Power Distribution

The National Council on Power brings together stakeholders across India's power value chain, including conventional thermal power generators (IPPs and CPPs), transmission developers, power utilities, and OEMs.

As India's energy demand continues to grow, conventional thermal power remains critical in ensuring reliable baseload generation and grid stability. At the same time, the sector is actively transitioning towards cleaner, more efficient technologies to support the nation's carbon neutrality goals. The transmission and distribution segments are also undergoing rapid transformation and require enabling policies, infrastructure investments, and regulatory support to meet future energy needs.

The Council works closely with Central and State Governments, regulatory bodies, and industry stakeholders and provides a unified industry voice to supports policy reforms, infrastructure development, technology adoption across generation, transmission, and distribution. Through collaborative engagement with government, regulators, and industry stakeholders, the Council is committed to strengthening India's power sector while enabling a secure, reliable, and sustainable energy future.

Our Focus Areas:

Industry-Led Research & Consultative Comprehensive Studies undertaken to strengthen India's power infrastructure, including:

• Assessing the adequacy of planned transmission infrastructure to support medium-term conventional generation capacity alongside the rapid expansion of renewable energy.
• Assessing the pace of on-ground transmission development and identified key challenges that could impact timely project commissioning

Key Engagements: Regular consultations and roundtable discussions with Union Minister for Power, Secretary power and other Senior Officials including Chairman, Central Electricity Authority  and Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC)

Policy Representations : collective industry submissions on major policy reforms, including:

• Electricity Amendment Bill
• Generation, transmission, and distribution sector reforms
• Regulatory and operational issues affecting power developers and utilities
• Improving the operational and financial performance of DISCOMs
• Reducing Aggregate Technical & Commercial (AT&C) losses