REC (Renewable Energy Certificate) is a tool to implement Renewable Purchase Obligations (RPOs) for buyers like state electricity distribution utility, open access users and captive generators from conventional sources from sellers of renewable energy generators. It is an environmental commodity…

Indian Power sector is in a rapid growth phase and in a phase of undergoing rapid change – change in a way they used to operate. A special emphasis is laid by the government on the electricity distribution industry to…

The Power Distribution Franchisee (DF) model is a precursor for privatization of distribution business in India. Under the model, the state retains ownership of the distribution asset and only leases O&M for defined contract period. On account of heavy capex…

Utility  Performance Monitoring is one of major gaps in Indian distribution utility or DISCOMs. The major reason is missing measurements and analytics to drive decisions and implementations. Even the MIS that gets created (inspite of its questionable integrity) is not…

There are ongoing lot of controversies about Power Distribution Franchisee (DF) applications and transparency of businesses running them. While some of them are definitely right and need to be intervened, but many of them are arising from missing information. Our…

The current approach to furnish baseline information for Distribution Franchisee (DF) RFP undertaken by the utility has following limitations: Very high level indicators (on distribution losses; collection efficiencies; customer mix and connected load distribution, arrear’s for each consumer class, brief…

An obvious question with so much projected on Distribution Franchisee (DF) model is:   What real gains both the utility and end-consumers could expect coming out of the Distribution Franchisee model? While Bhiwandi implementation of Distribution Franchisee has shown increased…

The Forum of Regulators Report on Standardization of the Distribution Franchisee model (September 2010) mentions that the objectives of appointing a distribution franchisee, inter alia, are:i. To minimise Aggregate Distribution and Commercial lossesii. To bring improvement in Metering, Billing and Revenue…

This is a comparative view of top level findings developed using the location specific reports of Gwalior, Datia and Bhind available here along with 6 other districts in Madhya Pradesh (MP). Regional traits like urban/ rural development differentiation are strikingly clear; Customer…

Chhattisgarh also has entered into the race of Power Distribution Franchising with its announcement of one of Raipur O&M Division named Baloda Bazar. The size of the project is smaller than all the recent 9 districts Distribution Franchisee in Madhya…