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Power Markets Daily
Jul 17:
8Day-ahead and real-time prices at fresh highs
Day-ahead cleared Rs 7,284/MWh for 17 July (Rs 7,049 for the 16th; Rs 2,490 on 12 July); real-time averaged Rs 7,723/MWh on 16 July before easing to Rs 6,911; green day-ahead firmed to Rs 7,024. Night blocks repeatedly hit the Rs 10,000 ceiling. Cleared volumes were ordinary (day-ahead 148,764 MWh for the 17th); the move is on price, driven by an evening buy-side scramble, not by volume.
8Demand near an all-time high
Maximum demand met 270,203 MW on 16 July, against the 270.8 GW national record of 21 May; energy met 6,002 MU. A monsoon peak this close to a heatwave peak is the demand signal behind the price move.
8Term-ahead and intraday markets pinned to the ceiling, clearing only in the evening
IEX term-ahead and green term-ahead contracts traded thin and mostly at the Rs 10,000 ceiling, with genuine clearing only in round-the-clock products (term-ahead round-the-clock West cleared 2,640 MWh at about Rs 7,953). The intraday segment cleared nothing all day. Real-time cleared only from about 19:30, and the PXIL deviation market only between 20:30 and 23:00 - buyers paying the ceiling, then Rs 5,500 - confirming the scarcity is a post-solar evening event.
8High-price and ancillary day-ahead segments did not clear
The high-price day-ahead market drew a sell-only book of about 72,000 MWh with no matching demand and no clearing price for a second running day; the ancillary-services day-ahead segment saw no bids and no activity all week. The unused sell-side capacity is another marker of daytime surplus.
8GUVNL floats a 400 MW reverse auction across three exchanges
Hindustan Power Exchange circular HPX_RA_01056 (16 July) sets a single-side reverse auction for Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam - three tranches of 400 MW covering 23–31 July, August and September, ceiling Rs 10,000/MWh, energy of any type - with the e-auction on 18 July; parallel auctions run on IEX and PXIL. A large discom buying blocks two to three months out is the mirror image of the evening-peak tightness. Details
Day-ahead cleared Rs 7,284/MWh for 17 July (Rs 7,049 for the 16th; Rs 2,490 on 12 July); real-time averaged Rs 7,723/MWh on 16 July before easing to Rs 6,911; green day-ahead firmed to Rs 7,024. Night blocks repeatedly hit the Rs 10,000 ceiling. Cleared volumes were ordinary (day-ahead 148,764 MWh for the 17th); the move is on price, driven by an evening buy-side scramble, not by volume.
8Demand near an all-time high
Maximum demand met 270,203 MW on 16 July, against the 270.8 GW national record of 21 May; energy met 6,002 MU. A monsoon peak this close to a heatwave peak is the demand signal behind the price move.
8Term-ahead and intraday markets pinned to the ceiling, clearing only in the evening
IEX term-ahead and green term-ahead contracts traded thin and mostly at the Rs 10,000 ceiling, with genuine clearing only in round-the-clock products (term-ahead round-the-clock West cleared 2,640 MWh at about Rs 7,953). The intraday segment cleared nothing all day. Real-time cleared only from about 19:30, and the PXIL deviation market only between 20:30 and 23:00 - buyers paying the ceiling, then Rs 5,500 - confirming the scarcity is a post-solar evening event.
8High-price and ancillary day-ahead segments did not clear
The high-price day-ahead market drew a sell-only book of about 72,000 MWh with no matching demand and no clearing price for a second running day; the ancillary-services day-ahead segment saw no bids and no activity all week. The unused sell-side capacity is another marker of daytime surplus.
8GUVNL floats a 400 MW reverse auction across three exchanges
Hindustan Power Exchange circular HPX_RA_01056 (16 July) sets a single-side reverse auction for Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam - three tranches of 400 MW covering 23–31 July, August and September, ceiling Rs 10,000/MWh, energy of any type - with the e-auction on 18 July; parallel auctions run on IEX and PXIL. A large discom buying blocks two to three months out is the mirror image of the evening-peak tightness. Details
Grid Operations Daily
Jul 17:
8Frequency ran low, not high
On 16 July the frequency was inside the 49.9–50.05 Hz band 64.3 percent of the time, but it spent almost twice as long below the band (23.3 percent) as above it (12.4 percent), touching a low of 49.508 Hz at 06:18. After weeks of running high on surplus, a day that dips low points to tighter mornings and a stretched evening ramp rather than pure oversupply.
8The grid was net backing down, with costly gas left idle
Ancillary services backed generation down by a net 4,565 MWh on 16 July (31,543 down against 26,978 up), and NLDC's unit-commitment table shows eight RLNG-gas stations committed but scheduled at zero. The system was comfortable on energy through the day; see Story 1.
8A busbar-protection event at Vemagiri cost 1,400 MW for fourteen minutes
At 11:52 on 16 July a jumper cut on a 220 kV bus-coupler at Vemagiri (Andhra Pradesh) operated the busbar protection, tripping the Vemagiri transformers and then Guddigudem's on load transfer, for a load loss of about 1,400 MW; supply was restored by 12:06. A short, sharp reminder that single-point bus faults still take large blocks off instantly.
8National corridors clean, but Tripura's import path ran over its limit for nearly 20 hours
Nationally, inter-regional transfer and N-1 criteria showed zero violations on 16 July. Inside the North-East, though, the Tripura import corridor breached its available transfer capability for 19.7 hours on 15 July (82 percent of the day) and the Assam corridor for five - the chronic evacuation constraint behind the region's defence-scheme strain (see Story 4).
8A southern bus ran persistently over-voltage at Cuddapah
The 765 kV bus at Cuddapah spent 38 percent of 16 July above 800 kV, peaking at 813 kV - the day's largest voltage deviation, with smaller high-voltage excursions at Nizamabad, Maheshwaram and two Gujarat buses. Light evening loading on a high-voltage backbone with reactive support lagging; no low-voltage violations were recorded nationally.
8Weak primary frequency response from two North-East stations
NERLDC's June frequency-response scorecard rates Doyang hydro at 0.02 and Palatana gas at 0.21 on a scale to 1.0 - near-absent governor response - while Bongaigaon and Kopili scored a full 1.0. Poor primary response from large machines is what forces the ancillary market to do more of the second-by-second balancing.
8Eastern demand was chronically under-forecast
ERLDC's day-ahead load forecast for 16 July ran a mean error of 7.5 percent and under-called actual demand by up to about 3,900 MW through the midday blocks; the intraday forecast was tight at 1.4 percent. Day-ahead under-forecasting in a rising-demand month feeds straight into next-day exchange buying.
8A CT burst at Biharsharif cascaded to a 110 MW blackout when a breaker failed to open
On 26 June a current-transformer burst at Biharsharif faulted the bus, and the bus-coupler breaker's pole failed to open mechanically - so the fault spread to the second bus and cascaded to a 110 MW blackout, with the disturbance recorder found not time-synchronised. A single CT failure turning into a station blackout is exactly the latent mechanical defect a protection audit is meant to catch.
8Santaldih lost 225 MW when a bus-shift flashed over mid-operation
On 4 June a heavy flashover during a live shift of a unit from one bus to another at Santaldih operated the busbar differential and tripped the whole switchyard, losing 225 MW of generation and 92 MW of load. The committee's lesson is blunt: finish the feeder rearrangement before splitting a bus, not during it.
8Godda and Pakur lost load twice as healthy lines tripped with the faulted ones
Two events at Godda/Pakur (17 and 25 June, 168 and 216 MW of load lost) saw faults on the Madanpur lines simultaneously trip healthy parallel circuits; the Jharkhand utility must explain why an auto-reclose did not operate and segregate its special-protection outputs. Sympathetic tripping of sound lines is the signature of a protection-coordination gap.
8A Buxar transformer tripped on a setting that breaks the region's protection rule
On 11 June a Buxar transformer tripped on a standby-earth-fault element set to a fixed one-second delay rather than the eastern region's inverse-time philosophy - a settings mismatch the operator has asked the utility to correct. Small on its own, it is the kind of non-standard setting that turns an external fault into an unnecessary trip.
8Generation ran above programme on 15 July, but hydro is lagging
CEA's daily generation report puts all-India output at 5,020 MU on 15 July against a 4,485 MU programme. Year-to-date, eastern hydro is 32 percent below target and north-eastern 12 percent below, while northern nuclear runs 18 percent short - the shortfalls that a monsoon is supposed to be curing.
8Darbhanga went dark on 29 June though the fault cleared in under 100 milliseconds
At Darbhanga on 29 June a phase-to-earth fault cleared in under a tenth of a second, yet both 220 kV lines and both 400/220 kV transformers tripped together and the station went dark. The phasor records show the fault was cleared fast, so why healthy elements tripped with it is unexplained, and the two transmission utilities' reports are still awaited - the signature of a protection-logic fault rather than the fault itself.
8A north-eastern voltage problem is now spilling into Bhutan's grid
Chronic low voltage around Rangia in Assam - worse whenever a Bongaigaon–Rangia circuit is out - has Assam pulling so much power through a 132 kV tie to Motanga that it stresses the Bhutan system, whose operator has asked to open the tie from its end. The region's voltage weakness now crosses an international border, and the fix - a 400/220 kV substation at Rangia - is still pending.
8A Nagaland protection scheme keeps shedding load with no fault to answer for
Unequal loading on two parallel 132 kV lines at Dimapur keeps pushing one phase over the special-protection-scheme pickup, shedding load three times in late June and early July with no actual fault; the root cause is still not found. A defence scheme that fires on a loading imbalance is itself a reliability risk, not a safeguard. Details
On 16 July the frequency was inside the 49.9–50.05 Hz band 64.3 percent of the time, but it spent almost twice as long below the band (23.3 percent) as above it (12.4 percent), touching a low of 49.508 Hz at 06:18. After weeks of running high on surplus, a day that dips low points to tighter mornings and a stretched evening ramp rather than pure oversupply.
8The grid was net backing down, with costly gas left idle
Ancillary services backed generation down by a net 4,565 MWh on 16 July (31,543 down against 26,978 up), and NLDC's unit-commitment table shows eight RLNG-gas stations committed but scheduled at zero. The system was comfortable on energy through the day; see Story 1.
8A busbar-protection event at Vemagiri cost 1,400 MW for fourteen minutes
At 11:52 on 16 July a jumper cut on a 220 kV bus-coupler at Vemagiri (Andhra Pradesh) operated the busbar protection, tripping the Vemagiri transformers and then Guddigudem's on load transfer, for a load loss of about 1,400 MW; supply was restored by 12:06. A short, sharp reminder that single-point bus faults still take large blocks off instantly.
8National corridors clean, but Tripura's import path ran over its limit for nearly 20 hours
Nationally, inter-regional transfer and N-1 criteria showed zero violations on 16 July. Inside the North-East, though, the Tripura import corridor breached its available transfer capability for 19.7 hours on 15 July (82 percent of the day) and the Assam corridor for five - the chronic evacuation constraint behind the region's defence-scheme strain (see Story 4).
8A southern bus ran persistently over-voltage at Cuddapah
The 765 kV bus at Cuddapah spent 38 percent of 16 July above 800 kV, peaking at 813 kV - the day's largest voltage deviation, with smaller high-voltage excursions at Nizamabad, Maheshwaram and two Gujarat buses. Light evening loading on a high-voltage backbone with reactive support lagging; no low-voltage violations were recorded nationally.
8Weak primary frequency response from two North-East stations
NERLDC's June frequency-response scorecard rates Doyang hydro at 0.02 and Palatana gas at 0.21 on a scale to 1.0 - near-absent governor response - while Bongaigaon and Kopili scored a full 1.0. Poor primary response from large machines is what forces the ancillary market to do more of the second-by-second balancing.
8Eastern demand was chronically under-forecast
ERLDC's day-ahead load forecast for 16 July ran a mean error of 7.5 percent and under-called actual demand by up to about 3,900 MW through the midday blocks; the intraday forecast was tight at 1.4 percent. Day-ahead under-forecasting in a rising-demand month feeds straight into next-day exchange buying.
8A CT burst at Biharsharif cascaded to a 110 MW blackout when a breaker failed to open
On 26 June a current-transformer burst at Biharsharif faulted the bus, and the bus-coupler breaker's pole failed to open mechanically - so the fault spread to the second bus and cascaded to a 110 MW blackout, with the disturbance recorder found not time-synchronised. A single CT failure turning into a station blackout is exactly the latent mechanical defect a protection audit is meant to catch.
8Santaldih lost 225 MW when a bus-shift flashed over mid-operation
On 4 June a heavy flashover during a live shift of a unit from one bus to another at Santaldih operated the busbar differential and tripped the whole switchyard, losing 225 MW of generation and 92 MW of load. The committee's lesson is blunt: finish the feeder rearrangement before splitting a bus, not during it.
8Godda and Pakur lost load twice as healthy lines tripped with the faulted ones
Two events at Godda/Pakur (17 and 25 June, 168 and 216 MW of load lost) saw faults on the Madanpur lines simultaneously trip healthy parallel circuits; the Jharkhand utility must explain why an auto-reclose did not operate and segregate its special-protection outputs. Sympathetic tripping of sound lines is the signature of a protection-coordination gap.
8A Buxar transformer tripped on a setting that breaks the region's protection rule
On 11 June a Buxar transformer tripped on a standby-earth-fault element set to a fixed one-second delay rather than the eastern region's inverse-time philosophy - a settings mismatch the operator has asked the utility to correct. Small on its own, it is the kind of non-standard setting that turns an external fault into an unnecessary trip.
8Generation ran above programme on 15 July, but hydro is lagging
CEA's daily generation report puts all-India output at 5,020 MU on 15 July against a 4,485 MU programme. Year-to-date, eastern hydro is 32 percent below target and north-eastern 12 percent below, while northern nuclear runs 18 percent short - the shortfalls that a monsoon is supposed to be curing.
8Darbhanga went dark on 29 June though the fault cleared in under 100 milliseconds
At Darbhanga on 29 June a phase-to-earth fault cleared in under a tenth of a second, yet both 220 kV lines and both 400/220 kV transformers tripped together and the station went dark. The phasor records show the fault was cleared fast, so why healthy elements tripped with it is unexplained, and the two transmission utilities' reports are still awaited - the signature of a protection-logic fault rather than the fault itself.
8A north-eastern voltage problem is now spilling into Bhutan's grid
Chronic low voltage around Rangia in Assam - worse whenever a Bongaigaon–Rangia circuit is out - has Assam pulling so much power through a 132 kV tie to Motanga that it stresses the Bhutan system, whose operator has asked to open the tie from its end. The region's voltage weakness now crosses an international border, and the fix - a 400/220 kV substation at Rangia - is still pending.
8A Nagaland protection scheme keeps shedding load with no fault to answer for
Unequal loading on two parallel 132 kV lines at Dimapur keeps pushing one phase over the special-protection-scheme pickup, shedding load three times in late June and early July with no actual fault; the root cause is still not found. A defence scheme that fires on a loading imbalance is itself a reliability risk, not a safeguard. Details
Outage & Maintenance Register
Jul 17:
8About 44 large units are out across the north and west - yet demand was met with under 1% shortage
Roughly 44 units of 200 MW or more were out on 16 July across the Northern and Western regions - a routine mid-monsoon overhaul-and-forced tally, not a stressed one. The registers supplied cover only those two regions; eastern, southern and north-eastern unit registers were not in the day's file set (see end-note).
8A nuclear unit trips at Kakrapar on a generator-seal fault
Kakrapar-1 (KAPS-1, 220 MW, NPCIL) tripped at 10:34 on 15 July on a generator seal problem and remained out, expected back on 18 July - the fresh nuclear item of the day. Rajasthan's RAPS-A Unit-1 (100 MW) stays down on long-term decommissioning.
8Fresh forced trips on 16 July add about 2,500 MW
New forced outages, all boiler or mechanical: Jindal's JPL Stage-II Unit-1 (600 MW, Chhattisgarh) on an air-preheater gearbox fault, RKM Powergen Unit-2 (360 MW) on a boiler leak, Rosa-4 (300 MW, UP) on a boiler-tube leak, Rajwest Unit-4 (135 MW, Rajasthan), and Kota-4 (210 MW) which re-tripped at 22:59 after reviving earlier in the day; a day earlier Adani's two Raipur units (685 MW each) went out on a flame-off and a condenser leak. About 2,500 MW of fresh loss - the ordinary attrition of a monsoon fleet, not a coal or grid problem.
8More capacity came back than tripped, led by Gadarwara's 800 MW
Back on the bar overnight: NTPC's Gadarwara-1 (800 MW) - the largest single return - Adani Mundra-8 (660 MW), Bhusawal-6 (660 MW), DGEN-1 (400 MW), and JP Bina-1, Gujarat's STPS-4 and the north's Chhabra-3 (250 MW each). The returns outweighed the fresh trips, cushioning the 16 July evening peak.
8Long-standing forced outages still out, some since April
Still dark from earlier: in the north, both Ghatampur units (660 MW each, UP, coal-feeding), OBRA-C Unit-1 (660 MW), Anpara-C Unit-2 (600 MW), Harduaganj-9 (250 MW) and Ropar-3 (210 MW); in the west, Adani Tiroda-5 (660 MW), Vedanta-1 (600 MW, out since April), Chandrapur-7 (500 MW), Jaigad-1 (300 MW), LANCO-1 (300 MW), BLTPS-2 (250 MW), three Wanakbori units (210 MW each) and Sanjay Gandhi-4 (210 MW, since April). Teesta-III's 1,200 MW remains out since the October 2023 cloudburst.
8The monsoon overhaul slate - about a dozen large units on planned outage
On annual or capital overhaul at 200 MW and above: in the west, NTPC's Solapur-1 and Sipat-3 (660 MW each), Jindal's JPL Stage-II Unit-2 (600 MW), Jhabua-1 (600 MW), Adani Mundra-6 (660 MW), Bhusawal-5 (500 MW), GMR Warora-1 and SKS-1 (300 MW each), and a cluster of 200-250 MW units in Gujarat, MP and Chhattisgarh (Korba-East DSPM-2, Korba-West-2, Amarkantak-5, Khaperkheda-4, Ukai-3, VSTPS-4); in the north, NTPC's Singrauli-3 (200 MW). Overhauls are timed to the low-demand monsoon by design.
8The western grid is carrying two systemic HVDC/UHV outages
The Chandrapur–Padghe HVDC bipole is running on a single pole while the other is shifted from ground- to metallic-return, and the parallel 400 kV Chandrapur–GCR “HVDC-2” line has been out since 6 September 2025 - roughly ten months. At Bina, both 1200 kV transformers are out, one since 2017. A 765 kV Akola–Koradi line came back on 16 July after a roughly 20-day tower-collapse outage.
8A cluster of northern tower-collapse lines from May–June is still out
Several 400 kV double-circuits in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan - Bareilly–Unnao, Orai–Paricha, Banda–Rewa Road, Rajwest–Pachpadra, Harduaganj/Aligarh–Sikandrabad - remain out from storm tower collapses in late May and June, thinning the northern transmission margin just as demand peaks.
8Repeated tripping flagged as a maintenance signal
In the North-East the 132 kV Loktak–Rengpang line tripped 18 times in May–June and five more times in July; in the east, 220 kV Daltonganj–Chatra tripped five times and two 400/765 kV corridors three times each in June. Repeat trips on the same element are the register's early warning of a defect that inspection has not yet caught. Details
Roughly 44 units of 200 MW or more were out on 16 July across the Northern and Western regions - a routine mid-monsoon overhaul-and-forced tally, not a stressed one. The registers supplied cover only those two regions; eastern, southern and north-eastern unit registers were not in the day's file set (see end-note).
8A nuclear unit trips at Kakrapar on a generator-seal fault
Kakrapar-1 (KAPS-1, 220 MW, NPCIL) tripped at 10:34 on 15 July on a generator seal problem and remained out, expected back on 18 July - the fresh nuclear item of the day. Rajasthan's RAPS-A Unit-1 (100 MW) stays down on long-term decommissioning.
8Fresh forced trips on 16 July add about 2,500 MW
New forced outages, all boiler or mechanical: Jindal's JPL Stage-II Unit-1 (600 MW, Chhattisgarh) on an air-preheater gearbox fault, RKM Powergen Unit-2 (360 MW) on a boiler leak, Rosa-4 (300 MW, UP) on a boiler-tube leak, Rajwest Unit-4 (135 MW, Rajasthan), and Kota-4 (210 MW) which re-tripped at 22:59 after reviving earlier in the day; a day earlier Adani's two Raipur units (685 MW each) went out on a flame-off and a condenser leak. About 2,500 MW of fresh loss - the ordinary attrition of a monsoon fleet, not a coal or grid problem.
8More capacity came back than tripped, led by Gadarwara's 800 MW
Back on the bar overnight: NTPC's Gadarwara-1 (800 MW) - the largest single return - Adani Mundra-8 (660 MW), Bhusawal-6 (660 MW), DGEN-1 (400 MW), and JP Bina-1, Gujarat's STPS-4 and the north's Chhabra-3 (250 MW each). The returns outweighed the fresh trips, cushioning the 16 July evening peak.
8Long-standing forced outages still out, some since April
Still dark from earlier: in the north, both Ghatampur units (660 MW each, UP, coal-feeding), OBRA-C Unit-1 (660 MW), Anpara-C Unit-2 (600 MW), Harduaganj-9 (250 MW) and Ropar-3 (210 MW); in the west, Adani Tiroda-5 (660 MW), Vedanta-1 (600 MW, out since April), Chandrapur-7 (500 MW), Jaigad-1 (300 MW), LANCO-1 (300 MW), BLTPS-2 (250 MW), three Wanakbori units (210 MW each) and Sanjay Gandhi-4 (210 MW, since April). Teesta-III's 1,200 MW remains out since the October 2023 cloudburst.
8The monsoon overhaul slate - about a dozen large units on planned outage
On annual or capital overhaul at 200 MW and above: in the west, NTPC's Solapur-1 and Sipat-3 (660 MW each), Jindal's JPL Stage-II Unit-2 (600 MW), Jhabua-1 (600 MW), Adani Mundra-6 (660 MW), Bhusawal-5 (500 MW), GMR Warora-1 and SKS-1 (300 MW each), and a cluster of 200-250 MW units in Gujarat, MP and Chhattisgarh (Korba-East DSPM-2, Korba-West-2, Amarkantak-5, Khaperkheda-4, Ukai-3, VSTPS-4); in the north, NTPC's Singrauli-3 (200 MW). Overhauls are timed to the low-demand monsoon by design.
8The western grid is carrying two systemic HVDC/UHV outages
The Chandrapur–Padghe HVDC bipole is running on a single pole while the other is shifted from ground- to metallic-return, and the parallel 400 kV Chandrapur–GCR “HVDC-2” line has been out since 6 September 2025 - roughly ten months. At Bina, both 1200 kV transformers are out, one since 2017. A 765 kV Akola–Koradi line came back on 16 July after a roughly 20-day tower-collapse outage.
8A cluster of northern tower-collapse lines from May–June is still out
Several 400 kV double-circuits in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan - Bareilly–Unnao, Orai–Paricha, Banda–Rewa Road, Rajwest–Pachpadra, Harduaganj/Aligarh–Sikandrabad - remain out from storm tower collapses in late May and June, thinning the northern transmission margin just as demand peaks.
8Repeated tripping flagged as a maintenance signal
In the North-East the 132 kV Loktak–Rengpang line tripped 18 times in May–June and five more times in July; in the east, 220 kV Daltonganj–Chatra tripped five times and two 400/765 kV corridors three times each in June. Repeat trips on the same element are the register's early warning of a defect that inspection has not yet caught. Details
Fuel & Coal Ledger
Jul 17:
8Chhattisgarh's negative fuel-cost adjustment
CSPGCL's four stations filed about Rs 31.7 crore of negative fuel-cost adjustment for April on cheaper, higher-heat domestic coal - a deflationary signal for state tariffs and the sharp end of coal out-competing gas.
8Coal stocks ease to about 13.5 days; 28 plants critical, Niwari empty
National coal stock was about 42.1 million tonnes on 16 July, roughly 13.5 days and down marginally on the day as consumption outran receipts; 28 plants sat below a quarter of normative stock. Niwari (MP) is effectively empty at under a day, Damodaram Sanjeevaiah (Andhra, 2,400 MW) at 6 percent and Sasan at 7 percent - the usual import-dependent and end-of-line plants, not a system-wide squeeze.
8MahaGenco is cutting imported coal to save money
Maharashtra's generator reports burning “more raw domestic coal against imported/washed coal” across its fleet and holding imported coal below plan “for cost optimization” - the same economics as Chhattisgarh's, playing out as a deliberate switch away from costly imports while domestic coal is abundant.
8The gas fleet stayed switched off on price
Across the merit order, RLNG stations from Kawas and Gandhar to RGPPL and Faridabad were committed for grid support but scheduled at zero, the costliest at about Rs 24.86 a unit against pithead coal near Rs 1.43 - roughly seventeen times. Gas remains a stand-by the system can rarely afford to run; see Story 1.
8Ministry of Coal opens bidding on its Rs 37,500 crore coal-gasification scheme
A Ministry of Coal notice dated 16 July calls a pre-application conference on 20 July under the Rs 37,500 crore scheme to promote surface coal- and lignite-gasification projects, following its 7 July request for proposals - the government's push to turn some of that abundant domestic coal into gas and chemicals rather than only power. Details
CSPGCL's four stations filed about Rs 31.7 crore of negative fuel-cost adjustment for April on cheaper, higher-heat domestic coal - a deflationary signal for state tariffs and the sharp end of coal out-competing gas.
8Coal stocks ease to about 13.5 days; 28 plants critical, Niwari empty
National coal stock was about 42.1 million tonnes on 16 July, roughly 13.5 days and down marginally on the day as consumption outran receipts; 28 plants sat below a quarter of normative stock. Niwari (MP) is effectively empty at under a day, Damodaram Sanjeevaiah (Andhra, 2,400 MW) at 6 percent and Sasan at 7 percent - the usual import-dependent and end-of-line plants, not a system-wide squeeze.
8MahaGenco is cutting imported coal to save money
Maharashtra's generator reports burning “more raw domestic coal against imported/washed coal” across its fleet and holding imported coal below plan “for cost optimization” - the same economics as Chhattisgarh's, playing out as a deliberate switch away from costly imports while domestic coal is abundant.
8The gas fleet stayed switched off on price
Across the merit order, RLNG stations from Kawas and Gandhar to RGPPL and Faridabad were committed for grid support but scheduled at zero, the costliest at about Rs 24.86 a unit against pithead coal near Rs 1.43 - roughly seventeen times. Gas remains a stand-by the system can rarely afford to run; see Story 1.
8Ministry of Coal opens bidding on its Rs 37,500 crore coal-gasification scheme
A Ministry of Coal notice dated 16 July calls a pre-application conference on 20 July under the Rs 37,500 crore scheme to promote surface coal- and lignite-gasification projects, following its 7 July request for proposals - the government's push to turn some of that abundant domestic coal into gas and chemicals rather than only power. Details
Hydro & Reservoir Ledger
Jul 17:
8Telangana's big Krishna reservoirs stay far below last year
Telangana's generation utility reports Srisailam at 41.6 TMC on 17 July against 195.6 a year earlier, and Nagarjunasagar and the Krishna basin as a whole well down; total useful storage of 246 TMC translates to only about 131 MU of stored energy. Two weeks into the story (see 16 July edition), the state's hydro cushion for the coming lean season is still not filling.
8Flash floods knock out Panyor Lower's 405 MW
All three 135 MW units of NEEPCO's Panyor Lower project in Arunachal Pradesh have been under forced outage since 24 June after flash floods, with restoration dates still sought - a monsoon that is flooding the north-east while leaving the Krishna basin short.
8Sikkim's Dikchu is running one fault away from a full evacuation loss
Dikchu (Sikkim) is running on a single 400/132 kV transformer with its second bus out since August 2025 - not N-1 compliant, a state the eastern committee calls a serious concern - and it tripped twice in late June on moisture in an SF6 gas-density monitor. Any fault on the lone transformer now takes the whole station's output off the grid.
8A tower collapse and a coming Loktak shutdown tighten eastern-hills hydro
A dead-end tower collapsed at Rongnichu on 18 June, taking both circuits and about 104 MW out for roughly eighteen days, and the Loktak power station faces a full renovation shutdown from November to April. Eastern-hills hydro is patchy now and set to tighten further over winter.
8Solar carried 16 July and faded at dusk - the daily shape behind the evening price
CEA's renewable bulletin puts all-India green generation at 1,137.65 MU on 16 July (solar 645, wind 459); all-India hydro generation was about 662 MU. Solar carries the day and fades at dusk - the daily shape behind the evening-peak price. Details
Telangana's generation utility reports Srisailam at 41.6 TMC on 17 July against 195.6 a year earlier, and Nagarjunasagar and the Krishna basin as a whole well down; total useful storage of 246 TMC translates to only about 131 MU of stored energy. Two weeks into the story (see 16 July edition), the state's hydro cushion for the coming lean season is still not filling.
8Flash floods knock out Panyor Lower's 405 MW
All three 135 MW units of NEEPCO's Panyor Lower project in Arunachal Pradesh have been under forced outage since 24 June after flash floods, with restoration dates still sought - a monsoon that is flooding the north-east while leaving the Krishna basin short.
8Sikkim's Dikchu is running one fault away from a full evacuation loss
Dikchu (Sikkim) is running on a single 400/132 kV transformer with its second bus out since August 2025 - not N-1 compliant, a state the eastern committee calls a serious concern - and it tripped twice in late June on moisture in an SF6 gas-density monitor. Any fault on the lone transformer now takes the whole station's output off the grid.
8A tower collapse and a coming Loktak shutdown tighten eastern-hills hydro
A dead-end tower collapsed at Rongnichu on 18 June, taking both circuits and about 104 MW out for roughly eighteen days, and the Loktak power station faces a full renovation shutdown from November to April. Eastern-hills hydro is patchy now and set to tighten further over winter.
8Solar carried 16 July and faded at dusk - the daily shape behind the evening price
CEA's renewable bulletin puts all-India green generation at 1,137.65 MU on 16 July (solar 645, wind 459); all-India hydro generation was about 662 MU. Solar carries the day and fades at dusk - the daily shape behind the evening-peak price. Details
CERC Docket
Jul 17:
8Pace Digitek connectivity restored
Petition 241/MP/2026 - the wave's first decided order, condoning a two-day bank-guarantee delay and setting aside CTUIL's closure of the 100 MW application.
8NTPC's GST change-in-law on 1,990 MW of solar is reserved
In Petition 365/MP/2025 (NTPC v IREDA and others) the Commission reserved for order NTPC's claim that a higher GST rate, and the consequent rise in usage charges on 1,990 MW of solar projects, is a change-in-law event under the power-usage agreements. Reserved, not decided - but a large sum turns on it.
8GUVNL–Adani Mundra part-load compensation reserved with pointed directions
The connected Petitions 469 and 252/MP/2024 over Adani Power's part-load compensation claims for Mundra (FY22–FY25) were reserved after argument, but the Commission directed Adani to justify its reliance on the MB Power precedent absent any supplementary agreement, to place SLDC verification of operational data, and to reconcile its claim with a 2022 settlement deed barring further change-in-law claims on energy charges. The directions signal the questions the eventual order will turn on.
8Avaada's Bhadla connectivity-split plea adjourned
In Petition 240/MP/2024, Avaada Energy's request that CTUIL split its 1,000 MW connectivity across margins at Bhadla-II, III and IV was adjourned to 25 August at CTUIL's instance - another strand of the connectivity contest, still unheard on merits.
8Adani Energy's short-term dues claim against Telangana adjourned
Petition 239/MP/2024, Adani Energy's recovery of outstanding dues and late-payment surcharge for short-term supply to Telangana, was adjourned to 10 September to hear reply and rejoinder together.
8A solar developer's cess claim against SECI adjourned
In Petition 150/MP/2026, Eden Renewable Alma's change-in-law claim for the 20 percent agriculture-infrastructure cess imposed on imported modules from February 2025 was adjourned to 15 September, the Tamil Nadu discom yet to file its reply.
8AMPIN Energy's trading-licence upgrade admitted
Petition 303/TD/2026 seeking to move AMPIN Energy Markets from a Category-V to a Category-IV inter-state trading licence was admitted, with the Commission requiring a special balance sheet as at a date within 30 days of filing - a routine but citable licensing step for a growing trader. Details
Petition 241/MP/2026 - the wave's first decided order, condoning a two-day bank-guarantee delay and setting aside CTUIL's closure of the 100 MW application.
8NTPC's GST change-in-law on 1,990 MW of solar is reserved
In Petition 365/MP/2025 (NTPC v IREDA and others) the Commission reserved for order NTPC's claim that a higher GST rate, and the consequent rise in usage charges on 1,990 MW of solar projects, is a change-in-law event under the power-usage agreements. Reserved, not decided - but a large sum turns on it.
8GUVNL–Adani Mundra part-load compensation reserved with pointed directions
The connected Petitions 469 and 252/MP/2024 over Adani Power's part-load compensation claims for Mundra (FY22–FY25) were reserved after argument, but the Commission directed Adani to justify its reliance on the MB Power precedent absent any supplementary agreement, to place SLDC verification of operational data, and to reconcile its claim with a 2022 settlement deed barring further change-in-law claims on energy charges. The directions signal the questions the eventual order will turn on.
8Avaada's Bhadla connectivity-split plea adjourned
In Petition 240/MP/2024, Avaada Energy's request that CTUIL split its 1,000 MW connectivity across margins at Bhadla-II, III and IV was adjourned to 25 August at CTUIL's instance - another strand of the connectivity contest, still unheard on merits.
8Adani Energy's short-term dues claim against Telangana adjourned
Petition 239/MP/2024, Adani Energy's recovery of outstanding dues and late-payment surcharge for short-term supply to Telangana, was adjourned to 10 September to hear reply and rejoinder together.
8A solar developer's cess claim against SECI adjourned
In Petition 150/MP/2026, Eden Renewable Alma's change-in-law claim for the 20 percent agriculture-infrastructure cess imposed on imported modules from February 2025 was adjourned to 15 September, the Tamil Nadu discom yet to file its reply.
8AMPIN Energy's trading-licence upgrade admitted
Petition 303/TD/2026 seeking to move AMPIN Energy Markets from a Category-V to a Category-IV inter-state trading licence was admitted, with the Commission requiring a special balance sheet as at a date within 30 days of filing - a routine but citable licensing step for a growing trader. Details
State Regulatory Roundup
Jul 17:
8Punjab freezes PSPCL's forced 11 kV–66 kV migration
PSERC granted interim status-quo to Rana Sugar and Golden Sandhar Mills (Petitions 48 and 49 of 2026) and conditionally admitted PSPCL's 250 MW SAEL solar tariff (Petition 56 of 2026).
8Two more PSPCL consumer disputes adjourned
PSERC also took up a rooftop-solar capacity-and-tariff plea from Shree Ganesh Edibles (Petition 41 of 2026) and Indian Sucrose's claim for interest on a wrongly-adjusted Rs 2.18 crore of line/bay charges refunded after an APTEL order (Petition 47 of 2026); both were adjourned on admission, with PSPCL raising a maintainability objection in the latter.
8Gujarat's transmission-bidding threshold review withdrawn - the new rules already set it
GERC allowed Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation to withdraw its review (Petition 2209/2023) seeking to raise the competitive-bidding threshold for intra-state transmission from Rs 100 crore to Rs 250 crore, because the 2024 multi-year-tariff regulations already set that threshold - competitive bidding now applies at 220 kV and above or above Rs 250 crore. The review is disposed of; the substance is already law.
8GERC reserves orders in the Dipak Textile and Shivalakha Solar disputes
GERC reserved orders in Dipak Textile's complaint against DGVCL and in a long-running Shivalakha Solar (formerly Solar Semiconductor) dispute with GUVNL under a 2010 power-purchase agreement, the latter heard with the petitioner absent.
8Meghalaya calls a hearing on its draft State Grid Code
MSERC will hear comments on the draft Meghalaya State Grid Code Regulations 2026 on 24 July, having taken written submissions to 8 July - a small state formalising the grid discipline the larger ones already run under.
8Rajasthan's docket fills with must-run and transmission-licence disputes
RERC's schedule for 21–27 July lists Adani Solar Energy Jodhpur Three's 300 MW must-run backing-down compensation claim against the state load despatcher, two smaller must-run claims, three petitions for separate transmission licences under the tariff-based route (Thar, Barmer and Hadoti Power Transmission), and EESL's non-disbursement complaints against the Rajasthan discoms - a calendar of listings, not rulings.
8Goa-and-UT regulator moves on ease-of-doing-business supply-code changes
JERC disposed of DNH and DD Power Corporation's petition to amend the electricity supply code for Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu - self-certification for low-tension inspections, slab-wise fixed service-line charges, three- to seven-day connection timelines and a higher low-tension ceiling - directing its staff to draft and publish an amendment aligned to the 2023 central safety rules.
8PSPCL asks Punjab to loosen its fuel-surcharge trigger to unlock borrowing room
In a petition read only after OCR - its filename disguised it as a CEA report - PSPCL asks PSERC to amend the fuel and power-purchase adjustment surcharge rules, moving the carry-forward trigger from 40 paise a unit to 20 percent of the variable tariff component, in line with the central 2022 rules. The prod is financial: the Ministry of Power made this alignment a condition for additional state borrowing room of up to 0.5 percent of GSDP. Carry-forward would be capped at two months, cost SBI's benchmark lending rate plus 150 basis points, and any excess recovery be clawed back at 1.2 times - a small rule change with a direct line to the state's fiscal space. Details
PSERC granted interim status-quo to Rana Sugar and Golden Sandhar Mills (Petitions 48 and 49 of 2026) and conditionally admitted PSPCL's 250 MW SAEL solar tariff (Petition 56 of 2026).
8Two more PSPCL consumer disputes adjourned
PSERC also took up a rooftop-solar capacity-and-tariff plea from Shree Ganesh Edibles (Petition 41 of 2026) and Indian Sucrose's claim for interest on a wrongly-adjusted Rs 2.18 crore of line/bay charges refunded after an APTEL order (Petition 47 of 2026); both were adjourned on admission, with PSPCL raising a maintainability objection in the latter.
8Gujarat's transmission-bidding threshold review withdrawn - the new rules already set it
GERC allowed Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation to withdraw its review (Petition 2209/2023) seeking to raise the competitive-bidding threshold for intra-state transmission from Rs 100 crore to Rs 250 crore, because the 2024 multi-year-tariff regulations already set that threshold - competitive bidding now applies at 220 kV and above or above Rs 250 crore. The review is disposed of; the substance is already law.
8GERC reserves orders in the Dipak Textile and Shivalakha Solar disputes
GERC reserved orders in Dipak Textile's complaint against DGVCL and in a long-running Shivalakha Solar (formerly Solar Semiconductor) dispute with GUVNL under a 2010 power-purchase agreement, the latter heard with the petitioner absent.
8Meghalaya calls a hearing on its draft State Grid Code
MSERC will hear comments on the draft Meghalaya State Grid Code Regulations 2026 on 24 July, having taken written submissions to 8 July - a small state formalising the grid discipline the larger ones already run under.
8Rajasthan's docket fills with must-run and transmission-licence disputes
RERC's schedule for 21–27 July lists Adani Solar Energy Jodhpur Three's 300 MW must-run backing-down compensation claim against the state load despatcher, two smaller must-run claims, three petitions for separate transmission licences under the tariff-based route (Thar, Barmer and Hadoti Power Transmission), and EESL's non-disbursement complaints against the Rajasthan discoms - a calendar of listings, not rulings.
8Goa-and-UT regulator moves on ease-of-doing-business supply-code changes
JERC disposed of DNH and DD Power Corporation's petition to amend the electricity supply code for Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu - self-certification for low-tension inspections, slab-wise fixed service-line charges, three- to seven-day connection timelines and a higher low-tension ceiling - directing its staff to draft and publish an amendment aligned to the 2023 central safety rules.
8PSPCL asks Punjab to loosen its fuel-surcharge trigger to unlock borrowing room
In a petition read only after OCR - its filename disguised it as a CEA report - PSPCL asks PSERC to amend the fuel and power-purchase adjustment surcharge rules, moving the carry-forward trigger from 40 paise a unit to 20 percent of the variable tariff component, in line with the central 2022 rules. The prod is financial: the Ministry of Power made this alignment a condition for additional state borrowing room of up to 0.5 percent of GSDP. Carry-forward would be capped at two months, cost SBI's benchmark lending rate plus 150 basis points, and any excess recovery be clawed back at 1.2 times - a small rule change with a direct line to the state's fiscal space. Details
Green Markets & RE Programme Watch
Jul 17:
8Gujarat renewables curtailed for grid security
About 8.85 million units of Gujarat wind and solar - up to 2,859 MW of solar and 1,027 MW of wind - were curtailed on 15 July “in view of the system requirement and grid security,” the clearest single sign that the daytime surplus is real and being managed by backing renewables down (see Story 1).
8Coal India brings 200 MW of Khavda solar online
Coal India commissioned 200 MW of a 300 MW solar project at Khavda, Gujarat, certified on 15 July - a Maharatna coal major diversifying into the same renewable-heavy hub whose grid behaviour the committees keep flagging.
8ACME Solar closes Rs 2,646 crore of funding for a firm-power project
ACME Solar raised Rs 2,646.64 crore of 20-year project finance from REC for a 450 MW / 1,800 MWh assured-peak-power (solar-plus-storage) project, on a 25-year SJVN power-purchase agreement at Rs 6.74 a unit - a concrete financing close for the firm, dispatchable renewables the evening peak actually needs.
8SECI seeks bulk buyers for long-term renewable power
SECI's expression of interest dated 17 July invites bulk power off-takers into long-term renewable procurement - minimum 50 MW, an investment-grade credit floor, pre-bid meeting on 24 July - testing corporate and captive appetite to sign the long tenors that underwrite new build.
8Draft CAFE-III fuel-economy norms out for consultation
The Ministry of Power, with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, has circulated draft Corporate Average Fuel Economy norms for passenger cars covering FY28 to FY32, with comments due by 6 August - the demand-side lever that, over time, shifts transport energy toward the grid.
8A nationwide power-quality metering push takes shape
Grid-India's draft harmonics-measurement guidelines, moving through the regional committees, would require power-quality meters at new inter-state substations from April 2027 and across existing ones by March 2030, aimed at wind, solar, storage and HVDC installations of 50 MW and above - the monitoring backbone for an inverter-heavy grid.
8Renewables came in below schedule on 15 July, wind the main shortfall
All-India renewable output tracked by the management centre was 1,110 MU against 1,186 scheduled on 15 July, with wind the bulk of the miss - the forecasting gap the grid then has to close in real time, and part of why the evening market runs tight.
8An energy-savings-insurance idea to unstick efficiency finance
An OECD–BEE roadmap proposes an energy-savings-insurance scheme - insurance backing for guaranteed-savings efficiency contracts - to de-risk investment in industrial clusters such as foundries and textiles. A financing concept, not yet a programme, but aimed squarely at India's thinly-tapped energy-service-company market. Details
About 8.85 million units of Gujarat wind and solar - up to 2,859 MW of solar and 1,027 MW of wind - were curtailed on 15 July “in view of the system requirement and grid security,” the clearest single sign that the daytime surplus is real and being managed by backing renewables down (see Story 1).
8Coal India brings 200 MW of Khavda solar online
Coal India commissioned 200 MW of a 300 MW solar project at Khavda, Gujarat, certified on 15 July - a Maharatna coal major diversifying into the same renewable-heavy hub whose grid behaviour the committees keep flagging.
8ACME Solar closes Rs 2,646 crore of funding for a firm-power project
ACME Solar raised Rs 2,646.64 crore of 20-year project finance from REC for a 450 MW / 1,800 MWh assured-peak-power (solar-plus-storage) project, on a 25-year SJVN power-purchase agreement at Rs 6.74 a unit - a concrete financing close for the firm, dispatchable renewables the evening peak actually needs.
8SECI seeks bulk buyers for long-term renewable power
SECI's expression of interest dated 17 July invites bulk power off-takers into long-term renewable procurement - minimum 50 MW, an investment-grade credit floor, pre-bid meeting on 24 July - testing corporate and captive appetite to sign the long tenors that underwrite new build.
8Draft CAFE-III fuel-economy norms out for consultation
The Ministry of Power, with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, has circulated draft Corporate Average Fuel Economy norms for passenger cars covering FY28 to FY32, with comments due by 6 August - the demand-side lever that, over time, shifts transport energy toward the grid.
8A nationwide power-quality metering push takes shape
Grid-India's draft harmonics-measurement guidelines, moving through the regional committees, would require power-quality meters at new inter-state substations from April 2027 and across existing ones by March 2030, aimed at wind, solar, storage and HVDC installations of 50 MW and above - the monitoring backbone for an inverter-heavy grid.
8Renewables came in below schedule on 15 July, wind the main shortfall
All-India renewable output tracked by the management centre was 1,110 MU against 1,186 scheduled on 15 July, with wind the bulk of the miss - the forecasting gap the grid then has to close in real time, and part of why the evening market runs tight.
8An energy-savings-insurance idea to unstick efficiency finance
An OECD–BEE roadmap proposes an energy-savings-insurance scheme - insurance backing for guaranteed-savings efficiency contracts - to de-risk investment in industrial clusters such as foundries and textiles. A financing concept, not yet a programme, but aimed squarely at India's thinly-tapped energy-service-company market. Details
Corporate Wire
Jul 17:
8BHEL's power business turns from loss to profit
Standalone Q1 profit of Rs 381.91 crore on 40 percent higher revenue, the power segment swinging from a Rs 510 crore loss to a Rs 563 crore profit; the results also flag a board still without an independent director.
8Borosil Renewables turns profitable
Standalone profit Rs 87.71 crore, 35 percent margins on anti-dumping-lifted glass prices; the headline consolidated jump is a base effect from the German exit.
8Sterling & Wilson back in profit with a record book
Consolidated profit Rs 68 crore, order value at a post-pandemic high of Rs 13,024 crore led by the Egypt solar-and-storage venture.
8GE Power India to demerge Durgapur into JSW Energy
GE Power India will demerge its Durgapur manufacturing works to JSW Energy, with shareholders getting 10 JSW Energy shares for every 139 held and no dilution of GE Power India itself. The unit lost about Rs 27 crore a year and is backed by a five-year services agreement; the parent's own turnaround is real - net worth up eight-fold to Rs 483 crore, EBITDA from minus Rs 251 crore to plus Rs 277 crore over three years, and an ICRA upgrade to BBB+. A portfolio clean-up that hands JSW a power-equipment capacity and lets GE Power India shed a chronic loss-maker.
8Polycab's quarter strong on cables and solar
Polycab reported consolidated revenue up 39 percent to Rs 8,210 crore and profit up 33 percent for the June quarter, with its fast-moving electrical-goods arm up 71 percent and solar products more than doubling; international wires and cables fell 13 percent. A cables-and-FMEG major whose fastest-growing line is now solar hardware.
8Exide pours another Rs 100 crore into its cell subsidiary
Exide subscribed a further Rs 100 crore of equity in Exide Energy Solutions, taking cumulative investment in the lithium-cell gigafactory to Rs 4,902 crore. The subsidiary still turned in a Rs 248 crore loss on Rs 158 crore of revenue in FY26 - the capital drain into domestic cell-making continues ahead of the revenue.
8Rajesh Power Services wins Odisha and Gujarat cabling orders
The Ahmedabad T&D contractor reported June-quarter revenue of Rs 436.62 crore and an order book of Rs 3,741.79 crore, entering Odisha with a Rs 211.68 crore underground-cable order from OPTCL and adding Rs 653.12 crore of PGVCL cabling work; CRISIL reaffirmed its A- rating and revised the outlook to Positive.
8NHPC gets a new independent director
NHPC appointed Dr Bernadette Lyngdoh as a non-official woman independent director for three years, on a Ministry of Power nomination dated 16 July - filling one of the board seats that public-sector companies are routinely short of (see BHEL, Story 7).
8Results diary
NTPC Green, Orient Green and Transformers & Rectifiers report on 21–22 July - All three have called board meetings and earnings calls for their June-quarter results on 21–22 July - the next cluster of power-sector numbers due.
Ratings Watch
8Two Punjab and Rajasthan solar SPVs lose their ratings after repaying
CARE withdrew its long-term ratings on Solaire Power (20.25 MW, Punjab) and Pokaran Solaire (4.76 MW, Rajasthan) after both repaid their term loans in full and obtained no-dues certificates. Both had held an AA-plus rating - a reminder that a strong rating can simply disappear when the debt is gone, not because credit deteriorated.
8CRISIL lifts Rajesh Power's outlook to positive on a swelling order book
CRISIL reaffirmed Rajesh Power Services at A- and moved the outlook to Positive - on a Rs 3,742 crore order book swelled by the company's entry into Odisha and fresh PGVCL cabling work (see 24.7). The order momentum, more than the rating notch, is the story.
8A Nepal hydro rating reaffirmed
Infomerics reaffirmed Upper Solu Hydro (23.5 MW, Nepal) at BBB-minus on a standalone basis, on improved generation and margins under its power-purchase agreement with the Nepal utility - a small cross-border data point in the ratings file. Details
Standalone Q1 profit of Rs 381.91 crore on 40 percent higher revenue, the power segment swinging from a Rs 510 crore loss to a Rs 563 crore profit; the results also flag a board still without an independent director.
8Borosil Renewables turns profitable
Standalone profit Rs 87.71 crore, 35 percent margins on anti-dumping-lifted glass prices; the headline consolidated jump is a base effect from the German exit.
8Sterling & Wilson back in profit with a record book
Consolidated profit Rs 68 crore, order value at a post-pandemic high of Rs 13,024 crore led by the Egypt solar-and-storage venture.
8GE Power India to demerge Durgapur into JSW Energy
GE Power India will demerge its Durgapur manufacturing works to JSW Energy, with shareholders getting 10 JSW Energy shares for every 139 held and no dilution of GE Power India itself. The unit lost about Rs 27 crore a year and is backed by a five-year services agreement; the parent's own turnaround is real - net worth up eight-fold to Rs 483 crore, EBITDA from minus Rs 251 crore to plus Rs 277 crore over three years, and an ICRA upgrade to BBB+. A portfolio clean-up that hands JSW a power-equipment capacity and lets GE Power India shed a chronic loss-maker.
8Polycab's quarter strong on cables and solar
Polycab reported consolidated revenue up 39 percent to Rs 8,210 crore and profit up 33 percent for the June quarter, with its fast-moving electrical-goods arm up 71 percent and solar products more than doubling; international wires and cables fell 13 percent. A cables-and-FMEG major whose fastest-growing line is now solar hardware.
8Exide pours another Rs 100 crore into its cell subsidiary
Exide subscribed a further Rs 100 crore of equity in Exide Energy Solutions, taking cumulative investment in the lithium-cell gigafactory to Rs 4,902 crore. The subsidiary still turned in a Rs 248 crore loss on Rs 158 crore of revenue in FY26 - the capital drain into domestic cell-making continues ahead of the revenue.
8Rajesh Power Services wins Odisha and Gujarat cabling orders
The Ahmedabad T&D contractor reported June-quarter revenue of Rs 436.62 crore and an order book of Rs 3,741.79 crore, entering Odisha with a Rs 211.68 crore underground-cable order from OPTCL and adding Rs 653.12 crore of PGVCL cabling work; CRISIL reaffirmed its A- rating and revised the outlook to Positive.
8NHPC gets a new independent director
NHPC appointed Dr Bernadette Lyngdoh as a non-official woman independent director for three years, on a Ministry of Power nomination dated 16 July - filling one of the board seats that public-sector companies are routinely short of (see BHEL, Story 7).
8Results diary
NTPC Green, Orient Green and Transformers & Rectifiers report on 21–22 July - All three have called board meetings and earnings calls for their June-quarter results on 21–22 July - the next cluster of power-sector numbers due.
Ratings Watch
8Two Punjab and Rajasthan solar SPVs lose their ratings after repaying
CARE withdrew its long-term ratings on Solaire Power (20.25 MW, Punjab) and Pokaran Solaire (4.76 MW, Rajasthan) after both repaid their term loans in full and obtained no-dues certificates. Both had held an AA-plus rating - a reminder that a strong rating can simply disappear when the debt is gone, not because credit deteriorated.
8CRISIL lifts Rajesh Power's outlook to positive on a swelling order book
CRISIL reaffirmed Rajesh Power Services at A- and moved the outlook to Positive - on a Rs 3,742 crore order book swelled by the company's entry into Odisha and fresh PGVCL cabling work (see 24.7). The order momentum, more than the rating notch, is the story.
