hundreds of backup generators - but it still lacks final environmental clearance.  CESC’s 3 GW solar-cell plan won environmental clearance only for Phase I - leaving the second phase and construction approvals outside the gate.  A Vemagiri bus fault cut about 1,150 MW of Andhra Pradesh load in 14 minutes - after overloaded transformers at another station also tripped.  Gujarat’s renewable evacuation network suffered repeated single-path failures, including 800 MW and 540 MW losses - making redundancy the month’s unresolved risk.  Two simultaneous line trips cut about 130 MW across six Assam load centres - after another 220 kV route was already shut.  A Champa–Kurukshetra HVDC failure cut about 2,680 MW of transfer and triggered Punjab’s defence scheme - but Punjab’s recorded demand drop was about 252 MW.  Thirty coal plants were critical even with 37 million tonnes on hand - because the fleet held only 60% of its normative stock.  Contracting news for the day.  Briefs - Signals to Watch.  Projects and Clearances - Investment Advanced, Permissions Lagged.  Corporate Growth and Finance - Scale Expanded, Execution Risk Remained.  Regulation and Access - Relief Was Sought, Decisions Stayed Conditional.  Fuel, Markets and Settlements - Supply Held, Liabilities Persisted.  Grid Operations and Failures - Protection Worked, Redundancy Did Not.  Download tenders and news clips.  Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update.  TPDDL’s strong operations sit beside Rs 6,547 crore that tariffs have not recovered.  Uttar Pradesh’s Rs 40,738 crore grid push depends on feeders and meters working district by district.  Coal, lignite and nuclear forced outages ran 1.8 times planned maintenance.  JIPL’s protection logic turned one failed transformer into a 1,107 MW station loss.  Delhi’s 304 MW rooftop shortfall collides with a power peak moving into the night.  SJVN writes down Rs 174 crore as Khirvire loses 70% of carrying value.  Himachal’s takeback threat hangs over Rs 3,933 crore of SJVN hydro work.  KSEBL’s Rs 4,139 crore tariff gap forces a choice between bills now and costs later.  A line fault shut all three North Karanpura units as protection questions deepened.  Tripura’s 15-hour import-limit breach raises pressure on local generators and grid dispatch.  Jewar’s 3 GW solar-cell factory clears one gate as its water-treatment test grows.  Major projects, tariffs and system developments are exposing delivery and cost gaps.  Renewable and storage pipelines are expanding faster than projects are being completed.  Coal, hydro and conventional generation remain dependable only when plant-level constraints are counted.  Protection failures are turning individual faults into station and regional losses.  Grid operators are confronting forced outages, weak controls and unfinished recovery plans.  Public power programmes are winning funds while district execution and accountability lag.  Transmission investment is advancing, but land and live-network delivery still govern usable capacity.  Regulatory and market decisions are reallocating costs, delays and operating risk.  Power companies are growing into heavier financing, governance and execution tests.  Environmental panels are advancing power projects only with land, water and pollution questions unresolved.  POWER BRIEFS.  Download tenders and news clips.  Contracting news for the day.  Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update.  Download tenders and news clips.  Contracting news for the day.  Power System Development Fund weighs batteries, flow storage and a Rs 340 crore carbon-dioxide demonstrator.  Gujarat's bay-by-bay connection guarantees could lock up Rs 12,000 crore across a 60 GW pipeline.  MSEDCL returns for 2,269 MW of substation solar after its larger programme falls short.  NGEL doubles renewable generation as its operating fleet crosses 10 GW.  NHPC has 12,832 MW of renewable awards waiting for power-sale contracts.  NHPC seeks a Rs 70,000 crore borrowing ceiling as its construction bill accelerates.  SECI's 2 GW wind auction stops at 1,495 MW as higher bids miss the cut.  Companies, Finance and Manufacturing.  Policy and Public Programmes.  Central Regulatory Decisions.  State Regulatory Decisions.  Grid Operations and Markets.  Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update.  Download tenders and news clips.  CEA proposes tougher grid rules, with repeated failures potentially leading to disconnection.  India’s grid spent more than a quarter of 4 August outside its permitted frequency band.  NTPC targets 244 GW by 2037 as storage and nuclear power enter the centre of its expansion plan.  ACME turns 3.62 GWh of batteries into a high-margin power-trading business.  Rs. 5,070 crore floating-solar scheme pairs 5 GW of reservoirs with at least 10 GWh of storage.  Renewables are 52.6% of installed capacity but supply only about 26% of electricity.  Banks have sanctioned Rs. 39,930 crore for rooftop solar, but Rs. 8,278 crore had not yet been disbursed.  Tariffs, Settlements and Compliance.