Energy supply systems made of steel and plastic easily cope with long, unsupported travels, and are openable and closable quick as a flash.

Schneider Electric has launched several Smart Factories around the globe in countries including Mexico, China, France, USA, Indonesia and the Philippines.

Enabling timely fund availability (equity and debt) is key to have required pace of capacity addition.

Sustained financial turnaround for state owned distribution utilities critical for the entire power sector; significant investment requirements in T&D given the strengthening requirements, an increasing demand and growing renewable energy mix.

Palka Sahni, an IAS officer of 2004 batch from Bihar cadre is spearheading Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS), a priority scheme of Government of India in the Urban Power Distribution Sector as Executive Director (IPDS), Power Finance Corporation. She gives a glimpse of status of IPDS projects, assessment of power transmission and distribution sector, policy measures taken by IPDS to curtail distribution losses, challenges in the power T&D sector that need urgent policy attention and many more in an interaction with Supriya Oundhakar.

India is on the verge of becoming an energy surplus state with respect to per capita and peak demand. In this article, experts from BHEL outlines the current status, challenges, and future opportunities.