8A Nepal hydro rating reaffirmed
Infomerics reaffirmed Upper Solu Hydro (23.5 MW, Nepal) at BBB-minus on a standalone basis, on improved generation and margins under its power-purchase agreement with the Nepal utility - a small cross-border data point in the ratings file. Details
Committees, People & System Administration
Jul 17:
8Eastern protection panel reviews June's big trips - and finds most utilities skip their protection filings
The ERPC's 160th Protection Coordination Committee (21 July) reviews the month's generation losses and trippings - see Stories 3 and 4 for the two largest - and flags that June protection-performance indices came from only eight of the region's utilities, and that no utility has commented on the draft harmonics guidelines. The recurring theme is protection settings and disturbance-recorder discipline that several utilities are slow to fix.
8North-East committee: capital islanding schemes still not designed
The NERPC's 240th operation-coordination meeting (24 July) records that islanding schemes for Shillong, Imphal and Kohima have still not been devised, that automatic generation control is pending plant-by-plant on old controls and high machine vibration, and that most states are still not submitting resource-adequacy and reactive-power data in the prescribed form - the administrative under-belly of the defence-scheme gaps in Story 4.
8The west backed down 720,000 MWh of surplus in a week - 22 times what it called up
The WRPC's weekly operational files for 6–12 July show emergency reserves backing generation down by about 720,000 MWh against only 32,000 MWh called up - surplus on a scale that needed sustained backing-down, with Mundra supplying roughly 60 percent of the little up-reserve used. Quantum, not cost; but it is the week-long backdrop to this edition's price and curtailment story.
8A Kerala grid-telecom link is still down after a Kochi refinery accident
The SRPC's 72nd communication-equipment outage meeting (23 July) reviews telecom and SCADA link outages, flagging a Kerala fibre link damaged in an accident at the Kochi refinery and a Tamil Nadu remote-terminal-unit retrofit as the rolling reliability breaches - the unglamorous plumbing that grid operators depend on.
8The grid shifts to 15-minute demand data - changing how peak-demand records are set
From the last week of July the north-eastern operator moves its power-supply-position data from hourly to 15-minute blocks, aligning with the framework that will govern how all-time-high demand records are set and measured - a small data change with a direct bearing on the record-watching in Story 2.
8A dismantled breaker at Kolasib turns a maintenance lapse into an availability dispute
At Kolasib in Mizoram a 132 kV line tripped on 5 July and could not be restored for over fifteen hours because the substation's transfer-bus-coupler breaker was found completely dismantled. POWERGRID, which maintains the bay, now wants the line treated as deemed available for the outage - a maintenance failure becoming a commercial dispute with the state owner.
8North-eastern transmission is strung thin, with fixes still pending
A 132 kV line at Lekhi–Chimpu in Arunachal has been out since May 2025 after a tower nearly collapsed, and the Assam and Tripura corridors repeatedly run over their transfer limits (see 17.4). The committee's remedies - new substations at Sonapur, Rangia and Gossaigaon and reconductoring in Tripura - are all still pending, which is why the region keeps leaning on its defence schemes (see Story 4).
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The ERPC's 160th Protection Coordination Committee (21 July) reviews the month's generation losses and trippings - see Stories 3 and 4 for the two largest - and flags that June protection-performance indices came from only eight of the region's utilities, and that no utility has commented on the draft harmonics guidelines. The recurring theme is protection settings and disturbance-recorder discipline that several utilities are slow to fix.
8North-East committee: capital islanding schemes still not designed
The NERPC's 240th operation-coordination meeting (24 July) records that islanding schemes for Shillong, Imphal and Kohima have still not been devised, that automatic generation control is pending plant-by-plant on old controls and high machine vibration, and that most states are still not submitting resource-adequacy and reactive-power data in the prescribed form - the administrative under-belly of the defence-scheme gaps in Story 4.
8The west backed down 720,000 MWh of surplus in a week - 22 times what it called up
The WRPC's weekly operational files for 6–12 July show emergency reserves backing generation down by about 720,000 MWh against only 32,000 MWh called up - surplus on a scale that needed sustained backing-down, with Mundra supplying roughly 60 percent of the little up-reserve used. Quantum, not cost; but it is the week-long backdrop to this edition's price and curtailment story.
8A Kerala grid-telecom link is still down after a Kochi refinery accident
The SRPC's 72nd communication-equipment outage meeting (23 July) reviews telecom and SCADA link outages, flagging a Kerala fibre link damaged in an accident at the Kochi refinery and a Tamil Nadu remote-terminal-unit retrofit as the rolling reliability breaches - the unglamorous plumbing that grid operators depend on.
8The grid shifts to 15-minute demand data - changing how peak-demand records are set
From the last week of July the north-eastern operator moves its power-supply-position data from hourly to 15-minute blocks, aligning with the framework that will govern how all-time-high demand records are set and measured - a small data change with a direct bearing on the record-watching in Story 2.
8A dismantled breaker at Kolasib turns a maintenance lapse into an availability dispute
At Kolasib in Mizoram a 132 kV line tripped on 5 July and could not be restored for over fifteen hours because the substation's transfer-bus-coupler breaker was found completely dismantled. POWERGRID, which maintains the bay, now wants the line treated as deemed available for the outage - a maintenance failure becoming a commercial dispute with the state owner.
8North-eastern transmission is strung thin, with fixes still pending
A 132 kV line at Lekhi–Chimpu in Arunachal has been out since May 2025 after a tower nearly collapsed, and the Assam and Tripura corridors repeatedly run over their transfer limits (see 17.4). The committee's remedies - new substations at Sonapur, Rangia and Gossaigaon and reconductoring in Tripura - are all still pending, which is why the region keeps leaning on its defence schemes (see Story 4).
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Power-exchange prices hit fresh highs - but the crunch is the evening peak, not a shortage of power
Jul 17:
8Day-ahead power for 17 July cleared at Rs 7.28 a unit, a fresh weekly high and about three times the Rs 2.49 of five days earlier, with night blocks pinned to the Rs 10,000 ceiling. Yet through the daylight hours the grid was backing down surplus generation, curtailing Gujarat renewables and leaving costly gas fully committed but unscheduled - the scarcity was concentrated in the hours after the sun went down.
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India met a near-record 270 GW with under 1% shortage - but almost all of it fell on Haryana, Punjab and UP
Jul 17:
8The grid met a maximum demand of 270,203 MW on 16 July, just 600 MW short of the 270.8 GW all-time peak set during May's heatwave, and held the national shortage below one percent. But the shortfall was not evenly shared: Haryana lost nearly 15 million units, Uttar Pradesh resorted to unscheduled load-shedding and Kerala carried a southern pocket.
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A relay mismatch, not a grid fault, cost North Karanpura 1,237 MW - and a wiring defect cost Derang 1,107 MW
Jul 17:
8The Eastern region's protection committee has traced June's two largest generation losses to equipment inside the plants, not the grid: at NTPC's North Karanpura two relays disagreed and blocked auto-reclose after a nearby line fault, tripping all three 660 MW units; at Jindal's Derang plant a protection scheme wired to hard-trip both generators fired on a single CT failure. Both faults were the plant's own, and both fixes are now identified.
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In the North-East a special protection scheme fired at Bongaigaon - and still could not stop a 300 MW loss
Jul 17:
8When both transformers at Bongaigaon tripped on 3 July, the automatic load-shedding scheme operated in two stages and shed about 102 MW - but the surviving transformer was already loaded to 212 percent, and it tripped anyway. The episode, alongside capital-city islanding schemes still not designed, shows the region's last-resort defences are being outrun by its constraints.
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CERC restores Pace Digitek's 100 MW connectivity, excusing a two-day delay in its bank guarantees
Jul 17:
8In the first order to actually decide one of the connectivity disputes crowding the Commission, CERC condoned a two-day delay in furnishing bank guarantees and set aside CTUIL's letter closing Pace Digitek's application. The 100 MW project, with Rs 557.62 crore already committed, keeps its grid access - and the ruling gives every developer fighting a revocation a precedent to cite.
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Chhattisgarh's power stations credit consumers about Rs 32 crore - their coal cost less than the tariff assumed
Jul 17:
8The Chhattisgarh generator filed a negative fuel-cost adjustment of about Rs 31.7 crore for April across its four stations, crediting consumers because the coal it actually burned cost roughly Rs 200 a tonne less than the tariff allowed and carried more heat. It is the sharp end of a wider shift: domestic coal is beating both its own tariff norm and, by a distance, gas.
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BHEL swings to a Rs 382 crore profit as its power business turns from loss to gain - the order book is finally converting
Jul 17:
8The state-owned equipment maker turned a Rs 455 crore year-earlier loss into a Rs 382 crore standalone profit for the June quarter, as its power segment swung from a Rs 510 crore loss to a Rs 563 crore profit on a 40 percent jump in revenue. The order book that had swelled faster than BHEL could build is finally converting into earnings.
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Borosil Renewables turns profitable on anti-dumping duties and the exit of its loss-making German arm
Jul 17:
8India's only listed solar-glass maker posted a Rs 88 crore quarterly profit against a Rs 272 crore loss a year ago, with margins at 35 percent, as duties on Chinese and Vietnamese glass lifted prices and the loss-making German subsidiaries were deconsolidated. The eye-catching headline - consolidated EBITDA up 104 percent - is mostly a base effect, and revenue actually fell from the prior quarter.
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Sterling & Wilson swings back to profit and books a record order backlog, led by a 1,000 MW Egypt solar-and-storage venture
Jul 17:
8The solar EPC contractor returned to a Rs 68 crore consolidated profit after a loss the previous quarter, and lifted its unexecuted order value to a post-pandemic record of about Rs 13,000 crore. The marquee win is a half-share of a USD 560 million project in Egypt pairing 1,000 MW of solar with 600 MWh of batteries - its first big storage-integrated order in the region.
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Punjab's regulator freezes PSPCL's push to force two mills off 11 kV and onto costlier 66 kV supply
Jul 17:
8PSERC admitted disputes from Rana Sugar and Golden Sandhar Mills and granted interim status-quo, barring the utility from any coercive action or further recovery while it forces industrial consumers to surrender their 11 kV connections. In the same sitting it took up PSPCL's own 250 MW solar tariff - and demanded proof the tender followed the competitive-bidding rules.
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8Tender for protection work of scouring pile foundations of 132kV DC transmission lines towers Details
8Tender for supply of 765 kV CTs for various substations Details
8Tender for procurement of current transformers (CT) along with terminal connectors Details
8Tender for fabrication of super heater and economizer coils Details
8Tender for supply and installation of submersible borewell pumps in existing bore wells Details
8Tender for work of erection of 66kV Lilo to S/s line Details
8Tender for carriage of stock material Details
8Tender for construction of C type tower Details
8Tender for extension of SGR at 33 /11 kV sub station Details
8Tender for construction of 33 kV bay Details
8Tender for installation of 20.00 meter high mast light Details
8Tender for repairing and rewinding of three (03) nos. 110KW, and three(03)nos. 150KW induction motors Details
8Tender for urgent provision of fencing Details
8Tender for improvement of water supply system by providing chlorination system Details
8Tender for complete repairing of two nos. 275 HP, 3.3kV, 3 phase auto transformer starter panel Details
8Tender for maintenance of pumps and its all pipe line Details
8Tender for construction of temporary reserve station Details
8Tender for construction of 75 Nos. fly ash ventilation stoppings Details
8Tender for repair and extension of shed with allied misc. works Details
8Tender for supply of spares for desiccant type air dryer of braking system of all six generating units Details
8Tender for new 33/11kV S/s Details
8Tender for procurement of spare battery cell and buy back of old batteries Details
8Tender for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of new electrical feeder panel Details
8Tender for procurement of MTL make safety spares Details
8Tender for Bi-ARC for work of attending UG cable fault for 66kV class XLPE corrugated/ poly AL cable various lines Details
8Tender for attending leakages/seepages in various underground structures Details
8Tender for aug. of 11/0.433 kV 250kVA transformer to 11/0.433kV 630 kVA S/Stn. Details
8Tender for procurement of steel tubular poles Details
8Tender for aug. of 400 KVA 11/0.4 kV S/Stn. Details
8Tender for procurement of various rating battery banks for various substation Details
8Tender for supply of allied material for electrical material required Details
8Tender for supply of 245kV class centre break isolators with and without earth switch Details
8Tender for sale of 1,00,000 MT dry fly ash Details
8Tender for procurement of SOC solution for IT and OT system Details
8Tender for construction of one 33kV feeder Details
8Tender for renovation/construction of 1(one) number of 2-unit 132 kV GSS Details
8Tender for slope protection measures Details
8Tender for supply of TC fuse wire 12 SWG Details
8Tender for supply of LT straight joint kit (HS type) for 1.1KV 4X240 sqmm UG cable and 4x120 sqmm UG cable Details
8Tender for supply of HS type outdoor termination kit for 11kV 3X300 and 3X120 sqmm Details
8Design, engineering, supply construction, erection, testing, commissioning and maintenance of 45.6 MW ISTS connected wind power project Details
8Tender for erection work of LILO to proposed 66kV sub-station Details
8Tender for roof top rain water harvesting Details
8Tender for work of dye penetrant test (DPT), magnetic particle inspection Details
8Tender for erection work of 66kV D/C tower line Details
8Tender for fabrication dismantling erection strengthening modification of various chutes hoppers wagon tipplers belt conveyors crusher houses Details
8Tender for supply of staircase step grills for crushe house Details
8Tender for biennial rate contract for attending running repairs, scheduled, preventive & breakdown maintenance with overhauling of 08 nos. bulldozers Details
8Tender for supply of spares for stage 3 bootom feed gate pnematic systems Details
8Tender for supply and replacement works of S-panel tubes Details
8Tender for procurement of special purpose welding electrodes Details
8Tender for electrical works of ash dyke seepage water pumping system Details
8Tender for misc. civil works Details
8Tender for supply of various size of gate valves, diaphragm valve, NRVs, rubber sheet Details
8Tender for Bi-Aannual ARC for erection of 66kV S/S equipment, structures, control wiring etc. Details
8Tender for detailed survey of various EHV lines Details
8Tender for procurement of thermodynamic steam trap with inbuilt strainer and various size of NRV installed Details
8Tender for work operation and maintenance along with CMC of CAAQMS installed Details
8Tender for utility shifting in connection Details
8Tender for capital work of 110kV substation Details
8Tender for outsourcing of ETC of new 66 kV substation with 01 No 20 MVA power transformers along Details
8Tender for supply of scraper bar for scraper chain conveyor system Details
8Tender for new construction of 33/11 kV sub station Details
8Tender for construction of yard foundation cable Details
8Tender for annual contract of hotline washing of porcelain type post insulators, CBs, CTs, CVTs, gantry string insulators of both 220 kV and 400 kV switchyard Details
8Tender for supply, engineering, installation, testing and commissioning for retrofitting of micro- processor based belt watch system Details
8Tender for day to day repair and maintenance of sanitary fittings and water supply fittings Details
8Tender for R and M of permanent colour coated and corrugated G.I. sheets Details
8Tender for requirement of single span drive shaft made from advanced composite material Details
8Tender for repairing and overhauling of transmission assembly Details
8Tender for supply of various fly ash spares Details
8Tender for procurement of roller journal bearings upper and lower of mill XRP 1003 Details
8Tender for work of earth mat construction work for new circuit bench 33kV sub-station Details
8Tender for work of supply and installation of lugs Details
8Tender for work of installation of self-adhesive insulated waterproof bitumen sheet membrane on electric poles Details
8Tender for work of installation of self-adhesive insulated waterproof Details
8Tender for construction of wire mesh gablion wall to protect pole plinth from flood of 33 kV line Details
8Tender for supply of various MS / CS pipe, bends, tee, reducer, and flanges Details
8Tender for work of servicing/overhauling/repairing /testing of 6.6kV HT VCBs & 415V LT ACBs of various rating Details
8Tender for work of replacement of old centralized HVAC system Details
8Tender for procurement of 220kV cable joints for various EHV underground (UG) cables Details
8Tender for work of supply installation and commissioning of wireless announciation and microcontroller window Details
8Tender for work for supply of 24" transformer cooling fans & contactor, timer & relay Details
8Tender for work of arresting of porcupine movement by fire retardant coating of control cables Details
8Tender for establishment of 220/132/33kV substation Details
8Tender for procurement of 33kV, 1600-800/1A, 26.2kA, 4C, 0.2s Class CT Details
8Tender for providing and erecting profile sheet weather shed to control room & other miscellaneous civil work at 220/22 kV substation Details
8Tender for procurement of 220kV cable joints for various EHV underground (UG) cables Details
8Tender for work of chemical washing of disc insulator strings of various Details
8Tender for work of rectification of findings observed in health analysis of existing earthing system Details
8Tender for work of erection, testing & commissioning of 132kV equipment, structure, control wiring, earthing etc. Details
8Tender for supply of network cables for network maintenance Details
8Tender for supply and works for providing e-urja connectivity extension for new silo control room, way bridges Details
8Tender for Bi -annual rate contract for restoration work of various 132kV & 220kV class transmission lines Details
8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for erection of 66kV transmission lines Details
8Tender for erection and maintenance of HT/LT/TC work Details
8Design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with comprehensive maintenance contract of 5 years for solar rooftop projects Details
8Design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with comprehensive maintenance contract of 5 years for solar rooftop projects on control room at various 66kV substations Details
8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for the work of augmentation of EHV transformers and associated works Details
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8India Mining Week: MoS Dubey invites industry as India unveils new critical mineral blocks Details
8Caliber Mining IPO Review: A Contract Mining Play Riding on Coal India, Should You Bet Details
8Bharat Coking Coal FY26 Profit Drops 89%; IPO Completed January 2026 Details
8A New Awakening for Coal Gasification in India Details
8From import dependence to global competitiveness: India’s solar manufacturing story Details
8Huawei launches FusionSolar 9.0 Smart PV Solution Details
8Kurnool’s 600 MW Solar Asset Reflects SAEL’s Growing Footprint in Large-Scale Renewables Details
8Borosil Renewables unveils Q1 FY27 performance in investor presentation Details
8Servotech Renewable secures 900 kW hybrid solar rooftop project from UPSRLM Details
8Waaree Energy Storage Solutions begins production at BESS container manufacturing facility Details
8ACME Solar raises project funding of Rs 2646 crore from REC Details
8Lack of rains, low water levels in dams resulting in power cuts in Kerala: Minister Details
8Sterling & Wilson falls 9% post Q1 results; profit up 69%, revenue down 10% Details
8Kundankulam data leak: NPCIL says nuclear safety or security systems not exposed Details
8Power export to India increased upto 1,650 megawatts Details
8Top 10 Adani Shares List to Watch Out For in 2026 Details
8Unlocking Efficiency: Building a unified power market through market coupling Details
8In the Arunachal Pradesh mountains, India is looking to tap geothermal energy Details
8India's non-coking coal imports fall further in Jan-Jun'26 on robust domestic supply, rising renewables output Details
8India's energy storage capacity expected to rise more than tenfold by FY2035-36: MoSPI Details
8PAIMANA Dashboard Expands to Track India's Infrastructure Growth Details
8Ambit Capital Power Play: ‘Buy’ on NTPC and Suzlon, ‘Sell’ Tata Power as battery costs reset Details
8Ratul Puri on Building Integrated Energy Solutions for India's Rising Power Demand Details
8BHEL Posts Rs 377 Crore Profit in Q1 as Power Orders Rise Details
8Coal India commissions 200 MW of Khavda solar project, strengthens renewable energy push Details
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8Tender for protection work of scouring pile foundations of 132kV DC transmission lines towers Details
8Tender for supply of 765 kV CTs for various substations Details
8Tender for procurement of current transformers (CT) along with terminal connectors Details
8Tender for fabrication of super heater and economizer coils Details
8Tender for supply and installation of submersible borewell pumps in existing bore wells Details
8Tender for work of erection of 66kV Lilo to S/s line Details
8Tender for carriage of stock material Details
8Tender for construction of C type tower Details
8Tender for extension of SGR at 33 /11 kV sub station Details
8Tender for construction of 33 kV bay Details
8Tender for installation of 20.00 meter high mast light Details
8Tender for repairing and rewinding of three (03) nos. 110KW, and three(03)nos. 150KW induction motors Details
8Tender for urgent provision of fencing Details
8Tender for improvement of water supply system by providing chlorination system Details
8Tender for complete repairing of two nos. 275 HP, 3.3kV, 3 phase auto transformer starter panel Details
8Tender for maintenance of pumps and its all pipe line Details
8Tender for construction of temporary reserve station Details
8Tender for construction of 75 Nos. fly ash ventilation stoppings Details
8Tender for repair and extension of shed with allied misc. works Details
8Tender for supply of spares for desiccant type air dryer of braking system of all six generating units Details
8Tender for new 33/11kV S/s Details
8Tender for procurement of spare battery cell and buy back of old batteries Details
8Tender for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of new electrical feeder panel Details
8Tender for procurement of MTL make safety spares Details
8Tender for Bi-ARC for work of attending UG cable fault for 66kV class XLPE corrugated/ poly AL cable various lines Details
8Tender for attending leakages/seepages in various underground structures Details
8Tender for aug. of 11/0.433 kV 250kVA transformer to 11/0.433kV 630 kVA S/Stn. Details
8Tender for procurement of steel tubular poles Details
8Tender for aug. of 400 KVA 11/0.4 kV S/Stn. Details
8Tender for procurement of various rating battery banks for various substation Details
8Tender for supply of allied material for electrical material required Details
8Tender for supply of 245kV class centre break isolators with and without earth switch Details
8Tender for sale of 1,00,000 MT dry fly ash Details
8Tender for procurement of SOC solution for IT and OT system Details
8Tender for construction of one 33kV feeder Details
8Tender for renovation/construction of 1(one) number of 2-unit 132 kV GSS Details
8Tender for slope protection measures Details
8Tender for supply of TC fuse wire 12 SWG Details
8Tender for supply of LT straight joint kit (HS type) for 1.1KV 4X240 sqmm UG cable and 4x120 sqmm UG cable Details
8Tender for supply of HS type outdoor termination kit for 11kV 3X300 and 3X120 sqmm Details
8Design, engineering, supply construction, erection, testing, commissioning and maintenance of 45.6 MW ISTS connected wind power project Details
8Tender for erection work of LILO to proposed 66kV sub-station Details
8Tender for roof top rain water harvesting Details
8Tender for work of dye penetrant test (DPT), magnetic particle inspection Details
8Tender for erection work of 66kV D/C tower line Details
8Tender for fabrication dismantling erection strengthening modification of various chutes hoppers wagon tipplers belt conveyors crusher houses Details
8Tender for supply of staircase step grills for crushe house Details
8Tender for biennial rate contract for attending running repairs, scheduled, preventive & breakdown maintenance with overhauling of 08 nos. bulldozers Details
8Tender for supply of spares for stage 3 bootom feed gate pnematic systems Details
8Tender for supply and replacement works of S-panel tubes Details
8Tender for procurement of special purpose welding electrodes Details
8Tender for electrical works of ash dyke seepage water pumping system Details
8Tender for misc. civil works Details
8Tender for supply of various size of gate valves, diaphragm valve, NRVs, rubber sheet Details
8Tender for Bi-Aannual ARC for erection of 66kV S/S equipment, structures, control wiring etc. Details
8Tender for detailed survey of various EHV lines Details
8Tender for procurement of thermodynamic steam trap with inbuilt strainer and various size of NRV installed Details
8Tender for work operation and maintenance along with CMC of CAAQMS installed Details
8Tender for utility shifting in connection Details
8Tender for capital work of 110kV substation Details
8Tender for outsourcing of ETC of new 66 kV substation with 01 No 20 MVA power transformers along Details
8Tender for supply of scraper bar for scraper chain conveyor system Details
8Tender for new construction of 33/11 kV sub station Details
8Tender for construction of yard foundation cable Details
8Tender for annual contract of hotline washing of porcelain type post insulators, CBs, CTs, CVTs, gantry string insulators of both 220 kV and 400 kV switchyard Details
8Tender for supply, engineering, installation, testing and commissioning for retrofitting of micro- processor based belt watch system Details
8Tender for day to day repair and maintenance of sanitary fittings and water supply fittings Details
8Tender for R and M of permanent colour coated and corrugated G.I. sheets Details
8Tender for requirement of single span drive shaft made from advanced composite material Details
8Tender for repairing and overhauling of transmission assembly Details
8Tender for supply of various fly ash spares Details
8Tender for procurement of roller journal bearings upper and lower of mill XRP 1003 Details
8Tender for work of earth mat construction work for new circuit bench 33kV sub-station Details
8Tender for work of supply and installation of lugs Details
8Tender for work of installation of self-adhesive insulated waterproof bitumen sheet membrane on electric poles Details
8Tender for work of installation of self-adhesive insulated waterproof Details
8Tender for construction of wire mesh gablion wall to protect pole plinth from flood of 33 kV line Details
8Tender for supply of various MS / CS pipe, bends, tee, reducer, and flanges Details
8Tender for work of servicing/overhauling/repairing /testing of 6.6kV HT VCBs & 415V LT ACBs of various rating Details
8Tender for work of replacement of old centralized HVAC system Details
8Tender for procurement of 220kV cable joints for various EHV underground (UG) cables Details
8Tender for work of supply installation and commissioning of wireless announciation and microcontroller window Details
8Tender for work for supply of 24" transformer cooling fans & contactor, timer & relay Details
8Tender for work of arresting of porcupine movement by fire retardant coating of control cables Details
8Tender for establishment of 220/132/33kV substation Details
8Tender for procurement of 33kV, 1600-800/1A, 26.2kA, 4C, 0.2s Class CT Details
8Tender for providing and erecting profile sheet weather shed to control room & other miscellaneous civil work at 220/22 kV substation Details
8Tender for procurement of 220kV cable joints for various EHV underground (UG) cables Details
8Tender for work of chemical washing of disc insulator strings of various Details
8Tender for work of rectification of findings observed in health analysis of existing earthing system Details
8Tender for work of erection, testing & commissioning of 132kV equipment, structure, control wiring, earthing etc. Details
8Tender for supply of network cables for network maintenance Details
8Tender for supply and works for providing e-urja connectivity extension for new silo control room, way bridges Details
8Tender for Bi -annual rate contract for restoration work of various 132kV & 220kV class transmission lines Details
8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for erection of 66kV transmission lines Details
8Tender for erection and maintenance of HT/LT/TC work Details
8Design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with comprehensive maintenance contract of 5 years for solar rooftop projects Details
8Design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with comprehensive maintenance contract of 5 years for solar rooftop projects on control room at various 66kV substations Details
8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for the work of augmentation of EHV transformers and associated works Details
You can also click on Tenders for more
For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
8India Mining Week: MoS Dubey invites industry as India unveils new critical mineral blocks Details
8Caliber Mining IPO Review: A Contract Mining Play Riding on Coal India, Should You Bet Details
8Bharat Coking Coal FY26 Profit Drops 89%; IPO Completed January 2026 Details
8A New Awakening for Coal Gasification in India Details
8From import dependence to global competitiveness: India’s solar manufacturing story Details
8Huawei launches FusionSolar 9.0 Smart PV Solution Details
8Kurnool’s 600 MW Solar Asset Reflects SAEL’s Growing Footprint in Large-Scale Renewables Details
8Borosil Renewables unveils Q1 FY27 performance in investor presentation Details
8Servotech Renewable secures 900 kW hybrid solar rooftop project from UPSRLM Details
8Waaree Energy Storage Solutions begins production at BESS container manufacturing facility Details
8ACME Solar raises project funding of Rs 2646 crore from REC Details
8Lack of rains, low water levels in dams resulting in power cuts in Kerala: Minister Details
8Sterling & Wilson falls 9% post Q1 results; profit up 69%, revenue down 10% Details
8Kundankulam data leak: NPCIL says nuclear safety or security systems not exposed Details
8Power export to India increased upto 1,650 megawatts Details
8Top 10 Adani Shares List to Watch Out For in 2026 Details
8Unlocking Efficiency: Building a unified power market through market coupling Details
8In the Arunachal Pradesh mountains, India is looking to tap geothermal energy Details
8India's non-coking coal imports fall further in Jan-Jun'26 on robust domestic supply, rising renewables output Details
8India's energy storage capacity expected to rise more than tenfold by FY2035-36: MoSPI Details
8PAIMANA Dashboard Expands to Track India's Infrastructure Growth Details
8Ambit Capital Power Play: ‘Buy’ on NTPC and Suzlon, ‘Sell’ Tata Power as battery costs reset Details
8Ratul Puri on Building Integrated Energy Solutions for India's Rising Power Demand Details
8BHEL Posts Rs 377 Crore Profit in Q1 as Power Orders Rise Details
8Coal India commissions 200 MW of Khavda solar project, strengthens renewable energy push Details
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Exchange power prices nearly tripled in a week even though the grid was not short of power
Jul 16:
8The real-time market price climbed from about Rs 2.75 a unit on 9 July to Rs 7.36 on 16 July, and the green day-ahead market hit its Rs 10 ceiling on 15 July. Yet the physical grid had power to spare - costly gas stayed switched off, wind and solar were backed down, and the system spent the day regulating downward.
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India opens registration for its first coal exchanges, starting a shift to market-traded coal
Jul 16:
8The Ministry of Coal opened the online registration portal for coal exchanges on 15 July, backed by the 2025 mining-law amendment and the new Coal Exchange Rules. It is the first step toward buying and selling coal on a market with price discovery and settlement, instead of only through allocations and long-term contracts.
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Adani Power ties up a 25-year deal to sell 1,600 MW to Maharashtra, coal already secured
Jul 16:
8Adani Power has signed a 25-year agreement to supply 1,600 MW to Maharashtra's MSEDCL from a new 2×800 MW ultra-supercritical plant, with coal allotted under the government's SHAKTI policy. It locks in a quarter-century of assured revenue and confirms the group's next big thermal build.
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Delhi's fuel surcharge goes automatic - and the first month under it blows past the old 10% cap
Jul 16:
8Delhi's regulator has moved the power-purchase cost adjustment from case-by-case approval to an automatic formula, and disposed of the discoms' pending quarterly petitions. In the first month under it, May's surcharge worked out well above the old 10% ceiling - 25% at BSES Rajdhani before the commission capped recovery at about 18%.
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In the middle of the monsoon, Telangana's big Krishna reservoirs are almost empty
Jul 16:
8Telangana's usable Krishna-basin storage is down about 92% from a year ago - Srisailam holds roughly 10 TMC against 184 last year. With this little water this deep into the monsoon, the state is leaning on thermal and the exchange to keep the lights on.
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A May collapse at Khavda wiped out nearly 9,000 MW in seconds - and most wind farms there failed the rules meant to stop it
Jul 16:
8A disturbance at the Khavda renewable complex on 13 May tripped 17 high-voltage lines and knocked out about 8,963 MW of renewable generation almost instantly, dragging the national frequency down to 49.39 Hz. A committee review now finds most wind plants there did not provide the fast frequency response the grid code requires.
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The eastern grid operator cut tie-lines by hand in June - and its automatic defences still aren't ready
Jul 16:
8When four eastern states overdrew heavily on 26 June and ignored repeated warnings, the region's operator opened interconnecting tie-lines as a last resort. The same committee papers show none of the East's five islanding and black-start schemes is yet operational.
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India's non-fossil capacity crosses 54% - but June's new plants show how one-sided the build has become
Jul 16:
8Non-fossil sources now make up 54.18% of India's installed power capacity, 297,369 MW of 548,858 MW at end-June. Yet of the 6,504 MW added in June, all but 760 MW was renewable - the thermal fleet has almost stopped growing, even as it still carries the evening peak.
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Macquarie is out of the Vibrant Energy captive-solar platform; Inox's parent has taken it over and repaid the lenders
Jul 16:
8ICRA withdrew its ratings on four Vibrant Energy captive-renewable companies on 15 July, all after a March change of control. Macquarie's roughly 93% stake has passed to the INOXGFL group, and the banks have been paid off.
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Gujarat's GIPCL lays out a Rs 6,000-crore lignite plan and hints at an equity raise, while turning idle gas units into batteries
Jul 16:
8On its Q4 call, GIPCL guided to Rs 6,000 crore of capex for a new 750 MW lignite plant, said blended EBITDA should reach Rs 950–1,000 crore as its Khavda solar ramps up, and flagged a possible equity raise. It is also repurposing gas units that have sat idle for six years into battery storage.
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Power Markets Daily
Jul 16:
8Exchange power prices nearly tripled in a week without a real shortage
The real-time price reached about Rs 7.36 a unit for 16 July, up from Rs 2.75 on 9 July, with the day-ahead near Rs 6.53 for 15 July. The point of the lead is that the grid had power to spare while the exchange tightened; the mechanism sits there.
8The green day-ahead market hit its Rs 10 ceiling - clean power was the tightest of all
On 15 July the green day-ahead segment cleared at its Rs 10-a-unit cap, buyers bidding for about 197,000 MWh against only 37,000 MWh offered. That imbalance is the real signal: when the system tightens in the evening it is firm and green capacity that runs short, not the day-time solar that floods the market at noon.
8PXIL opens a high-price window aimed at imported-fuel and battery sellers
Its new AnydaySSC product (Circular 483, effective 15 July) is a single-side reverse auction open only to imported-coal, imported-gas and battery sellers. It is a small structural move with a clear purpose - give costly-but-flexible capacity a place to sell when the system needs it, the same logic as the high-price day-ahead market.
8Andhra's discom is buying peak power on the exchange right through August
APCPDCL floated five reverse auctions on the Hindustan Power Exchange for late July and August - about 400 MW round-the-clock plus separate evening-peak blocks. Coming after UP and West Bengal did the same last edition, it says southern demand is running ahead of supply after dark, and discoms would rather lock in firm blocks now than chase the spot price later.
8SECI has a big, cheap block of renewables on offer - but firming it costs three times as much
SECI's sheet lists about 8,276 MW of solar and hybrid capacity open to buying utilities from Rs 2.42 a unit, while assured evening-peak renewable power clears near Rs 8. The gap is the whole story of the transition in one line: day-time green energy is cheap and plentiful; green power you can count on after sunset still costs three times more. Details
The real-time price reached about Rs 7.36 a unit for 16 July, up from Rs 2.75 on 9 July, with the day-ahead near Rs 6.53 for 15 July. The point of the lead is that the grid had power to spare while the exchange tightened; the mechanism sits there.
8The green day-ahead market hit its Rs 10 ceiling - clean power was the tightest of all
On 15 July the green day-ahead segment cleared at its Rs 10-a-unit cap, buyers bidding for about 197,000 MWh against only 37,000 MWh offered. That imbalance is the real signal: when the system tightens in the evening it is firm and green capacity that runs short, not the day-time solar that floods the market at noon.
8PXIL opens a high-price window aimed at imported-fuel and battery sellers
Its new AnydaySSC product (Circular 483, effective 15 July) is a single-side reverse auction open only to imported-coal, imported-gas and battery sellers. It is a small structural move with a clear purpose - give costly-but-flexible capacity a place to sell when the system needs it, the same logic as the high-price day-ahead market.
8Andhra's discom is buying peak power on the exchange right through August
APCPDCL floated five reverse auctions on the Hindustan Power Exchange for late July and August - about 400 MW round-the-clock plus separate evening-peak blocks. Coming after UP and West Bengal did the same last edition, it says southern demand is running ahead of supply after dark, and discoms would rather lock in firm blocks now than chase the spot price later.
8SECI has a big, cheap block of renewables on offer - but firming it costs three times as much
SECI's sheet lists about 8,276 MW of solar and hybrid capacity open to buying utilities from Rs 2.42 a unit, while assured evening-peak renewable power clears near Rs 8. The gap is the whole story of the transition in one line: day-time green energy is cheap and plentiful; green power you can count on after sunset still costs three times more. Details
Grid Operations Daily
Jul 16:
8Summer-scale demand near 266 GW, met with almost no shortfall
Demand held near 266 GW on 14 and 15 July, high for mid-monsoon, yet the energy shortfall was just 0.19%. The grid took a peak-season load in the rains in its stride; the strain was on price, not supply.
8A clean grid nationally, with one stubborn corner in the North-East
Frequency stayed in band and every monitored 400/765 kV substation and inter-regional corridor showed zero violation on 15 July. The exception was small but recurring: the Tripura import corridor ran over its limit for about 18 hours on 14 July. It does not threaten the national grid, but it does mean Tripura keeps leaning on a link that has no headroom left.
8On a record-demand day the grid spent more time holding plants back than calling them up
Down-regulation ran to about 42,700 MWh against 20,300 MWh of up-regulation on 15 July. For a peak day, that is the tell that the tightness showing up in the exchange price was commercial, not a physical shortage of energy. Details
Demand held near 266 GW on 14 and 15 July, high for mid-monsoon, yet the energy shortfall was just 0.19%. The grid took a peak-season load in the rains in its stride; the strain was on price, not supply.
8A clean grid nationally, with one stubborn corner in the North-East
Frequency stayed in band and every monitored 400/765 kV substation and inter-regional corridor showed zero violation on 15 July. The exception was small but recurring: the Tripura import corridor ran over its limit for about 18 hours on 14 July. It does not threaten the national grid, but it does mean Tripura keeps leaning on a link that has no headroom left.
8On a record-demand day the grid spent more time holding plants back than calling them up
Down-regulation ran to about 42,700 MWh against 20,300 MWh of up-regulation on 15 July. For a peak day, that is the tell that the tightness showing up in the exchange price was commercial, not a physical shortage of energy. Details
Contracting news for the day: Part-1
Jul 16:
8UPPTCL's Rs 80.47-cr Sirsira GIS tender reworks eligibility, experience and pricing units before bids open on 30 July
Four corrigenda have reshaped UPPTCL's turnkey 400/220/132 kV GIS substation tender at Sirsira, Raebareli, well beyond a date change. LLPs are now expressly eligible, and qualifying experience has been split by voltage and technology. Several 245 kV GIS bay items shift from "No." to "Set," recasting how complete packages must be priced. With the deadline now 30 July 2026 and a 10% CPBG on GST-inclusive value, the pricing contest is already under way.
Four corrigenda have reshaped UPPTCL's turnkey 400/220/132 kV GIS substation tender at Sirsira, Raebareli, well beyond a date change. LLPs are now expressly eligible, and qualifying experience has been split by voltage and technology. Several 245 kV GIS bay items shift from "No." to "Set," recasting how complete packages must be priced. With the deadline now 30 July 2026 and a 10% CPBG on GST-inclusive value, the pricing contest is already under way.
8GETCO's Rs 245-cr Sagapara STATCOM ties bidders to station-level guarantees before a reverse auction sets the price
GETCO's turnkey ±125 MVAR STATCOM at the 220 kV Sagapara substation has been extended , but the technical addendum matters more than the date. Losses are dropped from bid evaluation yet remain a binding CEA-aligned design duty. 98% guaranteed availability and forced-outage limits now attach to the whole station, not just the converter. With four qualification routes and a reverse auction to follow, the contest is how far bidders will underwrite network risk.
8BHEL's coal-and-limestone handling EPC for the Lakhanpur ammonium-nitrate project moves the goalposts repeatedly before bids close
BHEL's EPC package for the coal and limestone handling plants at BCGCL's coal-to-2,000 TPD ammonium nitrate complex has shifted its deadline four times to 22 July 2026. Two sampling units were relocated onto conveyors and 100% standby capacity was mandated. A fresh 827-page electrical and C&I revision now binds the bidder without added cost or time, while a stricter-clause-prevails rule pushes interpretation risk onto the contractor. A 27-month build plus five-year O&M make this a lifecycle exposure, not a supply order.
8RVPN's Rs 208-cr Panther conductor rate contract makes bidders qualify for 6,020 km while guaranteeing no minimum purchase
RVPN's rate contract for 6,020 km of ACSR Panther conductor carries an estimated value of Rs 208.82 crore, yet guarantees no minimum call-off while requiring most bidders to quote the full quantity. A raw-material formula protects aluminium and steel but leaves freight, financing and conversion costs exposed. Delivery can also be rescheduled at the utility's discretion. A drafting conflict between "30+7" and "54+7" strand construction sits unresolved, and bidders should clear it before submission on 19 August 2026.
8AEGCL's five-substation transformer package bars joint ventures and offers no advance, turning delivery into a working-capital test
AEGCL's Package T-4 for 132/33 kV, 50 MVA transformers across five substations has been extended to 23 July 2026. Pre-bid clarifications trimmed scope — no parallel-operation duty, no BDV or DGA kits, no water-spray fire system. But AEGCL held firm on the terms that hurt: no advance payment, a 10% performance security, a five-year warranty and LD calculated on the whole contract price. With joint ventures prohibited, a single well-capitalised OEM must carry manufacturing, logistics and multi-site commissioning alone.
8MAHAGENCO's 300 MW Phase-II solar bundles land, evacuation and ten-year O&M into one contract, anywhere in Maharashtra
MAHAGENCO's 300 MWAC Phase-II ground-mounted solar programme places land, full EPC, evacuation to an MSETCL substation and ten years of O&M under one contractor, with each bidder capped at 100 MWAC. Three qualification routes widen entry, but per-MW financial thresholds and a fixed 15 MWAC operating reference filter out smaller players. A frozen three-member consortium must survive past the O&M term, turning a bidding group into a decade-long commitment. A reverse auction will then compress the price against very different site assumptions.
8BHEL locks in a balance-of-system partner for NTPC REL's 1,200 MW Anantapur solar before it has even won the job
BHEL's Solar Business Division is selecting a balance-of-system partner for a 1,200 MW project at Anantapur, owned by NTPC REL, before the main award is secured. The capacity is split into two 450 MW blocks and one 300 MW block. Prices stay firm to completion with no escalation, yet any reduction BHEL concedes to its customer must pass straight through to the vendor. With modules and trackers procured separately and reverse auction ruled out, bidders carry pre-award risk over an outcome they don't control.
8BHEL widens the entry gate for its Bandhabal cryogenic ASU but tightens the lifecycle guarantees behind it
BHEL's global tender for a cryogenic air separation unit serving a 2,000 TPD coal-to-ammonium nitrate project at Bandhabal, Jharsuguda, has lowered its qualifying reference from 1,000 to 500 TPD oxygen. It also stretched the look-back to 15 years and cut the operating record to one year, clearly widening the vendor pool. But 98% guaranteed availability, utility-overconsumption damages and a 21-month completion deadline push reliability risk deep into the contractor's account. With the deadline now 31 July 2026, bid quality will matter more than headline price.
8NTPC's two-transformer Rihand package tightens the entry gate with local-content, conflict-of-interest and insolvency tests
NTPC's package for two 201.67 MVA, 20/400 kV generator transformers at Rihand Stage-I restricts bidding to Class-I local suppliers at 60% local content. Declared reference plants are locked against later substitution, and eligibility stays under review up to award through conflict-of-interest and insolvency clauses reaching parents and technology providers. No owner estimate is published, leaving the Rs 1 crore EMD and 10% security without a benchmark. Bidders carry a 180-day price hold and only partial change-in-law relief on a bidirectional design.
8UJVNL's Rs 110-cr Kulhal RMU gives bidders more time but no relief from a 25% turbine-performance penalty on a 1975-vintage station
UJVNL's turnkey renovation of the 3×10 MW Kulhal hydro station has been pushed to 14 August 2026 — its third extension, adding 29 days in all. Yet the corrigendum touches only the calendar. The risk transfer stands: reverse engineering, refurbishment and integration of a five-decade-old plant under one contractor, with turbine-performance LD reaching 25% of the turbine package. Security is heavier too — 15% versus 10% — for bidders leaning on manufacturer credentials, so more time brings no softening of the exposure.
Contracting news for the day: Part-2
Jul 16:
8APDCL puts 3,002 transformers through non-stop quality checks before it pays Assam's power distribution company wants to buy 3,002 energy-saving transformers, worth about Rs 96 crore. Before paying, it can inspect the factory, re-test units in a lab, and even cut open random finished pieces — and if the mass units don't match the approved sample, the whole lot is rejected. The maker also faces fixed prices and delayed payment, which locks up its money.
8RVPN wants bidders to plan for 6,020 km of conductor, but won't promise to buy that much Rajasthan's transmission utility is buying ACSR conductor (the wire strung on power lines) on a rate contract worth about Rs 208 crore. Most bidders must quote for the full 6,020 km, yet the utility can order far less — so a supplier may build capacity and stock that never gets used. A price formula covers aluminium and steel changes, but freight and interest costs are left with the supplier.
8JdVVNL puts 600 MWh of batteries across 150 substations and makes private firms run them for 15 years Jodhpur's power distribution company wants battery storage — but instead of one big site, it is placing 150 small units (1 MW/4 MWh each) inside its local grid, worth about Rs 630 crore. A private developer must build, own, and run each plant for 15 years and earns only through a bid-decided rate. The hard part is not the day-one cost but keeping the batteries healthy for 15 years.
8KPTCL packs a substation, 90 km of lines and 7 bays into one job — and no one showed up to the pre-bid meeting Karnataka's transmission utility wants one contractor to build a new substation plus nearly 90 km of power lines and 7 connection bays, worth about Rs 143 crore, in 24 months including the monsoon. At the pre-bid meeting — where bidders usually ask questions — nobody attended, an early sign of weak interest. A key clause explaining how the quoted rate applies to each item was also quietly deleted.
8MPPGCL opens price bids for a job to watch its coal from the mine all the way to the plant Madhya Pradesh's power generation company wants a contractor to supervise coal at NCL mines — check quality, cut down shortages, and track it by rail up to the power stations. The tender has now reached the price-opening stage, but the papers don't show how much of the shortage loss the contractor must bear. That single point decides whether this is a light watchdog job or a heavy money risk.
8MPPGCL makes its coal agent pay for shortages, not just report them
Madhya Pradesh's power generation company wants one contractor to handle about 200 lakh MT of coal over two years — loading, quality, and rail movement — all for one rate, worth about Rs 112 crore. The catch: if monthly transit loss crosses 0.80%, the cost of the missing coal is recovered from the contractor. That loss can be far bigger than the fee the contractor earns.
8NEEPCO's 240 MW hydro project changed 18 times before bids closed
NEEPCO wants one contractor to build the full machinery of a 240 MW hydro plant in Arunachal Pradesh (three 80 MW units) and link its controls with the downstream Tato-I plant. The tender was changed 18 times, showing the scope was still not settled even as bids came in. A contractor who quotes low could lose money once the complex linking work begins.
8NTPC Green changes a 3,300 MWh battery tender six times, one change coming after the first deadline NTPC Green Energy wants a contractor to build one of India's largest battery storage systems, next to the big Khavda solar plant. The deadline moved eight days, and the sixth change came a day after bids were first due — so bidders must recheck which papers and specs still apply. With so many changes, missing one updated document could sink a bid.
DetailsOutage & Maintenance Register
Jul 16:
8About 40,000 MW sat out across four regions at the seasonal peak
Combined outages on 15 July were roughly 16,990 MW in the West, 11,025 in the South, 6,122 in the North and 5,752 in the East - about 22,240 MW of it forced, the rest planned. The grid still met near-266 GW comfortably, so the margin held; but a fifth of the fleet being unavailable on a peak day is the figure to watch as demand climbs.
8The West carried a cluster of fresh trips
Both units of Adani's Raipur plant went out on 15 July (1,370 MW, on coal-mill and condenser faults), three Wanakbori units are down together (630 MW, Gujarat), and NTPC's Gadarwara-1 (800 MW) stays out on a boiler-tube leak. None alarming on its own; together they are why the West carried the largest outage load.
8Fresh trips in the East and South too
Odisha's OPGC-3 (660 MW) and Bengal's Sagardighi-5 (660 MW) tripped on 14 July; in the South, Vallur-1 (500 MW), SEIL-2 (660 MW) and Mettur-5 (600 MW) went out on boiler and cooling-water faults. Ordinary forced outages for fleets this size - logged so whoever tracks any of these plants finds it.
8Rajasthan's Kota station lost three units in a single day
Kota TPS units 1, 4 and 7 (about 515 MW combined) were all out on 15 July on vibration and boiler faults - and Unit 4 is a small story in itself: it returned that afternoon after ten days out, then tripped again the same night. It reads as a station running ageing units hard.
8UP's Ghatampur plant has both new units down on coal-feeding faults
Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (1,320 MW together, NUPPL) remain out since mid-to-late June on coal-feeding problems - not a fuel shortage but a materials-handling failure at a brand-new supercritical station, which is the more troubling kind.
8Telangana's Yadadri has both units out, one on coal
Yadadri-4 (800 MW) is out on a coal shortage and Yadadri-1 (800 MW) on overhaul: 1,600 MW of the state's newest coal capacity idle just as its hydro collapses.
8The most useful return of the day: Kudankulam's 1,000 MW nuclear unit is back
Kudankulam-1 returned on 15 July after about a week out on generator protection - a full gigawatt of firm, must-run capacity back on the bar as the evening peak runs high.
8A first repair from the 2023 Sikkim flood: Teesta HPS Unit 3 is back after nearly three years
NHPC's 170 MW Teesta HPS Unit 3, dark since the October 2023 glacial-lake-outburst disaster, resumed on 15 July - the first restoration milestone from that catastrophe, even as the 1,200 MW Teesta-III complex next door stays fully out. Small in megawatts, large in what it signals about the long road back.
8A Kakrapar nuclear unit is out on a seal fault, back in three days
KAPS-1 (220 MW) tripped on 15 July on a generator-seal problem, return expected 18 July - a short, specific fault, logged because nuclear trips remove firm capacity.
8Two whole hydro stations are dark, one in the South's water-short belt
Telangana's Srisailam left-bank station (six units, 900 MW) is entirely out on overhaul and a long forced outage, and Tamil Nadu's Kadamparai pumped-storage station (four units, 400 MW) is fully down on earth faults into 2026-27. With Srisailam's reservoir near empty (Story 5), the region is short of both the water and the machines.
8The long-dark fleet still on the books
Beyond Teesta-III (1,200 MW since 2023), a string of units has been out for years: Raichur-1 (210 MW, not due back until 2027), Tuticorin's two units (since a 2025 fire), MAPS-1 (220 MW nuclear, since 2018), and LANCO's LKPPL station (732 MW, under insolvency since 2016). None is new, but together they show how much built capacity the system carries as dead weight.
8India's oldest reactor is being retired
RAPS-A Unit 1 (100 MW, Rajasthan), out since 2004, is recorded as awaiting regulatory clearance for decommissioning. Tiny in megawatts, but it marks the formal end of India's first commercial reactor unit.
8On the wires: a three-week-old tower collapse and a fresh disturbance at a 765 kV hub
The 765 kV Akola–Koradi line has been out since a 26 June tower collapse - the longest-standing material transmission fault in the set - and on 15 July a wider disturbance hit the Wardha 765 kV station, taking out the Nizamabad–Wardha inter-regional line (still out) and briefly the Wardha–Raipur circuit; a Sipat ICT has been out about nine days. These are the backbone elements to track until restored.
8The maintenance calendar and the routine tail
Big units due back soon include Gadarwara-1, Ghatampur-2, Vallur-1 and Talcher ST-2 (16 July) and Yadadri-4 (20 July); nuclear returns run KAPS-1 (18 July), Kaiga-1 (September) and MAPS-1 (December). Below the line sit about 42 small units (~2,750 MW), overwhelmingly ageing gas-turbine peakers stranded on costly gas or expired PPAs, not grid events - recorded internally rather than as stories. Details
Combined outages on 15 July were roughly 16,990 MW in the West, 11,025 in the South, 6,122 in the North and 5,752 in the East - about 22,240 MW of it forced, the rest planned. The grid still met near-266 GW comfortably, so the margin held; but a fifth of the fleet being unavailable on a peak day is the figure to watch as demand climbs.
8The West carried a cluster of fresh trips
Both units of Adani's Raipur plant went out on 15 July (1,370 MW, on coal-mill and condenser faults), three Wanakbori units are down together (630 MW, Gujarat), and NTPC's Gadarwara-1 (800 MW) stays out on a boiler-tube leak. None alarming on its own; together they are why the West carried the largest outage load.
8Fresh trips in the East and South too
Odisha's OPGC-3 (660 MW) and Bengal's Sagardighi-5 (660 MW) tripped on 14 July; in the South, Vallur-1 (500 MW), SEIL-2 (660 MW) and Mettur-5 (600 MW) went out on boiler and cooling-water faults. Ordinary forced outages for fleets this size - logged so whoever tracks any of these plants finds it.
8Rajasthan's Kota station lost three units in a single day
Kota TPS units 1, 4 and 7 (about 515 MW combined) were all out on 15 July on vibration and boiler faults - and Unit 4 is a small story in itself: it returned that afternoon after ten days out, then tripped again the same night. It reads as a station running ageing units hard.
