Against the Current vol. III - Couverture rigide

Kalra, Prem K

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 8173046840 ISBN 13 : 9788173046841

Editeur : Manohar Publishers and Distributors, 2007

Synopsis

Published in association with Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi The State Electricity Boards (SEB) present huge potential for daily change in the lives of a billion-strong Indian population. Often described as nearly impossible to reform, SEBs offer huge untapped potential for higher technological efficiency, that in turn could mean reliable electricity for day-to-day life, reduced bills for the users and the public exchequer, higher environmental sustainability. For this potential to appear clearly in the public debate, the so-called technicalities' of the power sector should no longer be the monopoly of a few specialists and technocrats. And indeed, India's history of economic regulation has entered into a new era when, in the power sector, the model of independent regulation' for utilities got enacted through the Electricity Regulatory Commissions Act, 1998, then followed by the new Electricity Act 2003. The regulatory commissions gained a saying in virtually all technical matters within the utilities. The biggest chasse gardée of the SEBs engineers had not resisted. This volume comes as third in a series on the power sector reforms in India. The series attempts at understanding (i) the organizational tasks, (ii) the tariffs aspects, (iii) the role of the private, (iv) the role of technology in the complex, variegated, state-specific Indian scenario. A clear and sound public debate on tariffs, service, advantages, and limits of privatization in the Indian scenario can only come from an informed assessment of current margins in technological enhancement of SEBs and on the relevance of the Act in framing such a new Indian power system. This volume wishes to contribute to this debate.

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À propos de l'auteur

Prem K. Kalra is Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. His areas of interest are Power Systems, Expert Systems Applications, HVDC Transmission, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks Applications. He is coordinating the India Infrastructure Reports 2006.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manohar Publishers and Distributors
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8173046840
• ISBN 13: 9788173046841
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 220
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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