scholarly journals CO2 mitigation policy for Indian thermal power sector: Potential gains from emission trading

2020 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 104653 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surender Kumar ◽  
Shunsuke Managi ◽  
Rakesh Kumar Jain
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Power ◽  
Emission Trading ◽  
Co2 Mitigation ◽  
Mitigation Policy ◽  
Power Sector

Uttarakhand

Mapping Power ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 296-318
Author(s):  
Jonathan Balls
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
The State ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Hydro Power ◽  
High Level ◽  
Financial Base ◽  
Breathing Room ◽  
High Share

Uttarakhand was created out of Uttar Pradesh and endowed with a substantial benefit: sole access to cheap hydro power. Low-cost power allowed the state to attract industry by cutting tariffs, providing a stable financial base, and enabling a well-functioning sector. With low tariffs, the power sector has not become an arena for populist policies despite frequent electoral shifts. However, this comfortable situation also limited the pressure to use the breathing room created by low cost power coupled with high share of industrial consumption to address long-standing loss levels in other parts of the state. As the limits of low-cost power are reached, the threat to Uttarakhand’s high-level equilibrium comes from having to turn to high-cost thermal power and stagnating industrial consumption.

Research on Synergic Governance for Air Pollutants Emission of Thermal Power Sector in China

2014 ◽  
Vol 1073-1076 ◽  
pp. 881-884
Author(s):  
Shu Yin Cui
Keyword(s):  
Flue Gas ◽  
Air Pollutants ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
The Status ◽  
Pollutants Emission ◽  
Current Governance ◽  
Made In ◽  
Flue Gas Desulphurization

The current governance for air pollutants presents problems, such as the singleness of administration body，slack law enforcement of the environment protection departments and the ineffective coordination among the different departments. The synergy governance can mobilize the plural stakeholders to participate in a joint effort to improve the air quality. The paper analyzes the status of governance for air pollutants in China. Also, based on flue gas desulphurization (FGD) franchise pilot project in the thermal power plant, the paper summarizes the connotation of franchise and progresses made in flue gas desulphurization. Finally, the mode of synergic governance for air pollutants emission is presented.

Direct Tax Incentives to Power Sector in India: A Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-123
Author(s):  
Sanjiv Shankar
Keyword(s):  
Market Failure ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
Electricity Sector ◽  
Fiscal Year ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Direct Tax

The article examines in detail, as a test case, the impact of direct tax incentives on the power sector in India. The Indian power sector is regulated and has been the greatest beneficiary of the various tax incentives. Direct taxes foregone to the power companies alone are estimated to be ₹700,000 million during the fiscal year 2006–2007 to 2014–2015. The power companies in India have enjoyed profit-linked tax holidays (Section 80 IA), accelerated depreciation (Section 32), easy accessibility of external commercial borrowings and a low withholding tax of 5 per cent on overseas borrowing. The study does a ‘three-way examination’ of the impact of the tax incentives by examining: (i) macroeconomic indicators, (ii) firm level data and (iii) micro-indicators. The findings are that (i) there is no evidence of any real benefits accruing to the economy either in the form of increased foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to the sector, gross fixed capital formation (GFCF) in the sector or commensurate growth in electricity sector vis-à-vis other sectors of the economy or in the economy as a whole due to the several decades of direct tax incentives to the power sector in India; (ii) clearly, the loss of revenue from the tax incentives is real and substantial and (iii) the financial ratios of the three power companies (National Thermal Power Corporation [NTPC], Tata Power and Reliance Energy) indicate that they are capable of raising resources on their own and the theory of market failure may not apply to them.

scholarly journals Does the Energy Efficiency of Power Companies Affect Their Industry Status? A DEA Analysis of Listed Companies in Thermal Power Sector

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Chai ◽  
Wenyue Fan ◽  
Jing Han
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Thermal Power ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Listed Companies ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
Transitional Period ◽  
Measure Data ◽  
Power Sector ◽  
Environment Sustainability

Under the concept of green development, coal and oil control policies were frequently introduced, but the “cold” thinking under the “hot” environment is more conducive to the smooth promotion of the “transitional period” of China’s power-structure transformation. How to better consider production efficiency and environmental benefits is the theme that thermal power enterprises need to constantly break through. The most feasible “transitional period” path for thermal power enterprises is improving the efficiency of energy saving, reducing emissions, and simultaneously ensuring benefits and social awareness. This paper selected 17 listed companies in China’s thermal power sector, combined with their input resources, output, and other indicators, using a slacks-based measure–data envelopment analysis (SBM–DEA) model with undesirable outputs, and comprehensively analyzed the relationship among the technical efficiency improvement and the industry status, including price earnings ratio (P/E ratio) in the recent two years. The results show that the improvement of energy efficiency can indeed optimize enterprises’ operations and improve P/E ratio. Although clean-energy power generation has better environmental benefits, it is still lacking in efficiency; therefore, the balance between efficiency and environment sustainability should concern us.

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