8UP's Ghatampur plant has both new units down on coal-feeding faults
Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (1,320 MW together, NUPPL) remain out since mid-to-late June on coal-feeding problems - not a fuel shortage but a materials-handling failure at a brand-new supercritical station, which is the more troubling kind.
8Telangana's Yadadri has both units out, one on coal
Yadadri-4 (800 MW) is out on a coal shortage and Yadadri-1 (800 MW) on overhaul: 1,600 MW of the state's newest coal capacity idle just as its hydro collapses.
8The most useful return of the day: Kudankulam's 1,000 MW nuclear unit is back
Kudankulam-1 returned on 15 July after about a week out on generator protection - a full gigawatt of firm, must-run capacity back on the bar as the evening peak runs high.
8A first repair from the 2023 Sikkim flood: Teesta HPS Unit 3 is back after nearly three years
NHPC's 170 MW Teesta HPS Unit 3, dark since the October 2023 glacial-lake-outburst disaster, resumed on 15 July - the first restoration milestone from that catastrophe, even as the 1,200 MW Teesta-III complex next door stays fully out. Small in megawatts, large in what it signals about the long road back.
8A Kakrapar nuclear unit is out on a seal fault, back in three days
KAPS-1 (220 MW) tripped on 15 July on a generator-seal problem, return expected 18 July - a short, specific fault, logged because nuclear trips remove firm capacity.
8Two whole hydro stations are dark, one in the South's water-short belt
Telangana's Srisailam left-bank station (six units, 900 MW) is entirely out on overhaul and a long forced outage, and Tamil Nadu's Kadamparai pumped-storage station (four units, 400 MW) is fully down on earth faults into 2026-27. With Srisailam's reservoir near empty (Story 5), the region is short of both the water and the machines.
8The long-dark fleet still on the books
Beyond Teesta-III (1,200 MW since 2023), a string of units has been out for years: Raichur-1 (210 MW, not due back until 2027), Tuticorin's two units (since a 2025 fire), MAPS-1 (220 MW nuclear, since 2018), and LANCO's LKPPL station (732 MW, under insolvency since 2016). None is new, but together they show how much built capacity the system carries as dead weight.
8India's oldest reactor is being retired
RAPS-A Unit 1 (100 MW, Rajasthan), out since 2004, is recorded as awaiting regulatory clearance for decommissioning. Tiny in megawatts, but it marks the formal end of India's first commercial reactor unit.
8On the wires: a three-week-old tower collapse and a fresh disturbance at a 765 kV hub
The 765 kV Akola–Koradi line has been out since a 26 June tower collapse - the longest-standing material transmission fault in the set - and on 15 July a wider disturbance hit the Wardha 765 kV station, taking out the Nizamabad–Wardha inter-regional line (still out) and briefly the Wardha–Raipur circuit; a Sipat ICT has been out about nine days. These are the backbone elements to track until restored.
8The maintenance calendar and the routine tail
Big units due back soon include Gadarwara-1, Ghatampur-2, Vallur-1 and Talcher ST-2 (16 July) and Yadadri-4 (20 July); nuclear returns run KAPS-1 (18 July), Kaiga-1 (September) and MAPS-1 (December). Below the line sit about 42 small units (~2,750 MW), overwhelmingly ageing gas-turbine peakers stranded on costly gas or expired PPAs, not grid events - recorded internally rather than as stories. Details
Fuel & Coal Ledger
Jul 16:
8India opens registration for its first coal exchanges
The structural fuel story of the day: coal moving, over time, toward market-based trading with discovered prices.
8Even at peak demand, the costly gas fleet stayed switched off
The merit-order schedule for 16 July left imported-gas stations - Gandhar, RGPPL, Dadri gas and others - at zero MW, and RGPPL's Ratnagiri units have been idle since 28 June on low system demand. On a record-demand day, expensive gas was simply not needed - which is why the scarcity the price implied was not there in the fuel stack.
8Delhi's fuel-cost pass-through jumps and turns automatic
May's surcharge broke the old 10% cap; the mechanism is now formula-driven. A direct consumer-bill consequence. Details
The structural fuel story of the day: coal moving, over time, toward market-based trading with discovered prices.
8Even at peak demand, the costly gas fleet stayed switched off
The merit-order schedule for 16 July left imported-gas stations - Gandhar, RGPPL, Dadri gas and others - at zero MW, and RGPPL's Ratnagiri units have been idle since 28 June on low system demand. On a record-demand day, expensive gas was simply not needed - which is why the scarcity the price implied was not there in the fuel stack.
8Delhi's fuel-cost pass-through jumps and turns automatic
May's surcharge broke the old 10% cap; the mechanism is now formula-driven. A direct consumer-bill consequence. Details
Hydro & Reservoir Ledger
Jul 16:
8Telangana's Krishna reservoirs are almost empty in the monsoon
Stored hydro energy down about 92% year-on-year, pushing the state onto thermal and the exchange.
8The wider reservoir picture is behind last year, north and south
CEA's bulletin has Srisailam, Bhakra, Tehri and Idukki all below their year-ago levels, with Hirakud the exception, running slightly ahead on heavy inflow. It is a slower, broader version of the Telangana story: the monsoon refill is lagging across several basins, which trims the cheap hydro the system can lean on later in the year.
8Odisha's hydro is steady, but building no cushion
OHPC generation held around 512 MW on 14 July with most reservoirs marginally below last year - no alarm, but no buffer forming either as the season wears on. Details
Stored hydro energy down about 92% year-on-year, pushing the state onto thermal and the exchange.
8The wider reservoir picture is behind last year, north and south
CEA's bulletin has Srisailam, Bhakra, Tehri and Idukki all below their year-ago levels, with Hirakud the exception, running slightly ahead on heavy inflow. It is a slower, broader version of the Telangana story: the monsoon refill is lagging across several basins, which trims the cheap hydro the system can lean on later in the year.
8Odisha's hydro is steady, but building no cushion
OHPC generation held around 512 MW on 14 July with most reservoirs marginally below last year - no alarm, but no buffer forming either as the season wears on. Details
CERC Docket
Jul 16:
8The day's biggest tariff order: Meja Thermal's fixed charges trued up near Rs 2,040 crore a year
The CERC finalised the 2019-24 tariff for the 1,320 MW Meja plant (NTPC–UPRVUNL), settling annual fixed charges at about Rs 2,040 crore for 2023-24, with an earlier year trued slightly down. For UP, Rajasthan and Punjab, who buy Meja's power, this fixes a large slice of what they pay for baseload for years - the most consequential number in the day's docket.
8The wires for a Karnataka renewable zone get their financing cleared
The CERC approved security-creation for a Rs 927 crore inter-state project - the Bijapur RE-zone evacuation line, a G R Infraprojects SPV - covering about Rs 714 crore of term loans. A small procedural order with a real signal: the transmission that renewable zones depend on is getting financed and built, which is usually the piece that lags the panels.
8A North-East transmission scheme is abandoned after the solar project behind it collapsed - leaving a compensation fight
The CERC had already cleared NERGS-I as eligible - a new 400 kV switching station at Bokajan, Assam, looping in the Misa–New Mariani line, awarded to Techno Electric under competitive bidding. It has now been closed as infructuous, not refused: the 750 MW Bokajan solar project it was built to evacuate fell apart after the Centre withdrew its ADB loan and Assam suspended the project, and APDCL surrendered the connectivity in June. Nothing was built, but real money was spent - the developer claims about Rs 28.5 crore already incurred (APDCL admits only about Rs 5 crore) plus Rs 40.8 crore of lost opportunity, and is fighting the central transmission utility over who pays, while APDCL separately wants a Rs 214 crore bank guarantee released. It is a clean illustration of the risk in building transmission ahead of generation: when the plant dies, the wires strand, and the bill has no obvious owner.
8A legacy transmission line's charges fall as it finishes depreciating
POWERGRID's Tanakpur system - the 1992-vintage 220 kV Tanakpur–Bareilly line - had its charges settled at about Rs 3.7 crore for 2024-25, dropping to about Rs 2.2 crore from 2025-26. The fall is not the debt running off (the asset carries no loan interest at all); it is because the line becomes fully depreciated at the end of 2024-25 and its allowed equity return is capped once it passes its useful life. A minor, uncontested order on an old asset shared by fifteen northern beneficiaries - logged for completeness, and to get the reason right.
8NTPC's 1,000 MW Rihand-III tariff is reserved for orders
The CERC has reserved its ruling on the Rihand Stage-III tariff (NTPC v UPPCL) - a large order to watch when it lands, given the plant's size and UP's exposure to it.
8NLCIL's Talabira coal-cost truing-up is put off to 24 September
The CERC deferred NLCIL's petitions on the input price of Talabira coal - which feeds its stations, with Tamil Nadu beneficiaries - directing more cost and O&M detail first. Procedural, but it decides a real slice of NLCIL's station tariffs.
8Two 1,000 MW NTPC/NLC blocks have their tariffs adjourned for more data
The CERC put off tariff proceedings for NLC Tamil Nadu Power (1,000 MW) and NTPC's Sipat Stage-II (1,000 MW), directing the generators to answer technical-validation queries before their 2019-24 true-ups and 2024-29 tariffs are settled. Routine housekeeping, but it decides a real slice of what Tamil Nadu and the central and western discoms pay for baseload - logged, with the subject corrected: these are tariff matters, not commissioning-date extensions.
8When does a 70 MW connection start paying? Welspun's case turns on a two-day notice
Welspun sought to push its connectivity start date back a year, blaming POWERGRID's delayed Bhachau substation augmentation in Kutch. The CERC has reserved orders, and the live question is narrow but real: whether the central transmission utility breached the mandatory three-month notice under the general network-access rules when it made the 70 MW renewable connection chargeable from 4 March with only two days' notice. The utility argues that joint-committee minutes served as notice; Welspun says liability cannot begin until the connection was actually usable. The rupees are modest, but the ruling will set how strictly that notice period is enforced for every delayed renewable connection.
8Sprng Vayu fights to keep 106 MW of wind connectivity revoked after missed milestones
The developer wants to use about 106 MW, in two tranches, that the CERC revoked on 25 February for missing connectivity milestones - leaning on the Commission's own March order that lets sufficiently-advanced developers retain revoked connectivity against compensation. That relief is itself under partial stay at APTEL, where other developers are challenging the compensation levy, so the outcome here feeds straight into the wider connectivity-revocation battle. The Commission has expedited the case, and even asked why revocation took nine months. Listed 20 July.
8Tata Power's Section 11 compensation claim against GUVNL rolls on
The dispute over how much Tata Power should be paid for supply it was directed to make in 2023 under Section 11 is adjourned to 20 August, with GUVNL's review still pending - a long-running imported-coal compensation fight.
8A narrow Haryana-discom review over about a Rs 6 crore difference
Haryana's discoms want a February order corrected, contesting a principal figure of Rs 711 crore against Rs 718 crore claimed - small in the round, but the kind of number a discom will still chase.
8A solar SCOD-extension plea stalls on a jurisdiction objection
TP Saurya's bid to extend the commissioning dates of its Neemuch solar units is held up by a jurisdiction objection from the MP power company - status quo for now.
8SECI chases Jharkhand's discom for unpaid solar dues
SECI has asked the CERC to make Jharkhand's JBVNL pay outstanding principal and late-payment surcharge for solar supplied under a 2018 agreement, and to sign a supplementary contract. The two sides read the tariff differently - SECI as the mapped project rate of about Rs 2.53 a unit, within the contract cap, the discom as a pooled rate across all its solar - and the Commission has first asked them to settle whether it or the state regulator has jurisdiction. Small in the round, but it is the familiar discom-payment problem that keeps renewable developers' receivables stuck. Listed 20 August. Details
The CERC finalised the 2019-24 tariff for the 1,320 MW Meja plant (NTPC–UPRVUNL), settling annual fixed charges at about Rs 2,040 crore for 2023-24, with an earlier year trued slightly down. For UP, Rajasthan and Punjab, who buy Meja's power, this fixes a large slice of what they pay for baseload for years - the most consequential number in the day's docket.
8The wires for a Karnataka renewable zone get their financing cleared
The CERC approved security-creation for a Rs 927 crore inter-state project - the Bijapur RE-zone evacuation line, a G R Infraprojects SPV - covering about Rs 714 crore of term loans. A small procedural order with a real signal: the transmission that renewable zones depend on is getting financed and built, which is usually the piece that lags the panels.
8A North-East transmission scheme is abandoned after the solar project behind it collapsed - leaving a compensation fight
The CERC had already cleared NERGS-I as eligible - a new 400 kV switching station at Bokajan, Assam, looping in the Misa–New Mariani line, awarded to Techno Electric under competitive bidding. It has now been closed as infructuous, not refused: the 750 MW Bokajan solar project it was built to evacuate fell apart after the Centre withdrew its ADB loan and Assam suspended the project, and APDCL surrendered the connectivity in June. Nothing was built, but real money was spent - the developer claims about Rs 28.5 crore already incurred (APDCL admits only about Rs 5 crore) plus Rs 40.8 crore of lost opportunity, and is fighting the central transmission utility over who pays, while APDCL separately wants a Rs 214 crore bank guarantee released. It is a clean illustration of the risk in building transmission ahead of generation: when the plant dies, the wires strand, and the bill has no obvious owner.
8A legacy transmission line's charges fall as it finishes depreciating
POWERGRID's Tanakpur system - the 1992-vintage 220 kV Tanakpur–Bareilly line - had its charges settled at about Rs 3.7 crore for 2024-25, dropping to about Rs 2.2 crore from 2025-26. The fall is not the debt running off (the asset carries no loan interest at all); it is because the line becomes fully depreciated at the end of 2024-25 and its allowed equity return is capped once it passes its useful life. A minor, uncontested order on an old asset shared by fifteen northern beneficiaries - logged for completeness, and to get the reason right.
8NTPC's 1,000 MW Rihand-III tariff is reserved for orders
The CERC has reserved its ruling on the Rihand Stage-III tariff (NTPC v UPPCL) - a large order to watch when it lands, given the plant's size and UP's exposure to it.
8NLCIL's Talabira coal-cost truing-up is put off to 24 September
The CERC deferred NLCIL's petitions on the input price of Talabira coal - which feeds its stations, with Tamil Nadu beneficiaries - directing more cost and O&M detail first. Procedural, but it decides a real slice of NLCIL's station tariffs.
8Two 1,000 MW NTPC/NLC blocks have their tariffs adjourned for more data
The CERC put off tariff proceedings for NLC Tamil Nadu Power (1,000 MW) and NTPC's Sipat Stage-II (1,000 MW), directing the generators to answer technical-validation queries before their 2019-24 true-ups and 2024-29 tariffs are settled. Routine housekeeping, but it decides a real slice of what Tamil Nadu and the central and western discoms pay for baseload - logged, with the subject corrected: these are tariff matters, not commissioning-date extensions.
8When does a 70 MW connection start paying? Welspun's case turns on a two-day notice
Welspun sought to push its connectivity start date back a year, blaming POWERGRID's delayed Bhachau substation augmentation in Kutch. The CERC has reserved orders, and the live question is narrow but real: whether the central transmission utility breached the mandatory three-month notice under the general network-access rules when it made the 70 MW renewable connection chargeable from 4 March with only two days' notice. The utility argues that joint-committee minutes served as notice; Welspun says liability cannot begin until the connection was actually usable. The rupees are modest, but the ruling will set how strictly that notice period is enforced for every delayed renewable connection.
8Sprng Vayu fights to keep 106 MW of wind connectivity revoked after missed milestones
The developer wants to use about 106 MW, in two tranches, that the CERC revoked on 25 February for missing connectivity milestones - leaning on the Commission's own March order that lets sufficiently-advanced developers retain revoked connectivity against compensation. That relief is itself under partial stay at APTEL, where other developers are challenging the compensation levy, so the outcome here feeds straight into the wider connectivity-revocation battle. The Commission has expedited the case, and even asked why revocation took nine months. Listed 20 July.
8Tata Power's Section 11 compensation claim against GUVNL rolls on
The dispute over how much Tata Power should be paid for supply it was directed to make in 2023 under Section 11 is adjourned to 20 August, with GUVNL's review still pending - a long-running imported-coal compensation fight.
8A narrow Haryana-discom review over about a Rs 6 crore difference
Haryana's discoms want a February order corrected, contesting a principal figure of Rs 711 crore against Rs 718 crore claimed - small in the round, but the kind of number a discom will still chase.
8A solar SCOD-extension plea stalls on a jurisdiction objection
TP Saurya's bid to extend the commissioning dates of its Neemuch solar units is held up by a jurisdiction objection from the MP power company - status quo for now.
8SECI chases Jharkhand's discom for unpaid solar dues
SECI has asked the CERC to make Jharkhand's JBVNL pay outstanding principal and late-payment surcharge for solar supplied under a 2018 agreement, and to sign a supplementary contract. The two sides read the tariff differently - SECI as the mapped project rate of about Rs 2.53 a unit, within the contract cap, the discom as a pooled rate across all its solar - and the Commission has first asked them to settle whether it or the state regulator has jurisdiction. Small in the round, but it is the familiar discom-payment problem that keeps renewable developers' receivables stuck. Listed 20 August. Details
State Regulatory Roundup
Jul 16:
8UP clears the way to penalise about 200 renewable-purchase defaulters
UPERC (suo-motu 71SM/2025) let UPNEDA issue one final notice, after which continuing defaulters face penal proceedings under Section 142 - only 273 of 472 obligated entities had filed their FY2025-26 data. It is the step that turns a toothless compliance drive into one that can actually fine; the consequence, not the count, is the story.
8A cold store may feed one unit from another's meter across a public road
UPERC (KBGB Agritech, 2303/2025) held that Supply Code Clause 4.46(a) carries its own exemption power, and let a multi-unit consumer run its own cable between two units split by a road, on revenue-neutral terms. Marked "not a precedent," it will be cited as one anyway - a clean, reasoned ruling other multi-unit consumers can lean on.
8Delhi's quarterly power-cost petitions are dropped as the mechanism turns automatic
The three discoms' PPAC petitions were disposed as infructuous under the amended regulations; the consumer-bill consequence is in the lead.
8Adani Green's Rs 4.79-a-unit Karnataka tariff survives a final challenge
APTEL dismissed the Karnataka discom CESC's review petitions against the 2024 verdict that gave Adani Green a force-majeure extension, a Rs 4.79/unit tariff and a refund of liquidated damages. With the Supreme Court already having turned CESC away, the discom is out of options and the tariff stands firm.
8A discom can't dock one contract's dues from another's bills, APTEL rules
In a dispute over a 2013 Karnataka PPA, APTEL held that a trader carries a generator's scheduling and deviation risk only if the contract says so, and struck down a discom's move to set off Rs 1.56 crore from unrelated invoices. The sums are small; the principle - no cross-contract set-off - is what traders and lenders will hold onto.
8APTEL may send an Andhra wind-tariff order back, calling the regulator's ruling 'perfunctory.'
Hearing Green Infra Wind Solutions' appeal, APTEL called APERC's 2021 order cryptic and without reasons, and has asked the parties to show cause on 5 August why it should not be remanded for a fresh, reasoned decision - a proposed remand, not yet ordered. The developer was contracted at Rs 4.84 a unit but has been paid an interim Rs 2.43. It keeps a long-running Andhra renewable-payment fight alive and signals the tribunal's impatience with the state regulator.
8Two Delhi waste-to-energy PPAs are a week from sign-off
DERC reserved orders on power-purchase agreements for the Narela-Bawana and Ghazipur municipal-waste plants, directing the parties to finalise within a week. Small in megawatts, but it advances Delhi's waste-to-energy offtake, which has crawled.
8The rest of the state docket
UPERC is weighing whether Jaypee's Noida township must convert to multi-point supply (next 20 August) and whether "EMI" on rescheduled genco dues must carry interest (Bajaj Energy/LPGCL, listed today); routine UPPCL hearing notices go to mid-August. Details
UPERC (suo-motu 71SM/2025) let UPNEDA issue one final notice, after which continuing defaulters face penal proceedings under Section 142 - only 273 of 472 obligated entities had filed their FY2025-26 data. It is the step that turns a toothless compliance drive into one that can actually fine; the consequence, not the count, is the story.
8A cold store may feed one unit from another's meter across a public road
UPERC (KBGB Agritech, 2303/2025) held that Supply Code Clause 4.46(a) carries its own exemption power, and let a multi-unit consumer run its own cable between two units split by a road, on revenue-neutral terms. Marked "not a precedent," it will be cited as one anyway - a clean, reasoned ruling other multi-unit consumers can lean on.
8Delhi's quarterly power-cost petitions are dropped as the mechanism turns automatic
The three discoms' PPAC petitions were disposed as infructuous under the amended regulations; the consumer-bill consequence is in the lead.
8Adani Green's Rs 4.79-a-unit Karnataka tariff survives a final challenge
APTEL dismissed the Karnataka discom CESC's review petitions against the 2024 verdict that gave Adani Green a force-majeure extension, a Rs 4.79/unit tariff and a refund of liquidated damages. With the Supreme Court already having turned CESC away, the discom is out of options and the tariff stands firm.
8A discom can't dock one contract's dues from another's bills, APTEL rules
In a dispute over a 2013 Karnataka PPA, APTEL held that a trader carries a generator's scheduling and deviation risk only if the contract says so, and struck down a discom's move to set off Rs 1.56 crore from unrelated invoices. The sums are small; the principle - no cross-contract set-off - is what traders and lenders will hold onto.
8APTEL may send an Andhra wind-tariff order back, calling the regulator's ruling 'perfunctory.'
Hearing Green Infra Wind Solutions' appeal, APTEL called APERC's 2021 order cryptic and without reasons, and has asked the parties to show cause on 5 August why it should not be remanded for a fresh, reasoned decision - a proposed remand, not yet ordered. The developer was contracted at Rs 4.84 a unit but has been paid an interim Rs 2.43. It keeps a long-running Andhra renewable-payment fight alive and signals the tribunal's impatience with the state regulator.
8Two Delhi waste-to-energy PPAs are a week from sign-off
DERC reserved orders on power-purchase agreements for the Narela-Bawana and Ghazipur municipal-waste plants, directing the parties to finalise within a week. Small in megawatts, but it advances Delhi's waste-to-energy offtake, which has crawled.
8The rest of the state docket
UPERC is weighing whether Jaypee's Noida township must convert to multi-point supply (next 20 August) and whether "EMI" on rescheduled genco dues must carry interest (Bajaj Energy/LPGCL, listed today); routine UPPCL hearing notices go to mid-August. Details
Green Markets & RE Programme Watch
Jul 16:
8India added a record amount of renewables in 2025 - almost all of it solar
IRENA's 2026 data puts India's additions at about 46 GW for the year, nearly 38 GW of it solar, taking capacity to 250.5 GW and keeping India third in the world. The pace of solar is the headline; the thinness of everything else - wind, storage, firm capacity - is the footnote that matters more each month.
8A record hour for renewables, and the same week's reminder of their limits
Wind and solar met a record 42.79% of demand at one point on 13 July, yet two days later undershot their own schedule by about 102 MU, and Gujarat curtailed thousands of megawatts to hold the grid steady. The record and the miss are one story: plenty of renewable energy when the weather cooperates, and a firming-and-forecasting gap when it doesn't.
8MNRE tightens the gate on new wind-turbine models
An MNRE memo bars commercial deployment of wind-turbine models not yet on the approved ALMM list, allowing only pre-enlistment test prototypes. It pulls wind OEMs toward the same list-based discipline solar already lives under - a small rule with real bite for anyone trying to field a new machine.
8Courts leave a set of renewable generators under the older deviation rules - for now
High courts in Karnataka and Madras have directed that CERC's 2014 deviation-settlement regulations, not the stricter 2024 ones, apply to certain renewable generators pending further orders. It reads as technical, but which regime applies decides real money for RE plants managing grid-support penalties. Details
IRENA's 2026 data puts India's additions at about 46 GW for the year, nearly 38 GW of it solar, taking capacity to 250.5 GW and keeping India third in the world. The pace of solar is the headline; the thinness of everything else - wind, storage, firm capacity - is the footnote that matters more each month.
8A record hour for renewables, and the same week's reminder of their limits
Wind and solar met a record 42.79% of demand at one point on 13 July, yet two days later undershot their own schedule by about 102 MU, and Gujarat curtailed thousands of megawatts to hold the grid steady. The record and the miss are one story: plenty of renewable energy when the weather cooperates, and a firming-and-forecasting gap when it doesn't.
8MNRE tightens the gate on new wind-turbine models
An MNRE memo bars commercial deployment of wind-turbine models not yet on the approved ALMM list, allowing only pre-enlistment test prototypes. It pulls wind OEMs toward the same list-based discipline solar already lives under - a small rule with real bite for anyone trying to field a new machine.
8Courts leave a set of renewable generators under the older deviation rules - for now
High courts in Karnataka and Madras have directed that CERC's 2014 deviation-settlement regulations, not the stricter 2024 ones, apply to certain renewable generators pending further orders. It reads as technical, but which regime applies decides real money for RE plants managing grid-support penalties. Details
Corporate Wire
Jul 16:
8Adani Power's 25-year, 1,600 MW Maharashtra supply deal
The biggest single commitment of the day, coal linkage included.
8GIPCL's Rs 6,000-crore lignite plan and possible equity raise
A rare, detailed roadmap from a state genco.
8EMMVEE's first results as a listed company are strong
The Karnataka solar manufacturer reported Q1 revenue of Rs 1,555 crore (up 51%) and PAT of Rs 380 crore (more than double), with a record margin and a 9.9 GW order book. It is a clean read on how well domestic module makers are doing under ALMM protection: the demand is there and the margins are widening.
8Sterling and Wilson takes Shell to arbitration over an Australian solar farm
The company's Australian subsidiary has filed for arbitration against Shell's Australian arm in London (LCIA) over the Gangarri solar project's EPC and O&M contracts, claiming - depending on scope - about AUD 28 million plus USD 1.6 million (roughly Rs 170 crore), or on a reduced reading about AUD 21 million plus the same USD claim (nearer Rs 130 crore). For a company its size the sum is meaningful but not defining; the more telling part is the recurring execution risk in its overseas order book.
8IEX moves to unlock its gas-exchange stake
IEX's associate, the Indian Gas Exchange, filed its draft IPO papers, with an offer-for-sale of up to about 16.7 million shares that includes IEX trimming its holding - a value-unlocking event to track as the listing proceeds.
8A small solar-cell maker's headline profit jump is mostly a standalone effect
Onix Solar reported standalone Q1 profit about 20 times a year earlier - about Rs 21 crore against Rs 1 crore - but on a consolidated basis the jump is only about three times, and consolidated revenue actually fell year on year. The standalone spike came largely from an inventory drawdown rather than trading, so it flags an accounting quirk more than real momentum. Worth a watch as it builds out cell manufacturing, but the group numbers are the ones to read.
8India's installed capacity crosses 54% non-fossil
The milestone, and why the capacity share flatters the evening-peak reality.
8Kalpataru confirms a dividend but draws institutional pushback on two resolutions
At its AGM, Kalpataru cleared a Rs 11 dividend, but its resolution seeking authority under Section 180(1)(a) - to dispose of the undertaking or create security, not to raise borrowing limits - passed with only about 87% institutional support, and a director's re-appointment drew about 9% of institutional votes against. Minorities, but notable ones for a company leaning on debt to grow.
8Borosil Renewables takes a small warrant-conversion inflow
The solar-glass maker allotted shares on warrant conversion for about Rs 12 crore - routine, and small for the company, noted for the record.
8Results diary
Board meetings to approve Q1 results: Bharat Coking Coal (21 July), IEX (23 July, with an analyst meet the next day) and Coal India (27 July, with a possible interim dividend).
Ratings Watch
8Macquarie exits Vibrant Energy; Inox's group takes over and repays the lenders
ICRA withdrew four ratings after the change of control.
8A captive-solar pool holds its rating, but a regulatory cloud sits over it
CARE reaffirmed CARE A- on the nine-company, 100 MW Maharashtra restricted group backed by Partners Group. The live risk is not the assets but a stayed Maharashtra banking-charge order: about 16% of the group's output is banked by off-takers, so an adverse final ruling could hurt. The rating is steady; the regulation is the variable.
8A North-East distribution franchisee stays in default
Feedback Energy Distribution (Meghalaya and Tripura) remains at CARE D on about Rs 319 crore of facilities and has gone non-cooperating with two agencies - a distress marker in the franchisee model, small in absolute terms but total for this company. Details
The biggest single commitment of the day, coal linkage included.
8GIPCL's Rs 6,000-crore lignite plan and possible equity raise
A rare, detailed roadmap from a state genco.
8EMMVEE's first results as a listed company are strong
The Karnataka solar manufacturer reported Q1 revenue of Rs 1,555 crore (up 51%) and PAT of Rs 380 crore (more than double), with a record margin and a 9.9 GW order book. It is a clean read on how well domestic module makers are doing under ALMM protection: the demand is there and the margins are widening.
8Sterling and Wilson takes Shell to arbitration over an Australian solar farm
The company's Australian subsidiary has filed for arbitration against Shell's Australian arm in London (LCIA) over the Gangarri solar project's EPC and O&M contracts, claiming - depending on scope - about AUD 28 million plus USD 1.6 million (roughly Rs 170 crore), or on a reduced reading about AUD 21 million plus the same USD claim (nearer Rs 130 crore). For a company its size the sum is meaningful but not defining; the more telling part is the recurring execution risk in its overseas order book.
8IEX moves to unlock its gas-exchange stake
IEX's associate, the Indian Gas Exchange, filed its draft IPO papers, with an offer-for-sale of up to about 16.7 million shares that includes IEX trimming its holding - a value-unlocking event to track as the listing proceeds.
8A small solar-cell maker's headline profit jump is mostly a standalone effect
Onix Solar reported standalone Q1 profit about 20 times a year earlier - about Rs 21 crore against Rs 1 crore - but on a consolidated basis the jump is only about three times, and consolidated revenue actually fell year on year. The standalone spike came largely from an inventory drawdown rather than trading, so it flags an accounting quirk more than real momentum. Worth a watch as it builds out cell manufacturing, but the group numbers are the ones to read.
8India's installed capacity crosses 54% non-fossil
The milestone, and why the capacity share flatters the evening-peak reality.
8Kalpataru confirms a dividend but draws institutional pushback on two resolutions
At its AGM, Kalpataru cleared a Rs 11 dividend, but its resolution seeking authority under Section 180(1)(a) - to dispose of the undertaking or create security, not to raise borrowing limits - passed with only about 87% institutional support, and a director's re-appointment drew about 9% of institutional votes against. Minorities, but notable ones for a company leaning on debt to grow.
8Borosil Renewables takes a small warrant-conversion inflow
The solar-glass maker allotted shares on warrant conversion for about Rs 12 crore - routine, and small for the company, noted for the record.
8Results diary
Board meetings to approve Q1 results: Bharat Coking Coal (21 July), IEX (23 July, with an analyst meet the next day) and Coal India (27 July, with a possible interim dividend).
Ratings Watch
8Macquarie exits Vibrant Energy; Inox's group takes over and repays the lenders
ICRA withdrew four ratings after the change of control.
8A captive-solar pool holds its rating, but a regulatory cloud sits over it
CARE reaffirmed CARE A- on the nine-company, 100 MW Maharashtra restricted group backed by Partners Group. The live risk is not the assets but a stayed Maharashtra banking-charge order: about 16% of the group's output is banked by off-takers, so an adverse final ruling could hurt. The rating is steady; the regulation is the variable.
8A North-East distribution franchisee stays in default
Feedback Energy Distribution (Meghalaya and Tripura) remains at CARE D on about Rs 319 crore of facilities and has gone non-cooperating with two agencies - a distress marker in the franchisee model, small in absolute terms but total for this company. Details
Committees, People & System Administration
Jul 16:
8Nearly 9,000 MW lost at Khavda in May, with safeguards missing
The compliance failure, not just the trip, is the point.
8The eastern grid operator opened tie-lines by hand in June
A last resort used because the automatic defences still aren't ready.
8Ancillary and deviation settlements: mostly housekeeping, one cost that bites
June's spot-despatch accounts left generators owing the pool modest net sums - about Rs 32 crore in the South, Rs 15 crore in the North, small money in system terms. A Rs 1,281 crore retrospective figure sounds huge but is a billing re-computation being unwound, not new money. The number that actually matters is the East's part-load compensation: Farakka alone is owed about Rs 147 crore for running below efficient load - a real, recurring cost of keeping thermal flexible for the renewables.
8A Rajasthan solar corridor is one contingency from losing all its generation
NRPC's 245th operations committee flagged that a 765 kV Bhadla–Sikar outage would, under a single further fault, "lose all the generation" on the corridor, and warned of August export curtailments up to about 4,000 MW on Rajasthan lines still under construction. It is the transmission-lag problem in miniature: the panels are up, the wires to move them safely are not.
8Parliament and people
The Lok Sabha Standing Committee on Energy meets 23 July for a briefing by MNRE on the Green Energy Corridor renewable-evacuation programme; other PSU board moves in the day's filings were routine.
Details
The compliance failure, not just the trip, is the point.
8The eastern grid operator opened tie-lines by hand in June
A last resort used because the automatic defences still aren't ready.
8Ancillary and deviation settlements: mostly housekeeping, one cost that bites
June's spot-despatch accounts left generators owing the pool modest net sums - about Rs 32 crore in the South, Rs 15 crore in the North, small money in system terms. A Rs 1,281 crore retrospective figure sounds huge but is a billing re-computation being unwound, not new money. The number that actually matters is the East's part-load compensation: Farakka alone is owed about Rs 147 crore for running below efficient load - a real, recurring cost of keeping thermal flexible for the renewables.
8A Rajasthan solar corridor is one contingency from losing all its generation
NRPC's 245th operations committee flagged that a 765 kV Bhadla–Sikar outage would, under a single further fault, "lose all the generation" on the corridor, and warned of August export curtailments up to about 4,000 MW on Rajasthan lines still under construction. It is the transmission-lag problem in miniature: the panels are up, the wires to move them safely are not.
8Parliament and people
The Lok Sabha Standing Committee on Energy meets 23 July for a briefing by MNRE on the Green Energy Corridor renewable-evacuation programme; other PSU board moves in the day's filings were routine.
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8Tender for reconductoring using covered conductor Details
8Tender for empanelment of agencies for new 33/11kV substation, additional /augmentation of PTR Details
8Tender for supply of tube modules Details
8Tender for supply and installation of industrial AC for Kiosk Details
8Tender for supply of 750 Nos jumper cone for 500 kV ACSR bersimis conductor Details
8Tender for repair restoration of damaged existing protection works Details
8Tender for replacement of damaged parts of HVAC system Details
8Tender for civil foundation works for installation of 08 nos of 33 kV outdoor bay along with 33 kV second main bus Details
8Tender for fabrication, galvanizing, testing, supply and delivery at site of 33 kV structure Details
8Design, manufacture and supply of energy efficient distribution transformer Details
8Tender for rerouting and reconductoring of 11kV line Details
8Tender for constructing 11 kV double circuit line Details
8Tender for manufacturing, testing and supply of ISI marked 11 kV XLPE underground cable 300 sqmm Details
8Tender for supply of hot dip galvanised steel stay sets Details
8Tender for construction of yard foundation cable Details
8Design, engineering, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of 220kV and 33kV GIS transformer/reactor bays along with associated works Details
8Tender for work of wire netting and roof bolt support Details
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Sikkim's Teesta-III and Teesta HPS units, 1,370 MW, remain out about 21 months after the October 2023 glacial-flood disaster
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8Every daily generation register still carries the six 200 MW units of Teesta-III plus NHPC's Teesta HPS Unit 3 (170 MW) as forced out since 4 October 2023, with revival 'subject to further information'. Reconstruction of the flood-destroyed Chungthang dam has since been approved and is under way, but the powerhouses remain off the grid, a standing 1,370 MW hole in eastern hydro.
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Telangana's Krishna-basin reservoir storage was down about 86% year-on-year on 15 July, with Srisailam at 10.3 TMC against 170.1 a year earlier
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8Telangana's usable Krishna-basin storage stood at about 39.6 TMC on 15 July 2026, roughly 86% below the same date last year, with Srisailam live storage collapsed to 10.3 TMC from 170.1 TMC and Nagarjunasagar at 6.2 TMC from 90.4 TMC. So little water this deep into monsoon shifts more of Telangana's July load onto thermal and market power, a hydro shortfall that dovetails with the state's coal-hit Yadadri outages and the firm exchange prices.
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UPPCL and WBSEDCL floated cross-exchange reverse auctions for August-September peak-hour power on Hindustan Power Exchange
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8Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation (for September) and West Bengal's WBSEDCL (for August) each issued single-side reverse-auction circulars on the Hindustan Power Exchange - and, per the circulars, in parallel on IEX and PXIL - weighted toward evening-peak blocks. Two large state utilities lining up short-to-medium-term peak power through competitive auctions signals discoms bracing for the same evening-ramp scarcity now visible in the spot market.
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Gujarat's 'interim' Rs 1.50/unit green banking charge is extended again to 31 August 2026, a fixture nearly three years on
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8GERC has once more extended the flat Rs 1.50 per unit banking charge for green open-access consumers - to 31 August 2026 - and rejected industry's demand for a lower 8% in-kind banking charge, while still not putting in place the cost-based framework the Forum of Regulators model and stakeholders have sought since 2024. An 'interim' arrangement renewed repeatedly is now the de facto regime for Gujarat's green open-access economics.
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NPCIL's 100 GW-by-2047 nuclear ambition sits against a softer FY26, with PLF down to 79% and debt-to-EBITDA at 15.1 times
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8CARE reaffirmed NPCIL at AAA/A1+ even as the operator's FY26 nuclear plant load factor eased to about 79% and its debt-to-EBITDA rose to 15.1 times, against a build-out of 6.1 GW under construction and a national target of 100 GW of nuclear capacity by 2047. With the SHANTI Act now clearing the way for private participation, the gap between a debt-heavy, capital-intensive expansion and weakening current operating metrics is the tension a lender must weigh.
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REC and SJVN were each fined by the exchanges for board-composition lapses, and both central PSUs blamed the government's failure to appoint directors
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8REC disclosed a Rs 5.31 lakh exchange fine and SJVN a Rs 5.76 lakh fine for the March 2026 quarter for failing to maintain the required board composition, including the mandated woman director, under SEBI's listing regulations. Both government-controlled companies pinned the lapse on their majority owner - the Ministry of Power - not making the appointments, and both are seeking a waiver, a governance gap that recurs across listed central public-sector enterprises.
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APTEL sets aside HPERC's treatment of a 90% state loan as grant, remanding hydro tariffs for HPPCL's Sainj, Kashang-I and Sawra Kuddu
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8The Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, in Appeals 89, 94 and 135 of 2025, held that the Himachal Pradesh regulator had no jurisdiction to re-characterise 90% of a government-routed loan as a grant in order to shield consumers from tariff burden, and remanded the tariffs of three Himachal hydro projects. The ruling reaffirms that a state commission cannot override a government funding-policy decision to lower tariffs, and pushes the cost of that borrowing back into the projects' recoverable capital.
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Contracting news for the day: Part-1
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8POWERGRID scraps bid deposit but raises the technical bar for its Rs-scale transformer buy POWERGRID wants four 500 MVA autotransformers — but scrapping the usual bid deposit is the least of it. Joint ventures are banned, a dynamic short-circuit test now decides who even qualifies, and the cost of strengthening every bridge and road on the delivery route quietly lands in the supplier's price.
8MSEDCL's Rs 130 crore transformer order hands raw-material risk straight to bidders Maharashtra's power utility is buying 200 kVA distribution transformers worth Rs 130 crore, open only to manufacturers and locked to firm pricing. That single condition passes every rupee of future CRGO steel, copper and aluminium volatility to the bidder — nine months to deliver, with no room to pass the cost on.
8Gujarat's 500 MWh battery tender is really a 12-year performance bet GSECL isn't buying a battery — it's buying guaranteed power for the next twelve years. An 18-month build followed by 11 years of maintenance, Rs 18.3 crore locked as security, and performance measured at the 220 kV grid point. With the pre-bid process rewritten again and again, the real contest is lifecycle economics, not headline price.
8Kulhal hydro tender extended a third time, but the 25% penalty risk stays intact A Rs 110 crore turnkey job to rebuild a 1975-vintage hydro station has now been pushed back three times — 29 days in all. But more time doesn't soften the sting: turbine-shortfall penalties can reach 25% of the turbine value, and bidders must price a five-decade-old machine whose true condition they can only guess.
8NTPC's two-transformer order hides a far tougher brownfield fit test It reads like a simple order for two 201.67 MVA generator transformers. It isn't. Each unit must slot into decades-old foundations, bus ducts and fire systems with almost no modification — and NTPC expects bidders to walk the site and prove it fits before they quote. Miss a hidden interface, and there's no extra payment coming.
8NTPC quietly moves its data centres to a next-generation platform Behind routine procurement language, NTPC is switching its Noida and Hyderabad centres to a disaggregated infrastructure that survives losing two servers at once. The winner supplies it, migrates onto it, buys back the old system and nurses it for seven years — with the final payment held until the very end.
8KPTCL bundles two GIS packages with a Rs 3.62 crore entry ticket Two high-voltage substation packages fold GIS systems, transmission lines, underground cables and civil works into single contracts — with Rs 3.62 crore in bid security just to enter. And the final bill won't clear until the contractor hands over drone surveys and GIS-mapped data, turning digital paperwork into a payment gate.
8OMC's Rs 100 crore project rides on one consultant for 47 months One consultant, 47 months, a Rs 100 crore project — from the first sketch to the final occupancy certificate. Odisha Mining Corporation has fused architect, cost planner and site supervisor into a single accountable firm, on a fixed fee that won't rise even if the project's true cost does.
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Jul 15:
8A nine-engine opening rewrites the technology contest
A revised engine configuration has widened the field, but the most difficult obligations have become sharper rather than easier. Hydrogen testing, tighter emission guarantees and remote-island logistics now converge inside a single EPC risk envelope. The decisive issue lies in which bidders can turn that flexibility into a bankable and technically defensible offer.
A revised engine configuration has widened the field, but the most difficult obligations have become sharper rather than easier. Hydrogen testing, tighter emission guarantees and remote-island logistics now converge inside a single EPC risk envelope. The decisive issue lies in which bidders can turn that flexibility into a bankable and technically defensible offer.
8A ten-package land exercise puts 303.50 km of transmission corridors on a 15-day valuation clock
Three Gujarat packages reveal a procurement structure designed to accelerate decisions across hundreds of transmission-line locations. The commercial contest will not be governed by L1 pricing alone, as award sequencing and capacity controls alter how bidders can pursue the work. The most consequential risk sits inside the interaction between rapid delivery, variable quantities and fragmented district-level valuations.
8Rs 315 crore transmission package signals a broader grid expansion strategy while raising execution stakes
A seemingly routine transmission package conceals a procurement structure that reshapes execution responsibility far beyond conventional EPC contracts. The engineering choices and commercial framework point towards a much larger strategic objective than simple capacity addition. The implications extend well beyond this project and could influence how similar transmission packages are structured in the coming years.
8Large-scale PCC pole procurement sharpens execution standards as logistics, manufacturing depth and financial discipline emerge as decisive competitive differentiators
A routine distribution-material procurement quietly introduces commercial signals that extend far beyond concrete poles. Several provisions reshape how manufacturers will compete on execution capacity, financial strength and delivery assurance rather than price alone. The document hints at a procurement philosophy that could influence future utility sourcing decisions across Rajasthan.
8Final commissioning strategy tightens execution accountability as critical power project enters its decisive phase
The procurement is built around far more than routine commissioning activities. Several contractual provisions quietly reshape execution risk, commercial exposure and project responsibility in ways that deserve closer examination. The implications extend well beyond this individual package and could influence how similar projects are procured going forward.
8Qualification rules evolve as execution accountability remains firmly intact
A series of amendments quietly reshaped who can compete without altering who ultimately carries project risk. The revised framework broadens access while tightening accountability in unexpected ways. The implications extend well beyond a routine hydroelectric EPC procurement.
8Rs 1,723 crore pumped-storage EPC package sets the stage for a high-stakes contest where execution strategy may matter as much as price
A major pumped-storage package is reshaping the balance between engineering responsibility and commercial competition. The bidding framework introduces several provisions that could influence both pricing behaviour and execution strategy. What ultimately determines the winning advantage extends well beyond the quoted number.
8Repeated technical clarifications reshape EPC execution while commercial discipline remains firmly intact
Successive revisions have quietly altered the engineering assumptions behind this EPC package without changing its contractual backbone. The most consequential developments are buried inside technical clarifications rather than headline corrigenda. Their combined impact could influence pricing, execution strategy and bidder competitiveness far beyond the formal amendments.
8Rs 109 crore transformer tender places factory output under a five-year performance test
A large indoor-transformer procurement has been corrected after a value description magnified its apparent scale by 100 times. Behind the revised amount sits a contract that tests every supplied unit for losses and can reject an entire lot over one sampled failure. The decisive risk is buried not in the headline quantity, but in the interaction between rate matching, long guarantees and post-delivery quality control.
Southern Region still carrying three 400 kV corridors out since mid-May tower collapses on its 14 July congestion list
Jul 15:
8SRLDC's 14 July transmission-constraint list still shows the 400 kV Kaiga-Guttur out since 14 May after tower collapses, the 400 kV Gadag-Koppal double circuit with about 15 towers collapsed, and the Gazuwaka-Jeypore corridor - roughly two months on. The persistence of these outages on the congestion register is a structural weakness behind the region's recurring evening deficits, though the current restoration timeline is not in the day's documents.
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Eastern Region exported 92.4 MU to the South on 14 July, but the South still fell 539 MW short and Kerala logged a frequency emergency
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8The Eastern Region ran a large net exporter, sending 92.4 MU to the Southern Region over the 765 kV Angul-Srikakulam double circuit and the Talcher-Kolar HVDC, yet the Southern Region still carried the day's largest regional shortage at 539 MW, with Kerala alone short 508 MW while logging a grid-code frequency emergency and two non-compliance instances. The same state that could not meet its load also breached the grid code on the same day, and the north-to-south corridors were carrying heavy flows to plug the gap.
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Northern Region imported a net 326.9 MU on 14 July yet still shed load, short 318 MW at the evening peak
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8The Northern Region was the country's largest net importer on 14 July, drawing 326.9 MU across inter-regional ties - 4,027 MW on the Champa-Kurukshetra HVDC bipole alone - yet it still met its 86,204 MW evening peak with a 318 MW shortage and reported unscheduled load shedding in Uttar Pradesh. A region leaning this hard on imports and still shedding load is running with very little headroom, and its intra-regional corridors were already breaching limits.
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NTPC's large coal units logged a run of boiler-tube-leak trips in mid-July across three regions
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8NTPC supercritical and 660 MW units at Gadarwara (800 MW, Madhya Pradesh), Barh (660 MW, Bihar) and Dadri-I (210 MW, Uttar Pradesh) tripped on boiler tube leaks within days of 12-14 July, while the utility's Barh Unit 2 was already out on an overhaul following a boiler leak. With planned maintenance light in July, these unplanned trips - not scheduled overhauls - were the main drag on thermal availability, though whether they share a common cause or are coincidental monsoon failures cannot be established from the outage registers.
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Coal-supply outages idled 2,255 MW at Yadadri, Ghatampur and ACBIL as monsoon coal stocks tightened
Jul 15:
8On 14 July, coal availability rather than equipment failure kept large thermal blocks out across three states - Telangana's Yadadri Unit 4 (800 MW) on an explicit coal shortage since 9 July, Uttar Pradesh's two Ghatampur supercritical units (2x660 MW) on coal-feeding faults, and Chhattisgarh's ACBIL (135 MW) on low stock since mid-June. Yadadri's 'critical coal' flag also masks a deeper problem: three of its four units were already down, so its low plant load factor is being read as a fuel story when it is largely an outage story.
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IEX spot power prices firmed through mid-July, with 14 July evening and overnight blocks pinned to the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
Jul 15:
8The IEX day-ahead average market clearing price rose from Rs 2.49/kWh on 12 July to Rs 6.33 on 14 July and Rs 6.53 on 15 July, while the real-time market climbed from Rs 3.39 to Rs 5.87 to Rs 6.74 over the same days. The High-Price Day-Ahead Market, designed to clear above the Rs 10/kWh cap, drew about 72,590 MWh of sell offers on 14 July but found no buyers all week, so the day's scarcity stopped exactly at the ceiling.
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India's grid ran long by day and short after dark on 14 July, meeting a 251,139 MW evening peak with a 1,057 MW shortage
Jul 15:
8Grid-India met the 20:00 hrs all-India peak of 251,139 MW but left a 1,057 MW shortage even as the system spent much of the day over-frequency and ancillary services net down-regulated 48,461 MWh. The same day's power exchange swung from a Rs 1.09/kWh midday solar trough to the Rs 10/kWh ceiling after sunset, the clearest sign that 14 July's scarcity was an evening-ramp problem, not a shortage of daytime energy.
