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Against the Current (Volume III)

 
Joel Ruet (Editor) Prem K. Kalra (Editor)
Synopsis The State Electricity Boards 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 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 gardee 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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About the authors

Joel Ruet

Joel Ruet holds a Ph.D. in Economics (Paris) and is an Engineer from the Ecole des Mines, Paris. He has been working for EDF, the French public power company for several years. Since 2000 he has been the Head of the Economics Department, Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. His specialization is in the areas of reform of electricity sector in various countries, and socio-economic study of the public sector in India.

Prem K. Kalra

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 Indian Infrastructure Report 2006.

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Title Against the Current (Volume III)
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.01.2006
Edition 1st ed.
Language: English
isbn 8173046840
length 219p., Figures; Tables; Notes; References; 23cm.