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  • IEX shares crash 9% as market coupling fears return amid talk of stakeholder meet by Power Minister

    The mechanism of market coupling will ensure buy and sell bids from all power exchanges in India will be aggregated and matched, in order to discover a uniform clearing price, which will result in only one price for the electricity that is to be traded through power exchanges.

  • Can India plug into a uniform power tariff system?

    It is tough for the new government to meet Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar’s possible demand for “one nation, one power tariff”

  • Cut off transmission access to discoms defaulting on payments to gencos: Govt

    Data from the Ministry of Power showed that all current payments of gencos are up-to-date and the legacy dues of gencos have come down by 63 percent from Rs. 1.396 lakh crore to Rs. 51,268 crore in just over a year since the late payment surcharge rules were notified.

  • NTPC eyeing merchant market as key revenue source for renewable energy

    NTPC RE Ltd, a subsidiary of NTPC, will undertake a study to get a consolidated view of the future power market landscape, identify factors likely to impact the prices and simulate plausible trajectories of merchant price evolution for the next 20 years

  • India's power demand hits five-year high in September: CRISIL

    CRISIL MI&A expects power demand to increase 9-10 percent on-year in the second quarter of fiscal 2024, and to rise 5 percent on-year over the full year.

  • Market Coupling | IEX may lose market share, power sector likely to gain

    Aggregation of buying and selling on power exchanges may disrupt the current market hierarchy but will likely increase competition in the short-term market.

  • What should you do with IEX after the steep decline?

    The power exchange is finding it difficult to protect its moat amid regulatory uncertainties

  • MC Explains: What is market coupling and why does the govt want it?

    Market coupling is a must to bring a Market-Based Economic Dispatch (MBED) mechanism in India, which in turn will help in the reduction of power tariffs as it will increase flexibility and liquidity in the trade of electricity in the country.

  • One Nation, One Grid, One Price | India plans market coupling in power trade

    The move is a step towards the government's intention to shift India's electricity trading from long-term (25 years) power purchase agreements (PPAs) to electricity markets (exchanges) and shorter PPAs of up to 12-15 years. It also means the government has revived its plan to introduce Market-Based Economic Dispatch (MBED) mechanism in India.

  • High Price Day Ahead Market at power exchanges had no trade for over a month since launch

    Overall, until now, 194 MWh has been traded in HP-DAM. The highest trade happened on April 17, with 98 MWh at the market clearing price of Rs. 19.64.

  • Govt revises merit order in power exchanges to maintain low costs

    Under the revised mechanism, the merit order for power dispatch in the exchanges will be decided a day in advance instead of the he current 1.5 hours. The system will also include all thermal power generators, instead of just NTPC's thermal stations, which is currently the case.

  • High-price power trading to begin on IEX in March as regulator gives the go-ahead

    Moneycontrol was the first to report that Central Electricity Regulatory Commission's nod to HP-DAM market was expected anytime and IEX will launch it next month

  • 13 states barred from participating in power exchanges due to unpaid dues

    Tamil Nadu, Telangana, MP, Mizoram, Jharkhand, Bihar, Rajasthan, Andhra, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Chhattisgarh have been barred from trading on power exchanges from August 19. The move could make power outages more common in the affected states.

  • Indian Energy Exchange: Coal crisis stokes stock run-up

    At the current price, the IEX stock offers little margin of safety

  • NSE's Power Exchange India to shut down soon

    According to a source in the know, the 10-member NSE Board took the decision to shut down the exchange in its meeting convened on the last week of January.

  • India green credit trade seen ramping up from 2012

    India's largest power exchange is hoping to ramp up volumes in the trade of renewable energy credits from April 2012, its chief said, seeking to tap a market estimated to be worth USD 8 billion by 2017.

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