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Committees, People & System Administration
Jul 15:
8CEA Load Generation Balance Report 2026-27 projects all-India surplus of 2.5% energy and 4.1% peak for the year
8LGBR 2026-27 flags Eastern Region peak deficit of 16.2% and Southern Region 9.6%, with Odisha, Assam and Telangana worst hit
8ERPC weekly DSM settlement shows Southern Region under-drawing heavily, driving East-South deviation charge of Rs 273.8 crore for 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly DSM account records Rs 266.8 crore receivable from Southern Region and Rs 263.2 crore payable to Eastern Region, 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly ancillary-service (TRAS) account has thermal providers paying back for shortfall delivery, Khargone-I refunds Rs 2.06 crore
8ERPC reactive-energy charge statement issued for 29 June-5 July 2026 covering Eastern Region 400/220/132 kV lines
8WRPC reactive-energy account issued for the week 29 June-5 July 2026
8SRPC finalises March 2026 part-load and heat-rate compensation for 14 southern ISGS thermal stations, degradation compensation totals about Rs 1,077 crore
8Southern Region frequency-response certificate for June 2026 leaves four generators below the 0.30 beta incentive threshold
8NER protection sub-committee records 47 grid disturbances in April and 22 in May 2026, most on radial feeders
8SPS maloperation blacks out Sonabil and radial areas of Assam on 1 June 2026 with about 70 MW load loss
8SPS failed to operate during 132 kV Palatana-Surajmaninagar line tripping on 28 April 2026
8NERPC proposes new SPS on 220 kV BTPS-Agia corridor as delayed 400 kV Sonapur and Rangia substations strain the Assam grid
8PTCC clearance requirement abolished for transmission-line projects with effect from 1 July 2026
8WRPC to draft POWERGRID and WRLDC into random inspection of AUFLS/UFR relays across the Western Region
8SRPC communication sub-committee sees leadership change as SE (P&C) Len J.B. retires and ED SRLDC M.K. Ramesh moves to Western Region
8SRPC posts revised part-load compensation statements for southern-region thermal generators covering FY2024-25 and FY2025-26
8SRPC issues revised final Regional Energy Account statements for April 2025 to March 2026
8SRPC calls special meeting on 31 July to review Free Governor Mode of Operation performance of southern-region generators for FY2025-26 Details
8LGBR 2026-27 flags Eastern Region peak deficit of 16.2% and Southern Region 9.6%, with Odisha, Assam and Telangana worst hit
8ERPC weekly DSM settlement shows Southern Region under-drawing heavily, driving East-South deviation charge of Rs 273.8 crore for 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly DSM account records Rs 266.8 crore receivable from Southern Region and Rs 263.2 crore payable to Eastern Region, 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly ancillary-service (TRAS) account has thermal providers paying back for shortfall delivery, Khargone-I refunds Rs 2.06 crore
8ERPC reactive-energy charge statement issued for 29 June-5 July 2026 covering Eastern Region 400/220/132 kV lines
8WRPC reactive-energy account issued for the week 29 June-5 July 2026
8SRPC finalises March 2026 part-load and heat-rate compensation for 14 southern ISGS thermal stations, degradation compensation totals about Rs 1,077 crore
8Southern Region frequency-response certificate for June 2026 leaves four generators below the 0.30 beta incentive threshold
8NER protection sub-committee records 47 grid disturbances in April and 22 in May 2026, most on radial feeders
8SPS maloperation blacks out Sonabil and radial areas of Assam on 1 June 2026 with about 70 MW load loss
8SPS failed to operate during 132 kV Palatana-Surajmaninagar line tripping on 28 April 2026
8NERPC proposes new SPS on 220 kV BTPS-Agia corridor as delayed 400 kV Sonapur and Rangia substations strain the Assam grid
8PTCC clearance requirement abolished for transmission-line projects with effect from 1 July 2026
8WRPC to draft POWERGRID and WRLDC into random inspection of AUFLS/UFR relays across the Western Region
8SRPC communication sub-committee sees leadership change as SE (P&C) Len J.B. retires and ED SRLDC M.K. Ramesh moves to Western Region
8SRPC posts revised part-load compensation statements for southern-region thermal generators covering FY2024-25 and FY2025-26
8SRPC issues revised final Regional Energy Account statements for April 2025 to March 2026
8SRPC calls special meeting on 31 July to review Free Governor Mode of Operation performance of southern-region generators for FY2025-26 Details
Corporate Wire
Jul 15:
8SECI extends bid deadline for Rs 1,000 crore external commercial borrowing / foreign-currency loan mandate to 22 July 2026
8Tata Power allots Rs 1,500 crore of 7.50% five-year unsecured NCDs on private placement
8POWER GRID commissions Khavda Phase-IV Part-E4 transmission element evacuating Gujarat RE (7 GW zone)
8REC incorporates Kesurdi Power Transmission Ltd to build 220 kV GIS at Satara, Maharashtra under TBCB
8PFC raises JPY 8.4 billion yen syndicated loan arranged by SBI Shinsei Bank
8Siemens India reports an 18-month FY2024-26 ending March 2026; 68th AGM set for August 11
8Ujaas Energy's 27th AGM appoints Geeta Mundra as Chairman and approves borrowing up to Rs 1,000 crore
8Adani's Khavda IV A transmission SPV seeks part-COD recognition for 5 of 14 bays already in service at KPS-3
8Waa Solar's bank facilities affirmed at IND BBB+/Stable/A2+ and removed from rating watch
8Adani Energy Solutions assigned Crisil ESG score of 65/100 ('Crisil ESG 65')
8Solapur Solar's Rs 20.98 crore loan stays at CARE D with issuer non-cooperating since 2021 Details
8Tata Power allots Rs 1,500 crore of 7.50% five-year unsecured NCDs on private placement
8POWER GRID commissions Khavda Phase-IV Part-E4 transmission element evacuating Gujarat RE (7 GW zone)
8REC incorporates Kesurdi Power Transmission Ltd to build 220 kV GIS at Satara, Maharashtra under TBCB
8PFC raises JPY 8.4 billion yen syndicated loan arranged by SBI Shinsei Bank
8Siemens India reports an 18-month FY2024-26 ending March 2026; 68th AGM set for August 11
8Ujaas Energy's 27th AGM appoints Geeta Mundra as Chairman and approves borrowing up to Rs 1,000 crore
8Adani's Khavda IV A transmission SPV seeks part-COD recognition for 5 of 14 bays already in service at KPS-3
8Waa Solar's bank facilities affirmed at IND BBB+/Stable/A2+ and removed from rating watch
8Adani Energy Solutions assigned Crisil ESG score of 65/100 ('Crisil ESG 65')
8Solapur Solar's Rs 20.98 crore loan stays at CARE D with issuer non-cooperating since 2021 Details
Green Markets & RE Programme Watch
Jul 15:
8All-India renewable generation 1,337 MU on 14 July; Gujarat leads wind, Rajasthan leads solar
8WRLDC reports persistent RE forecast errors in Maharashtra and Gujarat, partly from a January 2026 weather-provider switch Details
8WRLDC reports persistent RE forecast errors in Maharashtra and Gujarat, partly from a January 2026 weather-provider switch Details
State Regulatory Roundup
Jul 15:
8Meghalaya Power Distribution files for revised open-access additional surcharge of Rs 2.32/kWh for October 2025-March 2026
8HESCOM's July 2026 fuel-cost adjustment is a 4 paise/unit refund to all consumers as May power-purchase cost fell Rs 4.99 crore
8Punjab regulator admits PSPCL's Rs 6.90 crore compensation claim against Rana Sugars over 2005 co-gen PPA breach
8MERC disposes PSPCL-unrelated Khowal non-compliance petition after MSEDCL refunds Rs 6.94 lakh under new-connection scheme
8MERC closes Aspa Bandsons non-compliance case as MSEDCL awaits only Electrical Inspector approval for Amravati connection
8MERC declines Section 142 action against MSEDCL after Rs 3,000 Ombudsman-ordered connection-delay compensation is paid
8Torrent Power reports Q4 FY2025-26 T&D loss of 6.54% for Ahmedabad and under 1% for Surat in GERC quarterly filing
8Torrent Power's Dholera area shows ~50% year-on-year growth in power purchase and billing in Q4 FY2025-26
8Meghalaya regulator resets FY2026-27 tariffs for MePGCL, MePTCL and MePDCL after FY2024-25 true-ups
8Meghalaya sets FY2026-27 distribution tariff: domestic LT at Rs 5.00-5.10/kWh, industrial HT at Rs 5.55/kVAh with 20% peak ToD
8Meghalaya transmission tariff for FY2026-27 set at 64.96 paise/unit, MePTCL annual charge Rs 110.06 crore
8Rajasthan transmission utility RVPN overhauls deposit-works procedure, mandates 100% advance supervision charges and reserves 400/765 kV works to itself Details
8HESCOM's July 2026 fuel-cost adjustment is a 4 paise/unit refund to all consumers as May power-purchase cost fell Rs 4.99 crore
8Punjab regulator admits PSPCL's Rs 6.90 crore compensation claim against Rana Sugars over 2005 co-gen PPA breach
8MERC disposes PSPCL-unrelated Khowal non-compliance petition after MSEDCL refunds Rs 6.94 lakh under new-connection scheme
8MERC closes Aspa Bandsons non-compliance case as MSEDCL awaits only Electrical Inspector approval for Amravati connection
8MERC declines Section 142 action against MSEDCL after Rs 3,000 Ombudsman-ordered connection-delay compensation is paid
8Torrent Power reports Q4 FY2025-26 T&D loss of 6.54% for Ahmedabad and under 1% for Surat in GERC quarterly filing
8Torrent Power's Dholera area shows ~50% year-on-year growth in power purchase and billing in Q4 FY2025-26
8Meghalaya regulator resets FY2026-27 tariffs for MePGCL, MePTCL and MePDCL after FY2024-25 true-ups
8Meghalaya sets FY2026-27 distribution tariff: domestic LT at Rs 5.00-5.10/kWh, industrial HT at Rs 5.55/kVAh with 20% peak ToD
8Meghalaya transmission tariff for FY2026-27 set at 64.96 paise/unit, MePTCL annual charge Rs 110.06 crore
8Rajasthan transmission utility RVPN overhauls deposit-works procedure, mandates 100% advance supervision charges and reserves 400/765 kV works to itself Details
CERC Docket
Jul 15:
8CERC proposes Category-III inter-State trading licence for Carbon Resources Pvt Ltd, objections invited by 28 July 2026
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Hydro & Reservoir Ledger
Jul 15:
8Southern reservoirs mostly ran below year-ago levels on 14 July, with Mettur, Idukki and Srisailam all down
8National pumped-storage pipeline stands at 310,104 MW of potential against just 7,426 MW in operation
8Krishna-basin reservoirs Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar sit well below year-ago levels in early monsoon
8Tehri reservoir 10.5 m below year-ago level as northern hydro runs behind programme
8Sardar Sarovar runs about 8 m above last year's level, ahead on monsoon storage
8Odisha's Balimela hydro pond 6.5 ft below year-ago level on 14 July; three of its units out
8Hirakud (Burla) reservoir above last year and spilling with two gates open on 14 July
8Odisha's Chiplima run-of-river station generating 50 MW with all units available on 14 July
8Rengali reservoir in Odisha 7.8 m below year-ago level on 14 July, near minimum draw-down
8Upper Indravati (Mukhiguda) reservoir 3.8 m below last year; station peaked at 548 MW
8Upper Kolab (Bariniput) reservoir 2.7 m below last year with two of four units out
8Machkund hydro station generated zero on 14 July with reservoir 20 ft below last year
8Odisha OHPC hydro fleet averaged 559 MW for 13.4 MU on 14 July
8CEA data shows four of eight 250 MW Subansiri Lower units commissioned by May 2026
8Telangana's Krishna-basin usable reservoir storage down about 86% year-on-year to 39.6 TMC on 15 July 2026
8Srisailam live storage collapses to 10.3 TMC on 15 July 2026, a fraction of the 170.1 TMC held a year earlier
8Nagarjunasagar live storage at 6.2 TMC on 15 July 2026 versus 90.4 TMC a year earlier
8Singur reservoir shows zero live storage on 15 July 2026, down from 9.5 TMC a year earlier
8Pochampad live storage down to 0.3 TMC on 15 July 2026 from 7.4 TMC a year earlier
8Telangana bright spots: Pulichintala and Nizamsagar hold more water on 15 July 2026 than a year earlier Details
8National pumped-storage pipeline stands at 310,104 MW of potential against just 7,426 MW in operation
8Krishna-basin reservoirs Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar sit well below year-ago levels in early monsoon
8Tehri reservoir 10.5 m below year-ago level as northern hydro runs behind programme
8Sardar Sarovar runs about 8 m above last year's level, ahead on monsoon storage
8Odisha's Balimela hydro pond 6.5 ft below year-ago level on 14 July; three of its units out
8Hirakud (Burla) reservoir above last year and spilling with two gates open on 14 July
8Odisha's Chiplima run-of-river station generating 50 MW with all units available on 14 July
8Rengali reservoir in Odisha 7.8 m below year-ago level on 14 July, near minimum draw-down
8Upper Indravati (Mukhiguda) reservoir 3.8 m below last year; station peaked at 548 MW
8Upper Kolab (Bariniput) reservoir 2.7 m below last year with two of four units out
8Machkund hydro station generated zero on 14 July with reservoir 20 ft below last year
8Odisha OHPC hydro fleet averaged 559 MW for 13.4 MU on 14 July
8CEA data shows four of eight 250 MW Subansiri Lower units commissioned by May 2026
8Telangana's Krishna-basin usable reservoir storage down about 86% year-on-year to 39.6 TMC on 15 July 2026
8Srisailam live storage collapses to 10.3 TMC on 15 July 2026, a fraction of the 170.1 TMC held a year earlier
8Nagarjunasagar live storage at 6.2 TMC on 15 July 2026 versus 90.4 TMC a year earlier
8Singur reservoir shows zero live storage on 15 July 2026, down from 9.5 TMC a year earlier
8Pochampad live storage down to 0.3 TMC on 15 July 2026 from 7.4 TMC a year earlier
8Telangana bright spots: Pulichintala and Nizamsagar hold more water on 15 July 2026 than a year earlier Details
Fuel & Coal Ledger
Jul 15:
8All-India power-plant coal stock holds near 42.8 million tonnes on 13 July, 66% of normative with 27 plants critical
8Telangana's 3,200 MW Yadadri TPS runs at 23% PLF on critical coal, with three 800 MW units also on outage
8Reliance Sasan 3,960 MW UMTPP holds 7% of normative coal, thinnest cover among large pithead plants
8Andhra Pradesh state thermal fleet (Dr N. Tata Rao, Rayalaseema, Damodaram Sanjeevaiah) stays on critical coal at 11-21% of normative
8Gujarat's Wanakbori and Madhya Pradesh's Shree Singaji hold 15% of normative coal on rail-supply constraints
8Adani's imported-coal coastal plants (Mundra I-III, Udupi) run 36-56% PLF on 9-11% import stock
8All-India gas-based generation 58 MU on 12 July, 28% below programme; over half of gas/liquid capacity offline
8All-India coal generation 3,442 MU on 12 July; thermal fleet 20.5% on outage, forced outages dominant
8NTPC stations generate 949 MU on 12 July, 1.8% below programme and 2% behind year-to-date target
8Northern region conventional generation 4.8% below programme on 12 July; nuclear runs 18% behind year-to-date Details
8Telangana's 3,200 MW Yadadri TPS runs at 23% PLF on critical coal, with three 800 MW units also on outage
8Reliance Sasan 3,960 MW UMTPP holds 7% of normative coal, thinnest cover among large pithead plants
8Andhra Pradesh state thermal fleet (Dr N. Tata Rao, Rayalaseema, Damodaram Sanjeevaiah) stays on critical coal at 11-21% of normative
8Gujarat's Wanakbori and Madhya Pradesh's Shree Singaji hold 15% of normative coal on rail-supply constraints
8Adani's imported-coal coastal plants (Mundra I-III, Udupi) run 36-56% PLF on 9-11% import stock
8All-India gas-based generation 58 MU on 12 July, 28% below programme; over half of gas/liquid capacity offline
8All-India coal generation 3,442 MU on 12 July; thermal fleet 20.5% on outage, forced outages dominant
8NTPC stations generate 949 MU on 12 July, 1.8% below programme and 2% behind year-to-date target
8Northern region conventional generation 4.8% below programme on 12 July; nuclear runs 18% behind year-to-date Details
Outage & Maintenance Register
Jul 15:
8Two large Southern thermal units - Coastal Energen 600 MW and SEIL 660 MW - remained on forced outage on 14 July
8Kudankulam nuclear Unit 1 (1,000 MW) offline since 8 July on generator protection operation; NPCIL targets 15 July restart
8NTPC Gadarwara Unit 1 (800 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 13 July; largest unit out in Western Region
8Telangana's Yadadri Unit 4 (800 MW) out on coal shortage since 9 July; sister Unit 1 also down for overhaul
8Two Ghatampur supercritical units (2x660 MW) offline three to four weeks on coal-feeding problems
8Obra-C TPS Unit 1 (660 MW) out to 26 July on generator fault as 765 kV Obra-C bus isolator hotspots recur
8Barh (Bihar) has both 660 MW units out - Unit 2 on overhaul after boiler leak, Unit 3 on abnormal boiler sound
8OPGC Unit 3 (660 MW) in Odisha tripped on boiler tube leak on 14 July
8WBPDCL Sagardighi Unit 5 (660 MW) tripped 14 July on critical 220V DC system failure; two-week revival
8SEIL Project-2 Unit 1 (660 MW) in Andhra Pradesh tripped on cooling-water pipeline leak on 14 July
8Adani APL Mundra has three 660 MW units down (U8 clinker, U9 cooling-water leak, U6 overhaul) even as four RSD units returned
8Adani Tiroda Unit 5 (660 MW) in Maharashtra out from 13 July on high air-preheater gearbox vibration
8MahaGenco Bhusawal Unit 6 (660 MW) out on air-preheater fault; Unit 5 (500 MW) simultaneously on capital overhaul
8Anpara-C Unit 2 (600 MW) in UP out to 20 July on hydrogen leakage in the condenser
8Vedanta's 600 MW unit in Chhattisgarh has been out on a PA-fan trip since 14 April, revival now 31 July
8MahaGenco Chandrapur Unit 7 (500 MW) out on flame failure since 6 July, revival slated 10 August
8DVC Raghunathpur (RTPS) Unit 2 (600 MW) out on high turbine vibration since mid-April; revival 11 August
8Adani Coastal Energen Unit 1 (600 MW) in Tamil Nadu tripped 14 July on condenser water-box vent leak
8TNPGCL Mettur has both a 600 MW unit and a 210 MW unit out - Unit 5 on boiler leak, Unit 1 on rotor earth fault
8Hinduja HNPCL Unit 1 (520 MW) in Andhra Pradesh out on condenser tube leak since 12 July
8NTPC Dadri-I Unit 1 (210 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 12 July
8Rajasthan's Kota TPS has two units out - Unit 4 (210 MW) on TG bearing vibration, Unit 1 (110 MW) on vacuum fault
8Harduaganj-D Unit 9 (250 MW) in UP out since 2 July on raw-water non-availability / reheater protection trip
8HPGCL Panipat Unit 6 (210 MW) tripped 14 July on loss of all fuel
8PSPCL Ropar (Guru Gobind Singh) Unit 3 (210 MW) tripped late on 14 July on boiler tube leak
8Rajwest lignite plant loses two 135 MW units to bed-material leakage within days
8Suratgarh super-critical Unit 8 (660 MW) tripped and recovered same day on generator rotor earth fault
8CLP Jhajjar Unit 2 (660 MW) back on 14 July after two-day boiler-tube-leak outage
8CSPGCL Korba East (DSPM) Unit 1 (250 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak while Unit 2 sits on annual overhaul
8GSECL Wanakbori loses two 210 MW units on 14 July to low vacuum and a boiler tube leak
8ACBIL Unit 1 (135 MW) in Chhattisgarh out on low coal stock since mid-June
8WBPDCL Kolaghat Unit 3 (210 MW) out since 18 June after a boiler fire hazard
8Tuticorin Units 1 and 2 (2x210 MW) still out 16 months after a control-room fire; revival now end-2026
8PVUNL Patratu Unit 1 (800 MW) returned 14 July after five days offline on low system demand
8KPCL Bellary Unit 1 (500 MW) tripped twice within hours on 14 July on ID-fan and reverse-power protection
8SJVN Bikaner solar plant lost ~2.5 hours of generation on 14 July after delayed charging of the 400 kV Bikaner-II/III line
8Solapur STPS Unit 1 (660 MW) and Sipat-I Unit 3 (660 MW) among NTPC monsoon overhauls trimming Western Region supply
8About 7,510 MW of thermal capacity tripped or shut on 12 July, led by 685 MW Adani Raipur unit and multiple 660 MW units
8About 6,240 MW returned to grid on 12 July, including Talwandi Sabo (660 MW), Bellary (700 MW) and Neyveli New (500 MW)
8UP's Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (660 MW each) still out since mid-June on coal-feeding-system faults
8Windstorm collapses two towers of the 400 kV Raipur PS (Durg)-Kurud D/C line in Chhattisgarh on 19 May 2026
8220 kV Vapi-II (Sterlite)-Sayali D/C line remains out since September 2024 over a helipad in the corridor
8Wrong line opened: 220 kV Indore (PG)-Ujjain-1 tripped instead of scheduled Ujjain-2 on 15 June 2026, out for over 1.5 hours
8WRLDC lists WR generators taking planned outages without the required WRLDC code, some running days late
8WRPC lists WR transmission elements that tripped repeatedly in Q1 of 2026-27
8IndiGrid seeks Rs 18 crore and change-in-law relief to raise 765 kV Dharamjaygarh-Jabalpur line after Chhattisgarh HC induction case
8WRPC finalises MoU template after Adani's proposed 30-day shutdown of 765 kV Kotra-Tamnar and Kotra-Durg lines for APL Raigarh rail works Details
8Kudankulam nuclear Unit 1 (1,000 MW) offline since 8 July on generator protection operation; NPCIL targets 15 July restart
8NTPC Gadarwara Unit 1 (800 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 13 July; largest unit out in Western Region
8Telangana's Yadadri Unit 4 (800 MW) out on coal shortage since 9 July; sister Unit 1 also down for overhaul
8Two Ghatampur supercritical units (2x660 MW) offline three to four weeks on coal-feeding problems
8Obra-C TPS Unit 1 (660 MW) out to 26 July on generator fault as 765 kV Obra-C bus isolator hotspots recur
8Barh (Bihar) has both 660 MW units out - Unit 2 on overhaul after boiler leak, Unit 3 on abnormal boiler sound
8OPGC Unit 3 (660 MW) in Odisha tripped on boiler tube leak on 14 July
8WBPDCL Sagardighi Unit 5 (660 MW) tripped 14 July on critical 220V DC system failure; two-week revival
8SEIL Project-2 Unit 1 (660 MW) in Andhra Pradesh tripped on cooling-water pipeline leak on 14 July
8Adani APL Mundra has three 660 MW units down (U8 clinker, U9 cooling-water leak, U6 overhaul) even as four RSD units returned
8Adani Tiroda Unit 5 (660 MW) in Maharashtra out from 13 July on high air-preheater gearbox vibration
8MahaGenco Bhusawal Unit 6 (660 MW) out on air-preheater fault; Unit 5 (500 MW) simultaneously on capital overhaul
8Anpara-C Unit 2 (600 MW) in UP out to 20 July on hydrogen leakage in the condenser
8Vedanta's 600 MW unit in Chhattisgarh has been out on a PA-fan trip since 14 April, revival now 31 July
8MahaGenco Chandrapur Unit 7 (500 MW) out on flame failure since 6 July, revival slated 10 August
8DVC Raghunathpur (RTPS) Unit 2 (600 MW) out on high turbine vibration since mid-April; revival 11 August
8Adani Coastal Energen Unit 1 (600 MW) in Tamil Nadu tripped 14 July on condenser water-box vent leak
8TNPGCL Mettur has both a 600 MW unit and a 210 MW unit out - Unit 5 on boiler leak, Unit 1 on rotor earth fault
8Hinduja HNPCL Unit 1 (520 MW) in Andhra Pradesh out on condenser tube leak since 12 July
8NTPC Dadri-I Unit 1 (210 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 12 July
8Rajasthan's Kota TPS has two units out - Unit 4 (210 MW) on TG bearing vibration, Unit 1 (110 MW) on vacuum fault
8Harduaganj-D Unit 9 (250 MW) in UP out since 2 July on raw-water non-availability / reheater protection trip
8HPGCL Panipat Unit 6 (210 MW) tripped 14 July on loss of all fuel
8PSPCL Ropar (Guru Gobind Singh) Unit 3 (210 MW) tripped late on 14 July on boiler tube leak
8Rajwest lignite plant loses two 135 MW units to bed-material leakage within days
8Suratgarh super-critical Unit 8 (660 MW) tripped and recovered same day on generator rotor earth fault
8CLP Jhajjar Unit 2 (660 MW) back on 14 July after two-day boiler-tube-leak outage
8CSPGCL Korba East (DSPM) Unit 1 (250 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak while Unit 2 sits on annual overhaul
8GSECL Wanakbori loses two 210 MW units on 14 July to low vacuum and a boiler tube leak
8ACBIL Unit 1 (135 MW) in Chhattisgarh out on low coal stock since mid-June
8WBPDCL Kolaghat Unit 3 (210 MW) out since 18 June after a boiler fire hazard
8Tuticorin Units 1 and 2 (2x210 MW) still out 16 months after a control-room fire; revival now end-2026
8PVUNL Patratu Unit 1 (800 MW) returned 14 July after five days offline on low system demand
8KPCL Bellary Unit 1 (500 MW) tripped twice within hours on 14 July on ID-fan and reverse-power protection
8SJVN Bikaner solar plant lost ~2.5 hours of generation on 14 July after delayed charging of the 400 kV Bikaner-II/III line
8Solapur STPS Unit 1 (660 MW) and Sipat-I Unit 3 (660 MW) among NTPC monsoon overhauls trimming Western Region supply
8About 7,510 MW of thermal capacity tripped or shut on 12 July, led by 685 MW Adani Raipur unit and multiple 660 MW units
8About 6,240 MW returned to grid on 12 July, including Talwandi Sabo (660 MW), Bellary (700 MW) and Neyveli New (500 MW)
8UP's Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (660 MW each) still out since mid-June on coal-feeding-system faults
8Windstorm collapses two towers of the 400 kV Raipur PS (Durg)-Kurud D/C line in Chhattisgarh on 19 May 2026
8220 kV Vapi-II (Sterlite)-Sayali D/C line remains out since September 2024 over a helipad in the corridor
8Wrong line opened: 220 kV Indore (PG)-Ujjain-1 tripped instead of scheduled Ujjain-2 on 15 June 2026, out for over 1.5 hours
8WRLDC lists WR generators taking planned outages without the required WRLDC code, some running days late
8WRPC lists WR transmission elements that tripped repeatedly in Q1 of 2026-27
8IndiGrid seeks Rs 18 crore and change-in-law relief to raise 765 kV Dharamjaygarh-Jabalpur line after Chhattisgarh HC induction case
8WRPC finalises MoU template after Adani's proposed 30-day shutdown of 765 kV Kotra-Tamnar and Kotra-Durg lines for APL Raigarh rail works Details
Grid Operations Daily
Jul 15:
8All-India power demand met 251,139 MW at evening peak on 14 July with 1,057 MW national shortage
8All-India grid ran over-frequency on 14 July, outside the IEGC 49.90-50.05 Hz band 18.8% of the day
8Ancillary services were net down-regulating on 14 July, with 48,461 MWh of down despatch against 27,810 MWh up
8Northern Region met 86,204 MW evening peak with a 318 MW shortage; Uttar Pradesh carried out unscheduled load shedding
8Western Region met 71,426 MW evening peak with 200 MW shortage; Maharashtra curtailed 100 MW on a 132 kV Sakri-Dhule overload
8Southern Region carried the largest regional shortage on 14 July: 539 MW at evening peak
8Kerala short by 508 MW at maximum demand on 14 July and logged a frequency emergency on the grid code
8Eastern Region met its full 30,861 MW evening peak and ran as a large net exporter on 14 July
8North-Eastern Region met its 3,862 MW peak in full and exported surplus power on 14 July
8Northern Region imported a net 326.9 MU on 14 July, led by the 4,027 MW Champa-Kurukshetra HVDC
8Eastern Region exported 92.4 MU to the South on 14 July, chiefly over the Angul-Srikakulam 765 kV and Talcher-Kolar HVDC
8India imported 52.4 MU from Bhutan and 19.7 MU from Nepal on 14 July while exporting 41.6 MU to Bangladesh
8North-Eastern intra-regional corridors to Assam and Tripura breached TTC and ATC limits on 13 July
8Haryana and Punjab breached ATC limits and Haryana violated N-1 on Northern intra-regional corridors on 14 July
8Rajasthan hit the daily cap of deviation zero-crossing violations on 14 July, running 55 blocks without a sign change
8Eastern Region flagged N-1 violations on the 400 kV Banka-Kahalgaon and MPL-Maithon corridors on 14 July
8Gujarat curtailed about 9 MU of wind and solar on 14 July for grid security and stability
8NLDC's day-ahead SCUC for 15 July committed 48 thermal and gas units below minimum turndown, costliest at Rs 21.85/kWh
8Western Region met its 80,330 MW June 2026 peak with nil shortfall; monthly energy shortfall just 0.05%
8Maharashtra resorts to load shedding on 11 days in June 2026, peaking at 1,850 MW on 27 June
8Chhattisgarh load-sheds on eight days in June 2026, mostly late-night, peaking 779 MW on 29 June
8WRLDC flags persistent Maharashtra over-drawl at low frequency during 25-28 June 2026, with 1,700 MW of coal-hit Mahagenco capacity idle
8400 kV Navsari-Vav single-circuit line loads above 800 MW at night in early July 2026 as intra-Gujarat renewables fall
8Western Gujarat 400 kV nodes run at 432-434 kV overnight, forcing 49 line-switching operations
8Sardar Sarovar 400 kV switchyard runs at 415-420 kV when SSP machines are off, NCA seeks remedy Details
8All-India grid ran over-frequency on 14 July, outside the IEGC 49.90-50.05 Hz band 18.8% of the day
8Ancillary services were net down-regulating on 14 July, with 48,461 MWh of down despatch against 27,810 MWh up
8Northern Region met 86,204 MW evening peak with a 318 MW shortage; Uttar Pradesh carried out unscheduled load shedding
8Western Region met 71,426 MW evening peak with 200 MW shortage; Maharashtra curtailed 100 MW on a 132 kV Sakri-Dhule overload
8Southern Region carried the largest regional shortage on 14 July: 539 MW at evening peak
8Kerala short by 508 MW at maximum demand on 14 July and logged a frequency emergency on the grid code
8Eastern Region met its full 30,861 MW evening peak and ran as a large net exporter on 14 July
8North-Eastern Region met its 3,862 MW peak in full and exported surplus power on 14 July
8Northern Region imported a net 326.9 MU on 14 July, led by the 4,027 MW Champa-Kurukshetra HVDC
8Eastern Region exported 92.4 MU to the South on 14 July, chiefly over the Angul-Srikakulam 765 kV and Talcher-Kolar HVDC
8India imported 52.4 MU from Bhutan and 19.7 MU from Nepal on 14 July while exporting 41.6 MU to Bangladesh
8North-Eastern intra-regional corridors to Assam and Tripura breached TTC and ATC limits on 13 July
8Haryana and Punjab breached ATC limits and Haryana violated N-1 on Northern intra-regional corridors on 14 July
8Rajasthan hit the daily cap of deviation zero-crossing violations on 14 July, running 55 blocks without a sign change
8Eastern Region flagged N-1 violations on the 400 kV Banka-Kahalgaon and MPL-Maithon corridors on 14 July
8Gujarat curtailed about 9 MU of wind and solar on 14 July for grid security and stability
8NLDC's day-ahead SCUC for 15 July committed 48 thermal and gas units below minimum turndown, costliest at Rs 21.85/kWh
8Western Region met its 80,330 MW June 2026 peak with nil shortfall; monthly energy shortfall just 0.05%
8Maharashtra resorts to load shedding on 11 days in June 2026, peaking at 1,850 MW on 27 June
8Chhattisgarh load-sheds on eight days in June 2026, mostly late-night, peaking 779 MW on 29 June
8WRLDC flags persistent Maharashtra over-drawl at low frequency during 25-28 June 2026, with 1,700 MW of coal-hit Mahagenco capacity idle
8400 kV Navsari-Vav single-circuit line loads above 800 MW at night in early July 2026 as intra-Gujarat renewables fall
8Western Gujarat 400 kV nodes run at 432-434 kV overnight, forcing 49 line-switching operations
8Sardar Sarovar 400 kV switchyard runs at 415-420 kV when SSP machines are off, NCA seeks remedy Details
Power Markets Daily
Jul 15:
8IEX Day-Ahead Market clears at Rs 6.33/kWh average on 14 July, evening and night blocks pinned to the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8IEX Real-Time Market clears 172,398 MWh at Rs 5.87/kWh average on 14 July, peaks at the ceiling
8IEX Green Day-Ahead Market clears just 28,423 MWh at Rs 5.97/kWh on 14 July as green buy bids run ~4.8x green supply
8IEX High-Price Day-Ahead Market clears nothing for a seventh straight day despite ~72,000 MWh/day of sell offers
8IEX Term-Ahead Market daily and intraday contracts clear at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8IEX Green Term-Ahead Market: solar/daily-contingency legs clear near the Rs 10/kWh ceiling, wind contracts at Rs 5.90/kWh
8PXIL Real-Time Market clears 650 MWh on 14 July, entirely at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8PXIL contingency/DSM auction clears ~956 MW of buy across three evening blocks at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8Third exchange RTM clears only 50 MWh on 14 July, all at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8UPPCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy up to 315 MW of evening-peak power for September 2026
8WBSEDCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy 300 MW off-peak and 300 MW peak power for August 2026 Details
8IEX Real-Time Market clears 172,398 MWh at Rs 5.87/kWh average on 14 July, peaks at the ceiling
8IEX Green Day-Ahead Market clears just 28,423 MWh at Rs 5.97/kWh on 14 July as green buy bids run ~4.8x green supply
8IEX High-Price Day-Ahead Market clears nothing for a seventh straight day despite ~72,000 MWh/day of sell offers
8IEX Term-Ahead Market daily and intraday contracts clear at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8IEX Green Term-Ahead Market: solar/daily-contingency legs clear near the Rs 10/kWh ceiling, wind contracts at Rs 5.90/kWh
8PXIL Real-Time Market clears 650 MWh on 14 July, entirely at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8PXIL contingency/DSM auction clears ~956 MW of buy across three evening blocks at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8Third exchange RTM clears only 50 MWh on 14 July, all at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8UPPCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy up to 315 MW of evening-peak power for September 2026
8WBSEDCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy 300 MW off-peak and 300 MW peak power for August 2026 Details
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Jul 15:
For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Tender for supply of multipurpose grease, lithium base grease and oil Details
8Tender for supply, installation commissioning of C and I spares for Jockey pump, hydrant pump, cable gallery Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for C and I part of FDPS (fire detection and protection system) installed Details
8Tender for construction of 02 Nos. fire wall at GT yard Details
8Tender for supply design erection testing and commissioning of 11kV HT line Details
8Tender for levelling, laying PCC, gravel and construction of trench covers at 132/33/11 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for providing newly proposed 11/0.4 kV 63 KVA S/stn. Details
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 220kV & 66kV equipments & materials Details
8Tender for work of erection and commissioning of 220kV and 132kV equipment, structures, control wiring etc Details
8Tender for Bi- annual rate contract for work of erection of 66kV transmission towers Details
8Tender for work of boiler tube surface preparation, thickness survey measurement with party’s D-meter Details
8Design, supply, installation, retrofitting, testing and commissioning of 220kV bus barpanel/scheme, 220 kV bus coupler relay scheme Details
8Tender for supply of 90/10 cupronickel condenser tubes Details
8Tender for supply of various lighting products Details
8Tender for work of penthouse roof restrengthening and repairing in boilers Details
8Tender for work of IN SITU repairing/overhauling of high energy drain valves and other low/medium/high pressure and temperature steam/water valves Details
8Tender for work of constructions of new maintenance free earth pit at 220 kV & 400kV switchyard Details
8Tender for supply of MS grill and fabrication & epoxy paint of stairs, railing, structure Details
8Tender for work of removal, supply and application of spray thermal insulation on drive turbines Details
8Tender for work of preventive maintenance of various 220 kV switchyard Details
8Tender for constructing new 11kV UG cable Details
8Tender for construction of 33 kV link line Details
8Tender for separation of 33 kV line Details
8Tender for work of transportation installation and commissioning of emergency restoration system ERS tower Details
8Tender for increasing capacity at 220 kV substation Details
8Tender for construction work of multipurpose seed store Details
8Tender for repairing and renovation of 09 Nos. existing bore holes and lowering and lifting Details
8Tender for carrying out miscellaneous job Details
8Tender for day to day comprehensive maintenance of civil and electrical works Details
8Tender for distribution of plant saplings Details
8Tender for supplying and laying of filled bag Details
8Tender for construction of 400kV (quad moose) 2nd D/C line Details
8Tender for purchase of sewage treatment plant Details
8Tender for construction of store in yard at 220 kV GSS Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing along with end bays Details
8Tender for assistance for maintenance and repair of electrical equipment Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of boilers Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of various Details
8Tender for tit bit civil work Details
8Tender for day-to-day operation of pumps, motors, and valves for the water supply system Details
8Tender for repair and renovation of the pump house Details
8Tender for misc. civil works inside Details
8Tender for upgradation/revamping of fire fighting facilities Details
8Tender for construction of pavement quality concrete Details
8Tender for construction of shed for hydro-mechanical (HM) works Details
8Tender for construction of damaged retaining wall on right bank Details
8Tender for work of HT LE using UG cable Details
8Tender for procurement of steel section quantity Details
8Tender for supply erection and commissioning of 20 torch panel welding machine Details
8Tender for balance civil and architectural works of main plant FGD civil works Details
8Tender for strengthening of crusher house Details
8Tender for development of water recharge shafts Details
8Tender for repair & rehabilitation works of 220 M height RCC chimney Details
8Tender for supply and installation of fills for stage 2 cooling tower Details
8Tender for earth mat extension and metalling work beyond 220kV fencing side at 220kV substation Details
8Tender for replacement of insulators from 110 kV substation Details
8Tender for award of contract for system strengthening works for survey, installation, testing and commissioning of new 5 MVA 33/11kV substation Details
8Tender for construction of RR masonry revetment wall at various Details
8Tender for procurement of power contactor and auxiliary contactor relays Details
8Tender for procurement of pneumatic fittings, tubings, hose and valves Details
8Tender for construction of coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for construction of road between coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for procurement of pressure switches and differential pressure switches Details
8Tender for supply of 9M long PCC poles Details
8Tender for supply of 10 KVA 11/0.433 kV aluminium wound EEL1 completely self protected (CSP) distribution transformers Details
8Tender for supply of 33kV single circuit ungalvanized steel lattice structure Details
8Tender for purchase of suspension type wave trap Details
8Tender for requirement of spares for service transformers installed Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for supply of TC fuse wire 12 SWG and 14 SWG Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance of minor civil and structural work Details
8Tender for procurement of conveyor belt Details
8Tender for service contract for evacuation job of accumulated ash and coal from all ducts of boiler during Details
8Tender for intermidiate additional pole between long spans in 11 kV and LT line Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines and 11/0.4 kV DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for augmentation of substation by replacement of 1X25 MVA 220/33kV T/F Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by replacement of 2x100MVA, 220/132kV ICTs Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by providing addition 1X100MVA 220/132kV ICT along with HV & LV bays Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for carrying out work of dismantling, erection & other allied activities in planned outage & emergency/breakdown for power transformers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 245 & 145 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 36 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for AMC for CTR make nitrogen injection fire protection system (NIFPS) for ICTs & transformer Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on existing of 132kV SCDC line Details
8Tender for second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract (AMC) for the demonstration, preventive maintenance as well as repairing work including supply of required spare of nitrogen injection fire protection systems Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance contract for the work of restoration of collapsed towers in emergency/breakdown situation of EHV lines Details
8Tender for work of dismantling of existing 132kV & 220kV various equipments Details
8Tender for work of supply, civil and ETC of replacement of 220kV & 132kV CTs and PTs Details
8Tender for work of erection, testing and commissioning of dedicated 400kV metering current transformer Details
8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 50MVA, 132/33kV power T/F along Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation capacity of substation by providing 1x100MVA, 220/132kV ICT along Details
8Tender for work of SITC of SCADA system along with integration of 25Nos. of bays and replacement of existing faulty relays Details
8Tender for work of establishment of 132-110/33 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for work of establishment of link line between 220kV phase 1 sub-station Details
8Tender for AMC for regular maintenance work, outage work and attending emergency breakdown work of 220 kV & 400 kV transmission lines Details
8Tender for works of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 1 x 100 MVA, 220/132 kV ICT along with bay equipments Details
You can also click on Tenders for more
For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
8Linde India raises stake in Zenataris Renewable Energy Details
8India's renewable energy expansion to be driven by domestic firms: EY, Centrum Details
8India Rooftop Solar Market Surges in 2026 as PM Surya Ghar Drives Record Residential Adoption Details
8Eco Solutions Subsidiary Bags Rs 72.06 Crore Orders for Solar Inverters and BESS Details
8Waaree Energies Share: UBS Reduces Its Valuation and Sees Multiple Risks in the Company Details
8KEC International shares up 4%: Bags Rs 1,180 crore orders across T&D, renewables, civil businesses Details
8Manufacturing Lines: Building flexibility into solar production for the next technology shift Details
8From Coal to Code: How India’s Top PSUs Are Embracing AI Details
8ECL Signs MoU with WBFDCL to Plant 2.11 Lakh Saplings in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman Details
8Coal gasification can cut imports, but at a high cost Details
8India Hits Record 57 GW Wind Capacity Details
8Shell divests 5GW of wind and solar assets in India, with local energy group acquiring them to expand its footprint. Details
8Wheels India Board Approves Fund Raising of Up to Rs 400 Crore to Support Growth Plans Details
8Blueleaf Energy Secures $75M Debt for 850MW Renewable Projects Details
8Top 33 Power Sector Stocks to Watch in India 2026 Details
8India’s power demand growth to drive INR 50 trillion investment by FY32 Details
8APTEL Judgment Reinforces Regulatory Certainty And Boosts Investor Confidence In India’s Power Sector Details
8Tata Power share price target: 29% upside Why MOFSL is bullish on this Tata stock post AGM Details
8Vedanta Targets Major Expansion in Metals, Oil, and Power Sectors Details
8Birla's power play to reshape India's green grid Details
8NICCI Senior Advisor Attends India–Nepal Power Sector Luncheon Meeting Details
8Adani Group Breaks Into India's Top 10 Most Valuable Brands; Adani Power Leads Energy Rankings Details
8Green Energy Sector Shows Pockets Of Strength In Weak Market Session Details
8How ethanol and green energy changed Uttar Pradesh’s sugar industry Details
8India moves closer to its first geothermal power plant as ONGC drills second geothermal well in Ladakh Details
8GERC Invites Consultants To Develop Simplified And Future-Ready Retail Electricity Tariff Framework In Gujarat Details
8Centre to launch eighth critical mineral auction, offering 20 blocks Details
8WTTC projects India to become world’s fourth-largest Travel & Tourism economy by 2036 Details
8Data Centres and manufacturing may drive Rs 50 trillion power investment, but risks hitting a transmission wall Details
8RECPDCL Signs MoA for 1 MW Solar Power Plant at Gandhigram Rural Institute to Boost Clean Energy Adoption Details
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8Tender for supply of multipurpose grease, lithium base grease and oil Details
8Tender for supply, installation commissioning of C and I spares for Jockey pump, hydrant pump, cable gallery Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for C and I part of FDPS (fire detection and protection system) installed Details
8Tender for construction of 02 Nos. fire wall at GT yard Details
8Tender for supply design erection testing and commissioning of 11kV HT line Details
8Tender for levelling, laying PCC, gravel and construction of trench covers at 132/33/11 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for providing newly proposed 11/0.4 kV 63 KVA S/stn. Details
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 220kV & 66kV equipments & materials Details
8Tender for work of erection and commissioning of 220kV and 132kV equipment, structures, control wiring etc Details
8Tender for Bi- annual rate contract for work of erection of 66kV transmission towers Details
8Tender for work of boiler tube surface preparation, thickness survey measurement with party’s D-meter Details
8Design, supply, installation, retrofitting, testing and commissioning of 220kV bus barpanel/scheme, 220 kV bus coupler relay scheme Details
8Tender for supply of 90/10 cupronickel condenser tubes Details
8Tender for supply of various lighting products Details
8Tender for work of penthouse roof restrengthening and repairing in boilers Details
8Tender for work of IN SITU repairing/overhauling of high energy drain valves and other low/medium/high pressure and temperature steam/water valves Details
8Tender for work of constructions of new maintenance free earth pit at 220 kV & 400kV switchyard Details
8Tender for supply of MS grill and fabrication & epoxy paint of stairs, railing, structure Details
8Tender for work of removal, supply and application of spray thermal insulation on drive turbines Details
8Tender for work of preventive maintenance of various 220 kV switchyard Details
8Tender for constructing new 11kV UG cable Details
8Tender for construction of 33 kV link line Details
8Tender for separation of 33 kV line Details
8Tender for work of transportation installation and commissioning of emergency restoration system ERS tower Details
8Tender for increasing capacity at 220 kV substation Details
8Tender for construction work of multipurpose seed store Details
8Tender for repairing and renovation of 09 Nos. existing bore holes and lowering and lifting Details
8Tender for carrying out miscellaneous job Details
8Tender for day to day comprehensive maintenance of civil and electrical works Details
8Tender for distribution of plant saplings Details
8Tender for supplying and laying of filled bag Details
8Tender for construction of 400kV (quad moose) 2nd D/C line Details
8Tender for purchase of sewage treatment plant Details
8Tender for construction of store in yard at 220 kV GSS Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing along with end bays Details
8Tender for assistance for maintenance and repair of electrical equipment Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of boilers Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of various Details
8Tender for tit bit civil work Details
8Tender for day-to-day operation of pumps, motors, and valves for the water supply system Details
8Tender for repair and renovation of the pump house Details
8Tender for misc. civil works inside Details
8Tender for upgradation/revamping of fire fighting facilities Details
8Tender for construction of pavement quality concrete Details
8Tender for construction of shed for hydro-mechanical (HM) works Details
8Tender for construction of damaged retaining wall on right bank Details
8Tender for work of HT LE using UG cable Details
8Tender for procurement of steel section quantity Details
8Tender for supply erection and commissioning of 20 torch panel welding machine Details
8Tender for balance civil and architectural works of main plant FGD civil works Details
8Tender for strengthening of crusher house Details
8Tender for development of water recharge shafts Details
8Tender for repair & rehabilitation works of 220 M height RCC chimney Details
8Tender for supply and installation of fills for stage 2 cooling tower Details
8Tender for earth mat extension and metalling work beyond 220kV fencing side at 220kV substation Details
8Tender for replacement of insulators from 110 kV substation Details
8Tender for award of contract for system strengthening works for survey, installation, testing and commissioning of new 5 MVA 33/11kV substation Details
8Tender for construction of RR masonry revetment wall at various Details
8Tender for procurement of power contactor and auxiliary contactor relays Details
8Tender for procurement of pneumatic fittings, tubings, hose and valves Details
8Tender for construction of coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for construction of road between coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for procurement of pressure switches and differential pressure switches Details
8Tender for supply of 9M long PCC poles Details
8Tender for supply of 10 KVA 11/0.433 kV aluminium wound EEL1 completely self protected (CSP) distribution transformers Details
8Tender for supply of 33kV single circuit ungalvanized steel lattice structure Details
8Tender for purchase of suspension type wave trap Details
8Tender for requirement of spares for service transformers installed Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for supply of TC fuse wire 12 SWG and 14 SWG Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance of minor civil and structural work Details
8Tender for procurement of conveyor belt Details
8Tender for service contract for evacuation job of accumulated ash and coal from all ducts of boiler during Details
8Tender for intermidiate additional pole between long spans in 11 kV and LT line Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines and 11/0.4 kV DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for augmentation of substation by replacement of 1X25 MVA 220/33kV T/F Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by replacement of 2x100MVA, 220/132kV ICTs Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by providing addition 1X100MVA 220/132kV ICT along with HV & LV bays Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for carrying out work of dismantling, erection & other allied activities in planned outage & emergency/breakdown for power transformers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 245 & 145 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 36 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for AMC for CTR make nitrogen injection fire protection system (NIFPS) for ICTs & transformer Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on existing of 132kV SCDC line Details
8Tender for second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract (AMC) for the demonstration, preventive maintenance as well as repairing work including supply of required spare of nitrogen injection fire protection systems Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance contract for the work of restoration of collapsed towers in emergency/breakdown situation of EHV lines Details
8Tender for work of dismantling of existing 132kV & 220kV various equipments Details
8Tender for work of supply, civil and ETC of replacement of 220kV & 132kV CTs and PTs Details
8Tender for work of erection, testing and commissioning of dedicated 400kV metering current transformer Details
8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 50MVA, 132/33kV power T/F along Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation capacity of substation by providing 1x100MVA, 220/132kV ICT along Details
8Tender for work of SITC of SCADA system along with integration of 25Nos. of bays and replacement of existing faulty relays Details
8Tender for work of establishment of 132-110/33 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for work of establishment of link line between 220kV phase 1 sub-station Details
8Tender for AMC for regular maintenance work, outage work and attending emergency breakdown work of 220 kV & 400 kV transmission lines Details
8Tender for works of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 1 x 100 MVA, 220/132 kV ICT along with bay equipments Details
You can also click on Tenders for more
For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
8Linde India raises stake in Zenataris Renewable Energy Details
8India's renewable energy expansion to be driven by domestic firms: EY, Centrum Details
8India Rooftop Solar Market Surges in 2026 as PM Surya Ghar Drives Record Residential Adoption Details
8Eco Solutions Subsidiary Bags Rs 72.06 Crore Orders for Solar Inverters and BESS Details
8Waaree Energies Share: UBS Reduces Its Valuation and Sees Multiple Risks in the Company Details
8KEC International shares up 4%: Bags Rs 1,180 crore orders across T&D, renewables, civil businesses Details
8Manufacturing Lines: Building flexibility into solar production for the next technology shift Details
8From Coal to Code: How India’s Top PSUs Are Embracing AI Details
8ECL Signs MoU with WBFDCL to Plant 2.11 Lakh Saplings in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman Details
8Coal gasification can cut imports, but at a high cost Details
8India Hits Record 57 GW Wind Capacity Details
8Shell divests 5GW of wind and solar assets in India, with local energy group acquiring them to expand its footprint. Details
8Wheels India Board Approves Fund Raising of Up to Rs 400 Crore to Support Growth Plans Details
8Blueleaf Energy Secures $75M Debt for 850MW Renewable Projects Details
8Top 33 Power Sector Stocks to Watch in India 2026 Details
8India’s power demand growth to drive INR 50 trillion investment by FY32 Details
8APTEL Judgment Reinforces Regulatory Certainty And Boosts Investor Confidence In India’s Power Sector Details
8Tata Power share price target: 29% upside Why MOFSL is bullish on this Tata stock post AGM Details
8Vedanta Targets Major Expansion in Metals, Oil, and Power Sectors Details
8Birla's power play to reshape India's green grid Details
8NICCI Senior Advisor Attends India–Nepal Power Sector Luncheon Meeting Details
8Adani Group Breaks Into India's Top 10 Most Valuable Brands; Adani Power Leads Energy Rankings Details
8Green Energy Sector Shows Pockets Of Strength In Weak Market Session Details
8How ethanol and green energy changed Uttar Pradesh’s sugar industry Details
8India moves closer to its first geothermal power plant as ONGC drills second geothermal well in Ladakh Details
8GERC Invites Consultants To Develop Simplified And Future-Ready Retail Electricity Tariff Framework In Gujarat Details
8Centre to launch eighth critical mineral auction, offering 20 blocks Details
8WTTC projects India to become world’s fourth-largest Travel & Tourism economy by 2036 Details
8Data Centres and manufacturing may drive Rs 50 trillion power investment, but risks hitting a transmission wall Details
8RECPDCL Signs MoA for 1 MW Solar Power Plant at Gandhigram Rural Institute to Boost Clean Energy Adoption Details
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Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update
Jul 15:
8Daily Excel covering new tenders and all published updates including corrigendum, amendment, addendum, clarification and status revisions, along with technical and financial bid opening, evaluation completion and final award actions including AOC and LOA issuance.
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POWER MARKETS DAILY
Jul 14:
8IEX Real-Time Market clears at a weekly high of Rs 5.25 a unit on the thinnest volume of the week
8Green Day-Ahead Market firms to Rs 4.02 a unit, the only active green segment
8Term-ahead trades cling to the price ceiling; PXIL deviation market clears nothing
8Hydro day-ahead segment draws sellers but no buyers all week
8Intraday volume-profile products barely trade, and only at the cap Details
8Green Day-Ahead Market firms to Rs 4.02 a unit, the only active green segment
8Term-ahead trades cling to the price ceiling; PXIL deviation market clears nothing
8Hydro day-ahead segment draws sellers but no buyers all week
8Intraday volume-profile products barely trade, and only at the cap Details
GRID OPERATIONS DAILY
Jul 14:
8All-India demand held near 251 GW on 13 July with an energy shortage of just 0.17%
8Frequency stayed in band 84% of the day but spent twice as long high as low
8Reliability indices clean nationally; localised violations at Dadra & Nagar Haveli and voltage deviations in Rajasthan and Karnataka
8Ancillary despatch ran firmly downward on 13 July - but far less than mid-week
8Regional peaks reconcile; the only material residual shortage is a Kerala pocket Details
8Frequency stayed in band 84% of the day but spent twice as long high as low
8Reliability indices clean nationally; localised violations at Dadra & Nagar Haveli and voltage deviations in Rajasthan and Karnataka
8Ancillary despatch ran firmly downward on 13 July - but far less than mid-week
8Regional peaks reconcile; the only material residual shortage is a Kerala pocket Details
Power Markets Daily
Jul 17:
8Day-ahead and real-time prices at fresh highs
Day-ahead cleared Rs 7,284/MWh for 17 July (Rs 7,049 for the 16th; Rs 2,490 on 12 July); real-time averaged Rs 7,723/MWh on 16 July before easing to Rs 6,911; green day-ahead firmed to Rs 7,024. Night blocks repeatedly hit the Rs 10,000 ceiling. Cleared volumes were ordinary (day-ahead 148,764 MWh for the 17th); the move is on price, driven by an evening buy-side scramble, not by volume.
8Demand near an all-time high
Maximum demand met 270,203 MW on 16 July, against the 270.8 GW national record of 21 May; energy met 6,002 MU. A monsoon peak this close to a heatwave peak is the demand signal behind the price move.
8Term-ahead and intraday markets pinned to the ceiling, clearing only in the evening
IEX term-ahead and green term-ahead contracts traded thin and mostly at the Rs 10,000 ceiling, with genuine clearing only in round-the-clock products (term-ahead round-the-clock West cleared 2,640 MWh at about Rs 7,953). The intraday segment cleared nothing all day. Real-time cleared only from about 19:30, and the PXIL deviation market only between 20:30 and 23:00 - buyers paying the ceiling, then Rs 5,500 - confirming the scarcity is a post-solar evening event.
8High-price and ancillary day-ahead segments did not clear
The high-price day-ahead market drew a sell-only book of about 72,000 MWh with no matching demand and no clearing price for a second running day; the ancillary-services day-ahead segment saw no bids and no activity all week. The unused sell-side capacity is another marker of daytime surplus.
8GUVNL floats a 400 MW reverse auction across three exchanges
Hindustan Power Exchange circular HPX_RA_01056 (16 July) sets a single-side reverse auction for Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam - three tranches of 400 MW covering 23–31 July, August and September, ceiling Rs 10,000/MWh, energy of any type - with the e-auction on 18 July; parallel auctions run on IEX and PXIL. A large discom buying blocks two to three months out is the mirror image of the evening-peak tightness. Details
Day-ahead cleared Rs 7,284/MWh for 17 July (Rs 7,049 for the 16th; Rs 2,490 on 12 July); real-time averaged Rs 7,723/MWh on 16 July before easing to Rs 6,911; green day-ahead firmed to Rs 7,024. Night blocks repeatedly hit the Rs 10,000 ceiling. Cleared volumes were ordinary (day-ahead 148,764 MWh for the 17th); the move is on price, driven by an evening buy-side scramble, not by volume.
