Curriculum India's Power Sector
India's Power Sector
How electricity reaches Indian homes: generation, coal and renewables, transmission, the troubled distribution companies, tariffs, theft, rooftop solar, storage and reforms.
- From Power Plant to Plug The three parts of India's electricity system - generation, transmission and distribution - and who owns and regulates each part. 📄 Read-aloud
- Coal: India's Workhorse Fuel Why coal still generates most of India's electricity, the role of Coal India, and the tension between reliable supply and pollution. 📄 Read-aloud
- India's Solar and Wind Boom How India rapidly expanded solar and wind capacity through auctions and falling costs, and the 500 GW non-fossil target for 2030. 📄 Read-aloud
- Why Discoms Lose Money The reasons India's electricity distribution companies run up losses - underpricing, theft, poor billing and unpaid subsidies - and why it matters for everyone. 📄 Read-aloud
- How Electricity Tariffs Work How your electricity bill is calculated with slabs, fixed charges and cross-subsidies, and why industries often pay more than households. 📄 Read-aloud
- Free Power for Farms and the Groundwater Link How free or cheap electricity for farm pumps supports farmers but encourages groundwater over-use, and ideas like solar pumps and separate feeders. 📄 Read-aloud
- India's Power Sector: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on the power chain, coal, renewables, discoms and tariffs. 5 questions
- Smart Meters and Prepaid Power How smart meters measure electricity use in real time, why India plans to install hundreds of millions of them, and the debates over prepaid electricity. 📄 Read-aloud
- Buying Power on an Exchange How India's power exchanges let discoms and companies buy electricity in short-term markets, and how prices swing with demand and supply. 📄 Read-aloud
- Rooftop Solar and PM Surya Ghar How households can generate their own solar power, how net metering works, and India's 2024 scheme to put solar on one crore homes. 📄 Read-aloud
- Storing Electricity: Batteries and Pumped Hydro Why storing electricity is key to using more solar and wind, and the economics of batteries and pumped hydro storage in India. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Cost of Power Cuts How unreliable electricity hurts businesses, students and households, why firms buy diesel generators, and how reliability has improved. 📄 Read-aloud
- Fixing the Power Sector The reforms debated for India's power sector - discom privatisation, tariff reform, competition and grid upgrades - and a recap of the module. 📄 Read-aloud