Posts by Venugopal Pillai

Bihar leads in smart meter installations

Bihar today is the leading state in terms of consumer smart meter installations, official statistics suggest. According to data available on the National Smart Grid Mission portal, as of March 18, 2025, Bihar had a total of 63.55 lakh Read more

India’s power transmission sector is exceptionally attractive for lending institutions: Avener Capital

In this exchange with T&D India, we have Abhishek Kumar, Executive Director, Avener Capital, giving insights into new paradigms in the power transmission sector, touching upon aspects like enhanced involvement of private sector entities thanks to the TBCB Read more

Right-of-way constraints impeding progress of 14 critical ISTS projects

Issues relating to right-of-way (RoW) are impeding the progress of 14 critical interstate transmission system (ISTS) projects, it was recently informed in Parliament. In a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Shripad Naik, Minister of State Read more

Xbattery launches indigenously developed battery management system

Xbattery, an energy storage solutions innovator based at T-Hub, Hyderabad, has announced the official launch of BharatBMS, a high-voltage Battery Management System (BMS) which is understood to be India’s first indigenously developed BMS. In a release, Xbattery said that Read more

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CERC approves transmission tariff of Khavda HVDC project

Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has approved and adopted the annual transmission charge (tariff) of the mega Khavda HVDC project that Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) won under the tariff-based competitive bidding ( Read more

PFCCL empanels ten AMISPs for smart metering projects under RDSS

PFC Consulting Ltd (PFCCL) has empaneled ten entities that would be eligible to participate as Advanced Metering Infrastructure Service Providers (AMISP) for smart metering projects under the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS). PFCCL would be Read more

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Bidding annulled for hydropower evacuation scheme in Himachal Pradesh

Bid process coordinator REC Power Development & Consultancy Ltd (RECPDCL) has annulled the bidding process for an interstate transmission system (ISTS) scheme for evacuation of upcoming hydropower projects in Himachal Pradesh. RECPDCL has scrapped the bidding Read more

Godrej Enterprises Group sees substations EPC as a key focus area

Godrej Enterprises Group views EPC of power substations as a focus area, and foresees itself as a specialized substations player in the years to come. Addressing a media roundtable in Mumbai recently, Raghavendra Mirji, Executive Vice President & Business Read more

Transmission infrastructure addition falling short of target

The quantum of power transmission infrastructure addition is falling significantly short of target, as evinced by official statistics. Latest statistics released by Central Electricity Authority (CEA) clearly points out to the fact that addition of new power transmission infrastructure Read more

PFC Consulting qualifies bidders for five ISTS-TBCB schemes

Bid process coordinator PFC Consulting Ltd (PFCCL) has prequalified bidders for five ISTS-TBCB schemes, the final awards of which are expected by end of March 2025. According to a study by T&D India, PFCCL, over the recent past, has Read more