8Demand near an all-time high
Maximum demand met 270,203 MW on 16 July, against the 270.8 GW national record of 21 May; energy met 6,002 MU. A monsoon peak this close to a heatwave peak is the demand signal behind the price move.
8Term-ahead and intraday markets pinned to the ceiling, clearing only in the evening
IEX term-ahead and green term-ahead contracts traded thin and mostly at the Rs 10,000 ceiling, with genuine clearing only in round-the-clock products (term-ahead round-the-clock West cleared 2,640 MWh at about Rs 7,953). The intraday segment cleared nothing all day. Real-time cleared only from about 19:30, and the PXIL deviation market only between 20:30 and 23:00 - buyers paying the ceiling, then Rs 5,500 - confirming the scarcity is a post-solar evening event.
8High-price and ancillary day-ahead segments did not clear
The high-price day-ahead market drew a sell-only book of about 72,000 MWh with no matching demand and no clearing price for a second running day; the ancillary-services day-ahead segment saw no bids and no activity all week. The unused sell-side capacity is another marker of daytime surplus.
8GUVNL floats a 400 MW reverse auction across three exchanges
Hindustan Power Exchange circular HPX_RA_01056 (16 July) sets a single-side reverse auction for Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam - three tranches of 400 MW covering 23–31 July, August and September, ceiling Rs 10,000/MWh, energy of any type - with the e-auction on 18 July; parallel auctions run on IEX and PXIL. A large discom buying blocks two to three months out is the mirror image of the evening-peak tightness. Details
Grid Operations Daily
Jul 17:
8Frequency ran low, not high
On 16 July the frequency was inside the 49.9–50.05 Hz band 64.3 percent of the time, but it spent almost twice as long below the band (23.3 percent) as above it (12.4 percent), touching a low of 49.508 Hz at 06:18. After weeks of running high on surplus, a day that dips low points to tighter mornings and a stretched evening ramp rather than pure oversupply.
8The grid was net backing down, with costly gas left idle
Ancillary services backed generation down by a net 4,565 MWh on 16 July (31,543 down against 26,978 up), and NLDC's unit-commitment table shows eight RLNG-gas stations committed but scheduled at zero. The system was comfortable on energy through the day; see Story 1.
8A busbar-protection event at Vemagiri cost 1,400 MW for fourteen minutes
At 11:52 on 16 July a jumper cut on a 220 kV bus-coupler at Vemagiri (Andhra Pradesh) operated the busbar protection, tripping the Vemagiri transformers and then Guddigudem's on load transfer, for a load loss of about 1,400 MW; supply was restored by 12:06. A short, sharp reminder that single-point bus faults still take large blocks off instantly.
8National corridors clean, but Tripura's import path ran over its limit for nearly 20 hours
Nationally, inter-regional transfer and N-1 criteria showed zero violations on 16 July. Inside the North-East, though, the Tripura import corridor breached its available transfer capability for 19.7 hours on 15 July (82 percent of the day) and the Assam corridor for five - the chronic evacuation constraint behind the region's defence-scheme strain (see Story 4).
8A southern bus ran persistently over-voltage at Cuddapah
The 765 kV bus at Cuddapah spent 38 percent of 16 July above 800 kV, peaking at 813 kV - the day's largest voltage deviation, with smaller high-voltage excursions at Nizamabad, Maheshwaram and two Gujarat buses. Light evening loading on a high-voltage backbone with reactive support lagging; no low-voltage violations were recorded nationally.
8Weak primary frequency response from two North-East stations
NERLDC's June frequency-response scorecard rates Doyang hydro at 0.02 and Palatana gas at 0.21 on a scale to 1.0 - near-absent governor response - while Bongaigaon and Kopili scored a full 1.0. Poor primary response from large machines is what forces the ancillary market to do more of the second-by-second balancing.
8Eastern demand was chronically under-forecast
ERLDC's day-ahead load forecast for 16 July ran a mean error of 7.5 percent and under-called actual demand by up to about 3,900 MW through the midday blocks; the intraday forecast was tight at 1.4 percent. Day-ahead under-forecasting in a rising-demand month feeds straight into next-day exchange buying.
8A CT burst at Biharsharif cascaded to a 110 MW blackout when a breaker failed to open
On 26 June a current-transformer burst at Biharsharif faulted the bus, and the bus-coupler breaker's pole failed to open mechanically - so the fault spread to the second bus and cascaded to a 110 MW blackout, with the disturbance recorder found not time-synchronised. A single CT failure turning into a station blackout is exactly the latent mechanical defect a protection audit is meant to catch.
8Santaldih lost 225 MW when a bus-shift flashed over mid-operation
On 4 June a heavy flashover during a live shift of a unit from one bus to another at Santaldih operated the busbar differential and tripped the whole switchyard, losing 225 MW of generation and 92 MW of load. The committee's lesson is blunt: finish the feeder rearrangement before splitting a bus, not during it.
8Godda and Pakur lost load twice as healthy lines tripped with the faulted ones
Two events at Godda/Pakur (17 and 25 June, 168 and 216 MW of load lost) saw faults on the Madanpur lines simultaneously trip healthy parallel circuits; the Jharkhand utility must explain why an auto-reclose did not operate and segregate its special-protection outputs. Sympathetic tripping of sound lines is the signature of a protection-coordination gap.
8A Buxar transformer tripped on a setting that breaks the region's protection rule
On 11 June a Buxar transformer tripped on a standby-earth-fault element set to a fixed one-second delay rather than the eastern region's inverse-time philosophy - a settings mismatch the operator has asked the utility to correct. Small on its own, it is the kind of non-standard setting that turns an external fault into an unnecessary trip.
8Generation ran above programme on 15 July, but hydro is lagging
CEA's daily generation report puts all-India output at 5,020 MU on 15 July against a 4,485 MU programme. Year-to-date, eastern hydro is 32 percent below target and north-eastern 12 percent below, while northern nuclear runs 18 percent short - the shortfalls that a monsoon is supposed to be curing.
8Darbhanga went dark on 29 June though the fault cleared in under 100 milliseconds
At Darbhanga on 29 June a phase-to-earth fault cleared in under a tenth of a second, yet both 220 kV lines and both 400/220 kV transformers tripped together and the station went dark. The phasor records show the fault was cleared fast, so why healthy elements tripped with it is unexplained, and the two transmission utilities' reports are still awaited - the signature of a protection-logic fault rather than the fault itself.
8A north-eastern voltage problem is now spilling into Bhutan's grid
Chronic low voltage around Rangia in Assam - worse whenever a Bongaigaon–Rangia circuit is out - has Assam pulling so much power through a 132 kV tie to Motanga that it stresses the Bhutan system, whose operator has asked to open the tie from its end. The region's voltage weakness now crosses an international border, and the fix - a 400/220 kV substation at Rangia - is still pending.
8A Nagaland protection scheme keeps shedding load with no fault to answer for
Unequal loading on two parallel 132 kV lines at Dimapur keeps pushing one phase over the special-protection-scheme pickup, shedding load three times in late June and early July with no actual fault; the root cause is still not found. A defence scheme that fires on a loading imbalance is itself a reliability risk, not a safeguard. Details
On 16 July the frequency was inside the 49.9–50.05 Hz band 64.3 percent of the time, but it spent almost twice as long below the band (23.3 percent) as above it (12.4 percent), touching a low of 49.508 Hz at 06:18. After weeks of running high on surplus, a day that dips low points to tighter mornings and a stretched evening ramp rather than pure oversupply.
8The grid was net backing down, with costly gas left idle
Ancillary services backed generation down by a net 4,565 MWh on 16 July (31,543 down against 26,978 up), and NLDC's unit-commitment table shows eight RLNG-gas stations committed but scheduled at zero. The system was comfortable on energy through the day; see Story 1.
8A busbar-protection event at Vemagiri cost 1,400 MW for fourteen minutes
At 11:52 on 16 July a jumper cut on a 220 kV bus-coupler at Vemagiri (Andhra Pradesh) operated the busbar protection, tripping the Vemagiri transformers and then Guddigudem's on load transfer, for a load loss of about 1,400 MW; supply was restored by 12:06. A short, sharp reminder that single-point bus faults still take large blocks off instantly.
8National corridors clean, but Tripura's import path ran over its limit for nearly 20 hours
Nationally, inter-regional transfer and N-1 criteria showed zero violations on 16 July. Inside the North-East, though, the Tripura import corridor breached its available transfer capability for 19.7 hours on 15 July (82 percent of the day) and the Assam corridor for five - the chronic evacuation constraint behind the region's defence-scheme strain (see Story 4).
8A southern bus ran persistently over-voltage at Cuddapah
The 765 kV bus at Cuddapah spent 38 percent of 16 July above 800 kV, peaking at 813 kV - the day's largest voltage deviation, with smaller high-voltage excursions at Nizamabad, Maheshwaram and two Gujarat buses. Light evening loading on a high-voltage backbone with reactive support lagging; no low-voltage violations were recorded nationally.
8Weak primary frequency response from two North-East stations
NERLDC's June frequency-response scorecard rates Doyang hydro at 0.02 and Palatana gas at 0.21 on a scale to 1.0 - near-absent governor response - while Bongaigaon and Kopili scored a full 1.0. Poor primary response from large machines is what forces the ancillary market to do more of the second-by-second balancing.
8Eastern demand was chronically under-forecast
ERLDC's day-ahead load forecast for 16 July ran a mean error of 7.5 percent and under-called actual demand by up to about 3,900 MW through the midday blocks; the intraday forecast was tight at 1.4 percent. Day-ahead under-forecasting in a rising-demand month feeds straight into next-day exchange buying.
8A CT burst at Biharsharif cascaded to a 110 MW blackout when a breaker failed to open
On 26 June a current-transformer burst at Biharsharif faulted the bus, and the bus-coupler breaker's pole failed to open mechanically - so the fault spread to the second bus and cascaded to a 110 MW blackout, with the disturbance recorder found not time-synchronised. A single CT failure turning into a station blackout is exactly the latent mechanical defect a protection audit is meant to catch.
8Santaldih lost 225 MW when a bus-shift flashed over mid-operation
On 4 June a heavy flashover during a live shift of a unit from one bus to another at Santaldih operated the busbar differential and tripped the whole switchyard, losing 225 MW of generation and 92 MW of load. The committee's lesson is blunt: finish the feeder rearrangement before splitting a bus, not during it.
8Godda and Pakur lost load twice as healthy lines tripped with the faulted ones
Two events at Godda/Pakur (17 and 25 June, 168 and 216 MW of load lost) saw faults on the Madanpur lines simultaneously trip healthy parallel circuits; the Jharkhand utility must explain why an auto-reclose did not operate and segregate its special-protection outputs. Sympathetic tripping of sound lines is the signature of a protection-coordination gap.
8A Buxar transformer tripped on a setting that breaks the region's protection rule
On 11 June a Buxar transformer tripped on a standby-earth-fault element set to a fixed one-second delay rather than the eastern region's inverse-time philosophy - a settings mismatch the operator has asked the utility to correct. Small on its own, it is the kind of non-standard setting that turns an external fault into an unnecessary trip.
8Generation ran above programme on 15 July, but hydro is lagging
CEA's daily generation report puts all-India output at 5,020 MU on 15 July against a 4,485 MU programme. Year-to-date, eastern hydro is 32 percent below target and north-eastern 12 percent below, while northern nuclear runs 18 percent short - the shortfalls that a monsoon is supposed to be curing.
8Darbhanga went dark on 29 June though the fault cleared in under 100 milliseconds
At Darbhanga on 29 June a phase-to-earth fault cleared in under a tenth of a second, yet both 220 kV lines and both 400/220 kV transformers tripped together and the station went dark. The phasor records show the fault was cleared fast, so why healthy elements tripped with it is unexplained, and the two transmission utilities' reports are still awaited - the signature of a protection-logic fault rather than the fault itself.
8A north-eastern voltage problem is now spilling into Bhutan's grid
Chronic low voltage around Rangia in Assam - worse whenever a Bongaigaon–Rangia circuit is out - has Assam pulling so much power through a 132 kV tie to Motanga that it stresses the Bhutan system, whose operator has asked to open the tie from its end. The region's voltage weakness now crosses an international border, and the fix - a 400/220 kV substation at Rangia - is still pending.
8A Nagaland protection scheme keeps shedding load with no fault to answer for
Unequal loading on two parallel 132 kV lines at Dimapur keeps pushing one phase over the special-protection-scheme pickup, shedding load three times in late June and early July with no actual fault; the root cause is still not found. A defence scheme that fires on a loading imbalance is itself a reliability risk, not a safeguard. Details
Outage & Maintenance Register
Jul 17:
8About 44 large units are out across the north and west - yet demand was met with under 1% shortage
Roughly 44 units of 200 MW or more were out on 16 July across the Northern and Western regions - a routine mid-monsoon overhaul-and-forced tally, not a stressed one. The registers supplied cover only those two regions; eastern, southern and north-eastern unit registers were not in the day's file set (see end-note).
8A nuclear unit trips at Kakrapar on a generator-seal fault
Kakrapar-1 (KAPS-1, 220 MW, NPCIL) tripped at 10:34 on 15 July on a generator seal problem and remained out, expected back on 18 July - the fresh nuclear item of the day. Rajasthan's RAPS-A Unit-1 (100 MW) stays down on long-term decommissioning.
8Fresh forced trips on 16 July add about 2,500 MW
New forced outages, all boiler or mechanical: Jindal's JPL Stage-II Unit-1 (600 MW, Chhattisgarh) on an air-preheater gearbox fault, RKM Powergen Unit-2 (360 MW) on a boiler leak, Rosa-4 (300 MW, UP) on a boiler-tube leak, Rajwest Unit-4 (135 MW, Rajasthan), and Kota-4 (210 MW) which re-tripped at 22:59 after reviving earlier in the day; a day earlier Adani's two Raipur units (685 MW each) went out on a flame-off and a condenser leak. About 2,500 MW of fresh loss - the ordinary attrition of a monsoon fleet, not a coal or grid problem.
8More capacity came back than tripped, led by Gadarwara's 800 MW
Back on the bar overnight: NTPC's Gadarwara-1 (800 MW) - the largest single return - Adani Mundra-8 (660 MW), Bhusawal-6 (660 MW), DGEN-1 (400 MW), and JP Bina-1, Gujarat's STPS-4 and the north's Chhabra-3 (250 MW each). The returns outweighed the fresh trips, cushioning the 16 July evening peak.
8Long-standing forced outages still out, some since April
Still dark from earlier: in the north, both Ghatampur units (660 MW each, UP, coal-feeding), OBRA-C Unit-1 (660 MW), Anpara-C Unit-2 (600 MW), Harduaganj-9 (250 MW) and Ropar-3 (210 MW); in the west, Adani Tiroda-5 (660 MW), Vedanta-1 (600 MW, out since April), Chandrapur-7 (500 MW), Jaigad-1 (300 MW), LANCO-1 (300 MW), BLTPS-2 (250 MW), three Wanakbori units (210 MW each) and Sanjay Gandhi-4 (210 MW, since April). Teesta-III's 1,200 MW remains out since the October 2023 cloudburst.
8The monsoon overhaul slate - about a dozen large units on planned outage
On annual or capital overhaul at 200 MW and above: in the west, NTPC's Solapur-1 and Sipat-3 (660 MW each), Jindal's JPL Stage-II Unit-2 (600 MW), Jhabua-1 (600 MW), Adani Mundra-6 (660 MW), Bhusawal-5 (500 MW), GMR Warora-1 and SKS-1 (300 MW each), and a cluster of 200-250 MW units in Gujarat, MP and Chhattisgarh (Korba-East DSPM-2, Korba-West-2, Amarkantak-5, Khaperkheda-4, Ukai-3, VSTPS-4); in the north, NTPC's Singrauli-3 (200 MW). Overhauls are timed to the low-demand monsoon by design.
8The western grid is carrying two systemic HVDC/UHV outages
The Chandrapur–Padghe HVDC bipole is running on a single pole while the other is shifted from ground- to metallic-return, and the parallel 400 kV Chandrapur–GCR “HVDC-2” line has been out since 6 September 2025 - roughly ten months. At Bina, both 1200 kV transformers are out, one since 2017. A 765 kV Akola–Koradi line came back on 16 July after a roughly 20-day tower-collapse outage.
8A cluster of northern tower-collapse lines from May–June is still out
Several 400 kV double-circuits in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan - Bareilly–Unnao, Orai–Paricha, Banda–Rewa Road, Rajwest–Pachpadra, Harduaganj/Aligarh–Sikandrabad - remain out from storm tower collapses in late May and June, thinning the northern transmission margin just as demand peaks.
8Repeated tripping flagged as a maintenance signal
In the North-East the 132 kV Loktak–Rengpang line tripped 18 times in May–June and five more times in July; in the east, 220 kV Daltonganj–Chatra tripped five times and two 400/765 kV corridors three times each in June. Repeat trips on the same element are the register's early warning of a defect that inspection has not yet caught. Details
Roughly 44 units of 200 MW or more were out on 16 July across the Northern and Western regions - a routine mid-monsoon overhaul-and-forced tally, not a stressed one. The registers supplied cover only those two regions; eastern, southern and north-eastern unit registers were not in the day's file set (see end-note).
8A nuclear unit trips at Kakrapar on a generator-seal fault
Kakrapar-1 (KAPS-1, 220 MW, NPCIL) tripped at 10:34 on 15 July on a generator seal problem and remained out, expected back on 18 July - the fresh nuclear item of the day. Rajasthan's RAPS-A Unit-1 (100 MW) stays down on long-term decommissioning.
8Fresh forced trips on 16 July add about 2,500 MW
New forced outages, all boiler or mechanical: Jindal's JPL Stage-II Unit-1 (600 MW, Chhattisgarh) on an air-preheater gearbox fault, RKM Powergen Unit-2 (360 MW) on a boiler leak, Rosa-4 (300 MW, UP) on a boiler-tube leak, Rajwest Unit-4 (135 MW, Rajasthan), and Kota-4 (210 MW) which re-tripped at 22:59 after reviving earlier in the day; a day earlier Adani's two Raipur units (685 MW each) went out on a flame-off and a condenser leak. About 2,500 MW of fresh loss - the ordinary attrition of a monsoon fleet, not a coal or grid problem.
8More capacity came back than tripped, led by Gadarwara's 800 MW
Back on the bar overnight: NTPC's Gadarwara-1 (800 MW) - the largest single return - Adani Mundra-8 (660 MW), Bhusawal-6 (660 MW), DGEN-1 (400 MW), and JP Bina-1, Gujarat's STPS-4 and the north's Chhabra-3 (250 MW each). The returns outweighed the fresh trips, cushioning the 16 July evening peak.
8Long-standing forced outages still out, some since April
Still dark from earlier: in the north, both Ghatampur units (660 MW each, UP, coal-feeding), OBRA-C Unit-1 (660 MW), Anpara-C Unit-2 (600 MW), Harduaganj-9 (250 MW) and Ropar-3 (210 MW); in the west, Adani Tiroda-5 (660 MW), Vedanta-1 (600 MW, out since April), Chandrapur-7 (500 MW), Jaigad-1 (300 MW), LANCO-1 (300 MW), BLTPS-2 (250 MW), three Wanakbori units (210 MW each) and Sanjay Gandhi-4 (210 MW, since April). Teesta-III's 1,200 MW remains out since the October 2023 cloudburst.
8The monsoon overhaul slate - about a dozen large units on planned outage
On annual or capital overhaul at 200 MW and above: in the west, NTPC's Solapur-1 and Sipat-3 (660 MW each), Jindal's JPL Stage-II Unit-2 (600 MW), Jhabua-1 (600 MW), Adani Mundra-6 (660 MW), Bhusawal-5 (500 MW), GMR Warora-1 and SKS-1 (300 MW each), and a cluster of 200-250 MW units in Gujarat, MP and Chhattisgarh (Korba-East DSPM-2, Korba-West-2, Amarkantak-5, Khaperkheda-4, Ukai-3, VSTPS-4); in the north, NTPC's Singrauli-3 (200 MW). Overhauls are timed to the low-demand monsoon by design.
8The western grid is carrying two systemic HVDC/UHV outages
The Chandrapur–Padghe HVDC bipole is running on a single pole while the other is shifted from ground- to metallic-return, and the parallel 400 kV Chandrapur–GCR “HVDC-2” line has been out since 6 September 2025 - roughly ten months. At Bina, both 1200 kV transformers are out, one since 2017. A 765 kV Akola–Koradi line came back on 16 July after a roughly 20-day tower-collapse outage.
8A cluster of northern tower-collapse lines from May–June is still out
Several 400 kV double-circuits in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan - Bareilly–Unnao, Orai–Paricha, Banda–Rewa Road, Rajwest–Pachpadra, Harduaganj/Aligarh–Sikandrabad - remain out from storm tower collapses in late May and June, thinning the northern transmission margin just as demand peaks.
8Repeated tripping flagged as a maintenance signal
In the North-East the 132 kV Loktak–Rengpang line tripped 18 times in May–June and five more times in July; in the east, 220 kV Daltonganj–Chatra tripped five times and two 400/765 kV corridors three times each in June. Repeat trips on the same element are the register's early warning of a defect that inspection has not yet caught. Details
Fuel & Coal Ledger
Jul 17:
8Chhattisgarh's negative fuel-cost adjustment
CSPGCL's four stations filed about Rs 31.7 crore of negative fuel-cost adjustment for April on cheaper, higher-heat domestic coal - a deflationary signal for state tariffs and the sharp end of coal out-competing gas.
8Coal stocks ease to about 13.5 days; 28 plants critical, Niwari empty
National coal stock was about 42.1 million tonnes on 16 July, roughly 13.5 days and down marginally on the day as consumption outran receipts; 28 plants sat below a quarter of normative stock. Niwari (MP) is effectively empty at under a day, Damodaram Sanjeevaiah (Andhra, 2,400 MW) at 6 percent and Sasan at 7 percent - the usual import-dependent and end-of-line plants, not a system-wide squeeze.
8MahaGenco is cutting imported coal to save money
Maharashtra's generator reports burning “more raw domestic coal against imported/washed coal” across its fleet and holding imported coal below plan “for cost optimization” - the same economics as Chhattisgarh's, playing out as a deliberate switch away from costly imports while domestic coal is abundant.
8The gas fleet stayed switched off on price
Across the merit order, RLNG stations from Kawas and Gandhar to RGPPL and Faridabad were committed for grid support but scheduled at zero, the costliest at about Rs 24.86 a unit against pithead coal near Rs 1.43 - roughly seventeen times. Gas remains a stand-by the system can rarely afford to run; see Story 1.
8Ministry of Coal opens bidding on its Rs 37,500 crore coal-gasification scheme
A Ministry of Coal notice dated 16 July calls a pre-application conference on 20 July under the Rs 37,500 crore scheme to promote surface coal- and lignite-gasification projects, following its 7 July request for proposals - the government's push to turn some of that abundant domestic coal into gas and chemicals rather than only power. Details
CSPGCL's four stations filed about Rs 31.7 crore of negative fuel-cost adjustment for April on cheaper, higher-heat domestic coal - a deflationary signal for state tariffs and the sharp end of coal out-competing gas.
8Coal stocks ease to about 13.5 days; 28 plants critical, Niwari empty
National coal stock was about 42.1 million tonnes on 16 July, roughly 13.5 days and down marginally on the day as consumption outran receipts; 28 plants sat below a quarter of normative stock. Niwari (MP) is effectively empty at under a day, Damodaram Sanjeevaiah (Andhra, 2,400 MW) at 6 percent and Sasan at 7 percent - the usual import-dependent and end-of-line plants, not a system-wide squeeze.
8MahaGenco is cutting imported coal to save money
Maharashtra's generator reports burning “more raw domestic coal against imported/washed coal” across its fleet and holding imported coal below plan “for cost optimization” - the same economics as Chhattisgarh's, playing out as a deliberate switch away from costly imports while domestic coal is abundant.
8The gas fleet stayed switched off on price
Across the merit order, RLNG stations from Kawas and Gandhar to RGPPL and Faridabad were committed for grid support but scheduled at zero, the costliest at about Rs 24.86 a unit against pithead coal near Rs 1.43 - roughly seventeen times. Gas remains a stand-by the system can rarely afford to run; see Story 1.
8Ministry of Coal opens bidding on its Rs 37,500 crore coal-gasification scheme
A Ministry of Coal notice dated 16 July calls a pre-application conference on 20 July under the Rs 37,500 crore scheme to promote surface coal- and lignite-gasification projects, following its 7 July request for proposals - the government's push to turn some of that abundant domestic coal into gas and chemicals rather than only power. Details
Hydro & Reservoir Ledger
Jul 17:
8Telangana's big Krishna reservoirs stay far below last year
Telangana's generation utility reports Srisailam at 41.6 TMC on 17 July against 195.6 a year earlier, and Nagarjunasagar and the Krishna basin as a whole well down; total useful storage of 246 TMC translates to only about 131 MU of stored energy. Two weeks into the story (see 16 July edition), the state's hydro cushion for the coming lean season is still not filling.
8Flash floods knock out Panyor Lower's 405 MW
All three 135 MW units of NEEPCO's Panyor Lower project in Arunachal Pradesh have been under forced outage since 24 June after flash floods, with restoration dates still sought - a monsoon that is flooding the north-east while leaving the Krishna basin short.
8Sikkim's Dikchu is running one fault away from a full evacuation loss
Dikchu (Sikkim) is running on a single 400/132 kV transformer with its second bus out since August 2025 - not N-1 compliant, a state the eastern committee calls a serious concern - and it tripped twice in late June on moisture in an SF6 gas-density monitor. Any fault on the lone transformer now takes the whole station's output off the grid.
8A tower collapse and a coming Loktak shutdown tighten eastern-hills hydro
A dead-end tower collapsed at Rongnichu on 18 June, taking both circuits and about 104 MW out for roughly eighteen days, and the Loktak power station faces a full renovation shutdown from November to April. Eastern-hills hydro is patchy now and set to tighten further over winter.
8Solar carried 16 July and faded at dusk - the daily shape behind the evening price
CEA's renewable bulletin puts all-India green generation at 1,137.65 MU on 16 July (solar 645, wind 459); all-India hydro generation was about 662 MU. Solar carries the day and fades at dusk - the daily shape behind the evening-peak price. Details
Telangana's generation utility reports Srisailam at 41.6 TMC on 17 July against 195.6 a year earlier, and Nagarjunasagar and the Krishna basin as a whole well down; total useful storage of 246 TMC translates to only about 131 MU of stored energy. Two weeks into the story (see 16 July edition), the state's hydro cushion for the coming lean season is still not filling.
8Flash floods knock out Panyor Lower's 405 MW
All three 135 MW units of NEEPCO's Panyor Lower project in Arunachal Pradesh have been under forced outage since 24 June after flash floods, with restoration dates still sought - a monsoon that is flooding the north-east while leaving the Krishna basin short.
8Sikkim's Dikchu is running one fault away from a full evacuation loss
Dikchu (Sikkim) is running on a single 400/132 kV transformer with its second bus out since August 2025 - not N-1 compliant, a state the eastern committee calls a serious concern - and it tripped twice in late June on moisture in an SF6 gas-density monitor. Any fault on the lone transformer now takes the whole station's output off the grid.
8A tower collapse and a coming Loktak shutdown tighten eastern-hills hydro
A dead-end tower collapsed at Rongnichu on 18 June, taking both circuits and about 104 MW out for roughly eighteen days, and the Loktak power station faces a full renovation shutdown from November to April. Eastern-hills hydro is patchy now and set to tighten further over winter.
8Solar carried 16 July and faded at dusk - the daily shape behind the evening price
CEA's renewable bulletin puts all-India green generation at 1,137.65 MU on 16 July (solar 645, wind 459); all-India hydro generation was about 662 MU. Solar carries the day and fades at dusk - the daily shape behind the evening-peak price. Details
CERC Docket
Jul 17:
8Pace Digitek connectivity restored
Petition 241/MP/2026 - the wave's first decided order, condoning a two-day bank-guarantee delay and setting aside CTUIL's closure of the 100 MW application.
8NTPC's GST change-in-law on 1,990 MW of solar is reserved
In Petition 365/MP/2025 (NTPC v IREDA and others) the Commission reserved for order NTPC's claim that a higher GST rate, and the consequent rise in usage charges on 1,990 MW of solar projects, is a change-in-law event under the power-usage agreements. Reserved, not decided - but a large sum turns on it.
8GUVNL–Adani Mundra part-load compensation reserved with pointed directions
The connected Petitions 469 and 252/MP/2024 over Adani Power's part-load compensation claims for Mundra (FY22–FY25) were reserved after argument, but the Commission directed Adani to justify its reliance on the MB Power precedent absent any supplementary agreement, to place SLDC verification of operational data, and to reconcile its claim with a 2022 settlement deed barring further change-in-law claims on energy charges. The directions signal the questions the eventual order will turn on.
8Avaada's Bhadla connectivity-split plea adjourned
In Petition 240/MP/2024, Avaada Energy's request that CTUIL split its 1,000 MW connectivity across margins at Bhadla-II, III and IV was adjourned to 25 August at CTUIL's instance - another strand of the connectivity contest, still unheard on merits.
8Adani Energy's short-term dues claim against Telangana adjourned
Petition 239/MP/2024, Adani Energy's recovery of outstanding dues and late-payment surcharge for short-term supply to Telangana, was adjourned to 10 September to hear reply and rejoinder together.
8A solar developer's cess claim against SECI adjourned
In Petition 150/MP/2026, Eden Renewable Alma's change-in-law claim for the 20 percent agriculture-infrastructure cess imposed on imported modules from February 2025 was adjourned to 15 September, the Tamil Nadu discom yet to file its reply.
8AMPIN Energy's trading-licence upgrade admitted
Petition 303/TD/2026 seeking to move AMPIN Energy Markets from a Category-V to a Category-IV inter-state trading licence was admitted, with the Commission requiring a special balance sheet as at a date within 30 days of filing - a routine but citable licensing step for a growing trader. Details
Petition 241/MP/2026 - the wave's first decided order, condoning a two-day bank-guarantee delay and setting aside CTUIL's closure of the 100 MW application.
8NTPC's GST change-in-law on 1,990 MW of solar is reserved
In Petition 365/MP/2025 (NTPC v IREDA and others) the Commission reserved for order NTPC's claim that a higher GST rate, and the consequent rise in usage charges on 1,990 MW of solar projects, is a change-in-law event under the power-usage agreements. Reserved, not decided - but a large sum turns on it.
8GUVNL–Adani Mundra part-load compensation reserved with pointed directions
The connected Petitions 469 and 252/MP/2024 over Adani Power's part-load compensation claims for Mundra (FY22–FY25) were reserved after argument, but the Commission directed Adani to justify its reliance on the MB Power precedent absent any supplementary agreement, to place SLDC verification of operational data, and to reconcile its claim with a 2022 settlement deed barring further change-in-law claims on energy charges. The directions signal the questions the eventual order will turn on.
8Avaada's Bhadla connectivity-split plea adjourned
In Petition 240/MP/2024, Avaada Energy's request that CTUIL split its 1,000 MW connectivity across margins at Bhadla-II, III and IV was adjourned to 25 August at CTUIL's instance - another strand of the connectivity contest, still unheard on merits.
8Adani Energy's short-term dues claim against Telangana adjourned
Petition 239/MP/2024, Adani Energy's recovery of outstanding dues and late-payment surcharge for short-term supply to Telangana, was adjourned to 10 September to hear reply and rejoinder together.
8A solar developer's cess claim against SECI adjourned
In Petition 150/MP/2026, Eden Renewable Alma's change-in-law claim for the 20 percent agriculture-infrastructure cess imposed on imported modules from February 2025 was adjourned to 15 September, the Tamil Nadu discom yet to file its reply.
8AMPIN Energy's trading-licence upgrade admitted
Petition 303/TD/2026 seeking to move AMPIN Energy Markets from a Category-V to a Category-IV inter-state trading licence was admitted, with the Commission requiring a special balance sheet as at a date within 30 days of filing - a routine but citable licensing step for a growing trader. Details
State Regulatory Roundup
Jul 17:
8Punjab freezes PSPCL's forced 11 kV–66 kV migration
PSERC granted interim status-quo to Rana Sugar and Golden Sandhar Mills (Petitions 48 and 49 of 2026) and conditionally admitted PSPCL's 250 MW SAEL solar tariff (Petition 56 of 2026).
8Two more PSPCL consumer disputes adjourned
PSERC also took up a rooftop-solar capacity-and-tariff plea from Shree Ganesh Edibles (Petition 41 of 2026) and Indian Sucrose's claim for interest on a wrongly-adjusted Rs 2.18 crore of line/bay charges refunded after an APTEL order (Petition 47 of 2026); both were adjourned on admission, with PSPCL raising a maintainability objection in the latter.
8Gujarat's transmission-bidding threshold review withdrawn - the new rules already set it
GERC allowed Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation to withdraw its review (Petition 2209/2023) seeking to raise the competitive-bidding threshold for intra-state transmission from Rs 100 crore to Rs 250 crore, because the 2024 multi-year-tariff regulations already set that threshold - competitive bidding now applies at 220 kV and above or above Rs 250 crore. The review is disposed of; the substance is already law.
8GERC reserves orders in the Dipak Textile and Shivalakha Solar disputes
GERC reserved orders in Dipak Textile's complaint against DGVCL and in a long-running Shivalakha Solar (formerly Solar Semiconductor) dispute with GUVNL under a 2010 power-purchase agreement, the latter heard with the petitioner absent.
8Meghalaya calls a hearing on its draft State Grid Code
MSERC will hear comments on the draft Meghalaya State Grid Code Regulations 2026 on 24 July, having taken written submissions to 8 July - a small state formalising the grid discipline the larger ones already run under.
8Rajasthan's docket fills with must-run and transmission-licence disputes
RERC's schedule for 21–27 July lists Adani Solar Energy Jodhpur Three's 300 MW must-run backing-down compensation claim against the state load despatcher, two smaller must-run claims, three petitions for separate transmission licences under the tariff-based route (Thar, Barmer and Hadoti Power Transmission), and EESL's non-disbursement complaints against the Rajasthan discoms - a calendar of listings, not rulings.
8Goa-and-UT regulator moves on ease-of-doing-business supply-code changes
JERC disposed of DNH and DD Power Corporation's petition to amend the electricity supply code for Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu - self-certification for low-tension inspections, slab-wise fixed service-line charges, three- to seven-day connection timelines and a higher low-tension ceiling - directing its staff to draft and publish an amendment aligned to the 2023 central safety rules.
8PSPCL asks Punjab to loosen its fuel-surcharge trigger to unlock borrowing room
In a petition read only after OCR - its filename disguised it as a CEA report - PSPCL asks PSERC to amend the fuel and power-purchase adjustment surcharge rules, moving the carry-forward trigger from 40 paise a unit to 20 percent of the variable tariff component, in line with the central 2022 rules. The prod is financial: the Ministry of Power made this alignment a condition for additional state borrowing room of up to 0.5 percent of GSDP. Carry-forward would be capped at two months, cost SBI's benchmark lending rate plus 150 basis points, and any excess recovery be clawed back at 1.2 times - a small rule change with a direct line to the state's fiscal space. Details
PSERC granted interim status-quo to Rana Sugar and Golden Sandhar Mills (Petitions 48 and 49 of 2026) and conditionally admitted PSPCL's 250 MW SAEL solar tariff (Petition 56 of 2026).
8Two more PSPCL consumer disputes adjourned
PSERC also took up a rooftop-solar capacity-and-tariff plea from Shree Ganesh Edibles (Petition 41 of 2026) and Indian Sucrose's claim for interest on a wrongly-adjusted Rs 2.18 crore of line/bay charges refunded after an APTEL order (Petition 47 of 2026); both were adjourned on admission, with PSPCL raising a maintainability objection in the latter.
8Gujarat's transmission-bidding threshold review withdrawn - the new rules already set it
GERC allowed Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation to withdraw its review (Petition 2209/2023) seeking to raise the competitive-bidding threshold for intra-state transmission from Rs 100 crore to Rs 250 crore, because the 2024 multi-year-tariff regulations already set that threshold - competitive bidding now applies at 220 kV and above or above Rs 250 crore. The review is disposed of; the substance is already law.
8GERC reserves orders in the Dipak Textile and Shivalakha Solar disputes
GERC reserved orders in Dipak Textile's complaint against DGVCL and in a long-running Shivalakha Solar (formerly Solar Semiconductor) dispute with GUVNL under a 2010 power-purchase agreement, the latter heard with the petitioner absent.
8Meghalaya calls a hearing on its draft State Grid Code
MSERC will hear comments on the draft Meghalaya State Grid Code Regulations 2026 on 24 July, having taken written submissions to 8 July - a small state formalising the grid discipline the larger ones already run under.
8Rajasthan's docket fills with must-run and transmission-licence disputes
RERC's schedule for 21–27 July lists Adani Solar Energy Jodhpur Three's 300 MW must-run backing-down compensation claim against the state load despatcher, two smaller must-run claims, three petitions for separate transmission licences under the tariff-based route (Thar, Barmer and Hadoti Power Transmission), and EESL's non-disbursement complaints against the Rajasthan discoms - a calendar of listings, not rulings.
8Goa-and-UT regulator moves on ease-of-doing-business supply-code changes
JERC disposed of DNH and DD Power Corporation's petition to amend the electricity supply code for Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu - self-certification for low-tension inspections, slab-wise fixed service-line charges, three- to seven-day connection timelines and a higher low-tension ceiling - directing its staff to draft and publish an amendment aligned to the 2023 central safety rules.
8PSPCL asks Punjab to loosen its fuel-surcharge trigger to unlock borrowing room
In a petition read only after OCR - its filename disguised it as a CEA report - PSPCL asks PSERC to amend the fuel and power-purchase adjustment surcharge rules, moving the carry-forward trigger from 40 paise a unit to 20 percent of the variable tariff component, in line with the central 2022 rules. The prod is financial: the Ministry of Power made this alignment a condition for additional state borrowing room of up to 0.5 percent of GSDP. Carry-forward would be capped at two months, cost SBI's benchmark lending rate plus 150 basis points, and any excess recovery be clawed back at 1.2 times - a small rule change with a direct line to the state's fiscal space. Details
Green Markets & RE Programme Watch
Jul 17:
8Gujarat renewables curtailed for grid security
About 8.85 million units of Gujarat wind and solar - up to 2,859 MW of solar and 1,027 MW of wind - were curtailed on 15 July “in view of the system requirement and grid security,” the clearest single sign that the daytime surplus is real and being managed by backing renewables down (see Story 1).
8Coal India brings 200 MW of Khavda solar online
Coal India commissioned 200 MW of a 300 MW solar project at Khavda, Gujarat, certified on 15 July - a Maharatna coal major diversifying into the same renewable-heavy hub whose grid behaviour the committees keep flagging.
8ACME Solar closes Rs 2,646 crore of funding for a firm-power project
ACME Solar raised Rs 2,646.64 crore of 20-year project finance from REC for a 450 MW / 1,800 MWh assured-peak-power (solar-plus-storage) project, on a 25-year SJVN power-purchase agreement at Rs 6.74 a unit - a concrete financing close for the firm, dispatchable renewables the evening peak actually needs.
8SECI seeks bulk buyers for long-term renewable power
SECI's expression of interest dated 17 July invites bulk power off-takers into long-term renewable procurement - minimum 50 MW, an investment-grade credit floor, pre-bid meeting on 24 July - testing corporate and captive appetite to sign the long tenors that underwrite new build.
8Draft CAFE-III fuel-economy norms out for consultation
The Ministry of Power, with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, has circulated draft Corporate Average Fuel Economy norms for passenger cars covering FY28 to FY32, with comments due by 6 August - the demand-side lever that, over time, shifts transport energy toward the grid.
8A nationwide power-quality metering push takes shape
Grid-India's draft harmonics-measurement guidelines, moving through the regional committees, would require power-quality meters at new inter-state substations from April 2027 and across existing ones by March 2030, aimed at wind, solar, storage and HVDC installations of 50 MW and above - the monitoring backbone for an inverter-heavy grid.
8Renewables came in below schedule on 15 July, wind the main shortfall
All-India renewable output tracked by the management centre was 1,110 MU against 1,186 scheduled on 15 July, with wind the bulk of the miss - the forecasting gap the grid then has to close in real time, and part of why the evening market runs tight.
8An energy-savings-insurance idea to unstick efficiency finance
An OECD–BEE roadmap proposes an energy-savings-insurance scheme - insurance backing for guaranteed-savings efficiency contracts - to de-risk investment in industrial clusters such as foundries and textiles. A financing concept, not yet a programme, but aimed squarely at India's thinly-tapped energy-service-company market. Details
About 8.85 million units of Gujarat wind and solar - up to 2,859 MW of solar and 1,027 MW of wind - were curtailed on 15 July “in view of the system requirement and grid security,” the clearest single sign that the daytime surplus is real and being managed by backing renewables down (see Story 1).
8Coal India brings 200 MW of Khavda solar online
Coal India commissioned 200 MW of a 300 MW solar project at Khavda, Gujarat, certified on 15 July - a Maharatna coal major diversifying into the same renewable-heavy hub whose grid behaviour the committees keep flagging.
8ACME Solar closes Rs 2,646 crore of funding for a firm-power project
ACME Solar raised Rs 2,646.64 crore of 20-year project finance from REC for a 450 MW / 1,800 MWh assured-peak-power (solar-plus-storage) project, on a 25-year SJVN power-purchase agreement at Rs 6.74 a unit - a concrete financing close for the firm, dispatchable renewables the evening peak actually needs.
8SECI seeks bulk buyers for long-term renewable power
SECI's expression of interest dated 17 July invites bulk power off-takers into long-term renewable procurement - minimum 50 MW, an investment-grade credit floor, pre-bid meeting on 24 July - testing corporate and captive appetite to sign the long tenors that underwrite new build.
8Draft CAFE-III fuel-economy norms out for consultation
The Ministry of Power, with the Bureau of Energy Efficiency, has circulated draft Corporate Average Fuel Economy norms for passenger cars covering FY28 to FY32, with comments due by 6 August - the demand-side lever that, over time, shifts transport energy toward the grid.
8A nationwide power-quality metering push takes shape
Grid-India's draft harmonics-measurement guidelines, moving through the regional committees, would require power-quality meters at new inter-state substations from April 2027 and across existing ones by March 2030, aimed at wind, solar, storage and HVDC installations of 50 MW and above - the monitoring backbone for an inverter-heavy grid.
8Renewables came in below schedule on 15 July, wind the main shortfall
All-India renewable output tracked by the management centre was 1,110 MU against 1,186 scheduled on 15 July, with wind the bulk of the miss - the forecasting gap the grid then has to close in real time, and part of why the evening market runs tight.
8An energy-savings-insurance idea to unstick efficiency finance
An OECD–BEE roadmap proposes an energy-savings-insurance scheme - insurance backing for guaranteed-savings efficiency contracts - to de-risk investment in industrial clusters such as foundries and textiles. A financing concept, not yet a programme, but aimed squarely at India's thinly-tapped energy-service-company market. Details
Corporate Wire
Jul 17:
8BHEL's power business turns from loss to profit
Standalone Q1 profit of Rs 381.91 crore on 40 percent higher revenue, the power segment swinging from a Rs 510 crore loss to a Rs 563 crore profit; the results also flag a board still without an independent director.
8Borosil Renewables turns profitable
Standalone profit Rs 87.71 crore, 35 percent margins on anti-dumping-lifted glass prices; the headline consolidated jump is a base effect from the German exit.
8Sterling & Wilson back in profit with a record book
Consolidated profit Rs 68 crore, order value at a post-pandemic high of Rs 13,024 crore led by the Egypt solar-and-storage venture.
8GE Power India to demerge Durgapur into JSW Energy
GE Power India will demerge its Durgapur manufacturing works to JSW Energy, with shareholders getting 10 JSW Energy shares for every 139 held and no dilution of GE Power India itself. The unit lost about Rs 27 crore a year and is backed by a five-year services agreement; the parent's own turnaround is real - net worth up eight-fold to Rs 483 crore, EBITDA from minus Rs 251 crore to plus Rs 277 crore over three years, and an ICRA upgrade to BBB+. A portfolio clean-up that hands JSW a power-equipment capacity and lets GE Power India shed a chronic loss-maker.
8Polycab's quarter strong on cables and solar
Polycab reported consolidated revenue up 39 percent to Rs 8,210 crore and profit up 33 percent for the June quarter, with its fast-moving electrical-goods arm up 71 percent and solar products more than doubling; international wires and cables fell 13 percent. A cables-and-FMEG major whose fastest-growing line is now solar hardware.
8Exide pours another Rs 100 crore into its cell subsidiary
Exide subscribed a further Rs 100 crore of equity in Exide Energy Solutions, taking cumulative investment in the lithium-cell gigafactory to Rs 4,902 crore. The subsidiary still turned in a Rs 248 crore loss on Rs 158 crore of revenue in FY26 - the capital drain into domestic cell-making continues ahead of the revenue.
8Rajesh Power Services wins Odisha and Gujarat cabling orders
The Ahmedabad T&D contractor reported June-quarter revenue of Rs 436.62 crore and an order book of Rs 3,741.79 crore, entering Odisha with a Rs 211.68 crore underground-cable order from OPTCL and adding Rs 653.12 crore of PGVCL cabling work; CRISIL reaffirmed its A- rating and revised the outlook to Positive.
8NHPC gets a new independent director
NHPC appointed Dr Bernadette Lyngdoh as a non-official woman independent director for three years, on a Ministry of Power nomination dated 16 July - filling one of the board seats that public-sector companies are routinely short of (see BHEL, Story 7).
8Results diary
NTPC Green, Orient Green and Transformers & Rectifiers report on 21–22 July - All three have called board meetings and earnings calls for their June-quarter results on 21–22 July - the next cluster of power-sector numbers due.
Ratings Watch
8Two Punjab and Rajasthan solar SPVs lose their ratings after repaying
CARE withdrew its long-term ratings on Solaire Power (20.25 MW, Punjab) and Pokaran Solaire (4.76 MW, Rajasthan) after both repaid their term loans in full and obtained no-dues certificates. Both had held an AA-plus rating - a reminder that a strong rating can simply disappear when the debt is gone, not because credit deteriorated.
8CRISIL lifts Rajesh Power's outlook to positive on a swelling order book
CRISIL reaffirmed Rajesh Power Services at A- and moved the outlook to Positive - on a Rs 3,742 crore order book swelled by the company's entry into Odisha and fresh PGVCL cabling work (see 24.7). The order momentum, more than the rating notch, is the story.
8A Nepal hydro rating reaffirmed
Infomerics reaffirmed Upper Solu Hydro (23.5 MW, Nepal) at BBB-minus on a standalone basis, on improved generation and margins under its power-purchase agreement with the Nepal utility - a small cross-border data point in the ratings file. Details
Standalone Q1 profit of Rs 381.91 crore on 40 percent higher revenue, the power segment swinging from a Rs 510 crore loss to a Rs 563 crore profit; the results also flag a board still without an independent director.
8Borosil Renewables turns profitable
Standalone profit Rs 87.71 crore, 35 percent margins on anti-dumping-lifted glass prices; the headline consolidated jump is a base effect from the German exit.
8Sterling & Wilson back in profit with a record book
Consolidated profit Rs 68 crore, order value at a post-pandemic high of Rs 13,024 crore led by the Egypt solar-and-storage venture.
8GE Power India to demerge Durgapur into JSW Energy
GE Power India will demerge its Durgapur manufacturing works to JSW Energy, with shareholders getting 10 JSW Energy shares for every 139 held and no dilution of GE Power India itself. The unit lost about Rs 27 crore a year and is backed by a five-year services agreement; the parent's own turnaround is real - net worth up eight-fold to Rs 483 crore, EBITDA from minus Rs 251 crore to plus Rs 277 crore over three years, and an ICRA upgrade to BBB+. A portfolio clean-up that hands JSW a power-equipment capacity and lets GE Power India shed a chronic loss-maker.
8Polycab's quarter strong on cables and solar
Polycab reported consolidated revenue up 39 percent to Rs 8,210 crore and profit up 33 percent for the June quarter, with its fast-moving electrical-goods arm up 71 percent and solar products more than doubling; international wires and cables fell 13 percent. A cables-and-FMEG major whose fastest-growing line is now solar hardware.
8Exide pours another Rs 100 crore into its cell subsidiary
Exide subscribed a further Rs 100 crore of equity in Exide Energy Solutions, taking cumulative investment in the lithium-cell gigafactory to Rs 4,902 crore. The subsidiary still turned in a Rs 248 crore loss on Rs 158 crore of revenue in FY26 - the capital drain into domestic cell-making continues ahead of the revenue.
8Rajesh Power Services wins Odisha and Gujarat cabling orders
The Ahmedabad T&D contractor reported June-quarter revenue of Rs 436.62 crore and an order book of Rs 3,741.79 crore, entering Odisha with a Rs 211.68 crore underground-cable order from OPTCL and adding Rs 653.12 crore of PGVCL cabling work; CRISIL reaffirmed its A- rating and revised the outlook to Positive.
8NHPC gets a new independent director
NHPC appointed Dr Bernadette Lyngdoh as a non-official woman independent director for three years, on a Ministry of Power nomination dated 16 July - filling one of the board seats that public-sector companies are routinely short of (see BHEL, Story 7).
8Results diary
NTPC Green, Orient Green and Transformers & Rectifiers report on 21–22 July - All three have called board meetings and earnings calls for their June-quarter results on 21–22 July - the next cluster of power-sector numbers due.
Ratings Watch
8Two Punjab and Rajasthan solar SPVs lose their ratings after repaying
CARE withdrew its long-term ratings on Solaire Power (20.25 MW, Punjab) and Pokaran Solaire (4.76 MW, Rajasthan) after both repaid their term loans in full and obtained no-dues certificates. Both had held an AA-plus rating - a reminder that a strong rating can simply disappear when the debt is gone, not because credit deteriorated.
8CRISIL lifts Rajesh Power's outlook to positive on a swelling order book
CRISIL reaffirmed Rajesh Power Services at A- and moved the outlook to Positive - on a Rs 3,742 crore order book swelled by the company's entry into Odisha and fresh PGVCL cabling work (see 24.7). The order momentum, more than the rating notch, is the story.
8A Nepal hydro rating reaffirmed
Infomerics reaffirmed Upper Solu Hydro (23.5 MW, Nepal) at BBB-minus on a standalone basis, on improved generation and margins under its power-purchase agreement with the Nepal utility - a small cross-border data point in the ratings file. Details
Committees, People & System Administration
Jul 17:
8Eastern protection panel reviews June's big trips - and finds most utilities skip their protection filings
The ERPC's 160th Protection Coordination Committee (21 July) reviews the month's generation losses and trippings - see Stories 3 and 4 for the two largest - and flags that June protection-performance indices came from only eight of the region's utilities, and that no utility has commented on the draft harmonics guidelines. The recurring theme is protection settings and disturbance-recorder discipline that several utilities are slow to fix.
8North-East committee: capital islanding schemes still not designed
The NERPC's 240th operation-coordination meeting (24 July) records that islanding schemes for Shillong, Imphal and Kohima have still not been devised, that automatic generation control is pending plant-by-plant on old controls and high machine vibration, and that most states are still not submitting resource-adequacy and reactive-power data in the prescribed form - the administrative under-belly of the defence-scheme gaps in Story 4.
8The west backed down 720,000 MWh of surplus in a week - 22 times what it called up
The WRPC's weekly operational files for 6–12 July show emergency reserves backing generation down by about 720,000 MWh against only 32,000 MWh called up - surplus on a scale that needed sustained backing-down, with Mundra supplying roughly 60 percent of the little up-reserve used. Quantum, not cost; but it is the week-long backdrop to this edition's price and curtailment story.
8A Kerala grid-telecom link is still down after a Kochi refinery accident
The SRPC's 72nd communication-equipment outage meeting (23 July) reviews telecom and SCADA link outages, flagging a Kerala fibre link damaged in an accident at the Kochi refinery and a Tamil Nadu remote-terminal-unit retrofit as the rolling reliability breaches - the unglamorous plumbing that grid operators depend on.
8The grid shifts to 15-minute demand data - changing how peak-demand records are set
From the last week of July the north-eastern operator moves its power-supply-position data from hourly to 15-minute blocks, aligning with the framework that will govern how all-time-high demand records are set and measured - a small data change with a direct bearing on the record-watching in Story 2.
