Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Electricity dispels the darkness
The origins of electricity
The colonial period: electricity for the elite: 1950–1984
Democratizing electricity supply
The Electricity (Supply) Act, 1948
Central planning favours public investment-led development
The Industrial Policy Resolution, 1956
The fiscal cost of public electricity supply
Electricity-intensive development
Changes in consumption pattern
The return of private investment: 1985–2020
International comparison of electricity supply
Profligate use of electricity shunned
Incentives for electricity reform
Union government’s initiatives for structural reform in electricity
The outcomes of reforms
The end of supply shortages
Generation capacity utilization lower than optimal
Transmission shines
Private power exchanges
Discoms: the weakest link in the value chain
The unfinished reforms agenda
Planned electricity development: supply-side triumph or copycat industrial policy?
Putting industrial development above basic social and human needs
Throwing out the baby with the bathwater
Misallocation of public funds
Borrowed templates
Path dependency
Economic growth and competitiveness
New pathologies
Unresolved issues in electricity supply
Electricity suppliers: too few or too many?
Has competition in supply increased?
Has the unbundling splintered supply to unviable levels?
Measures to enhance competition
Autonomy for regulators
The needs of viable power markets
The need for a ‘smart’ grid
Four short-term hard choices
Trends favouring India
High growth can make green power affordable
Renewable and hydroelectricity offer unutilized potential
Growth of digital connectivity
Symmetric policy preferences across parties
Bibliography and notes
Number of Pages
84
Contributors
Author Info
Sanjeev S Ahluwalia is Advisor, Observer Research Foundation and an honorary member of the Governing Council of the CUTS Institute for Regulation and Competition. He was the founder Secretary of the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission in 1999–2000. In TERI (1996– 98) he provided technical assistance to the newly corporatized utility GRIDCO for its first tariff application to the OERC, under the Orissa Electricity Reform Project assisted by the World Bank and DfID. His core skills are in governance and institutional analysis, energy and economic regulation and public financial management backed by eight years with the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management practice of the World Bank in Africa. In the Government of India, he worked on privatizing state-owned enterprises, facilitating trade development with East Asia and regulating private external, commercial debt. His home cadre in the Indian Administrative Service was Uttar Pradesh, where he worked as Secretary, Finance. He hosts a Blog—Opinion India (www.ahlu-india.com) and has over 200 published opinion pieces in orfonline.org, Asian Age and other media outlets.
Audio Book Details
Number of Discs
1
Dimensions
Width
10 mm
Height
220 mm
Length
150 mm
Depth
0.5
Weight
170
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