8A dismantled breaker at Kolasib turns a maintenance lapse into an availability dispute
At Kolasib in Mizoram a 132 kV line tripped on 5 July and could not be restored for over fifteen hours because the substation's transfer-bus-coupler breaker was found completely dismantled. POWERGRID, which maintains the bay, now wants the line treated as deemed available for the outage - a maintenance failure becoming a commercial dispute with the state owner.
8North-eastern transmission is strung thin, with fixes still pending
A 132 kV line at Lekhi–Chimpu in Arunachal has been out since May 2025 after a tower nearly collapsed, and the Assam and Tripura corridors repeatedly run over their transfer limits (see 17.4). The committee's remedies - new substations at Sonapur, Rangia and Gossaigaon and reconductoring in Tripura - are all still pending, which is why the region keeps leaning on its defence schemes (see Story 4).
Details
The ERPC's 160th Protection Coordination Committee (21 July) reviews the month's generation losses and trippings - see Stories 3 and 4 for the two largest - and flags that June protection-performance indices came from only eight of the region's utilities, and that no utility has commented on the draft harmonics guidelines. The recurring theme is protection settings and disturbance-recorder discipline that several utilities are slow to fix.
8North-East committee: capital islanding schemes still not designed
The NERPC's 240th operation-coordination meeting (24 July) records that islanding schemes for Shillong, Imphal and Kohima have still not been devised, that automatic generation control is pending plant-by-plant on old controls and high machine vibration, and that most states are still not submitting resource-adequacy and reactive-power data in the prescribed form - the administrative under-belly of the defence-scheme gaps in Story 4.
8The west backed down 720,000 MWh of surplus in a week - 22 times what it called up
The WRPC's weekly operational files for 6–12 July show emergency reserves backing generation down by about 720,000 MWh against only 32,000 MWh called up - surplus on a scale that needed sustained backing-down, with Mundra supplying roughly 60 percent of the little up-reserve used. Quantum, not cost; but it is the week-long backdrop to this edition's price and curtailment story.
8A Kerala grid-telecom link is still down after a Kochi refinery accident
The SRPC's 72nd communication-equipment outage meeting (23 July) reviews telecom and SCADA link outages, flagging a Kerala fibre link damaged in an accident at the Kochi refinery and a Tamil Nadu remote-terminal-unit retrofit as the rolling reliability breaches - the unglamorous plumbing that grid operators depend on.
8The grid shifts to 15-minute demand data - changing how peak-demand records are set
From the last week of July the north-eastern operator moves its power-supply-position data from hourly to 15-minute blocks, aligning with the framework that will govern how all-time-high demand records are set and measured - a small data change with a direct bearing on the record-watching in Story 2.
8A dismantled breaker at Kolasib turns a maintenance lapse into an availability dispute
At Kolasib in Mizoram a 132 kV line tripped on 5 July and could not be restored for over fifteen hours because the substation's transfer-bus-coupler breaker was found completely dismantled. POWERGRID, which maintains the bay, now wants the line treated as deemed available for the outage - a maintenance failure becoming a commercial dispute with the state owner.
8North-eastern transmission is strung thin, with fixes still pending
A 132 kV line at Lekhi–Chimpu in Arunachal has been out since May 2025 after a tower nearly collapsed, and the Assam and Tripura corridors repeatedly run over their transfer limits (see 17.4). The committee's remedies - new substations at Sonapur, Rangia and Gossaigaon and reconductoring in Tripura - are all still pending, which is why the region keeps leaning on its defence schemes (see Story 4).
Details
Power-exchange prices hit fresh highs - but the crunch is the evening peak, not a shortage of power
Jul 17:
8Day-ahead power for 17 July cleared at Rs 7.28 a unit, a fresh weekly high and about three times the Rs 2.49 of five days earlier, with night blocks pinned to the Rs 10,000 ceiling. Yet through the daylight hours the grid was backing down surplus generation, curtailing Gujarat renewables and leaving costly gas fully committed but unscheduled - the scarcity was concentrated in the hours after the sun went down.
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India met a near-record 270 GW with under 1% shortage - but almost all of it fell on Haryana, Punjab and UP
Jul 17:
8The grid met a maximum demand of 270,203 MW on 16 July, just 600 MW short of the 270.8 GW all-time peak set during May's heatwave, and held the national shortage below one percent. But the shortfall was not evenly shared: Haryana lost nearly 15 million units, Uttar Pradesh resorted to unscheduled load-shedding and Kerala carried a southern pocket.
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A relay mismatch, not a grid fault, cost North Karanpura 1,237 MW - and a wiring defect cost Derang 1,107 MW
Jul 17:
8The Eastern region's protection committee has traced June's two largest generation losses to equipment inside the plants, not the grid: at NTPC's North Karanpura two relays disagreed and blocked auto-reclose after a nearby line fault, tripping all three 660 MW units; at Jindal's Derang plant a protection scheme wired to hard-trip both generators fired on a single CT failure. Both faults were the plant's own, and both fixes are now identified.
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In the North-East a special protection scheme fired at Bongaigaon - and still could not stop a 300 MW loss
Jul 17:
8When both transformers at Bongaigaon tripped on 3 July, the automatic load-shedding scheme operated in two stages and shed about 102 MW - but the surviving transformer was already loaded to 212 percent, and it tripped anyway. The episode, alongside capital-city islanding schemes still not designed, shows the region's last-resort defences are being outrun by its constraints.
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CERC restores Pace Digitek's 100 MW connectivity, excusing a two-day delay in its bank guarantees
Jul 17:
8In the first order to actually decide one of the connectivity disputes crowding the Commission, CERC condoned a two-day delay in furnishing bank guarantees and set aside CTUIL's letter closing Pace Digitek's application. The 100 MW project, with Rs 557.62 crore already committed, keeps its grid access - and the ruling gives every developer fighting a revocation a precedent to cite.
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Chhattisgarh's power stations credit consumers about Rs 32 crore - their coal cost less than the tariff assumed
Jul 17:
8The Chhattisgarh generator filed a negative fuel-cost adjustment of about Rs 31.7 crore for April across its four stations, crediting consumers because the coal it actually burned cost roughly Rs 200 a tonne less than the tariff allowed and carried more heat. It is the sharp end of a wider shift: domestic coal is beating both its own tariff norm and, by a distance, gas.
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BHEL swings to a Rs 382 crore profit as its power business turns from loss to gain - the order book is finally converting
Jul 17:
8The state-owned equipment maker turned a Rs 455 crore year-earlier loss into a Rs 382 crore standalone profit for the June quarter, as its power segment swung from a Rs 510 crore loss to a Rs 563 crore profit on a 40 percent jump in revenue. The order book that had swelled faster than BHEL could build is finally converting into earnings.
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Borosil Renewables turns profitable on anti-dumping duties and the exit of its loss-making German arm
Jul 17:
8India's only listed solar-glass maker posted a Rs 88 crore quarterly profit against a Rs 272 crore loss a year ago, with margins at 35 percent, as duties on Chinese and Vietnamese glass lifted prices and the loss-making German subsidiaries were deconsolidated. The eye-catching headline - consolidated EBITDA up 104 percent - is mostly a base effect, and revenue actually fell from the prior quarter.
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Sterling & Wilson swings back to profit and books a record order backlog, led by a 1,000 MW Egypt solar-and-storage venture
Jul 17:
8The solar EPC contractor returned to a Rs 68 crore consolidated profit after a loss the previous quarter, and lifted its unexecuted order value to a post-pandemic record of about Rs 13,000 crore. The marquee win is a half-share of a USD 560 million project in Egypt pairing 1,000 MW of solar with 600 MWh of batteries - its first big storage-integrated order in the region.
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Punjab's regulator freezes PSPCL's push to force two mills off 11 kV and onto costlier 66 kV supply
Jul 17:
8PSERC admitted disputes from Rana Sugar and Golden Sandhar Mills and granted interim status-quo, barring the utility from any coercive action or further recovery while it forces industrial consumers to surrender their 11 kV connections. In the same sitting it took up PSPCL's own 250 MW solar tariff - and demanded proof the tender followed the competitive-bidding rules.
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For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Tender for protection work of scouring pile foundations of 132kV DC transmission lines towers Details
8Tender for supply of 765 kV CTs for various substations Details
8Tender for procurement of current transformers (CT) along with terminal connectors Details
8Tender for fabrication of super heater and economizer coils Details
8Tender for supply and installation of submersible borewell pumps in existing bore wells Details
8Tender for work of erection of 66kV Lilo to S/s line Details
8Tender for carriage of stock material Details
8Tender for construction of C type tower Details
8Tender for extension of SGR at 33 /11 kV sub station Details
8Tender for construction of 33 kV bay Details
8Tender for installation of 20.00 meter high mast light Details
8Tender for repairing and rewinding of three (03) nos. 110KW, and three(03)nos. 150KW induction motors Details
8Tender for urgent provision of fencing Details
8Tender for improvement of water supply system by providing chlorination system Details
8Tender for complete repairing of two nos. 275 HP, 3.3kV, 3 phase auto transformer starter panel Details
8Tender for maintenance of pumps and its all pipe line Details
8Tender for construction of temporary reserve station Details
8Tender for construction of 75 Nos. fly ash ventilation stoppings Details
8Tender for repair and extension of shed with allied misc. works Details
8Tender for supply of spares for desiccant type air dryer of braking system of all six generating units Details
8Tender for new 33/11kV S/s Details
8Tender for procurement of spare battery cell and buy back of old batteries Details
8Tender for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of new electrical feeder panel Details
8Tender for procurement of MTL make safety spares Details
8Tender for Bi-ARC for work of attending UG cable fault for 66kV class XLPE corrugated/ poly AL cable various lines Details
8Tender for attending leakages/seepages in various underground structures Details
8Tender for aug. of 11/0.433 kV 250kVA transformer to 11/0.433kV 630 kVA S/Stn. Details
8Tender for procurement of steel tubular poles Details
8Tender for aug. of 400 KVA 11/0.4 kV S/Stn. Details
8Tender for procurement of various rating battery banks for various substation Details
8Tender for supply of allied material for electrical material required Details
8Tender for supply of 245kV class centre break isolators with and without earth switch Details
8Tender for sale of 1,00,000 MT dry fly ash Details
8Tender for procurement of SOC solution for IT and OT system Details
8Tender for construction of one 33kV feeder Details
8Tender for renovation/construction of 1(one) number of 2-unit 132 kV GSS Details
8Tender for slope protection measures Details
8Tender for supply of TC fuse wire 12 SWG Details
8Tender for supply of LT straight joint kit (HS type) for 1.1KV 4X240 sqmm UG cable and 4x120 sqmm UG cable Details
8Tender for supply of HS type outdoor termination kit for 11kV 3X300 and 3X120 sqmm Details
8Design, engineering, supply construction, erection, testing, commissioning and maintenance of 45.6 MW ISTS connected wind power project Details
8Tender for erection work of LILO to proposed 66kV sub-station Details
8Tender for roof top rain water harvesting Details
8Tender for work of dye penetrant test (DPT), magnetic particle inspection Details
8Tender for erection work of 66kV D/C tower line Details
8Tender for fabrication dismantling erection strengthening modification of various chutes hoppers wagon tipplers belt conveyors crusher houses Details
8Tender for supply of staircase step grills for crushe house Details
8Tender for biennial rate contract for attending running repairs, scheduled, preventive & breakdown maintenance with overhauling of 08 nos. bulldozers Details
8Tender for supply of spares for stage 3 bootom feed gate pnematic systems Details
8Tender for supply and replacement works of S-panel tubes Details
8Tender for procurement of special purpose welding electrodes Details
8Tender for electrical works of ash dyke seepage water pumping system Details
8Tender for misc. civil works Details
8Tender for supply of various size of gate valves, diaphragm valve, NRVs, rubber sheet Details
8Tender for Bi-Aannual ARC for erection of 66kV S/S equipment, structures, control wiring etc. Details
8Tender for detailed survey of various EHV lines Details
8Tender for procurement of thermodynamic steam trap with inbuilt strainer and various size of NRV installed Details
8Tender for work operation and maintenance along with CMC of CAAQMS installed Details
8Tender for utility shifting in connection Details
8Tender for capital work of 110kV substation Details
8Tender for outsourcing of ETC of new 66 kV substation with 01 No 20 MVA power transformers along Details
8Tender for supply of scraper bar for scraper chain conveyor system Details
8Tender for new construction of 33/11 kV sub station Details
8Tender for construction of yard foundation cable Details
8Tender for annual contract of hotline washing of porcelain type post insulators, CBs, CTs, CVTs, gantry string insulators of both 220 kV and 400 kV switchyard Details
8Tender for supply, engineering, installation, testing and commissioning for retrofitting of micro- processor based belt watch system Details
8Tender for day to day repair and maintenance of sanitary fittings and water supply fittings Details
8Tender for R and M of permanent colour coated and corrugated G.I. sheets Details
8Tender for requirement of single span drive shaft made from advanced composite material Details
8Tender for repairing and overhauling of transmission assembly Details
8Tender for supply of various fly ash spares Details
8Tender for procurement of roller journal bearings upper and lower of mill XRP 1003 Details
8Tender for work of earth mat construction work for new circuit bench 33kV sub-station Details
8Tender for work of supply and installation of lugs Details
8Tender for work of installation of self-adhesive insulated waterproof bitumen sheet membrane on electric poles Details
8Tender for work of installation of self-adhesive insulated waterproof Details
8Tender for construction of wire mesh gablion wall to protect pole plinth from flood of 33 kV line Details
8Tender for supply of various MS / CS pipe, bends, tee, reducer, and flanges Details
8Tender for work of servicing/overhauling/repairing /testing of 6.6kV HT VCBs & 415V LT ACBs of various rating Details
8Tender for work of replacement of old centralized HVAC system Details
8Tender for procurement of 220kV cable joints for various EHV underground (UG) cables Details
8Tender for work of supply installation and commissioning of wireless announciation and microcontroller window Details
8Tender for work for supply of 24" transformer cooling fans & contactor, timer & relay Details
8Tender for work of arresting of porcupine movement by fire retardant coating of control cables Details
8Tender for establishment of 220/132/33kV substation Details
8Tender for procurement of 33kV, 1600-800/1A, 26.2kA, 4C, 0.2s Class CT Details
8Tender for providing and erecting profile sheet weather shed to control room & other miscellaneous civil work at 220/22 kV substation Details
8Tender for procurement of 220kV cable joints for various EHV underground (UG) cables Details
8Tender for work of chemical washing of disc insulator strings of various Details
8Tender for work of rectification of findings observed in health analysis of existing earthing system Details
8Tender for work of erection, testing & commissioning of 132kV equipment, structure, control wiring, earthing etc. Details
8Tender for supply of network cables for network maintenance Details
8Tender for supply and works for providing e-urja connectivity extension for new silo control room, way bridges Details
8Tender for Bi -annual rate contract for restoration work of various 132kV & 220kV class transmission lines Details
8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for erection of 66kV transmission lines Details
8Tender for erection and maintenance of HT/LT/TC work Details
8Design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with comprehensive maintenance contract of 5 years for solar rooftop projects Details
8Design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with comprehensive maintenance contract of 5 years for solar rooftop projects on control room at various 66kV substations Details
8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for the work of augmentation of EHV transformers and associated works Details
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For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
8India Mining Week: MoS Dubey invites industry as India unveils new critical mineral blocks Details
8Caliber Mining IPO Review: A Contract Mining Play Riding on Coal India, Should You Bet Details
8Bharat Coking Coal FY26 Profit Drops 89%; IPO Completed January 2026 Details
8A New Awakening for Coal Gasification in India Details
8From import dependence to global competitiveness: India’s solar manufacturing story Details
8Huawei launches FusionSolar 9.0 Smart PV Solution Details
8Kurnool’s 600 MW Solar Asset Reflects SAEL’s Growing Footprint in Large-Scale Renewables Details
8Borosil Renewables unveils Q1 FY27 performance in investor presentation Details
8Servotech Renewable secures 900 kW hybrid solar rooftop project from UPSRLM Details
8Waaree Energy Storage Solutions begins production at BESS container manufacturing facility Details
8ACME Solar raises project funding of Rs 2646 crore from REC Details
8Lack of rains, low water levels in dams resulting in power cuts in Kerala: Minister Details
8Sterling & Wilson falls 9% post Q1 results; profit up 69%, revenue down 10% Details
8Kundankulam data leak: NPCIL says nuclear safety or security systems not exposed Details
8Power export to India increased upto 1,650 megawatts Details
8Top 10 Adani Shares List to Watch Out For in 2026 Details
8Unlocking Efficiency: Building a unified power market through market coupling Details
8In the Arunachal Pradesh mountains, India is looking to tap geothermal energy Details
8India's non-coking coal imports fall further in Jan-Jun'26 on robust domestic supply, rising renewables output Details
8India's energy storage capacity expected to rise more than tenfold by FY2035-36: MoSPI Details
8PAIMANA Dashboard Expands to Track India's Infrastructure Growth Details
8Ambit Capital Power Play: ‘Buy’ on NTPC and Suzlon, ‘Sell’ Tata Power as battery costs reset Details
8Ratul Puri on Building Integrated Energy Solutions for India's Rising Power Demand Details
8BHEL Posts Rs 377 Crore Profit in Q1 as Power Orders Rise Details
8Coal India commissions 200 MW of Khavda solar project, strengthens renewable energy push Details
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8Tender for protection work of scouring pile foundations of 132kV DC transmission lines towers Details
8Tender for supply of 765 kV CTs for various substations Details
8Tender for procurement of current transformers (CT) along with terminal connectors Details
8Tender for fabrication of super heater and economizer coils Details
8Tender for supply and installation of submersible borewell pumps in existing bore wells Details
8Tender for work of erection of 66kV Lilo to S/s line Details
8Tender for carriage of stock material Details
8Tender for construction of C type tower Details
8Tender for extension of SGR at 33 /11 kV sub station Details
8Tender for construction of 33 kV bay Details
8Tender for installation of 20.00 meter high mast light Details
8Tender for repairing and rewinding of three (03) nos. 110KW, and three(03)nos. 150KW induction motors Details
8Tender for urgent provision of fencing Details
8Tender for improvement of water supply system by providing chlorination system Details
8Tender for complete repairing of two nos. 275 HP, 3.3kV, 3 phase auto transformer starter panel Details
8Tender for maintenance of pumps and its all pipe line Details
8Tender for construction of temporary reserve station Details
8Tender for construction of 75 Nos. fly ash ventilation stoppings Details
8Tender for repair and extension of shed with allied misc. works Details
8Tender for supply of spares for desiccant type air dryer of braking system of all six generating units Details
8Tender for new 33/11kV S/s Details
8Tender for procurement of spare battery cell and buy back of old batteries Details
8Tender for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of new electrical feeder panel Details
8Tender for procurement of MTL make safety spares Details
8Tender for Bi-ARC for work of attending UG cable fault for 66kV class XLPE corrugated/ poly AL cable various lines Details
8Tender for attending leakages/seepages in various underground structures Details
8Tender for aug. of 11/0.433 kV 250kVA transformer to 11/0.433kV 630 kVA S/Stn. Details
8Tender for procurement of steel tubular poles Details
8Tender for aug. of 400 KVA 11/0.4 kV S/Stn. Details
8Tender for procurement of various rating battery banks for various substation Details
8Tender for supply of allied material for electrical material required Details
8Tender for supply of 245kV class centre break isolators with and without earth switch Details
8Tender for sale of 1,00,000 MT dry fly ash Details
8Tender for procurement of SOC solution for IT and OT system Details
8Tender for construction of one 33kV feeder Details
8Tender for renovation/construction of 1(one) number of 2-unit 132 kV GSS Details
8Tender for slope protection measures Details
8Tender for supply of TC fuse wire 12 SWG Details
8Tender for supply of LT straight joint kit (HS type) for 1.1KV 4X240 sqmm UG cable and 4x120 sqmm UG cable Details
8Tender for supply of HS type outdoor termination kit for 11kV 3X300 and 3X120 sqmm Details
8Design, engineering, supply construction, erection, testing, commissioning and maintenance of 45.6 MW ISTS connected wind power project Details
8Tender for erection work of LILO to proposed 66kV sub-station Details
8Tender for roof top rain water harvesting Details
8Tender for work of dye penetrant test (DPT), magnetic particle inspection Details
8Tender for erection work of 66kV D/C tower line Details
8Tender for fabrication dismantling erection strengthening modification of various chutes hoppers wagon tipplers belt conveyors crusher houses Details
8Tender for supply of staircase step grills for crushe house Details
8Tender for biennial rate contract for attending running repairs, scheduled, preventive & breakdown maintenance with overhauling of 08 nos. bulldozers Details
8Tender for supply of spares for stage 3 bootom feed gate pnematic systems Details
8Tender for supply and replacement works of S-panel tubes Details
8Tender for procurement of special purpose welding electrodes Details
8Tender for electrical works of ash dyke seepage water pumping system Details
8Tender for misc. civil works Details
8Tender for supply of various size of gate valves, diaphragm valve, NRVs, rubber sheet Details
8Tender for Bi-Aannual ARC for erection of 66kV S/S equipment, structures, control wiring etc. Details
8Tender for detailed survey of various EHV lines Details
8Tender for procurement of thermodynamic steam trap with inbuilt strainer and various size of NRV installed Details
8Tender for work operation and maintenance along with CMC of CAAQMS installed Details
8Tender for utility shifting in connection Details
8Tender for capital work of 110kV substation Details
8Tender for outsourcing of ETC of new 66 kV substation with 01 No 20 MVA power transformers along Details
8Tender for supply of scraper bar for scraper chain conveyor system Details
8Tender for new construction of 33/11 kV sub station Details
8Tender for construction of yard foundation cable Details
8Tender for annual contract of hotline washing of porcelain type post insulators, CBs, CTs, CVTs, gantry string insulators of both 220 kV and 400 kV switchyard Details
8Tender for supply, engineering, installation, testing and commissioning for retrofitting of micro- processor based belt watch system Details
8Tender for day to day repair and maintenance of sanitary fittings and water supply fittings Details
8Tender for R and M of permanent colour coated and corrugated G.I. sheets Details
8Tender for requirement of single span drive shaft made from advanced composite material Details
8Tender for repairing and overhauling of transmission assembly Details
8Tender for supply of various fly ash spares Details
8Tender for procurement of roller journal bearings upper and lower of mill XRP 1003 Details
8Tender for work of earth mat construction work for new circuit bench 33kV sub-station Details
8Tender for work of supply and installation of lugs Details
8Tender for work of installation of self-adhesive insulated waterproof bitumen sheet membrane on electric poles Details
8Tender for work of installation of self-adhesive insulated waterproof Details
8Tender for construction of wire mesh gablion wall to protect pole plinth from flood of 33 kV line Details
8Tender for supply of various MS / CS pipe, bends, tee, reducer, and flanges Details
8Tender for work of servicing/overhauling/repairing /testing of 6.6kV HT VCBs & 415V LT ACBs of various rating Details
8Tender for work of replacement of old centralized HVAC system Details
8Tender for procurement of 220kV cable joints for various EHV underground (UG) cables Details
8Tender for work of supply installation and commissioning of wireless announciation and microcontroller window Details
8Tender for work for supply of 24" transformer cooling fans & contactor, timer & relay Details
8Tender for work of arresting of porcupine movement by fire retardant coating of control cables Details
8Tender for establishment of 220/132/33kV substation Details
8Tender for procurement of 33kV, 1600-800/1A, 26.2kA, 4C, 0.2s Class CT Details
8Tender for providing and erecting profile sheet weather shed to control room & other miscellaneous civil work at 220/22 kV substation Details
8Tender for procurement of 220kV cable joints for various EHV underground (UG) cables Details
8Tender for work of chemical washing of disc insulator strings of various Details
8Tender for work of rectification of findings observed in health analysis of existing earthing system Details
8Tender for work of erection, testing & commissioning of 132kV equipment, structure, control wiring, earthing etc. Details
8Tender for supply of network cables for network maintenance Details
8Tender for supply and works for providing e-urja connectivity extension for new silo control room, way bridges Details
8Tender for Bi -annual rate contract for restoration work of various 132kV & 220kV class transmission lines Details
8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for erection of 66kV transmission lines Details
8Tender for erection and maintenance of HT/LT/TC work Details
8Design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with comprehensive maintenance contract of 5 years for solar rooftop projects Details
8Design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with comprehensive maintenance contract of 5 years for solar rooftop projects on control room at various 66kV substations Details
8Tender for Bi-annual rate contract for the work of augmentation of EHV transformers and associated works Details
You can also click on Tenders for more
For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
8India Mining Week: MoS Dubey invites industry as India unveils new critical mineral blocks Details
8Caliber Mining IPO Review: A Contract Mining Play Riding on Coal India, Should You Bet Details
8Bharat Coking Coal FY26 Profit Drops 89%; IPO Completed January 2026 Details
8A New Awakening for Coal Gasification in India Details
8From import dependence to global competitiveness: India’s solar manufacturing story Details
8Huawei launches FusionSolar 9.0 Smart PV Solution Details
8Kurnool’s 600 MW Solar Asset Reflects SAEL’s Growing Footprint in Large-Scale Renewables Details
8Borosil Renewables unveils Q1 FY27 performance in investor presentation Details
8Servotech Renewable secures 900 kW hybrid solar rooftop project from UPSRLM Details
8Waaree Energy Storage Solutions begins production at BESS container manufacturing facility Details
8ACME Solar raises project funding of Rs 2646 crore from REC Details
8Lack of rains, low water levels in dams resulting in power cuts in Kerala: Minister Details
8Sterling & Wilson falls 9% post Q1 results; profit up 69%, revenue down 10% Details
8Kundankulam data leak: NPCIL says nuclear safety or security systems not exposed Details
8Power export to India increased upto 1,650 megawatts Details
8Top 10 Adani Shares List to Watch Out For in 2026 Details
8Unlocking Efficiency: Building a unified power market through market coupling Details
8In the Arunachal Pradesh mountains, India is looking to tap geothermal energy Details
8India's non-coking coal imports fall further in Jan-Jun'26 on robust domestic supply, rising renewables output Details
8India's energy storage capacity expected to rise more than tenfold by FY2035-36: MoSPI Details
8PAIMANA Dashboard Expands to Track India's Infrastructure Growth Details
8Ambit Capital Power Play: ‘Buy’ on NTPC and Suzlon, ‘Sell’ Tata Power as battery costs reset Details
8Ratul Puri on Building Integrated Energy Solutions for India's Rising Power Demand Details
8BHEL Posts Rs 377 Crore Profit in Q1 as Power Orders Rise Details
8Coal India commissions 200 MW of Khavda solar project, strengthens renewable energy push Details
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Exchange power prices nearly tripled in a week even though the grid was not short of power
Jul 16:
8The real-time market price climbed from about Rs 2.75 a unit on 9 July to Rs 7.36 on 16 July, and the green day-ahead market hit its Rs 10 ceiling on 15 July. Yet the physical grid had power to spare - costly gas stayed switched off, wind and solar were backed down, and the system spent the day regulating downward.
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India opens registration for its first coal exchanges, starting a shift to market-traded coal
Jul 16:
8The Ministry of Coal opened the online registration portal for coal exchanges on 15 July, backed by the 2025 mining-law amendment and the new Coal Exchange Rules. It is the first step toward buying and selling coal on a market with price discovery and settlement, instead of only through allocations and long-term contracts.
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Adani Power ties up a 25-year deal to sell 1,600 MW to Maharashtra, coal already secured
Jul 16:
8Adani Power has signed a 25-year agreement to supply 1,600 MW to Maharashtra's MSEDCL from a new 2×800 MW ultra-supercritical plant, with coal allotted under the government's SHAKTI policy. It locks in a quarter-century of assured revenue and confirms the group's next big thermal build.
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Delhi's fuel surcharge goes automatic - and the first month under it blows past the old 10% cap
Jul 16:
8Delhi's regulator has moved the power-purchase cost adjustment from case-by-case approval to an automatic formula, and disposed of the discoms' pending quarterly petitions. In the first month under it, May's surcharge worked out well above the old 10% ceiling - 25% at BSES Rajdhani before the commission capped recovery at about 18%.
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In the middle of the monsoon, Telangana's big Krishna reservoirs are almost empty
Jul 16:
8Telangana's usable Krishna-basin storage is down about 92% from a year ago - Srisailam holds roughly 10 TMC against 184 last year. With this little water this deep into the monsoon, the state is leaning on thermal and the exchange to keep the lights on.
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A May collapse at Khavda wiped out nearly 9,000 MW in seconds - and most wind farms there failed the rules meant to stop it
Jul 16:
8A disturbance at the Khavda renewable complex on 13 May tripped 17 high-voltage lines and knocked out about 8,963 MW of renewable generation almost instantly, dragging the national frequency down to 49.39 Hz. A committee review now finds most wind plants there did not provide the fast frequency response the grid code requires.
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The eastern grid operator cut tie-lines by hand in June - and its automatic defences still aren't ready
Jul 16:
8When four eastern states overdrew heavily on 26 June and ignored repeated warnings, the region's operator opened interconnecting tie-lines as a last resort. The same committee papers show none of the East's five islanding and black-start schemes is yet operational.
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India's non-fossil capacity crosses 54% - but June's new plants show how one-sided the build has become
Jul 16:
8Non-fossil sources now make up 54.18% of India's installed power capacity, 297,369 MW of 548,858 MW at end-June. Yet of the 6,504 MW added in June, all but 760 MW was renewable - the thermal fleet has almost stopped growing, even as it still carries the evening peak.
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Macquarie is out of the Vibrant Energy captive-solar platform; Inox's parent has taken it over and repaid the lenders
Jul 16:
8ICRA withdrew its ratings on four Vibrant Energy captive-renewable companies on 15 July, all after a March change of control. Macquarie's roughly 93% stake has passed to the INOXGFL group, and the banks have been paid off.
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Gujarat's GIPCL lays out a Rs 6,000-crore lignite plan and hints at an equity raise, while turning idle gas units into batteries
Jul 16:
8On its Q4 call, GIPCL guided to Rs 6,000 crore of capex for a new 750 MW lignite plant, said blended EBITDA should reach Rs 950–1,000 crore as its Khavda solar ramps up, and flagged a possible equity raise. It is also repurposing gas units that have sat idle for six years into battery storage.
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Power Markets Daily
Jul 16:
8Exchange power prices nearly tripled in a week without a real shortage
The real-time price reached about Rs 7.36 a unit for 16 July, up from Rs 2.75 on 9 July, with the day-ahead near Rs 6.53 for 15 July. The point of the lead is that the grid had power to spare while the exchange tightened; the mechanism sits there.
8The green day-ahead market hit its Rs 10 ceiling - clean power was the tightest of all
On 15 July the green day-ahead segment cleared at its Rs 10-a-unit cap, buyers bidding for about 197,000 MWh against only 37,000 MWh offered. That imbalance is the real signal: when the system tightens in the evening it is firm and green capacity that runs short, not the day-time solar that floods the market at noon.
8PXIL opens a high-price window aimed at imported-fuel and battery sellers
Its new AnydaySSC product (Circular 483, effective 15 July) is a single-side reverse auction open only to imported-coal, imported-gas and battery sellers. It is a small structural move with a clear purpose - give costly-but-flexible capacity a place to sell when the system needs it, the same logic as the high-price day-ahead market.
8Andhra's discom is buying peak power on the exchange right through August
APCPDCL floated five reverse auctions on the Hindustan Power Exchange for late July and August - about 400 MW round-the-clock plus separate evening-peak blocks. Coming after UP and West Bengal did the same last edition, it says southern demand is running ahead of supply after dark, and discoms would rather lock in firm blocks now than chase the spot price later.
8SECI has a big, cheap block of renewables on offer - but firming it costs three times as much
SECI's sheet lists about 8,276 MW of solar and hybrid capacity open to buying utilities from Rs 2.42 a unit, while assured evening-peak renewable power clears near Rs 8. The gap is the whole story of the transition in one line: day-time green energy is cheap and plentiful; green power you can count on after sunset still costs three times more. Details
The real-time price reached about Rs 7.36 a unit for 16 July, up from Rs 2.75 on 9 July, with the day-ahead near Rs 6.53 for 15 July. The point of the lead is that the grid had power to spare while the exchange tightened; the mechanism sits there.
8The green day-ahead market hit its Rs 10 ceiling - clean power was the tightest of all
On 15 July the green day-ahead segment cleared at its Rs 10-a-unit cap, buyers bidding for about 197,000 MWh against only 37,000 MWh offered. That imbalance is the real signal: when the system tightens in the evening it is firm and green capacity that runs short, not the day-time solar that floods the market at noon.
8PXIL opens a high-price window aimed at imported-fuel and battery sellers
Its new AnydaySSC product (Circular 483, effective 15 July) is a single-side reverse auction open only to imported-coal, imported-gas and battery sellers. It is a small structural move with a clear purpose - give costly-but-flexible capacity a place to sell when the system needs it, the same logic as the high-price day-ahead market.
8Andhra's discom is buying peak power on the exchange right through August
APCPDCL floated five reverse auctions on the Hindustan Power Exchange for late July and August - about 400 MW round-the-clock plus separate evening-peak blocks. Coming after UP and West Bengal did the same last edition, it says southern demand is running ahead of supply after dark, and discoms would rather lock in firm blocks now than chase the spot price later.
8SECI has a big, cheap block of renewables on offer - but firming it costs three times as much
SECI's sheet lists about 8,276 MW of solar and hybrid capacity open to buying utilities from Rs 2.42 a unit, while assured evening-peak renewable power clears near Rs 8. The gap is the whole story of the transition in one line: day-time green energy is cheap and plentiful; green power you can count on after sunset still costs three times more. Details
Grid Operations Daily
Jul 16:
8Summer-scale demand near 266 GW, met with almost no shortfall
Demand held near 266 GW on 14 and 15 July, high for mid-monsoon, yet the energy shortfall was just 0.19%. The grid took a peak-season load in the rains in its stride; the strain was on price, not supply.
8A clean grid nationally, with one stubborn corner in the North-East
Frequency stayed in band and every monitored 400/765 kV substation and inter-regional corridor showed zero violation on 15 July. The exception was small but recurring: the Tripura import corridor ran over its limit for about 18 hours on 14 July. It does not threaten the national grid, but it does mean Tripura keeps leaning on a link that has no headroom left.
8On a record-demand day the grid spent more time holding plants back than calling them up
Down-regulation ran to about 42,700 MWh against 20,300 MWh of up-regulation on 15 July. For a peak day, that is the tell that the tightness showing up in the exchange price was commercial, not a physical shortage of energy. Details
Demand held near 266 GW on 14 and 15 July, high for mid-monsoon, yet the energy shortfall was just 0.19%. The grid took a peak-season load in the rains in its stride; the strain was on price, not supply.
8A clean grid nationally, with one stubborn corner in the North-East
Frequency stayed in band and every monitored 400/765 kV substation and inter-regional corridor showed zero violation on 15 July. The exception was small but recurring: the Tripura import corridor ran over its limit for about 18 hours on 14 July. It does not threaten the national grid, but it does mean Tripura keeps leaning on a link that has no headroom left.
8On a record-demand day the grid spent more time holding plants back than calling them up
Down-regulation ran to about 42,700 MWh against 20,300 MWh of up-regulation on 15 July. For a peak day, that is the tell that the tightness showing up in the exchange price was commercial, not a physical shortage of energy. Details
Contracting news for the day: Part-1
Jul 16:
8UPPTCL's Rs 80.47-cr Sirsira GIS tender reworks eligibility, experience and pricing units before bids open on 30 July
Four corrigenda have reshaped UPPTCL's turnkey 400/220/132 kV GIS substation tender at Sirsira, Raebareli, well beyond a date change. LLPs are now expressly eligible, and qualifying experience has been split by voltage and technology. Several 245 kV GIS bay items shift from "No." to "Set," recasting how complete packages must be priced. With the deadline now 30 July 2026 and a 10% CPBG on GST-inclusive value, the pricing contest is already under way.
Four corrigenda have reshaped UPPTCL's turnkey 400/220/132 kV GIS substation tender at Sirsira, Raebareli, well beyond a date change. LLPs are now expressly eligible, and qualifying experience has been split by voltage and technology. Several 245 kV GIS bay items shift from "No." to "Set," recasting how complete packages must be priced. With the deadline now 30 July 2026 and a 10% CPBG on GST-inclusive value, the pricing contest is already under way.
8GETCO's Rs 245-cr Sagapara STATCOM ties bidders to station-level guarantees before a reverse auction sets the price
GETCO's turnkey ±125 MVAR STATCOM at the 220 kV Sagapara substation has been extended , but the technical addendum matters more than the date. Losses are dropped from bid evaluation yet remain a binding CEA-aligned design duty. 98% guaranteed availability and forced-outage limits now attach to the whole station, not just the converter. With four qualification routes and a reverse auction to follow, the contest is how far bidders will underwrite network risk.
8BHEL's coal-and-limestone handling EPC for the Lakhanpur ammonium-nitrate project moves the goalposts repeatedly before bids close
BHEL's EPC package for the coal and limestone handling plants at BCGCL's coal-to-2,000 TPD ammonium nitrate complex has shifted its deadline four times to 22 July 2026. Two sampling units were relocated onto conveyors and 100% standby capacity was mandated. A fresh 827-page electrical and C&I revision now binds the bidder without added cost or time, while a stricter-clause-prevails rule pushes interpretation risk onto the contractor. A 27-month build plus five-year O&M make this a lifecycle exposure, not a supply order.
8RVPN's Rs 208-cr Panther conductor rate contract makes bidders qualify for 6,020 km while guaranteeing no minimum purchase
RVPN's rate contract for 6,020 km of ACSR Panther conductor carries an estimated value of Rs 208.82 crore, yet guarantees no minimum call-off while requiring most bidders to quote the full quantity. A raw-material formula protects aluminium and steel but leaves freight, financing and conversion costs exposed. Delivery can also be rescheduled at the utility's discretion. A drafting conflict between "30+7" and "54+7" strand construction sits unresolved, and bidders should clear it before submission on 19 August 2026.
8AEGCL's five-substation transformer package bars joint ventures and offers no advance, turning delivery into a working-capital test
AEGCL's Package T-4 for 132/33 kV, 50 MVA transformers across five substations has been extended to 23 July 2026. Pre-bid clarifications trimmed scope — no parallel-operation duty, no BDV or DGA kits, no water-spray fire system. But AEGCL held firm on the terms that hurt: no advance payment, a 10% performance security, a five-year warranty and LD calculated on the whole contract price. With joint ventures prohibited, a single well-capitalised OEM must carry manufacturing, logistics and multi-site commissioning alone.
8MAHAGENCO's 300 MW Phase-II solar bundles land, evacuation and ten-year O&M into one contract, anywhere in Maharashtra
MAHAGENCO's 300 MWAC Phase-II ground-mounted solar programme places land, full EPC, evacuation to an MSETCL substation and ten years of O&M under one contractor, with each bidder capped at 100 MWAC. Three qualification routes widen entry, but per-MW financial thresholds and a fixed 15 MWAC operating reference filter out smaller players. A frozen three-member consortium must survive past the O&M term, turning a bidding group into a decade-long commitment. A reverse auction will then compress the price against very different site assumptions.
8BHEL locks in a balance-of-system partner for NTPC REL's 1,200 MW Anantapur solar before it has even won the job
BHEL's Solar Business Division is selecting a balance-of-system partner for a 1,200 MW project at Anantapur, owned by NTPC REL, before the main award is secured. The capacity is split into two 450 MW blocks and one 300 MW block. Prices stay firm to completion with no escalation, yet any reduction BHEL concedes to its customer must pass straight through to the vendor. With modules and trackers procured separately and reverse auction ruled out, bidders carry pre-award risk over an outcome they don't control.
8BHEL widens the entry gate for its Bandhabal cryogenic ASU but tightens the lifecycle guarantees behind it
BHEL's global tender for a cryogenic air separation unit serving a 2,000 TPD coal-to-ammonium nitrate project at Bandhabal, Jharsuguda, has lowered its qualifying reference from 1,000 to 500 TPD oxygen. It also stretched the look-back to 15 years and cut the operating record to one year, clearly widening the vendor pool. But 98% guaranteed availability, utility-overconsumption damages and a 21-month completion deadline push reliability risk deep into the contractor's account. With the deadline now 31 July 2026, bid quality will matter more than headline price.
8NTPC's two-transformer Rihand package tightens the entry gate with local-content, conflict-of-interest and insolvency tests
NTPC's package for two 201.67 MVA, 20/400 kV generator transformers at Rihand Stage-I restricts bidding to Class-I local suppliers at 60% local content. Declared reference plants are locked against later substitution, and eligibility stays under review up to award through conflict-of-interest and insolvency clauses reaching parents and technology providers. No owner estimate is published, leaving the Rs 1 crore EMD and 10% security without a benchmark. Bidders carry a 180-day price hold and only partial change-in-law relief on a bidirectional design.
8UJVNL's Rs 110-cr Kulhal RMU gives bidders more time but no relief from a 25% turbine-performance penalty on a 1975-vintage station
UJVNL's turnkey renovation of the 3×10 MW Kulhal hydro station has been pushed to 14 August 2026 — its third extension, adding 29 days in all. Yet the corrigendum touches only the calendar. The risk transfer stands: reverse engineering, refurbishment and integration of a five-decade-old plant under one contractor, with turbine-performance LD reaching 25% of the turbine package. Security is heavier too — 15% versus 10% — for bidders leaning on manufacturer credentials, so more time brings no softening of the exposure.
Contracting news for the day: Part-2
Jul 16:
8APDCL puts 3,002 transformers through non-stop quality checks before it pays Assam's power distribution company wants to buy 3,002 energy-saving transformers, worth about Rs 96 crore. Before paying, it can inspect the factory, re-test units in a lab, and even cut open random finished pieces — and if the mass units don't match the approved sample, the whole lot is rejected. The maker also faces fixed prices and delayed payment, which locks up its money.
8RVPN wants bidders to plan for 6,020 km of conductor, but won't promise to buy that much Rajasthan's transmission utility is buying ACSR conductor (the wire strung on power lines) on a rate contract worth about Rs 208 crore. Most bidders must quote for the full 6,020 km, yet the utility can order far less — so a supplier may build capacity and stock that never gets used. A price formula covers aluminium and steel changes, but freight and interest costs are left with the supplier.
8JdVVNL puts 600 MWh of batteries across 150 substations and makes private firms run them for 15 years Jodhpur's power distribution company wants battery storage — but instead of one big site, it is placing 150 small units (1 MW/4 MWh each) inside its local grid, worth about Rs 630 crore. A private developer must build, own, and run each plant for 15 years and earns only through a bid-decided rate. The hard part is not the day-one cost but keeping the batteries healthy for 15 years.
8KPTCL packs a substation, 90 km of lines and 7 bays into one job — and no one showed up to the pre-bid meeting Karnataka's transmission utility wants one contractor to build a new substation plus nearly 90 km of power lines and 7 connection bays, worth about Rs 143 crore, in 24 months including the monsoon. At the pre-bid meeting — where bidders usually ask questions — nobody attended, an early sign of weak interest. A key clause explaining how the quoted rate applies to each item was also quietly deleted.
8MPPGCL opens price bids for a job to watch its coal from the mine all the way to the plant Madhya Pradesh's power generation company wants a contractor to supervise coal at NCL mines — check quality, cut down shortages, and track it by rail up to the power stations. The tender has now reached the price-opening stage, but the papers don't show how much of the shortage loss the contractor must bear. That single point decides whether this is a light watchdog job or a heavy money risk.
8MPPGCL makes its coal agent pay for shortages, not just report them
Madhya Pradesh's power generation company wants one contractor to handle about 200 lakh MT of coal over two years — loading, quality, and rail movement — all for one rate, worth about Rs 112 crore. The catch: if monthly transit loss crosses 0.80%, the cost of the missing coal is recovered from the contractor. That loss can be far bigger than the fee the contractor earns.
8NEEPCO's 240 MW hydro project changed 18 times before bids closed
NEEPCO wants one contractor to build the full machinery of a 240 MW hydro plant in Arunachal Pradesh (three 80 MW units) and link its controls with the downstream Tato-I plant. The tender was changed 18 times, showing the scope was still not settled even as bids came in. A contractor who quotes low could lose money once the complex linking work begins.
8NTPC Green changes a 3,300 MWh battery tender six times, one change coming after the first deadline NTPC Green Energy wants a contractor to build one of India's largest battery storage systems, next to the big Khavda solar plant. The deadline moved eight days, and the sixth change came a day after bids were first due — so bidders must recheck which papers and specs still apply. With so many changes, missing one updated document could sink a bid.
DetailsOutage & Maintenance Register
Jul 16:
8About 40,000 MW sat out across four regions at the seasonal peak
Combined outages on 15 July were roughly 16,990 MW in the West, 11,025 in the South, 6,122 in the North and 5,752 in the East - about 22,240 MW of it forced, the rest planned. The grid still met near-266 GW comfortably, so the margin held; but a fifth of the fleet being unavailable on a peak day is the figure to watch as demand climbs.
8The West carried a cluster of fresh trips
Both units of Adani's Raipur plant went out on 15 July (1,370 MW, on coal-mill and condenser faults), three Wanakbori units are down together (630 MW, Gujarat), and NTPC's Gadarwara-1 (800 MW) stays out on a boiler-tube leak. None alarming on its own; together they are why the West carried the largest outage load.
8Fresh trips in the East and South too
Odisha's OPGC-3 (660 MW) and Bengal's Sagardighi-5 (660 MW) tripped on 14 July; in the South, Vallur-1 (500 MW), SEIL-2 (660 MW) and Mettur-5 (600 MW) went out on boiler and cooling-water faults. Ordinary forced outages for fleets this size - logged so whoever tracks any of these plants finds it.
8Rajasthan's Kota station lost three units in a single day
Kota TPS units 1, 4 and 7 (about 515 MW combined) were all out on 15 July on vibration and boiler faults - and Unit 4 is a small story in itself: it returned that afternoon after ten days out, then tripped again the same night. It reads as a station running ageing units hard.
8UP's Ghatampur plant has both new units down on coal-feeding faults
Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (1,320 MW together, NUPPL) remain out since mid-to-late June on coal-feeding problems - not a fuel shortage but a materials-handling failure at a brand-new supercritical station, which is the more troubling kind.
8Telangana's Yadadri has both units out, one on coal
Yadadri-4 (800 MW) is out on a coal shortage and Yadadri-1 (800 MW) on overhaul: 1,600 MW of the state's newest coal capacity idle just as its hydro collapses.
8The most useful return of the day: Kudankulam's 1,000 MW nuclear unit is back
Kudankulam-1 returned on 15 July after about a week out on generator protection - a full gigawatt of firm, must-run capacity back on the bar as the evening peak runs high.
8A first repair from the 2023 Sikkim flood: Teesta HPS Unit 3 is back after nearly three years
NHPC's 170 MW Teesta HPS Unit 3, dark since the October 2023 glacial-lake-outburst disaster, resumed on 15 July - the first restoration milestone from that catastrophe, even as the 1,200 MW Teesta-III complex next door stays fully out. Small in megawatts, large in what it signals about the long road back.
8A Kakrapar nuclear unit is out on a seal fault, back in three days
KAPS-1 (220 MW) tripped on 15 July on a generator-seal problem, return expected 18 July - a short, specific fault, logged because nuclear trips remove firm capacity.
8Two whole hydro stations are dark, one in the South's water-short belt
Telangana's Srisailam left-bank station (six units, 900 MW) is entirely out on overhaul and a long forced outage, and Tamil Nadu's Kadamparai pumped-storage station (four units, 400 MW) is fully down on earth faults into 2026-27. With Srisailam's reservoir near empty (Story 5), the region is short of both the water and the machines.
8The long-dark fleet still on the books
Beyond Teesta-III (1,200 MW since 2023), a string of units has been out for years: Raichur-1 (210 MW, not due back until 2027), Tuticorin's two units (since a 2025 fire), MAPS-1 (220 MW nuclear, since 2018), and LANCO's LKPPL station (732 MW, under insolvency since 2016). None is new, but together they show how much built capacity the system carries as dead weight.
8India's oldest reactor is being retired
RAPS-A Unit 1 (100 MW, Rajasthan), out since 2004, is recorded as awaiting regulatory clearance for decommissioning. Tiny in megawatts, but it marks the formal end of India's first commercial reactor unit.
8On the wires: a three-week-old tower collapse and a fresh disturbance at a 765 kV hub
The 765 kV Akola–Koradi line has been out since a 26 June tower collapse - the longest-standing material transmission fault in the set - and on 15 July a wider disturbance hit the Wardha 765 kV station, taking out the Nizamabad–Wardha inter-regional line (still out) and briefly the Wardha–Raipur circuit; a Sipat ICT has been out about nine days. These are the backbone elements to track until restored.
8The maintenance calendar and the routine tail
Big units due back soon include Gadarwara-1, Ghatampur-2, Vallur-1 and Talcher ST-2 (16 July) and Yadadri-4 (20 July); nuclear returns run KAPS-1 (18 July), Kaiga-1 (September) and MAPS-1 (December). Below the line sit about 42 small units (~2,750 MW), overwhelmingly ageing gas-turbine peakers stranded on costly gas or expired PPAs, not grid events - recorded internally rather than as stories. Details
Combined outages on 15 July were roughly 16,990 MW in the West, 11,025 in the South, 6,122 in the North and 5,752 in the East - about 22,240 MW of it forced, the rest planned. The grid still met near-266 GW comfortably, so the margin held; but a fifth of the fleet being unavailable on a peak day is the figure to watch as demand climbs.
8The West carried a cluster of fresh trips
Both units of Adani's Raipur plant went out on 15 July (1,370 MW, on coal-mill and condenser faults), three Wanakbori units are down together (630 MW, Gujarat), and NTPC's Gadarwara-1 (800 MW) stays out on a boiler-tube leak. None alarming on its own; together they are why the West carried the largest outage load.
8Fresh trips in the East and South too
Odisha's OPGC-3 (660 MW) and Bengal's Sagardighi-5 (660 MW) tripped on 14 July; in the South, Vallur-1 (500 MW), SEIL-2 (660 MW) and Mettur-5 (600 MW) went out on boiler and cooling-water faults. Ordinary forced outages for fleets this size - logged so whoever tracks any of these plants finds it.
8Rajasthan's Kota station lost three units in a single day
Kota TPS units 1, 4 and 7 (about 515 MW combined) were all out on 15 July on vibration and boiler faults - and Unit 4 is a small story in itself: it returned that afternoon after ten days out, then tripped again the same night. It reads as a station running ageing units hard.
8UP's Ghatampur plant has both new units down on coal-feeding faults
Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (1,320 MW together, NUPPL) remain out since mid-to-late June on coal-feeding problems - not a fuel shortage but a materials-handling failure at a brand-new supercritical station, which is the more troubling kind.
8Telangana's Yadadri has both units out, one on coal
Yadadri-4 (800 MW) is out on a coal shortage and Yadadri-1 (800 MW) on overhaul: 1,600 MW of the state's newest coal capacity idle just as its hydro collapses.
8The most useful return of the day: Kudankulam's 1,000 MW nuclear unit is back
Kudankulam-1 returned on 15 July after about a week out on generator protection - a full gigawatt of firm, must-run capacity back on the bar as the evening peak runs high.
8A first repair from the 2023 Sikkim flood: Teesta HPS Unit 3 is back after nearly three years
NHPC's 170 MW Teesta HPS Unit 3, dark since the October 2023 glacial-lake-outburst disaster, resumed on 15 July - the first restoration milestone from that catastrophe, even as the 1,200 MW Teesta-III complex next door stays fully out. Small in megawatts, large in what it signals about the long road back.
8A Kakrapar nuclear unit is out on a seal fault, back in three days
KAPS-1 (220 MW) tripped on 15 July on a generator-seal problem, return expected 18 July - a short, specific fault, logged because nuclear trips remove firm capacity.
8Two whole hydro stations are dark, one in the South's water-short belt
Telangana's Srisailam left-bank station (six units, 900 MW) is entirely out on overhaul and a long forced outage, and Tamil Nadu's Kadamparai pumped-storage station (four units, 400 MW) is fully down on earth faults into 2026-27. With Srisailam's reservoir near empty (Story 5), the region is short of both the water and the machines.
8The long-dark fleet still on the books
Beyond Teesta-III (1,200 MW since 2023), a string of units has been out for years: Raichur-1 (210 MW, not due back until 2027), Tuticorin's two units (since a 2025 fire), MAPS-1 (220 MW nuclear, since 2018), and LANCO's LKPPL station (732 MW, under insolvency since 2016). None is new, but together they show how much built capacity the system carries as dead weight.
8India's oldest reactor is being retired
RAPS-A Unit 1 (100 MW, Rajasthan), out since 2004, is recorded as awaiting regulatory clearance for decommissioning. Tiny in megawatts, but it marks the formal end of India's first commercial reactor unit.
8On the wires: a three-week-old tower collapse and a fresh disturbance at a 765 kV hub
The 765 kV Akola–Koradi line has been out since a 26 June tower collapse - the longest-standing material transmission fault in the set - and on 15 July a wider disturbance hit the Wardha 765 kV station, taking out the Nizamabad–Wardha inter-regional line (still out) and briefly the Wardha–Raipur circuit; a Sipat ICT has been out about nine days. These are the backbone elements to track until restored.
8The maintenance calendar and the routine tail
Big units due back soon include Gadarwara-1, Ghatampur-2, Vallur-1 and Talcher ST-2 (16 July) and Yadadri-4 (20 July); nuclear returns run KAPS-1 (18 July), Kaiga-1 (September) and MAPS-1 (December). Below the line sit about 42 small units (~2,750 MW), overwhelmingly ageing gas-turbine peakers stranded on costly gas or expired PPAs, not grid events - recorded internally rather than as stories. Details
Fuel & Coal Ledger
Jul 16:
8India opens registration for its first coal exchanges
The structural fuel story of the day: coal moving, over time, toward market-based trading with discovered prices.
8Even at peak demand, the costly gas fleet stayed switched off
The merit-order schedule for 16 July left imported-gas stations - Gandhar, RGPPL, Dadri gas and others - at zero MW, and RGPPL's Ratnagiri units have been idle since 28 June on low system demand. On a record-demand day, expensive gas was simply not needed - which is why the scarcity the price implied was not there in the fuel stack.
8Delhi's fuel-cost pass-through jumps and turns automatic
May's surcharge broke the old 10% cap; the mechanism is now formula-driven. A direct consumer-bill consequence. Details
The structural fuel story of the day: coal moving, over time, toward market-based trading with discovered prices.
8Even at peak demand, the costly gas fleet stayed switched off
The merit-order schedule for 16 July left imported-gas stations - Gandhar, RGPPL, Dadri gas and others - at zero MW, and RGPPL's Ratnagiri units have been idle since 28 June on low system demand. On a record-demand day, expensive gas was simply not needed - which is why the scarcity the price implied was not there in the fuel stack.
8Delhi's fuel-cost pass-through jumps and turns automatic
May's surcharge broke the old 10% cap; the mechanism is now formula-driven. A direct consumer-bill consequence. Details
Hydro & Reservoir Ledger
Jul 16:
8Telangana's Krishna reservoirs are almost empty in the monsoon
Stored hydro energy down about 92% year-on-year, pushing the state onto thermal and the exchange.
8The wider reservoir picture is behind last year, north and south
CEA's bulletin has Srisailam, Bhakra, Tehri and Idukki all below their year-ago levels, with Hirakud the exception, running slightly ahead on heavy inflow. It is a slower, broader version of the Telangana story: the monsoon refill is lagging across several basins, which trims the cheap hydro the system can lean on later in the year.
8Odisha's hydro is steady, but building no cushion
OHPC generation held around 512 MW on 14 July with most reservoirs marginally below last year - no alarm, but no buffer forming either as the season wears on. Details
Stored hydro energy down about 92% year-on-year, pushing the state onto thermal and the exchange.
8The wider reservoir picture is behind last year, north and south
CEA's bulletin has Srisailam, Bhakra, Tehri and Idukki all below their year-ago levels, with Hirakud the exception, running slightly ahead on heavy inflow. It is a slower, broader version of the Telangana story: the monsoon refill is lagging across several basins, which trims the cheap hydro the system can lean on later in the year.
8Odisha's hydro is steady, but building no cushion
OHPC generation held around 512 MW on 14 July with most reservoirs marginally below last year - no alarm, but no buffer forming either as the season wears on. Details
CERC Docket
Jul 16:
8The day's biggest tariff order: Meja Thermal's fixed charges trued up near Rs 2,040 crore a year
The CERC finalised the 2019-24 tariff for the 1,320 MW Meja plant (NTPC–UPRVUNL), settling annual fixed charges at about Rs 2,040 crore for 2023-24, with an earlier year trued slightly down. For UP, Rajasthan and Punjab, who buy Meja's power, this fixes a large slice of what they pay for baseload for years - the most consequential number in the day's docket.
8The wires for a Karnataka renewable zone get their financing cleared
The CERC approved security-creation for a Rs 927 crore inter-state project - the Bijapur RE-zone evacuation line, a G R Infraprojects SPV - covering about Rs 714 crore of term loans. A small procedural order with a real signal: the transmission that renewable zones depend on is getting financed and built, which is usually the piece that lags the panels.
8A North-East transmission scheme is abandoned after the solar project behind it collapsed - leaving a compensation fight
The CERC had already cleared NERGS-I as eligible - a new 400 kV switching station at Bokajan, Assam, looping in the Misa–New Mariani line, awarded to Techno Electric under competitive bidding. It has now been closed as infructuous, not refused: the 750 MW Bokajan solar project it was built to evacuate fell apart after the Centre withdrew its ADB loan and Assam suspended the project, and APDCL surrendered the connectivity in June. Nothing was built, but real money was spent - the developer claims about Rs 28.5 crore already incurred (APDCL admits only about Rs 5 crore) plus Rs 40.8 crore of lost opportunity, and is fighting the central transmission utility over who pays, while APDCL separately wants a Rs 214 crore bank guarantee released. It is a clean illustration of the risk in building transmission ahead of generation: when the plant dies, the wires strand, and the bill has no obvious owner.
8A legacy transmission line's charges fall as it finishes depreciating
POWERGRID's Tanakpur system - the 1992-vintage 220 kV Tanakpur–Bareilly line - had its charges settled at about Rs 3.7 crore for 2024-25, dropping to about Rs 2.2 crore from 2025-26. The fall is not the debt running off (the asset carries no loan interest at all); it is because the line becomes fully depreciated at the end of 2024-25 and its allowed equity return is capped once it passes its useful life. A minor, uncontested order on an old asset shared by fifteen northern beneficiaries - logged for completeness, and to get the reason right.
8NTPC's 1,000 MW Rihand-III tariff is reserved for orders
The CERC has reserved its ruling on the Rihand Stage-III tariff (NTPC v UPPCL) - a large order to watch when it lands, given the plant's size and UP's exposure to it.
8NLCIL's Talabira coal-cost truing-up is put off to 24 September
The CERC deferred NLCIL's petitions on the input price of Talabira coal - which feeds its stations, with Tamil Nadu beneficiaries - directing more cost and O&M detail first. Procedural, but it decides a real slice of NLCIL's station tariffs.
8Two 1,000 MW NTPC/NLC blocks have their tariffs adjourned for more data
The CERC put off tariff proceedings for NLC Tamil Nadu Power (1,000 MW) and NTPC's Sipat Stage-II (1,000 MW), directing the generators to answer technical-validation queries before their 2019-24 true-ups and 2024-29 tariffs are settled. Routine housekeeping, but it decides a real slice of what Tamil Nadu and the central and western discoms pay for baseload - logged, with the subject corrected: these are tariff matters, not commissioning-date extensions.
8When does a 70 MW connection start paying? Welspun's case turns on a two-day notice
Welspun sought to push its connectivity start date back a year, blaming POWERGRID's delayed Bhachau substation augmentation in Kutch. The CERC has reserved orders, and the live question is narrow but real: whether the central transmission utility breached the mandatory three-month notice under the general network-access rules when it made the 70 MW renewable connection chargeable from 4 March with only two days' notice. The utility argues that joint-committee minutes served as notice; Welspun says liability cannot begin until the connection was actually usable. The rupees are modest, but the ruling will set how strictly that notice period is enforced for every delayed renewable connection.
8Sprng Vayu fights to keep 106 MW of wind connectivity revoked after missed milestones
The developer wants to use about 106 MW, in two tranches, that the CERC revoked on 25 February for missing connectivity milestones - leaning on the Commission's own March order that lets sufficiently-advanced developers retain revoked connectivity against compensation. That relief is itself under partial stay at APTEL, where other developers are challenging the compensation levy, so the outcome here feeds straight into the wider connectivity-revocation battle. The Commission has expedited the case, and even asked why revocation took nine months. Listed 20 July.
8Tata Power's Section 11 compensation claim against GUVNL rolls on
The dispute over how much Tata Power should be paid for supply it was directed to make in 2023 under Section 11 is adjourned to 20 August, with GUVNL's review still pending - a long-running imported-coal compensation fight.
8A narrow Haryana-discom review over about a Rs 6 crore difference
Haryana's discoms want a February order corrected, contesting a principal figure of Rs 711 crore against Rs 718 crore claimed - small in the round, but the kind of number a discom will still chase.
8A solar SCOD-extension plea stalls on a jurisdiction objection
TP Saurya's bid to extend the commissioning dates of its Neemuch solar units is held up by a jurisdiction objection from the MP power company - status quo for now.
8SECI chases Jharkhand's discom for unpaid solar dues
SECI has asked the CERC to make Jharkhand's JBVNL pay outstanding principal and late-payment surcharge for solar supplied under a 2018 agreement, and to sign a supplementary contract. The two sides read the tariff differently - SECI as the mapped project rate of about Rs 2.53 a unit, within the contract cap, the discom as a pooled rate across all its solar - and the Commission has first asked them to settle whether it or the state regulator has jurisdiction. Small in the round, but it is the familiar discom-payment problem that keeps renewable developers' receivables stuck. Listed 20 August. Details
The CERC finalised the 2019-24 tariff for the 1,320 MW Meja plant (NTPC–UPRVUNL), settling annual fixed charges at about Rs 2,040 crore for 2023-24, with an earlier year trued slightly down. For UP, Rajasthan and Punjab, who buy Meja's power, this fixes a large slice of what they pay for baseload for years - the most consequential number in the day's docket.
8The wires for a Karnataka renewable zone get their financing cleared
The CERC approved security-creation for a Rs 927 crore inter-state project - the Bijapur RE-zone evacuation line, a G R Infraprojects SPV - covering about Rs 714 crore of term loans. A small procedural order with a real signal: the transmission that renewable zones depend on is getting financed and built, which is usually the piece that lags the panels.
8A North-East transmission scheme is abandoned after the solar project behind it collapsed - leaving a compensation fight
The CERC had already cleared NERGS-I as eligible - a new 400 kV switching station at Bokajan, Assam, looping in the Misa–New Mariani line, awarded to Techno Electric under competitive bidding. It has now been closed as infructuous, not refused: the 750 MW Bokajan solar project it was built to evacuate fell apart after the Centre withdrew its ADB loan and Assam suspended the project, and APDCL surrendered the connectivity in June. Nothing was built, but real money was spent - the developer claims about Rs 28.5 crore already incurred (APDCL admits only about Rs 5 crore) plus Rs 40.8 crore of lost opportunity, and is fighting the central transmission utility over who pays, while APDCL separately wants a Rs 214 crore bank guarantee released. It is a clean illustration of the risk in building transmission ahead of generation: when the plant dies, the wires strand, and the bill has no obvious owner.
8A legacy transmission line's charges fall as it finishes depreciating
POWERGRID's Tanakpur system - the 1992-vintage 220 kV Tanakpur–Bareilly line - had its charges settled at about Rs 3.7 crore for 2024-25, dropping to about Rs 2.2 crore from 2025-26. The fall is not the debt running off (the asset carries no loan interest at all); it is because the line becomes fully depreciated at the end of 2024-25 and its allowed equity return is capped once it passes its useful life. A minor, uncontested order on an old asset shared by fifteen northern beneficiaries - logged for completeness, and to get the reason right.
8NTPC's 1,000 MW Rihand-III tariff is reserved for orders
The CERC has reserved its ruling on the Rihand Stage-III tariff (NTPC v UPPCL) - a large order to watch when it lands, given the plant's size and UP's exposure to it.
8NLCIL's Talabira coal-cost truing-up is put off to 24 September
The CERC deferred NLCIL's petitions on the input price of Talabira coal - which feeds its stations, with Tamil Nadu beneficiaries - directing more cost and O&M detail first. Procedural, but it decides a real slice of NLCIL's station tariffs.
8Two 1,000 MW NTPC/NLC blocks have their tariffs adjourned for more data
The CERC put off tariff proceedings for NLC Tamil Nadu Power (1,000 MW) and NTPC's Sipat Stage-II (1,000 MW), directing the generators to answer technical-validation queries before their 2019-24 true-ups and 2024-29 tariffs are settled. Routine housekeeping, but it decides a real slice of what Tamil Nadu and the central and western discoms pay for baseload - logged, with the subject corrected: these are tariff matters, not commissioning-date extensions.
8When does a 70 MW connection start paying? Welspun's case turns on a two-day notice
Welspun sought to push its connectivity start date back a year, blaming POWERGRID's delayed Bhachau substation augmentation in Kutch. The CERC has reserved orders, and the live question is narrow but real: whether the central transmission utility breached the mandatory three-month notice under the general network-access rules when it made the 70 MW renewable connection chargeable from 4 March with only two days' notice. The utility argues that joint-committee minutes served as notice; Welspun says liability cannot begin until the connection was actually usable. The rupees are modest, but the ruling will set how strictly that notice period is enforced for every delayed renewable connection.
8Sprng Vayu fights to keep 106 MW of wind connectivity revoked after missed milestones
The developer wants to use about 106 MW, in two tranches, that the CERC revoked on 25 February for missing connectivity milestones - leaning on the Commission's own March order that lets sufficiently-advanced developers retain revoked connectivity against compensation. That relief is itself under partial stay at APTEL, where other developers are challenging the compensation levy, so the outcome here feeds straight into the wider connectivity-revocation battle. The Commission has expedited the case, and even asked why revocation took nine months. Listed 20 July.
8Tata Power's Section 11 compensation claim against GUVNL rolls on
The dispute over how much Tata Power should be paid for supply it was directed to make in 2023 under Section 11 is adjourned to 20 August, with GUVNL's review still pending - a long-running imported-coal compensation fight.
8A narrow Haryana-discom review over about a Rs 6 crore difference
Haryana's discoms want a February order corrected, contesting a principal figure of Rs 711 crore against Rs 718 crore claimed - small in the round, but the kind of number a discom will still chase.
8A solar SCOD-extension plea stalls on a jurisdiction objection
TP Saurya's bid to extend the commissioning dates of its Neemuch solar units is held up by a jurisdiction objection from the MP power company - status quo for now.
8SECI chases Jharkhand's discom for unpaid solar dues
SECI has asked the CERC to make Jharkhand's JBVNL pay outstanding principal and late-payment surcharge for solar supplied under a 2018 agreement, and to sign a supplementary contract. The two sides read the tariff differently - SECI as the mapped project rate of about Rs 2.53 a unit, within the contract cap, the discom as a pooled rate across all its solar - and the Commission has first asked them to settle whether it or the state regulator has jurisdiction. Small in the round, but it is the familiar discom-payment problem that keeps renewable developers' receivables stuck. Listed 20 August. Details
State Regulatory Roundup
Jul 16:
8UP clears the way to penalise about 200 renewable-purchase defaulters
UPERC (suo-motu 71SM/2025) let UPNEDA issue one final notice, after which continuing defaulters face penal proceedings under Section 142 - only 273 of 472 obligated entities had filed their FY2025-26 data. It is the step that turns a toothless compliance drive into one that can actually fine; the consequence, not the count, is the story.
8A cold store may feed one unit from another's meter across a public road
UPERC (KBGB Agritech, 2303/2025) held that Supply Code Clause 4.46(a) carries its own exemption power, and let a multi-unit consumer run its own cable between two units split by a road, on revenue-neutral terms. Marked "not a precedent," it will be cited as one anyway - a clean, reasoned ruling other multi-unit consumers can lean on.
8Delhi's quarterly power-cost petitions are dropped as the mechanism turns automatic
The three discoms' PPAC petitions were disposed as infructuous under the amended regulations; the consumer-bill consequence is in the lead.
8Adani Green's Rs 4.79-a-unit Karnataka tariff survives a final challenge
APTEL dismissed the Karnataka discom CESC's review petitions against the 2024 verdict that gave Adani Green a force-majeure extension, a Rs 4.79/unit tariff and a refund of liquidated damages. With the Supreme Court already having turned CESC away, the discom is out of options and the tariff stands firm.
8A discom can't dock one contract's dues from another's bills, APTEL rules
In a dispute over a 2013 Karnataka PPA, APTEL held that a trader carries a generator's scheduling and deviation risk only if the contract says so, and struck down a discom's move to set off Rs 1.56 crore from unrelated invoices. The sums are small; the principle - no cross-contract set-off - is what traders and lenders will hold onto.
8APTEL may send an Andhra wind-tariff order back, calling the regulator's ruling 'perfunctory.'
Hearing Green Infra Wind Solutions' appeal, APTEL called APERC's 2021 order cryptic and without reasons, and has asked the parties to show cause on 5 August why it should not be remanded for a fresh, reasoned decision - a proposed remand, not yet ordered. The developer was contracted at Rs 4.84 a unit but has been paid an interim Rs 2.43. It keeps a long-running Andhra renewable-payment fight alive and signals the tribunal's impatience with the state regulator.
8Two Delhi waste-to-energy PPAs are a week from sign-off
DERC reserved orders on power-purchase agreements for the Narela-Bawana and Ghazipur municipal-waste plants, directing the parties to finalise within a week. Small in megawatts, but it advances Delhi's waste-to-energy offtake, which has crawled.
8The rest of the state docket
UPERC is weighing whether Jaypee's Noida township must convert to multi-point supply (next 20 August) and whether "EMI" on rescheduled genco dues must carry interest (Bajaj Energy/LPGCL, listed today); routine UPPCL hearing notices go to mid-August. Details
UPERC (suo-motu 71SM/2025) let UPNEDA issue one final notice, after which continuing defaulters face penal proceedings under Section 142 - only 273 of 472 obligated entities had filed their FY2025-26 data. It is the step that turns a toothless compliance drive into one that can actually fine; the consequence, not the count, is the story.
8A cold store may feed one unit from another's meter across a public road
UPERC (KBGB Agritech, 2303/2025) held that Supply Code Clause 4.46(a) carries its own exemption power, and let a multi-unit consumer run its own cable between two units split by a road, on revenue-neutral terms. Marked "not a precedent," it will be cited as one anyway - a clean, reasoned ruling other multi-unit consumers can lean on.
8Delhi's quarterly power-cost petitions are dropped as the mechanism turns automatic
The three discoms' PPAC petitions were disposed as infructuous under the amended regulations; the consumer-bill consequence is in the lead.
8Adani Green's Rs 4.79-a-unit Karnataka tariff survives a final challenge
APTEL dismissed the Karnataka discom CESC's review petitions against the 2024 verdict that gave Adani Green a force-majeure extension, a Rs 4.79/unit tariff and a refund of liquidated damages. With the Supreme Court already having turned CESC away, the discom is out of options and the tariff stands firm.
8A discom can't dock one contract's dues from another's bills, APTEL rules
In a dispute over a 2013 Karnataka PPA, APTEL held that a trader carries a generator's scheduling and deviation risk only if the contract says so, and struck down a discom's move to set off Rs 1.56 crore from unrelated invoices. The sums are small; the principle - no cross-contract set-off - is what traders and lenders will hold onto.
8APTEL may send an Andhra wind-tariff order back, calling the regulator's ruling 'perfunctory.'
Hearing Green Infra Wind Solutions' appeal, APTEL called APERC's 2021 order cryptic and without reasons, and has asked the parties to show cause on 5 August why it should not be remanded for a fresh, reasoned decision - a proposed remand, not yet ordered. The developer was contracted at Rs 4.84 a unit but has been paid an interim Rs 2.43. It keeps a long-running Andhra renewable-payment fight alive and signals the tribunal's impatience with the state regulator.
8Two Delhi waste-to-energy PPAs are a week from sign-off
DERC reserved orders on power-purchase agreements for the Narela-Bawana and Ghazipur municipal-waste plants, directing the parties to finalise within a week. Small in megawatts, but it advances Delhi's waste-to-energy offtake, which has crawled.
8The rest of the state docket
UPERC is weighing whether Jaypee's Noida township must convert to multi-point supply (next 20 August) and whether "EMI" on rescheduled genco dues must carry interest (Bajaj Energy/LPGCL, listed today); routine UPPCL hearing notices go to mid-August. Details
Green Markets & RE Programme Watch
Jul 16:
8India added a record amount of renewables in 2025 - almost all of it solar
IRENA's 2026 data puts India's additions at about 46 GW for the year, nearly 38 GW of it solar, taking capacity to 250.5 GW and keeping India third in the world. The pace of solar is the headline; the thinness of everything else - wind, storage, firm capacity - is the footnote that matters more each month.
8A record hour for renewables, and the same week's reminder of their limits
Wind and solar met a record 42.79% of demand at one point on 13 July, yet two days later undershot their own schedule by about 102 MU, and Gujarat curtailed thousands of megawatts to hold the grid steady. The record and the miss are one story: plenty of renewable energy when the weather cooperates, and a firming-and-forecasting gap when it doesn't.
8MNRE tightens the gate on new wind-turbine models
An MNRE memo bars commercial deployment of wind-turbine models not yet on the approved ALMM list, allowing only pre-enlistment test prototypes. It pulls wind OEMs toward the same list-based discipline solar already lives under - a small rule with real bite for anyone trying to field a new machine.
8Courts leave a set of renewable generators under the older deviation rules - for now
High courts in Karnataka and Madras have directed that CERC's 2014 deviation-settlement regulations, not the stricter 2024 ones, apply to certain renewable generators pending further orders. It reads as technical, but which regime applies decides real money for RE plants managing grid-support penalties. Details
IRENA's 2026 data puts India's additions at about 46 GW for the year, nearly 38 GW of it solar, taking capacity to 250.5 GW and keeping India third in the world. The pace of solar is the headline; the thinness of everything else - wind, storage, firm capacity - is the footnote that matters more each month.
8A record hour for renewables, and the same week's reminder of their limits
Wind and solar met a record 42.79% of demand at one point on 13 July, yet two days later undershot their own schedule by about 102 MU, and Gujarat curtailed thousands of megawatts to hold the grid steady. The record and the miss are one story: plenty of renewable energy when the weather cooperates, and a firming-and-forecasting gap when it doesn't.
8MNRE tightens the gate on new wind-turbine models
An MNRE memo bars commercial deployment of wind-turbine models not yet on the approved ALMM list, allowing only pre-enlistment test prototypes. It pulls wind OEMs toward the same list-based discipline solar already lives under - a small rule with real bite for anyone trying to field a new machine.
8Courts leave a set of renewable generators under the older deviation rules - for now
High courts in Karnataka and Madras have directed that CERC's 2014 deviation-settlement regulations, not the stricter 2024 ones, apply to certain renewable generators pending further orders. It reads as technical, but which regime applies decides real money for RE plants managing grid-support penalties. Details
Corporate Wire
Jul 16:
8Adani Power's 25-year, 1,600 MW Maharashtra supply deal
The biggest single commitment of the day, coal linkage included.
8GIPCL's Rs 6,000-crore lignite plan and possible equity raise
A rare, detailed roadmap from a state genco.
8EMMVEE's first results as a listed company are strong
The Karnataka solar manufacturer reported Q1 revenue of Rs 1,555 crore (up 51%) and PAT of Rs 380 crore (more than double), with a record margin and a 9.9 GW order book. It is a clean read on how well domestic module makers are doing under ALMM protection: the demand is there and the margins are widening.
8Sterling and Wilson takes Shell to arbitration over an Australian solar farm
The company's Australian subsidiary has filed for arbitration against Shell's Australian arm in London (LCIA) over the Gangarri solar project's EPC and O&M contracts, claiming - depending on scope - about AUD 28 million plus USD 1.6 million (roughly Rs 170 crore), or on a reduced reading about AUD 21 million plus the same USD claim (nearer Rs 130 crore). For a company its size the sum is meaningful but not defining; the more telling part is the recurring execution risk in its overseas order book.
8IEX moves to unlock its gas-exchange stake
IEX's associate, the Indian Gas Exchange, filed its draft IPO papers, with an offer-for-sale of up to about 16.7 million shares that includes IEX trimming its holding - a value-unlocking event to track as the listing proceeds.
8A small solar-cell maker's headline profit jump is mostly a standalone effect
Onix Solar reported standalone Q1 profit about 20 times a year earlier - about Rs 21 crore against Rs 1 crore - but on a consolidated basis the jump is only about three times, and consolidated revenue actually fell year on year. The standalone spike came largely from an inventory drawdown rather than trading, so it flags an accounting quirk more than real momentum. Worth a watch as it builds out cell manufacturing, but the group numbers are the ones to read.
8India's installed capacity crosses 54% non-fossil
The milestone, and why the capacity share flatters the evening-peak reality.
8Kalpataru confirms a dividend but draws institutional pushback on two resolutions
At its AGM, Kalpataru cleared a Rs 11 dividend, but its resolution seeking authority under Section 180(1)(a) - to dispose of the undertaking or create security, not to raise borrowing limits - passed with only about 87% institutional support, and a director's re-appointment drew about 9% of institutional votes against. Minorities, but notable ones for a company leaning on debt to grow.
8Borosil Renewables takes a small warrant-conversion inflow
The solar-glass maker allotted shares on warrant conversion for about Rs 12 crore - routine, and small for the company, noted for the record.
8Results diary
Board meetings to approve Q1 results: Bharat Coking Coal (21 July), IEX (23 July, with an analyst meet the next day) and Coal India (27 July, with a possible interim dividend).
Ratings Watch
8Macquarie exits Vibrant Energy; Inox's group takes over and repays the lenders
ICRA withdrew four ratings after the change of control.
8A captive-solar pool holds its rating, but a regulatory cloud sits over it
CARE reaffirmed CARE A- on the nine-company, 100 MW Maharashtra restricted group backed by Partners Group. The live risk is not the assets but a stayed Maharashtra banking-charge order: about 16% of the group's output is banked by off-takers, so an adverse final ruling could hurt. The rating is steady; the regulation is the variable.
8A North-East distribution franchisee stays in default
Feedback Energy Distribution (Meghalaya and Tripura) remains at CARE D on about Rs 319 crore of facilities and has gone non-cooperating with two agencies - a distress marker in the franchisee model, small in absolute terms but total for this company. Details
The biggest single commitment of the day, coal linkage included.
8GIPCL's Rs 6,000-crore lignite plan and possible equity raise
A rare, detailed roadmap from a state genco.
8EMMVEE's first results as a listed company are strong
The Karnataka solar manufacturer reported Q1 revenue of Rs 1,555 crore (up 51%) and PAT of Rs 380 crore (more than double), with a record margin and a 9.9 GW order book. It is a clean read on how well domestic module makers are doing under ALMM protection: the demand is there and the margins are widening.
8Sterling and Wilson takes Shell to arbitration over an Australian solar farm
The company's Australian subsidiary has filed for arbitration against Shell's Australian arm in London (LCIA) over the Gangarri solar project's EPC and O&M contracts, claiming - depending on scope - about AUD 28 million plus USD 1.6 million (roughly Rs 170 crore), or on a reduced reading about AUD 21 million plus the same USD claim (nearer Rs 130 crore). For a company its size the sum is meaningful but not defining; the more telling part is the recurring execution risk in its overseas order book.
8IEX moves to unlock its gas-exchange stake
IEX's associate, the Indian Gas Exchange, filed its draft IPO papers, with an offer-for-sale of up to about 16.7 million shares that includes IEX trimming its holding - a value-unlocking event to track as the listing proceeds.
8A small solar-cell maker's headline profit jump is mostly a standalone effect
Onix Solar reported standalone Q1 profit about 20 times a year earlier - about Rs 21 crore against Rs 1 crore - but on a consolidated basis the jump is only about three times, and consolidated revenue actually fell year on year. The standalone spike came largely from an inventory drawdown rather than trading, so it flags an accounting quirk more than real momentum. Worth a watch as it builds out cell manufacturing, but the group numbers are the ones to read.
8India's installed capacity crosses 54% non-fossil
The milestone, and why the capacity share flatters the evening-peak reality.
8Kalpataru confirms a dividend but draws institutional pushback on two resolutions
At its AGM, Kalpataru cleared a Rs 11 dividend, but its resolution seeking authority under Section 180(1)(a) - to dispose of the undertaking or create security, not to raise borrowing limits - passed with only about 87% institutional support, and a director's re-appointment drew about 9% of institutional votes against. Minorities, but notable ones for a company leaning on debt to grow.
8Borosil Renewables takes a small warrant-conversion inflow
The solar-glass maker allotted shares on warrant conversion for about Rs 12 crore - routine, and small for the company, noted for the record.
8Results diary
Board meetings to approve Q1 results: Bharat Coking Coal (21 July), IEX (23 July, with an analyst meet the next day) and Coal India (27 July, with a possible interim dividend).
Ratings Watch
8Macquarie exits Vibrant Energy; Inox's group takes over and repays the lenders
ICRA withdrew four ratings after the change of control.
8A captive-solar pool holds its rating, but a regulatory cloud sits over it
CARE reaffirmed CARE A- on the nine-company, 100 MW Maharashtra restricted group backed by Partners Group. The live risk is not the assets but a stayed Maharashtra banking-charge order: about 16% of the group's output is banked by off-takers, so an adverse final ruling could hurt. The rating is steady; the regulation is the variable.
8A North-East distribution franchisee stays in default
Feedback Energy Distribution (Meghalaya and Tripura) remains at CARE D on about Rs 319 crore of facilities and has gone non-cooperating with two agencies - a distress marker in the franchisee model, small in absolute terms but total for this company. Details
Committees, People & System Administration
Jul 16:
8Nearly 9,000 MW lost at Khavda in May, with safeguards missing
The compliance failure, not just the trip, is the point.
8The eastern grid operator opened tie-lines by hand in June
A last resort used because the automatic defences still aren't ready.
8Ancillary and deviation settlements: mostly housekeeping, one cost that bites
June's spot-despatch accounts left generators owing the pool modest net sums - about Rs 32 crore in the South, Rs 15 crore in the North, small money in system terms. A Rs 1,281 crore retrospective figure sounds huge but is a billing re-computation being unwound, not new money. The number that actually matters is the East's part-load compensation: Farakka alone is owed about Rs 147 crore for running below efficient load - a real, recurring cost of keeping thermal flexible for the renewables.
8A Rajasthan solar corridor is one contingency from losing all its generation
NRPC's 245th operations committee flagged that a 765 kV Bhadla–Sikar outage would, under a single further fault, "lose all the generation" on the corridor, and warned of August export curtailments up to about 4,000 MW on Rajasthan lines still under construction. It is the transmission-lag problem in miniature: the panels are up, the wires to move them safely are not.
8Parliament and people
The Lok Sabha Standing Committee on Energy meets 23 July for a briefing by MNRE on the Green Energy Corridor renewable-evacuation programme; other PSU board moves in the day's filings were routine.
Details
The compliance failure, not just the trip, is the point.
8The eastern grid operator opened tie-lines by hand in June
A last resort used because the automatic defences still aren't ready.
8Ancillary and deviation settlements: mostly housekeeping, one cost that bites
June's spot-despatch accounts left generators owing the pool modest net sums - about Rs 32 crore in the South, Rs 15 crore in the North, small money in system terms. A Rs 1,281 crore retrospective figure sounds huge but is a billing re-computation being unwound, not new money. The number that actually matters is the East's part-load compensation: Farakka alone is owed about Rs 147 crore for running below efficient load - a real, recurring cost of keeping thermal flexible for the renewables.
8A Rajasthan solar corridor is one contingency from losing all its generation
NRPC's 245th operations committee flagged that a 765 kV Bhadla–Sikar outage would, under a single further fault, "lose all the generation" on the corridor, and warned of August export curtailments up to about 4,000 MW on Rajasthan lines still under construction. It is the transmission-lag problem in miniature: the panels are up, the wires to move them safely are not.
8Parliament and people
The Lok Sabha Standing Committee on Energy meets 23 July for a briefing by MNRE on the Green Energy Corridor renewable-evacuation programme; other PSU board moves in the day's filings were routine.
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8Tender for reconductoring using covered conductor Details
8Tender for empanelment of agencies for new 33/11kV substation, additional /augmentation of PTR Details
8Tender for supply of tube modules Details
8Tender for supply and installation of industrial AC for Kiosk Details
8Tender for supply of 750 Nos jumper cone for 500 kV ACSR bersimis conductor Details
8Tender for repair restoration of damaged existing protection works Details
8Tender for replacement of damaged parts of HVAC system Details
8Tender for civil foundation works for installation of 08 nos of 33 kV outdoor bay along with 33 kV second main bus Details
8Tender for fabrication, galvanizing, testing, supply and delivery at site of 33 kV structure Details
8Design, manufacture and supply of energy efficient distribution transformer Details
8Tender for rerouting and reconductoring of 11kV line Details
8Tender for constructing 11 kV double circuit line Details
8Tender for manufacturing, testing and supply of ISI marked 11 kV XLPE underground cable 300 sqmm Details
8Tender for supply of hot dip galvanised steel stay sets Details
8Tender for construction of yard foundation cable Details
8Design, engineering, supply, erection, testing and commissioning of 220kV and 33kV GIS transformer/reactor bays along with associated works Details
8Tender for work of wire netting and roof bolt support Details
8Tender for additional electrical work Details
8Tender for supply of various insulation materials for boiler Details
8Tender for supply of neoprene rubber seals for annual maintenance of gates Details
8Tender for work of complete overhauling of 20 cumecs capacity pump Details
8Tender for laying of 11kV UG cable Details
8Tender for rate contract for work of laying of various size of cable Details
8Tender for supply, installation, testing and commissioning of secondary cooling centrifugal water pump motor set of power house Details
8Design, engineering, procurement and construction of power house and associated works for 640 MW ISP OSP pumped storage project Package Details
8Tender for supply of matching material Details
8Tender for supply of matching material for maintainance Details
8Tender for shifting and dismantling of 33kV feeder Details
8Design, manufacture, testing and supply of 33 kV outdoor vacuum circuit breaker Details
8Tender for overhauling of 132/3.3 kV, 7.5 MVA station transformer and 132/11kV, 48 MVA generator transformer Details
8Tender for supply and commissioning contract of 100TR water cooled chiller Details
8Tender for supply of DSS pumps with installation and commissioning supervision services Details
8Tender for electrical works for capital items Details
8Tender for laying of HDPE pumping main, with 355 mm OD HDPE pipes supplied Details
8Tender for general civil work like rolling shutter overhauling, UPVC line Details
8Tender for routine, preventive and breakdown maintenance work of complete air conditioning system Details
8Tender for repair of defects of existing PU coating of NDCTs Details
8Tender for procurement of sam turbo water pumps spares Details
8Design, supply, erection, commissioning and testing of control system Details
8Tender for waterproofing and allied work on bunker floor terrace Details
8Tender for procurement of high alumina castable refractory grade A and P and ceramic insulation pad for boiler Details
8Tender for supply of LTSH and economizer coils for boiler Details
8Tender for supply of various types of pressure and temperature switches Details
8Tender for supply & commissioning of various suspension magnet with its control panel at coal handling plant Details
8Design, supply, installation, testing, commissioning with comprehensive maintenance contract of 5 years for solar rooftop projects Details
8Tender for work of providing service of online oil purification / filtration of servo mesh SP-320 oil of coal mill Details
8Tender for work of rubber lining of various equipments, pipes and fittings Details
8Tender for supply of various consumables items Details
8Tender for construction of control room foundations, cable trench Details
8Tender for overhauling and refurbishment of 03 nos. cartridges of boiler feed pump Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance contract for miscellaneous civil work Details
8Tender for servicing of different equipments during Details
8Tender for overhauling repair maintenance of all hoisting arrangement of rope drum motors Details
8Tender for shifting of 33 kV line etc Details
8Tender for work for shifting & construction of H.T. & L.T. line Details
8Tender for erection of 1.1 Kms S/C 33 kV line with ACSR DOG conductor Details
8Tender for supply of LT three phase X arm channel Details
8Tender for supply of LT metal parts Details
8Tender for reconductoring, conversion and constructing LT line with LT ABC Details
8Tender for constructing 2km new LT line and 2km conversion of 2wire OH line to 4wire OH line Details
8Tender for construction of cable trench work at 110kV substation Details
8Tender for supply of coverd conductor 11kV 99 sq.mm AAAC with accessories Details
8Tender for procurement of pilot based small scale standalone decentralized battery energy storage systems Details
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Sikkim's Teesta-III and Teesta HPS units, 1,370 MW, remain out about 21 months after the October 2023 glacial-flood disaster
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8Every daily generation register still carries the six 200 MW units of Teesta-III plus NHPC's Teesta HPS Unit 3 (170 MW) as forced out since 4 October 2023, with revival 'subject to further information'. Reconstruction of the flood-destroyed Chungthang dam has since been approved and is under way, but the powerhouses remain off the grid, a standing 1,370 MW hole in eastern hydro.
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Telangana's Krishna-basin reservoir storage was down about 86% year-on-year on 15 July, with Srisailam at 10.3 TMC against 170.1 a year earlier
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8Telangana's usable Krishna-basin storage stood at about 39.6 TMC on 15 July 2026, roughly 86% below the same date last year, with Srisailam live storage collapsed to 10.3 TMC from 170.1 TMC and Nagarjunasagar at 6.2 TMC from 90.4 TMC. So little water this deep into monsoon shifts more of Telangana's July load onto thermal and market power, a hydro shortfall that dovetails with the state's coal-hit Yadadri outages and the firm exchange prices.
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UPPCL and WBSEDCL floated cross-exchange reverse auctions for August-September peak-hour power on Hindustan Power Exchange
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8Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation (for September) and West Bengal's WBSEDCL (for August) each issued single-side reverse-auction circulars on the Hindustan Power Exchange - and, per the circulars, in parallel on IEX and PXIL - weighted toward evening-peak blocks. Two large state utilities lining up short-to-medium-term peak power through competitive auctions signals discoms bracing for the same evening-ramp scarcity now visible in the spot market.
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Gujarat's 'interim' Rs 1.50/unit green banking charge is extended again to 31 August 2026, a fixture nearly three years on
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8GERC has once more extended the flat Rs 1.50 per unit banking charge for green open-access consumers - to 31 August 2026 - and rejected industry's demand for a lower 8% in-kind banking charge, while still not putting in place the cost-based framework the Forum of Regulators model and stakeholders have sought since 2024. An 'interim' arrangement renewed repeatedly is now the de facto regime for Gujarat's green open-access economics.
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NPCIL's 100 GW-by-2047 nuclear ambition sits against a softer FY26, with PLF down to 79% and debt-to-EBITDA at 15.1 times
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8CARE reaffirmed NPCIL at AAA/A1+ even as the operator's FY26 nuclear plant load factor eased to about 79% and its debt-to-EBITDA rose to 15.1 times, against a build-out of 6.1 GW under construction and a national target of 100 GW of nuclear capacity by 2047. With the SHANTI Act now clearing the way for private participation, the gap between a debt-heavy, capital-intensive expansion and weakening current operating metrics is the tension a lender must weigh.
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REC and SJVN were each fined by the exchanges for board-composition lapses, and both central PSUs blamed the government's failure to appoint directors
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8REC disclosed a Rs 5.31 lakh exchange fine and SJVN a Rs 5.76 lakh fine for the March 2026 quarter for failing to maintain the required board composition, including the mandated woman director, under SEBI's listing regulations. Both government-controlled companies pinned the lapse on their majority owner - the Ministry of Power - not making the appointments, and both are seeking a waiver, a governance gap that recurs across listed central public-sector enterprises.
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APTEL sets aside HPERC's treatment of a 90% state loan as grant, remanding hydro tariffs for HPPCL's Sainj, Kashang-I and Sawra Kuddu
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8The Appellate Tribunal for Electricity, in Appeals 89, 94 and 135 of 2025, held that the Himachal Pradesh regulator had no jurisdiction to re-characterise 90% of a government-routed loan as a grant in order to shield consumers from tariff burden, and remanded the tariffs of three Himachal hydro projects. The ruling reaffirms that a state commission cannot override a government funding-policy decision to lower tariffs, and pushes the cost of that borrowing back into the projects' recoverable capital.
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Contracting news for the day: Part-1
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8POWERGRID scraps bid deposit but raises the technical bar for its Rs-scale transformer buy POWERGRID wants four 500 MVA autotransformers — but scrapping the usual bid deposit is the least of it. Joint ventures are banned, a dynamic short-circuit test now decides who even qualifies, and the cost of strengthening every bridge and road on the delivery route quietly lands in the supplier's price.
8MSEDCL's Rs 130 crore transformer order hands raw-material risk straight to bidders Maharashtra's power utility is buying 200 kVA distribution transformers worth Rs 130 crore, open only to manufacturers and locked to firm pricing. That single condition passes every rupee of future CRGO steel, copper and aluminium volatility to the bidder — nine months to deliver, with no room to pass the cost on.
8Gujarat's 500 MWh battery tender is really a 12-year performance bet GSECL isn't buying a battery — it's buying guaranteed power for the next twelve years. An 18-month build followed by 11 years of maintenance, Rs 18.3 crore locked as security, and performance measured at the 220 kV grid point. With the pre-bid process rewritten again and again, the real contest is lifecycle economics, not headline price.
8Kulhal hydro tender extended a third time, but the 25% penalty risk stays intact A Rs 110 crore turnkey job to rebuild a 1975-vintage hydro station has now been pushed back three times — 29 days in all. But more time doesn't soften the sting: turbine-shortfall penalties can reach 25% of the turbine value, and bidders must price a five-decade-old machine whose true condition they can only guess.
8NTPC's two-transformer order hides a far tougher brownfield fit test It reads like a simple order for two 201.67 MVA generator transformers. It isn't. Each unit must slot into decades-old foundations, bus ducts and fire systems with almost no modification — and NTPC expects bidders to walk the site and prove it fits before they quote. Miss a hidden interface, and there's no extra payment coming.
8NTPC quietly moves its data centres to a next-generation platform Behind routine procurement language, NTPC is switching its Noida and Hyderabad centres to a disaggregated infrastructure that survives losing two servers at once. The winner supplies it, migrates onto it, buys back the old system and nurses it for seven years — with the final payment held until the very end.
8KPTCL bundles two GIS packages with a Rs 3.62 crore entry ticket Two high-voltage substation packages fold GIS systems, transmission lines, underground cables and civil works into single contracts — with Rs 3.62 crore in bid security just to enter. And the final bill won't clear until the contractor hands over drone surveys and GIS-mapped data, turning digital paperwork into a payment gate.
8OMC's Rs 100 crore project rides on one consultant for 47 months One consultant, 47 months, a Rs 100 crore project — from the first sketch to the final occupancy certificate. Odisha Mining Corporation has fused architect, cost planner and site supervisor into a single accountable firm, on a fixed fee that won't rise even if the project's true cost does.
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Jul 15:
8A nine-engine opening rewrites the technology contest
A revised engine configuration has widened the field, but the most difficult obligations have become sharper rather than easier. Hydrogen testing, tighter emission guarantees and remote-island logistics now converge inside a single EPC risk envelope. The decisive issue lies in which bidders can turn that flexibility into a bankable and technically defensible offer.
A revised engine configuration has widened the field, but the most difficult obligations have become sharper rather than easier. Hydrogen testing, tighter emission guarantees and remote-island logistics now converge inside a single EPC risk envelope. The decisive issue lies in which bidders can turn that flexibility into a bankable and technically defensible offer.
8A ten-package land exercise puts 303.50 km of transmission corridors on a 15-day valuation clock
Three Gujarat packages reveal a procurement structure designed to accelerate decisions across hundreds of transmission-line locations. The commercial contest will not be governed by L1 pricing alone, as award sequencing and capacity controls alter how bidders can pursue the work. The most consequential risk sits inside the interaction between rapid delivery, variable quantities and fragmented district-level valuations.
8Rs 315 crore transmission package signals a broader grid expansion strategy while raising execution stakes
A seemingly routine transmission package conceals a procurement structure that reshapes execution responsibility far beyond conventional EPC contracts. The engineering choices and commercial framework point towards a much larger strategic objective than simple capacity addition. The implications extend well beyond this project and could influence how similar transmission packages are structured in the coming years.
8Large-scale PCC pole procurement sharpens execution standards as logistics, manufacturing depth and financial discipline emerge as decisive competitive differentiators
A routine distribution-material procurement quietly introduces commercial signals that extend far beyond concrete poles. Several provisions reshape how manufacturers will compete on execution capacity, financial strength and delivery assurance rather than price alone. The document hints at a procurement philosophy that could influence future utility sourcing decisions across Rajasthan.
8Final commissioning strategy tightens execution accountability as critical power project enters its decisive phase
The procurement is built around far more than routine commissioning activities. Several contractual provisions quietly reshape execution risk, commercial exposure and project responsibility in ways that deserve closer examination. The implications extend well beyond this individual package and could influence how similar projects are procured going forward.
8Qualification rules evolve as execution accountability remains firmly intact
A series of amendments quietly reshaped who can compete without altering who ultimately carries project risk. The revised framework broadens access while tightening accountability in unexpected ways. The implications extend well beyond a routine hydroelectric EPC procurement.
8Rs 1,723 crore pumped-storage EPC package sets the stage for a high-stakes contest where execution strategy may matter as much as price
A major pumped-storage package is reshaping the balance between engineering responsibility and commercial competition. The bidding framework introduces several provisions that could influence both pricing behaviour and execution strategy. What ultimately determines the winning advantage extends well beyond the quoted number.
8Repeated technical clarifications reshape EPC execution while commercial discipline remains firmly intact
Successive revisions have quietly altered the engineering assumptions behind this EPC package without changing its contractual backbone. The most consequential developments are buried inside technical clarifications rather than headline corrigenda. Their combined impact could influence pricing, execution strategy and bidder competitiveness far beyond the formal amendments.
8Rs 109 crore transformer tender places factory output under a five-year performance test
A large indoor-transformer procurement has been corrected after a value description magnified its apparent scale by 100 times. Behind the revised amount sits a contract that tests every supplied unit for losses and can reject an entire lot over one sampled failure. The decisive risk is buried not in the headline quantity, but in the interaction between rate matching, long guarantees and post-delivery quality control.
Southern Region still carrying three 400 kV corridors out since mid-May tower collapses on its 14 July congestion list
Jul 15:
8SRLDC's 14 July transmission-constraint list still shows the 400 kV Kaiga-Guttur out since 14 May after tower collapses, the 400 kV Gadag-Koppal double circuit with about 15 towers collapsed, and the Gazuwaka-Jeypore corridor - roughly two months on. The persistence of these outages on the congestion register is a structural weakness behind the region's recurring evening deficits, though the current restoration timeline is not in the day's documents.
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Eastern Region exported 92.4 MU to the South on 14 July, but the South still fell 539 MW short and Kerala logged a frequency emergency
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8The Eastern Region ran a large net exporter, sending 92.4 MU to the Southern Region over the 765 kV Angul-Srikakulam double circuit and the Talcher-Kolar HVDC, yet the Southern Region still carried the day's largest regional shortage at 539 MW, with Kerala alone short 508 MW while logging a grid-code frequency emergency and two non-compliance instances. The same state that could not meet its load also breached the grid code on the same day, and the north-to-south corridors were carrying heavy flows to plug the gap.
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Northern Region imported a net 326.9 MU on 14 July yet still shed load, short 318 MW at the evening peak
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8The Northern Region was the country's largest net importer on 14 July, drawing 326.9 MU across inter-regional ties - 4,027 MW on the Champa-Kurukshetra HVDC bipole alone - yet it still met its 86,204 MW evening peak with a 318 MW shortage and reported unscheduled load shedding in Uttar Pradesh. A region leaning this hard on imports and still shedding load is running with very little headroom, and its intra-regional corridors were already breaching limits.
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NTPC's large coal units logged a run of boiler-tube-leak trips in mid-July across three regions
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8NTPC supercritical and 660 MW units at Gadarwara (800 MW, Madhya Pradesh), Barh (660 MW, Bihar) and Dadri-I (210 MW, Uttar Pradesh) tripped on boiler tube leaks within days of 12-14 July, while the utility's Barh Unit 2 was already out on an overhaul following a boiler leak. With planned maintenance light in July, these unplanned trips - not scheduled overhauls - were the main drag on thermal availability, though whether they share a common cause or are coincidental monsoon failures cannot be established from the outage registers.
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Coal-supply outages idled 2,255 MW at Yadadri, Ghatampur and ACBIL as monsoon coal stocks tightened
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8On 14 July, coal availability rather than equipment failure kept large thermal blocks out across three states - Telangana's Yadadri Unit 4 (800 MW) on an explicit coal shortage since 9 July, Uttar Pradesh's two Ghatampur supercritical units (2x660 MW) on coal-feeding faults, and Chhattisgarh's ACBIL (135 MW) on low stock since mid-June. Yadadri's 'critical coal' flag also masks a deeper problem: three of its four units were already down, so its low plant load factor is being read as a fuel story when it is largely an outage story.
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IEX spot power prices firmed through mid-July, with 14 July evening and overnight blocks pinned to the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
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8The IEX day-ahead average market clearing price rose from Rs 2.49/kWh on 12 July to Rs 6.33 on 14 July and Rs 6.53 on 15 July, while the real-time market climbed from Rs 3.39 to Rs 5.87 to Rs 6.74 over the same days. The High-Price Day-Ahead Market, designed to clear above the Rs 10/kWh cap, drew about 72,590 MWh of sell offers on 14 July but found no buyers all week, so the day's scarcity stopped exactly at the ceiling.
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India's grid ran long by day and short after dark on 14 July, meeting a 251,139 MW evening peak with a 1,057 MW shortage
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8Grid-India met the 20:00 hrs all-India peak of 251,139 MW but left a 1,057 MW shortage even as the system spent much of the day over-frequency and ancillary services net down-regulated 48,461 MWh. The same day's power exchange swung from a Rs 1.09/kWh midday solar trough to the Rs 10/kWh ceiling after sunset, the clearest sign that 14 July's scarcity was an evening-ramp problem, not a shortage of daytime energy.
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8CEA Load Generation Balance Report 2026-27 projects all-India surplus of 2.5% energy and 4.1% peak for the year
8LGBR 2026-27 flags Eastern Region peak deficit of 16.2% and Southern Region 9.6%, with Odisha, Assam and Telangana worst hit
8ERPC weekly DSM settlement shows Southern Region under-drawing heavily, driving East-South deviation charge of Rs 273.8 crore for 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly DSM account records Rs 266.8 crore receivable from Southern Region and Rs 263.2 crore payable to Eastern Region, 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly ancillary-service (TRAS) account has thermal providers paying back for shortfall delivery, Khargone-I refunds Rs 2.06 crore
8ERPC reactive-energy charge statement issued for 29 June-5 July 2026 covering Eastern Region 400/220/132 kV lines
8WRPC reactive-energy account issued for the week 29 June-5 July 2026
8SRPC finalises March 2026 part-load and heat-rate compensation for 14 southern ISGS thermal stations, degradation compensation totals about Rs 1,077 crore
8Southern Region frequency-response certificate for June 2026 leaves four generators below the 0.30 beta incentive threshold
8NER protection sub-committee records 47 grid disturbances in April and 22 in May 2026, most on radial feeders
8SPS maloperation blacks out Sonabil and radial areas of Assam on 1 June 2026 with about 70 MW load loss
8SPS failed to operate during 132 kV Palatana-Surajmaninagar line tripping on 28 April 2026
8NERPC proposes new SPS on 220 kV BTPS-Agia corridor as delayed 400 kV Sonapur and Rangia substations strain the Assam grid
8PTCC clearance requirement abolished for transmission-line projects with effect from 1 July 2026
8WRPC to draft POWERGRID and WRLDC into random inspection of AUFLS/UFR relays across the Western Region
8SRPC communication sub-committee sees leadership change as SE (P&C) Len J.B. retires and ED SRLDC M.K. Ramesh moves to Western Region
8SRPC posts revised part-load compensation statements for southern-region thermal generators covering FY2024-25 and FY2025-26
8SRPC issues revised final Regional Energy Account statements for April 2025 to March 2026
8SRPC calls special meeting on 31 July to review Free Governor Mode of Operation performance of southern-region generators for FY2025-26 Details
8LGBR 2026-27 flags Eastern Region peak deficit of 16.2% and Southern Region 9.6%, with Odisha, Assam and Telangana worst hit
8ERPC weekly DSM settlement shows Southern Region under-drawing heavily, driving East-South deviation charge of Rs 273.8 crore for 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly DSM account records Rs 266.8 crore receivable from Southern Region and Rs 263.2 crore payable to Eastern Region, 29 June-5 July 2026
8WRPC weekly ancillary-service (TRAS) account has thermal providers paying back for shortfall delivery, Khargone-I refunds Rs 2.06 crore
8ERPC reactive-energy charge statement issued for 29 June-5 July 2026 covering Eastern Region 400/220/132 kV lines
8WRPC reactive-energy account issued for the week 29 June-5 July 2026
8SRPC finalises March 2026 part-load and heat-rate compensation for 14 southern ISGS thermal stations, degradation compensation totals about Rs 1,077 crore
8Southern Region frequency-response certificate for June 2026 leaves four generators below the 0.30 beta incentive threshold
8NER protection sub-committee records 47 grid disturbances in April and 22 in May 2026, most on radial feeders
8SPS maloperation blacks out Sonabil and radial areas of Assam on 1 June 2026 with about 70 MW load loss
8SPS failed to operate during 132 kV Palatana-Surajmaninagar line tripping on 28 April 2026
8NERPC proposes new SPS on 220 kV BTPS-Agia corridor as delayed 400 kV Sonapur and Rangia substations strain the Assam grid
8PTCC clearance requirement abolished for transmission-line projects with effect from 1 July 2026
8WRPC to draft POWERGRID and WRLDC into random inspection of AUFLS/UFR relays across the Western Region
8SRPC communication sub-committee sees leadership change as SE (P&C) Len J.B. retires and ED SRLDC M.K. Ramesh moves to Western Region
8SRPC posts revised part-load compensation statements for southern-region thermal generators covering FY2024-25 and FY2025-26
8SRPC issues revised final Regional Energy Account statements for April 2025 to March 2026
8SRPC calls special meeting on 31 July to review Free Governor Mode of Operation performance of southern-region generators for FY2025-26 Details
Corporate Wire
Jul 15:
8SECI extends bid deadline for Rs 1,000 crore external commercial borrowing / foreign-currency loan mandate to 22 July 2026
8Tata Power allots Rs 1,500 crore of 7.50% five-year unsecured NCDs on private placement
8POWER GRID commissions Khavda Phase-IV Part-E4 transmission element evacuating Gujarat RE (7 GW zone)
8REC incorporates Kesurdi Power Transmission Ltd to build 220 kV GIS at Satara, Maharashtra under TBCB
8PFC raises JPY 8.4 billion yen syndicated loan arranged by SBI Shinsei Bank
8Siemens India reports an 18-month FY2024-26 ending March 2026; 68th AGM set for August 11
8Ujaas Energy's 27th AGM appoints Geeta Mundra as Chairman and approves borrowing up to Rs 1,000 crore
8Adani's Khavda IV A transmission SPV seeks part-COD recognition for 5 of 14 bays already in service at KPS-3
8Waa Solar's bank facilities affirmed at IND BBB+/Stable/A2+ and removed from rating watch
8Adani Energy Solutions assigned Crisil ESG score of 65/100 ('Crisil ESG 65')
8Solapur Solar's Rs 20.98 crore loan stays at CARE D with issuer non-cooperating since 2021 Details
8Tata Power allots Rs 1,500 crore of 7.50% five-year unsecured NCDs on private placement
8POWER GRID commissions Khavda Phase-IV Part-E4 transmission element evacuating Gujarat RE (7 GW zone)
8REC incorporates Kesurdi Power Transmission Ltd to build 220 kV GIS at Satara, Maharashtra under TBCB
8PFC raises JPY 8.4 billion yen syndicated loan arranged by SBI Shinsei Bank
8Siemens India reports an 18-month FY2024-26 ending March 2026; 68th AGM set for August 11
8Ujaas Energy's 27th AGM appoints Geeta Mundra as Chairman and approves borrowing up to Rs 1,000 crore
8Adani's Khavda IV A transmission SPV seeks part-COD recognition for 5 of 14 bays already in service at KPS-3
8Waa Solar's bank facilities affirmed at IND BBB+/Stable/A2+ and removed from rating watch
8Adani Energy Solutions assigned Crisil ESG score of 65/100 ('Crisil ESG 65')
8Solapur Solar's Rs 20.98 crore loan stays at CARE D with issuer non-cooperating since 2021 Details
Green Markets & RE Programme Watch
Jul 15:
8All-India renewable generation 1,337 MU on 14 July; Gujarat leads wind, Rajasthan leads solar
8WRLDC reports persistent RE forecast errors in Maharashtra and Gujarat, partly from a January 2026 weather-provider switch Details
8WRLDC reports persistent RE forecast errors in Maharashtra and Gujarat, partly from a January 2026 weather-provider switch Details
State Regulatory Roundup
Jul 15:
8Meghalaya Power Distribution files for revised open-access additional surcharge of Rs 2.32/kWh for October 2025-March 2026
8HESCOM's July 2026 fuel-cost adjustment is a 4 paise/unit refund to all consumers as May power-purchase cost fell Rs 4.99 crore
8Punjab regulator admits PSPCL's Rs 6.90 crore compensation claim against Rana Sugars over 2005 co-gen PPA breach
8MERC disposes PSPCL-unrelated Khowal non-compliance petition after MSEDCL refunds Rs 6.94 lakh under new-connection scheme
8MERC closes Aspa Bandsons non-compliance case as MSEDCL awaits only Electrical Inspector approval for Amravati connection
8MERC declines Section 142 action against MSEDCL after Rs 3,000 Ombudsman-ordered connection-delay compensation is paid
8Torrent Power reports Q4 FY2025-26 T&D loss of 6.54% for Ahmedabad and under 1% for Surat in GERC quarterly filing
8Torrent Power's Dholera area shows ~50% year-on-year growth in power purchase and billing in Q4 FY2025-26
8Meghalaya regulator resets FY2026-27 tariffs for MePGCL, MePTCL and MePDCL after FY2024-25 true-ups
8Meghalaya sets FY2026-27 distribution tariff: domestic LT at Rs 5.00-5.10/kWh, industrial HT at Rs 5.55/kVAh with 20% peak ToD
8Meghalaya transmission tariff for FY2026-27 set at 64.96 paise/unit, MePTCL annual charge Rs 110.06 crore
8Rajasthan transmission utility RVPN overhauls deposit-works procedure, mandates 100% advance supervision charges and reserves 400/765 kV works to itself Details
8HESCOM's July 2026 fuel-cost adjustment is a 4 paise/unit refund to all consumers as May power-purchase cost fell Rs 4.99 crore
8Punjab regulator admits PSPCL's Rs 6.90 crore compensation claim against Rana Sugars over 2005 co-gen PPA breach
8MERC disposes PSPCL-unrelated Khowal non-compliance petition after MSEDCL refunds Rs 6.94 lakh under new-connection scheme
8MERC closes Aspa Bandsons non-compliance case as MSEDCL awaits only Electrical Inspector approval for Amravati connection
8MERC declines Section 142 action against MSEDCL after Rs 3,000 Ombudsman-ordered connection-delay compensation is paid
8Torrent Power reports Q4 FY2025-26 T&D loss of 6.54% for Ahmedabad and under 1% for Surat in GERC quarterly filing
8Torrent Power's Dholera area shows ~50% year-on-year growth in power purchase and billing in Q4 FY2025-26
8Meghalaya regulator resets FY2026-27 tariffs for MePGCL, MePTCL and MePDCL after FY2024-25 true-ups
8Meghalaya sets FY2026-27 distribution tariff: domestic LT at Rs 5.00-5.10/kWh, industrial HT at Rs 5.55/kVAh with 20% peak ToD
8Meghalaya transmission tariff for FY2026-27 set at 64.96 paise/unit, MePTCL annual charge Rs 110.06 crore
8Rajasthan transmission utility RVPN overhauls deposit-works procedure, mandates 100% advance supervision charges and reserves 400/765 kV works to itself Details
CERC Docket
Jul 15:
8CERC proposes Category-III inter-State trading licence for Carbon Resources Pvt Ltd, objections invited by 28 July 2026
Details
Hydro & Reservoir Ledger
Jul 15:
8Southern reservoirs mostly ran below year-ago levels on 14 July, with Mettur, Idukki and Srisailam all down
8National pumped-storage pipeline stands at 310,104 MW of potential against just 7,426 MW in operation
8Krishna-basin reservoirs Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar sit well below year-ago levels in early monsoon
8Tehri reservoir 10.5 m below year-ago level as northern hydro runs behind programme
8Sardar Sarovar runs about 8 m above last year's level, ahead on monsoon storage
8Odisha's Balimela hydro pond 6.5 ft below year-ago level on 14 July; three of its units out
8Hirakud (Burla) reservoir above last year and spilling with two gates open on 14 July
8Odisha's Chiplima run-of-river station generating 50 MW with all units available on 14 July
8Rengali reservoir in Odisha 7.8 m below year-ago level on 14 July, near minimum draw-down
8Upper Indravati (Mukhiguda) reservoir 3.8 m below last year; station peaked at 548 MW
8Upper Kolab (Bariniput) reservoir 2.7 m below last year with two of four units out
8Machkund hydro station generated zero on 14 July with reservoir 20 ft below last year
8Odisha OHPC hydro fleet averaged 559 MW for 13.4 MU on 14 July
8CEA data shows four of eight 250 MW Subansiri Lower units commissioned by May 2026
8Telangana's Krishna-basin usable reservoir storage down about 86% year-on-year to 39.6 TMC on 15 July 2026
8Srisailam live storage collapses to 10.3 TMC on 15 July 2026, a fraction of the 170.1 TMC held a year earlier
8Nagarjunasagar live storage at 6.2 TMC on 15 July 2026 versus 90.4 TMC a year earlier
8Singur reservoir shows zero live storage on 15 July 2026, down from 9.5 TMC a year earlier
8Pochampad live storage down to 0.3 TMC on 15 July 2026 from 7.4 TMC a year earlier
8Telangana bright spots: Pulichintala and Nizamsagar hold more water on 15 July 2026 than a year earlier Details
8National pumped-storage pipeline stands at 310,104 MW of potential against just 7,426 MW in operation
8Krishna-basin reservoirs Srisailam and Nagarjuna Sagar sit well below year-ago levels in early monsoon
8Tehri reservoir 10.5 m below year-ago level as northern hydro runs behind programme
8Sardar Sarovar runs about 8 m above last year's level, ahead on monsoon storage
8Odisha's Balimela hydro pond 6.5 ft below year-ago level on 14 July; three of its units out
8Hirakud (Burla) reservoir above last year and spilling with two gates open on 14 July
8Odisha's Chiplima run-of-river station generating 50 MW with all units available on 14 July
8Rengali reservoir in Odisha 7.8 m below year-ago level on 14 July, near minimum draw-down
8Upper Indravati (Mukhiguda) reservoir 3.8 m below last year; station peaked at 548 MW
8Upper Kolab (Bariniput) reservoir 2.7 m below last year with two of four units out
8Machkund hydro station generated zero on 14 July with reservoir 20 ft below last year
8Odisha OHPC hydro fleet averaged 559 MW for 13.4 MU on 14 July
8CEA data shows four of eight 250 MW Subansiri Lower units commissioned by May 2026
8Telangana's Krishna-basin usable reservoir storage down about 86% year-on-year to 39.6 TMC on 15 July 2026
8Srisailam live storage collapses to 10.3 TMC on 15 July 2026, a fraction of the 170.1 TMC held a year earlier
8Nagarjunasagar live storage at 6.2 TMC on 15 July 2026 versus 90.4 TMC a year earlier
8Singur reservoir shows zero live storage on 15 July 2026, down from 9.5 TMC a year earlier
8Pochampad live storage down to 0.3 TMC on 15 July 2026 from 7.4 TMC a year earlier
8Telangana bright spots: Pulichintala and Nizamsagar hold more water on 15 July 2026 than a year earlier Details
Fuel & Coal Ledger
Jul 15:
8All-India power-plant coal stock holds near 42.8 million tonnes on 13 July, 66% of normative with 27 plants critical
8Telangana's 3,200 MW Yadadri TPS runs at 23% PLF on critical coal, with three 800 MW units also on outage
8Reliance Sasan 3,960 MW UMTPP holds 7% of normative coal, thinnest cover among large pithead plants
8Andhra Pradesh state thermal fleet (Dr N. Tata Rao, Rayalaseema, Damodaram Sanjeevaiah) stays on critical coal at 11-21% of normative
8Gujarat's Wanakbori and Madhya Pradesh's Shree Singaji hold 15% of normative coal on rail-supply constraints
8Adani's imported-coal coastal plants (Mundra I-III, Udupi) run 36-56% PLF on 9-11% import stock
8All-India gas-based generation 58 MU on 12 July, 28% below programme; over half of gas/liquid capacity offline
8All-India coal generation 3,442 MU on 12 July; thermal fleet 20.5% on outage, forced outages dominant
8NTPC stations generate 949 MU on 12 July, 1.8% below programme and 2% behind year-to-date target
8Northern region conventional generation 4.8% below programme on 12 July; nuclear runs 18% behind year-to-date Details
8Telangana's 3,200 MW Yadadri TPS runs at 23% PLF on critical coal, with three 800 MW units also on outage
8Reliance Sasan 3,960 MW UMTPP holds 7% of normative coal, thinnest cover among large pithead plants
8Andhra Pradesh state thermal fleet (Dr N. Tata Rao, Rayalaseema, Damodaram Sanjeevaiah) stays on critical coal at 11-21% of normative
8Gujarat's Wanakbori and Madhya Pradesh's Shree Singaji hold 15% of normative coal on rail-supply constraints
8Adani's imported-coal coastal plants (Mundra I-III, Udupi) run 36-56% PLF on 9-11% import stock
8All-India gas-based generation 58 MU on 12 July, 28% below programme; over half of gas/liquid capacity offline
8All-India coal generation 3,442 MU on 12 July; thermal fleet 20.5% on outage, forced outages dominant
8NTPC stations generate 949 MU on 12 July, 1.8% below programme and 2% behind year-to-date target
8Northern region conventional generation 4.8% below programme on 12 July; nuclear runs 18% behind year-to-date Details
Outage & Maintenance Register
Jul 15:
8Two large Southern thermal units - Coastal Energen 600 MW and SEIL 660 MW - remained on forced outage on 14 July
8Kudankulam nuclear Unit 1 (1,000 MW) offline since 8 July on generator protection operation; NPCIL targets 15 July restart
8NTPC Gadarwara Unit 1 (800 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 13 July; largest unit out in Western Region
8Telangana's Yadadri Unit 4 (800 MW) out on coal shortage since 9 July; sister Unit 1 also down for overhaul
8Two Ghatampur supercritical units (2x660 MW) offline three to four weeks on coal-feeding problems
8Obra-C TPS Unit 1 (660 MW) out to 26 July on generator fault as 765 kV Obra-C bus isolator hotspots recur
8Barh (Bihar) has both 660 MW units out - Unit 2 on overhaul after boiler leak, Unit 3 on abnormal boiler sound
8OPGC Unit 3 (660 MW) in Odisha tripped on boiler tube leak on 14 July
8WBPDCL Sagardighi Unit 5 (660 MW) tripped 14 July on critical 220V DC system failure; two-week revival
8SEIL Project-2 Unit 1 (660 MW) in Andhra Pradesh tripped on cooling-water pipeline leak on 14 July
8Adani APL Mundra has three 660 MW units down (U8 clinker, U9 cooling-water leak, U6 overhaul) even as four RSD units returned
8Adani Tiroda Unit 5 (660 MW) in Maharashtra out from 13 July on high air-preheater gearbox vibration
8MahaGenco Bhusawal Unit 6 (660 MW) out on air-preheater fault; Unit 5 (500 MW) simultaneously on capital overhaul
8Anpara-C Unit 2 (600 MW) in UP out to 20 July on hydrogen leakage in the condenser
8Vedanta's 600 MW unit in Chhattisgarh has been out on a PA-fan trip since 14 April, revival now 31 July
8MahaGenco Chandrapur Unit 7 (500 MW) out on flame failure since 6 July, revival slated 10 August
8DVC Raghunathpur (RTPS) Unit 2 (600 MW) out on high turbine vibration since mid-April; revival 11 August
8Adani Coastal Energen Unit 1 (600 MW) in Tamil Nadu tripped 14 July on condenser water-box vent leak
8TNPGCL Mettur has both a 600 MW unit and a 210 MW unit out - Unit 5 on boiler leak, Unit 1 on rotor earth fault
8Hinduja HNPCL Unit 1 (520 MW) in Andhra Pradesh out on condenser tube leak since 12 July
8NTPC Dadri-I Unit 1 (210 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 12 July
8Rajasthan's Kota TPS has two units out - Unit 4 (210 MW) on TG bearing vibration, Unit 1 (110 MW) on vacuum fault
8Harduaganj-D Unit 9 (250 MW) in UP out since 2 July on raw-water non-availability / reheater protection trip
8HPGCL Panipat Unit 6 (210 MW) tripped 14 July on loss of all fuel
8PSPCL Ropar (Guru Gobind Singh) Unit 3 (210 MW) tripped late on 14 July on boiler tube leak
8Rajwest lignite plant loses two 135 MW units to bed-material leakage within days
8Suratgarh super-critical Unit 8 (660 MW) tripped and recovered same day on generator rotor earth fault
8CLP Jhajjar Unit 2 (660 MW) back on 14 July after two-day boiler-tube-leak outage
8CSPGCL Korba East (DSPM) Unit 1 (250 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak while Unit 2 sits on annual overhaul
8GSECL Wanakbori loses two 210 MW units on 14 July to low vacuum and a boiler tube leak
8ACBIL Unit 1 (135 MW) in Chhattisgarh out on low coal stock since mid-June
8WBPDCL Kolaghat Unit 3 (210 MW) out since 18 June after a boiler fire hazard
8Tuticorin Units 1 and 2 (2x210 MW) still out 16 months after a control-room fire; revival now end-2026
8PVUNL Patratu Unit 1 (800 MW) returned 14 July after five days offline on low system demand
8KPCL Bellary Unit 1 (500 MW) tripped twice within hours on 14 July on ID-fan and reverse-power protection
8SJVN Bikaner solar plant lost ~2.5 hours of generation on 14 July after delayed charging of the 400 kV Bikaner-II/III line
8Solapur STPS Unit 1 (660 MW) and Sipat-I Unit 3 (660 MW) among NTPC monsoon overhauls trimming Western Region supply
8About 7,510 MW of thermal capacity tripped or shut on 12 July, led by 685 MW Adani Raipur unit and multiple 660 MW units
8About 6,240 MW returned to grid on 12 July, including Talwandi Sabo (660 MW), Bellary (700 MW) and Neyveli New (500 MW)
8UP's Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (660 MW each) still out since mid-June on coal-feeding-system faults
8Windstorm collapses two towers of the 400 kV Raipur PS (Durg)-Kurud D/C line in Chhattisgarh on 19 May 2026
8220 kV Vapi-II (Sterlite)-Sayali D/C line remains out since September 2024 over a helipad in the corridor
8Wrong line opened: 220 kV Indore (PG)-Ujjain-1 tripped instead of scheduled Ujjain-2 on 15 June 2026, out for over 1.5 hours
8WRLDC lists WR generators taking planned outages without the required WRLDC code, some running days late
8WRPC lists WR transmission elements that tripped repeatedly in Q1 of 2026-27
8IndiGrid seeks Rs 18 crore and change-in-law relief to raise 765 kV Dharamjaygarh-Jabalpur line after Chhattisgarh HC induction case
8WRPC finalises MoU template after Adani's proposed 30-day shutdown of 765 kV Kotra-Tamnar and Kotra-Durg lines for APL Raigarh rail works Details
8Kudankulam nuclear Unit 1 (1,000 MW) offline since 8 July on generator protection operation; NPCIL targets 15 July restart
8NTPC Gadarwara Unit 1 (800 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 13 July; largest unit out in Western Region
8Telangana's Yadadri Unit 4 (800 MW) out on coal shortage since 9 July; sister Unit 1 also down for overhaul
8Two Ghatampur supercritical units (2x660 MW) offline three to four weeks on coal-feeding problems
8Obra-C TPS Unit 1 (660 MW) out to 26 July on generator fault as 765 kV Obra-C bus isolator hotspots recur
8Barh (Bihar) has both 660 MW units out - Unit 2 on overhaul after boiler leak, Unit 3 on abnormal boiler sound
8OPGC Unit 3 (660 MW) in Odisha tripped on boiler tube leak on 14 July
8WBPDCL Sagardighi Unit 5 (660 MW) tripped 14 July on critical 220V DC system failure; two-week revival
8SEIL Project-2 Unit 1 (660 MW) in Andhra Pradesh tripped on cooling-water pipeline leak on 14 July
8Adani APL Mundra has three 660 MW units down (U8 clinker, U9 cooling-water leak, U6 overhaul) even as four RSD units returned
8Adani Tiroda Unit 5 (660 MW) in Maharashtra out from 13 July on high air-preheater gearbox vibration
8MahaGenco Bhusawal Unit 6 (660 MW) out on air-preheater fault; Unit 5 (500 MW) simultaneously on capital overhaul
8Anpara-C Unit 2 (600 MW) in UP out to 20 July on hydrogen leakage in the condenser
8Vedanta's 600 MW unit in Chhattisgarh has been out on a PA-fan trip since 14 April, revival now 31 July
8MahaGenco Chandrapur Unit 7 (500 MW) out on flame failure since 6 July, revival slated 10 August
8DVC Raghunathpur (RTPS) Unit 2 (600 MW) out on high turbine vibration since mid-April; revival 11 August
8Adani Coastal Energen Unit 1 (600 MW) in Tamil Nadu tripped 14 July on condenser water-box vent leak
8TNPGCL Mettur has both a 600 MW unit and a 210 MW unit out - Unit 5 on boiler leak, Unit 1 on rotor earth fault
8Hinduja HNPCL Unit 1 (520 MW) in Andhra Pradesh out on condenser tube leak since 12 July
8NTPC Dadri-I Unit 1 (210 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak on 12 July
8Rajasthan's Kota TPS has two units out - Unit 4 (210 MW) on TG bearing vibration, Unit 1 (110 MW) on vacuum fault
8Harduaganj-D Unit 9 (250 MW) in UP out since 2 July on raw-water non-availability / reheater protection trip
8HPGCL Panipat Unit 6 (210 MW) tripped 14 July on loss of all fuel
8PSPCL Ropar (Guru Gobind Singh) Unit 3 (210 MW) tripped late on 14 July on boiler tube leak
8Rajwest lignite plant loses two 135 MW units to bed-material leakage within days
8Suratgarh super-critical Unit 8 (660 MW) tripped and recovered same day on generator rotor earth fault
8CLP Jhajjar Unit 2 (660 MW) back on 14 July after two-day boiler-tube-leak outage
8CSPGCL Korba East (DSPM) Unit 1 (250 MW) tripped on boiler tube leak while Unit 2 sits on annual overhaul
8GSECL Wanakbori loses two 210 MW units on 14 July to low vacuum and a boiler tube leak
8ACBIL Unit 1 (135 MW) in Chhattisgarh out on low coal stock since mid-June
8WBPDCL Kolaghat Unit 3 (210 MW) out since 18 June after a boiler fire hazard
8Tuticorin Units 1 and 2 (2x210 MW) still out 16 months after a control-room fire; revival now end-2026
8PVUNL Patratu Unit 1 (800 MW) returned 14 July after five days offline on low system demand
8KPCL Bellary Unit 1 (500 MW) tripped twice within hours on 14 July on ID-fan and reverse-power protection
8SJVN Bikaner solar plant lost ~2.5 hours of generation on 14 July after delayed charging of the 400 kV Bikaner-II/III line
8Solapur STPS Unit 1 (660 MW) and Sipat-I Unit 3 (660 MW) among NTPC monsoon overhauls trimming Western Region supply
8About 7,510 MW of thermal capacity tripped or shut on 12 July, led by 685 MW Adani Raipur unit and multiple 660 MW units
8About 6,240 MW returned to grid on 12 July, including Talwandi Sabo (660 MW), Bellary (700 MW) and Neyveli New (500 MW)
8UP's Ghatampur units 2 and 3 (660 MW each) still out since mid-June on coal-feeding-system faults
8Windstorm collapses two towers of the 400 kV Raipur PS (Durg)-Kurud D/C line in Chhattisgarh on 19 May 2026
8220 kV Vapi-II (Sterlite)-Sayali D/C line remains out since September 2024 over a helipad in the corridor
8Wrong line opened: 220 kV Indore (PG)-Ujjain-1 tripped instead of scheduled Ujjain-2 on 15 June 2026, out for over 1.5 hours
8WRLDC lists WR generators taking planned outages without the required WRLDC code, some running days late
8WRPC lists WR transmission elements that tripped repeatedly in Q1 of 2026-27
8IndiGrid seeks Rs 18 crore and change-in-law relief to raise 765 kV Dharamjaygarh-Jabalpur line after Chhattisgarh HC induction case
8WRPC finalises MoU template after Adani's proposed 30-day shutdown of 765 kV Kotra-Tamnar and Kotra-Durg lines for APL Raigarh rail works Details
Grid Operations Daily
Jul 15:
8All-India power demand met 251,139 MW at evening peak on 14 July with 1,057 MW national shortage
8All-India grid ran over-frequency on 14 July, outside the IEGC 49.90-50.05 Hz band 18.8% of the day
8Ancillary services were net down-regulating on 14 July, with 48,461 MWh of down despatch against 27,810 MWh up
8Northern Region met 86,204 MW evening peak with a 318 MW shortage; Uttar Pradesh carried out unscheduled load shedding
8Western Region met 71,426 MW evening peak with 200 MW shortage; Maharashtra curtailed 100 MW on a 132 kV Sakri-Dhule overload
8Southern Region carried the largest regional shortage on 14 July: 539 MW at evening peak
8Kerala short by 508 MW at maximum demand on 14 July and logged a frequency emergency on the grid code
8Eastern Region met its full 30,861 MW evening peak and ran as a large net exporter on 14 July
8North-Eastern Region met its 3,862 MW peak in full and exported surplus power on 14 July
8Northern Region imported a net 326.9 MU on 14 July, led by the 4,027 MW Champa-Kurukshetra HVDC
8Eastern Region exported 92.4 MU to the South on 14 July, chiefly over the Angul-Srikakulam 765 kV and Talcher-Kolar HVDC
8India imported 52.4 MU from Bhutan and 19.7 MU from Nepal on 14 July while exporting 41.6 MU to Bangladesh
8North-Eastern intra-regional corridors to Assam and Tripura breached TTC and ATC limits on 13 July
8Haryana and Punjab breached ATC limits and Haryana violated N-1 on Northern intra-regional corridors on 14 July
8Rajasthan hit the daily cap of deviation zero-crossing violations on 14 July, running 55 blocks without a sign change
8Eastern Region flagged N-1 violations on the 400 kV Banka-Kahalgaon and MPL-Maithon corridors on 14 July
8Gujarat curtailed about 9 MU of wind and solar on 14 July for grid security and stability
8NLDC's day-ahead SCUC for 15 July committed 48 thermal and gas units below minimum turndown, costliest at Rs 21.85/kWh
8Western Region met its 80,330 MW June 2026 peak with nil shortfall; monthly energy shortfall just 0.05%
8Maharashtra resorts to load shedding on 11 days in June 2026, peaking at 1,850 MW on 27 June
8Chhattisgarh load-sheds on eight days in June 2026, mostly late-night, peaking 779 MW on 29 June
8WRLDC flags persistent Maharashtra over-drawl at low frequency during 25-28 June 2026, with 1,700 MW of coal-hit Mahagenco capacity idle
8400 kV Navsari-Vav single-circuit line loads above 800 MW at night in early July 2026 as intra-Gujarat renewables fall
8Western Gujarat 400 kV nodes run at 432-434 kV overnight, forcing 49 line-switching operations
8Sardar Sarovar 400 kV switchyard runs at 415-420 kV when SSP machines are off, NCA seeks remedy Details
8All-India grid ran over-frequency on 14 July, outside the IEGC 49.90-50.05 Hz band 18.8% of the day
8Ancillary services were net down-regulating on 14 July, with 48,461 MWh of down despatch against 27,810 MWh up
8Northern Region met 86,204 MW evening peak with a 318 MW shortage; Uttar Pradesh carried out unscheduled load shedding
8Western Region met 71,426 MW evening peak with 200 MW shortage; Maharashtra curtailed 100 MW on a 132 kV Sakri-Dhule overload
8Southern Region carried the largest regional shortage on 14 July: 539 MW at evening peak
8Kerala short by 508 MW at maximum demand on 14 July and logged a frequency emergency on the grid code
8Eastern Region met its full 30,861 MW evening peak and ran as a large net exporter on 14 July
8North-Eastern Region met its 3,862 MW peak in full and exported surplus power on 14 July
8Northern Region imported a net 326.9 MU on 14 July, led by the 4,027 MW Champa-Kurukshetra HVDC
8Eastern Region exported 92.4 MU to the South on 14 July, chiefly over the Angul-Srikakulam 765 kV and Talcher-Kolar HVDC
8India imported 52.4 MU from Bhutan and 19.7 MU from Nepal on 14 July while exporting 41.6 MU to Bangladesh
8North-Eastern intra-regional corridors to Assam and Tripura breached TTC and ATC limits on 13 July
8Haryana and Punjab breached ATC limits and Haryana violated N-1 on Northern intra-regional corridors on 14 July
8Rajasthan hit the daily cap of deviation zero-crossing violations on 14 July, running 55 blocks without a sign change
8Eastern Region flagged N-1 violations on the 400 kV Banka-Kahalgaon and MPL-Maithon corridors on 14 July
8Gujarat curtailed about 9 MU of wind and solar on 14 July for grid security and stability
8NLDC's day-ahead SCUC for 15 July committed 48 thermal and gas units below minimum turndown, costliest at Rs 21.85/kWh
8Western Region met its 80,330 MW June 2026 peak with nil shortfall; monthly energy shortfall just 0.05%
8Maharashtra resorts to load shedding on 11 days in June 2026, peaking at 1,850 MW on 27 June
8Chhattisgarh load-sheds on eight days in June 2026, mostly late-night, peaking 779 MW on 29 June
8WRLDC flags persistent Maharashtra over-drawl at low frequency during 25-28 June 2026, with 1,700 MW of coal-hit Mahagenco capacity idle
8400 kV Navsari-Vav single-circuit line loads above 800 MW at night in early July 2026 as intra-Gujarat renewables fall
8Western Gujarat 400 kV nodes run at 432-434 kV overnight, forcing 49 line-switching operations
8Sardar Sarovar 400 kV switchyard runs at 415-420 kV when SSP machines are off, NCA seeks remedy Details
Power Markets Daily
Jul 15:
8IEX Day-Ahead Market clears at Rs 6.33/kWh average on 14 July, evening and night blocks pinned to the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8IEX Real-Time Market clears 172,398 MWh at Rs 5.87/kWh average on 14 July, peaks at the ceiling
8IEX Green Day-Ahead Market clears just 28,423 MWh at Rs 5.97/kWh on 14 July as green buy bids run ~4.8x green supply
8IEX High-Price Day-Ahead Market clears nothing for a seventh straight day despite ~72,000 MWh/day of sell offers
8IEX Term-Ahead Market daily and intraday contracts clear at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8IEX Green Term-Ahead Market: solar/daily-contingency legs clear near the Rs 10/kWh ceiling, wind contracts at Rs 5.90/kWh
8PXIL Real-Time Market clears 650 MWh on 14 July, entirely at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8PXIL contingency/DSM auction clears ~956 MW of buy across three evening blocks at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8Third exchange RTM clears only 50 MWh on 14 July, all at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8UPPCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy up to 315 MW of evening-peak power for September 2026
8WBSEDCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy 300 MW off-peak and 300 MW peak power for August 2026 Details
8IEX Real-Time Market clears 172,398 MWh at Rs 5.87/kWh average on 14 July, peaks at the ceiling
8IEX Green Day-Ahead Market clears just 28,423 MWh at Rs 5.97/kWh on 14 July as green buy bids run ~4.8x green supply
8IEX High-Price Day-Ahead Market clears nothing for a seventh straight day despite ~72,000 MWh/day of sell offers
8IEX Term-Ahead Market daily and intraday contracts clear at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8IEX Green Term-Ahead Market: solar/daily-contingency legs clear near the Rs 10/kWh ceiling, wind contracts at Rs 5.90/kWh
8PXIL Real-Time Market clears 650 MWh on 14 July, entirely at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8PXIL contingency/DSM auction clears ~956 MW of buy across three evening blocks at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling on 14 July
8Third exchange RTM clears only 50 MWh on 14 July, all at the Rs 10/kWh ceiling
8UPPCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy up to 315 MW of evening-peak power for September 2026
8WBSEDCL floats Hindustan Power Exchange reverse auction to buy 300 MW off-peak and 300 MW peak power for August 2026 Details
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Jul 15:
For reference purposes the website carries here the following tenders:
8Tender for supply of multipurpose grease, lithium base grease and oil Details
8Tender for supply, installation commissioning of C and I spares for Jockey pump, hydrant pump, cable gallery Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for C and I part of FDPS (fire detection and protection system) installed Details
8Tender for construction of 02 Nos. fire wall at GT yard Details
8Tender for supply design erection testing and commissioning of 11kV HT line Details
8Tender for levelling, laying PCC, gravel and construction of trench covers at 132/33/11 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for providing newly proposed 11/0.4 kV 63 KVA S/stn. Details
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 220kV & 66kV equipments & materials Details
8Tender for work of erection and commissioning of 220kV and 132kV equipment, structures, control wiring etc Details
8Tender for Bi- annual rate contract for work of erection of 66kV transmission towers Details
8Tender for work of boiler tube surface preparation, thickness survey measurement with party’s D-meter Details
8Design, supply, installation, retrofitting, testing and commissioning of 220kV bus barpanel/scheme, 220 kV bus coupler relay scheme Details
8Tender for supply of 90/10 cupronickel condenser tubes Details
8Tender for supply of various lighting products Details
8Tender for work of penthouse roof restrengthening and repairing in boilers Details
8Tender for work of IN SITU repairing/overhauling of high energy drain valves and other low/medium/high pressure and temperature steam/water valves Details
8Tender for work of constructions of new maintenance free earth pit at 220 kV & 400kV switchyard Details
8Tender for supply of MS grill and fabrication & epoxy paint of stairs, railing, structure Details
8Tender for work of removal, supply and application of spray thermal insulation on drive turbines Details
8Tender for work of preventive maintenance of various 220 kV switchyard Details
8Tender for constructing new 11kV UG cable Details
8Tender for construction of 33 kV link line Details
8Tender for separation of 33 kV line Details
8Tender for work of transportation installation and commissioning of emergency restoration system ERS tower Details
8Tender for increasing capacity at 220 kV substation Details
8Tender for construction work of multipurpose seed store Details
8Tender for repairing and renovation of 09 Nos. existing bore holes and lowering and lifting Details
8Tender for carrying out miscellaneous job Details
8Tender for day to day comprehensive maintenance of civil and electrical works Details
8Tender for distribution of plant saplings Details
8Tender for supplying and laying of filled bag Details
8Tender for construction of 400kV (quad moose) 2nd D/C line Details
8Tender for purchase of sewage treatment plant Details
8Tender for construction of store in yard at 220 kV GSS Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing along with end bays Details
8Tender for assistance for maintenance and repair of electrical equipment Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of boilers Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of various Details
8Tender for tit bit civil work Details
8Tender for day-to-day operation of pumps, motors, and valves for the water supply system Details
8Tender for repair and renovation of the pump house Details
8Tender for misc. civil works inside Details
8Tender for upgradation/revamping of fire fighting facilities Details
8Tender for construction of pavement quality concrete Details
8Tender for construction of shed for hydro-mechanical (HM) works Details
8Tender for construction of damaged retaining wall on right bank Details
8Tender for work of HT LE using UG cable Details
8Tender for procurement of steel section quantity Details
8Tender for supply erection and commissioning of 20 torch panel welding machine Details
8Tender for balance civil and architectural works of main plant FGD civil works Details
8Tender for strengthening of crusher house Details
8Tender for development of water recharge shafts Details
8Tender for repair & rehabilitation works of 220 M height RCC chimney Details
8Tender for supply and installation of fills for stage 2 cooling tower Details
8Tender for earth mat extension and metalling work beyond 220kV fencing side at 220kV substation Details
8Tender for replacement of insulators from 110 kV substation Details
8Tender for award of contract for system strengthening works for survey, installation, testing and commissioning of new 5 MVA 33/11kV substation Details
8Tender for construction of RR masonry revetment wall at various Details
8Tender for procurement of power contactor and auxiliary contactor relays Details
8Tender for procurement of pneumatic fittings, tubings, hose and valves Details
8Tender for construction of coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for construction of road between coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for procurement of pressure switches and differential pressure switches Details
8Tender for supply of 9M long PCC poles Details
8Tender for supply of 10 KVA 11/0.433 kV aluminium wound EEL1 completely self protected (CSP) distribution transformers Details
8Tender for supply of 33kV single circuit ungalvanized steel lattice structure Details
8Tender for purchase of suspension type wave trap Details
8Tender for requirement of spares for service transformers installed Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for supply of TC fuse wire 12 SWG and 14 SWG Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance of minor civil and structural work Details
8Tender for procurement of conveyor belt Details
8Tender for service contract for evacuation job of accumulated ash and coal from all ducts of boiler during Details
8Tender for intermidiate additional pole between long spans in 11 kV and LT line Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines and 11/0.4 kV DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for augmentation of substation by replacement of 1X25 MVA 220/33kV T/F Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by replacement of 2x100MVA, 220/132kV ICTs Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by providing addition 1X100MVA 220/132kV ICT along with HV & LV bays Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for carrying out work of dismantling, erection & other allied activities in planned outage & emergency/breakdown for power transformers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 245 & 145 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 36 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for AMC for CTR make nitrogen injection fire protection system (NIFPS) for ICTs & transformer Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on existing of 132kV SCDC line Details
8Tender for second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract (AMC) for the demonstration, preventive maintenance as well as repairing work including supply of required spare of nitrogen injection fire protection systems Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance contract for the work of restoration of collapsed towers in emergency/breakdown situation of EHV lines Details
8Tender for work of dismantling of existing 132kV & 220kV various equipments Details
8Tender for work of supply, civil and ETC of replacement of 220kV & 132kV CTs and PTs Details
8Tender for work of erection, testing and commissioning of dedicated 400kV metering current transformer Details
8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 50MVA, 132/33kV power T/F along Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation capacity of substation by providing 1x100MVA, 220/132kV ICT along Details
8Tender for work of SITC of SCADA system along with integration of 25Nos. of bays and replacement of existing faulty relays Details
8Tender for work of establishment of 132-110/33 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for work of establishment of link line between 220kV phase 1 sub-station Details
8Tender for AMC for regular maintenance work, outage work and attending emergency breakdown work of 220 kV & 400 kV transmission lines Details
8Tender for works of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 1 x 100 MVA, 220/132 kV ICT along with bay equipments Details
You can also click on Tenders for more
For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
8Linde India raises stake in Zenataris Renewable Energy Details
8India's renewable energy expansion to be driven by domestic firms: EY, Centrum Details
8India Rooftop Solar Market Surges in 2026 as PM Surya Ghar Drives Record Residential Adoption Details
8Eco Solutions Subsidiary Bags Rs 72.06 Crore Orders for Solar Inverters and BESS Details
8Waaree Energies Share: UBS Reduces Its Valuation and Sees Multiple Risks in the Company Details
8KEC International shares up 4%: Bags Rs 1,180 crore orders across T&D, renewables, civil businesses Details
8Manufacturing Lines: Building flexibility into solar production for the next technology shift Details
8From Coal to Code: How India’s Top PSUs Are Embracing AI Details
8ECL Signs MoU with WBFDCL to Plant 2.11 Lakh Saplings in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman Details
8Coal gasification can cut imports, but at a high cost Details
8India Hits Record 57 GW Wind Capacity Details
8Shell divests 5GW of wind and solar assets in India, with local energy group acquiring them to expand its footprint. Details
8Wheels India Board Approves Fund Raising of Up to Rs 400 Crore to Support Growth Plans Details
8Blueleaf Energy Secures $75M Debt for 850MW Renewable Projects Details
8Top 33 Power Sector Stocks to Watch in India 2026 Details
8India’s power demand growth to drive INR 50 trillion investment by FY32 Details
8APTEL Judgment Reinforces Regulatory Certainty And Boosts Investor Confidence In India’s Power Sector Details
8Tata Power share price target: 29% upside Why MOFSL is bullish on this Tata stock post AGM Details
8Vedanta Targets Major Expansion in Metals, Oil, and Power Sectors Details
8Birla's power play to reshape India's green grid Details
8NICCI Senior Advisor Attends India–Nepal Power Sector Luncheon Meeting Details
8Adani Group Breaks Into India's Top 10 Most Valuable Brands; Adani Power Leads Energy Rankings Details
8Green Energy Sector Shows Pockets Of Strength In Weak Market Session Details
8How ethanol and green energy changed Uttar Pradesh’s sugar industry Details
8India moves closer to its first geothermal power plant as ONGC drills second geothermal well in Ladakh Details
8GERC Invites Consultants To Develop Simplified And Future-Ready Retail Electricity Tariff Framework In Gujarat Details
8Centre to launch eighth critical mineral auction, offering 20 blocks Details
8WTTC projects India to become world’s fourth-largest Travel & Tourism economy by 2036 Details
8Data Centres and manufacturing may drive Rs 50 trillion power investment, but risks hitting a transmission wall Details
8RECPDCL Signs MoA for 1 MW Solar Power Plant at Gandhigram Rural Institute to Boost Clean Energy Adoption Details
You can also click on Newsclips for more Details
8Tender for supply of multipurpose grease, lithium base grease and oil Details
8Tender for supply, installation commissioning of C and I spares for Jockey pump, hydrant pump, cable gallery Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for C and I part of FDPS (fire detection and protection system) installed Details
8Tender for construction of 02 Nos. fire wall at GT yard Details
8Tender for supply design erection testing and commissioning of 11kV HT line Details
8Tender for levelling, laying PCC, gravel and construction of trench covers at 132/33/11 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for providing newly proposed 11/0.4 kV 63 KVA S/stn. Details
8Tender for supply, erection, testing & commissioning of 220kV & 66kV equipments & materials Details
8Tender for work of erection and commissioning of 220kV and 132kV equipment, structures, control wiring etc Details
8Tender for Bi- annual rate contract for work of erection of 66kV transmission towers Details
8Tender for work of boiler tube surface preparation, thickness survey measurement with party’s D-meter Details
8Design, supply, installation, retrofitting, testing and commissioning of 220kV bus barpanel/scheme, 220 kV bus coupler relay scheme Details
8Tender for supply of 90/10 cupronickel condenser tubes Details
8Tender for supply of various lighting products Details
8Tender for work of penthouse roof restrengthening and repairing in boilers Details
8Tender for work of IN SITU repairing/overhauling of high energy drain valves and other low/medium/high pressure and temperature steam/water valves Details
8Tender for work of constructions of new maintenance free earth pit at 220 kV & 400kV switchyard Details
8Tender for supply of MS grill and fabrication & epoxy paint of stairs, railing, structure Details
8Tender for work of removal, supply and application of spray thermal insulation on drive turbines Details
8Tender for work of preventive maintenance of various 220 kV switchyard Details
8Tender for constructing new 11kV UG cable Details
8Tender for construction of 33 kV link line Details
8Tender for separation of 33 kV line Details
8Tender for work of transportation installation and commissioning of emergency restoration system ERS tower Details
8Tender for increasing capacity at 220 kV substation Details
8Tender for construction work of multipurpose seed store Details
8Tender for repairing and renovation of 09 Nos. existing bore holes and lowering and lifting Details
8Tender for carrying out miscellaneous job Details
8Tender for day to day comprehensive maintenance of civil and electrical works Details
8Tender for distribution of plant saplings Details
8Tender for supplying and laying of filled bag Details
8Tender for construction of 400kV (quad moose) 2nd D/C line Details
8Tender for purchase of sewage treatment plant Details
8Tender for construction of store in yard at 220 kV GSS Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing along with end bays Details
8Tender for assistance for maintenance and repair of electrical equipment Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of boilers Details
8Tender for maintenance of illumination and enabling facilities of various Details
8Tender for tit bit civil work Details
8Tender for day-to-day operation of pumps, motors, and valves for the water supply system Details
8Tender for repair and renovation of the pump house Details
8Tender for misc. civil works inside Details
8Tender for upgradation/revamping of fire fighting facilities Details
8Tender for construction of pavement quality concrete Details
8Tender for construction of shed for hydro-mechanical (HM) works Details
8Tender for construction of damaged retaining wall on right bank Details
8Tender for work of HT LE using UG cable Details
8Tender for procurement of steel section quantity Details
8Tender for supply erection and commissioning of 20 torch panel welding machine Details
8Tender for balance civil and architectural works of main plant FGD civil works Details
8Tender for strengthening of crusher house Details
8Tender for development of water recharge shafts Details
8Tender for repair & rehabilitation works of 220 M height RCC chimney Details
8Tender for supply and installation of fills for stage 2 cooling tower Details
8Tender for earth mat extension and metalling work beyond 220kV fencing side at 220kV substation Details
8Tender for replacement of insulators from 110 kV substation Details
8Tender for award of contract for system strengthening works for survey, installation, testing and commissioning of new 5 MVA 33/11kV substation Details
8Tender for construction of RR masonry revetment wall at various Details
8Tender for procurement of power contactor and auxiliary contactor relays Details
8Tender for procurement of pneumatic fittings, tubings, hose and valves Details
8Tender for construction of coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for construction of road between coal stock pile yard stage Details
8Tender for procurement of pressure switches and differential pressure switches Details
8Tender for supply of 9M long PCC poles Details
8Tender for supply of 10 KVA 11/0.433 kV aluminium wound EEL1 completely self protected (CSP) distribution transformers Details
8Tender for supply of 33kV single circuit ungalvanized steel lattice structure Details
8Tender for purchase of suspension type wave trap Details
8Tender for requirement of spares for service transformers installed Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for supply of TC fuse wire 12 SWG and 14 SWG Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance of minor civil and structural work Details
8Tender for procurement of conveyor belt Details
8Tender for service contract for evacuation job of accumulated ash and coal from all ducts of boiler during Details
8Tender for intermidiate additional pole between long spans in 11 kV and LT line Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for construction of new 11 kV, LT lines and 11/0.4 kV DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines DTR Details
8Tender for regarding work shifting/displacement of 33kV, 11kV, LT lines Details
8Tender for augmentation of substation by replacement of 1X25 MVA 220/33kV T/F Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by replacement of 2x100MVA, 220/132kV ICTs Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation of capacity of substation by providing addition 1X100MVA 220/132kV ICT along with HV & LV bays Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract for carrying out work of dismantling, erection & other allied activities in planned outage & emergency/breakdown for power transformers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 245 & 145 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for supply of various types of cable & dismantling, ETC work of 36 kV circuit breakers Details
8Tender for AMC for CTR make nitrogen injection fire protection system (NIFPS) for ICTs & transformer Details
8Tender for work of second circuit stringing on existing of 132kV SCDC line Details
8Tender for second circuit stringing on 132kV line Details
8Tender for annual maintenance contract (AMC) for the demonstration, preventive maintenance as well as repairing work including supply of required spare of nitrogen injection fire protection systems Details
8Tender for biennial maintenance contract for the work of restoration of collapsed towers in emergency/breakdown situation of EHV lines Details
8Tender for work of dismantling of existing 132kV & 220kV various equipments Details
8Tender for work of supply, civil and ETC of replacement of 220kV & 132kV CTs and PTs Details
8Tender for work of erection, testing and commissioning of dedicated 400kV metering current transformer Details
8Tender for work of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 50MVA, 132/33kV power T/F along Details
8Tender for enhancement of transformation capacity of substation by providing 1x100MVA, 220/132kV ICT along Details
8Tender for work of SITC of SCADA system along with integration of 25Nos. of bays and replacement of existing faulty relays Details
8Tender for work of establishment of 132-110/33 kV sub-station Details
8Tender for work of establishment of link line between 220kV phase 1 sub-station Details
8Tender for AMC for regular maintenance work, outage work and attending emergency breakdown work of 220 kV & 400 kV transmission lines Details
8Tender for works of supply, erection, testing and commissioning of additional 1 x 100 MVA, 220/132 kV ICT along with bay equipments Details
You can also click on Tenders for more
For reference purposes the website carries here the following newsclips:
8Linde India raises stake in Zenataris Renewable Energy Details
8India's renewable energy expansion to be driven by domestic firms: EY, Centrum Details
8India Rooftop Solar Market Surges in 2026 as PM Surya Ghar Drives Record Residential Adoption Details
8Eco Solutions Subsidiary Bags Rs 72.06 Crore Orders for Solar Inverters and BESS Details
8Waaree Energies Share: UBS Reduces Its Valuation and Sees Multiple Risks in the Company Details
8KEC International shares up 4%: Bags Rs 1,180 crore orders across T&D, renewables, civil businesses Details
8Manufacturing Lines: Building flexibility into solar production for the next technology shift Details
8From Coal to Code: How India’s Top PSUs Are Embracing AI Details
8ECL Signs MoU with WBFDCL to Plant 2.11 Lakh Saplings in West Bengal’s Paschim Bardhaman Details
8Coal gasification can cut imports, but at a high cost Details
8India Hits Record 57 GW Wind Capacity Details
8Shell divests 5GW of wind and solar assets in India, with local energy group acquiring them to expand its footprint. Details
8Wheels India Board Approves Fund Raising of Up to Rs 400 Crore to Support Growth Plans Details
8Blueleaf Energy Secures $75M Debt for 850MW Renewable Projects Details
8Top 33 Power Sector Stocks to Watch in India 2026 Details
8India’s power demand growth to drive INR 50 trillion investment by FY32 Details
8APTEL Judgment Reinforces Regulatory Certainty And Boosts Investor Confidence In India’s Power Sector Details
8Tata Power share price target: 29% upside Why MOFSL is bullish on this Tata stock post AGM Details
8Vedanta Targets Major Expansion in Metals, Oil, and Power Sectors Details
8Birla's power play to reshape India's green grid Details
8NICCI Senior Advisor Attends India–Nepal Power Sector Luncheon Meeting Details
8Adani Group Breaks Into India's Top 10 Most Valuable Brands; Adani Power Leads Energy Rankings Details
8Green Energy Sector Shows Pockets Of Strength In Weak Market Session Details
8How ethanol and green energy changed Uttar Pradesh’s sugar industry Details
8India moves closer to its first geothermal power plant as ONGC drills second geothermal well in Ladakh Details
8GERC Invites Consultants To Develop Simplified And Future-Ready Retail Electricity Tariff Framework In Gujarat Details
8Centre to launch eighth critical mineral auction, offering 20 blocks Details
8WTTC projects India to become world’s fourth-largest Travel & Tourism economy by 2036 Details
8Data Centres and manufacturing may drive Rs 50 trillion power investment, but risks hitting a transmission wall Details
8RECPDCL Signs MoA for 1 MW Solar Power Plant at Gandhigram Rural Institute to Boost Clean Energy Adoption Details
You can also click on Newsclips for more Details
Daily Power Sector Tenders Excel update
Jul 15:
8Daily Excel covering new tenders and all published updates including corrigendum, amendment, addendum, clarification and status revisions, along with technical and financial bid opening, evaluation completion and final award actions including AOC and LOA issuance.
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POWER MARKETS DAILY
Jul 14:
8IEX Real-Time Market clears at a weekly high of Rs 5.25 a unit on the thinnest volume of the week
8Green Day-Ahead Market firms to Rs 4.02 a unit, the only active green segment
8Term-ahead trades cling to the price ceiling; PXIL deviation market clears nothing
8Hydro day-ahead segment draws sellers but no buyers all week
8Intraday volume-profile products barely trade, and only at the cap Details
8Green Day-Ahead Market firms to Rs 4.02 a unit, the only active green segment
8Term-ahead trades cling to the price ceiling; PXIL deviation market clears nothing
8Hydro day-ahead segment draws sellers but no buyers all week
8Intraday volume-profile products barely trade, and only at the cap Details
GRID OPERATIONS DAILY
Jul 14:
8All-India demand held near 251 GW on 13 July with an energy shortage of just 0.17%
8Frequency stayed in band 84% of the day but spent twice as long high as low
8Reliability indices clean nationally; localised violations at Dadra & Nagar Haveli and voltage deviations in Rajasthan and Karnataka
8Ancillary despatch ran firmly downward on 13 July - but far less than mid-week
8Regional peaks reconcile; the only material residual shortage is a Kerala pocket Details
8Frequency stayed in band 84% of the day but spent twice as long high as low
8Reliability indices clean nationally; localised violations at Dadra & Nagar Haveli and voltage deviations in Rajasthan and Karnataka
8Ancillary despatch ran firmly downward on 13 July - but far less than mid-week
8Regional peaks reconcile; the only material residual shortage is a Kerala pocket Details
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