Energy mix classification

Conventional Non conventional

Renewable Commercial : Hydro Non commercial : bio gas, solar

(thermal and photo voltaic),
ocean thermal, geothermal,
biomass / agriwaste, firewood,
biofuels (jathropa), hydrogen
fuels, tidal energy, animal waste
(cattle dung), animal energy
(Draught)

Commercial : windmills, MSW,

mini-hydro, run off river,

Non renewable Commercial : Coal, oil, Commercial : cogeneration,

gas, electricity, nuclear, chemical
barge mounted (oil based)

Commercial: Has an organized market for trading within the country and among
neighbouring counries

Non commercial: Internal consumption / barter trading / localized market

Key words :

Organizational

1. Regulations for prospecting, Exploration, extraction, transport, trading,

transformation, ..
2. Regulatory Authorities
3. Indian Electricity Act 2003
4. Distribution Licensees
5. Electrical Inspectorate
6. Central Electricity Authority
7. Ministry of Power
8. Electricity Regulatory Commissions
 9. ARR (Annual Required Revenue) and ERC ( expected Revenue from Charges)
10. Merit Order Procurement / backing
11. Electricity Supply regulations (rules of supply)

Technical

1. Heat rate
2. Peak power is more expensive than base load supply
3. Economics of power generation at various levels of capacity utilization for same
fuel based plant and for various forms of fuel
4. Coal based and nuclear Thermal plants used to meet base load
5. Hydel, diesel and gas based plants used for fluctuating loads / peak loads
6. Base load / Peak Load
7. Frequency maintenance
8. Load factor
9. Connected Load
10. Reactive power
11. Contract load
12. Power factor

Commercial

1. Tariff policy
2. Electricity Pricing
3. Competitive pricing
4. Margin based pricing
5. Availability based pricing
6. Inter state trading
7. T&D losses
8. Technical and Commercial losses
9. Theft of power
10. Subsidy / Cross subsidy
11. Free power
12. Metered and un-metered supply
13. Distribution margin
14. Capital cost bench-making
15. TOD metering
16. Demand estimation
17. Consumption pattern
Domain

1. Energy applications - Thermal, motive power

2. Electricity – most versatile for of energy
3. Electricity cannot be stored – has to be consumed as it is produced, has to be
stored in a different form such as pumped storage during lean periods
4. Energy policy
5. Energy as engine of economic growth
6. Energy substitution
7. Natural monopoly
8. Allocation of power
9. Grid maintenance
10. Open access
11. Wheeling and banking
12. Voltage and frequency maintenance
13. Generation, Transmission Distribution
14. EHT, HV, MV, LV Supply
15. Grid discipline, stability and maintenance
16. Electricity network
17. Pumped Storage
18. Energy and Economic Development
19. Input output matrix
20. Energy production as a surrogate for economic activity
21. Energy Conservation
22. Energy Intensity
23. Loss reduction / energy saved at consumer end is equivalent to about 1.5 times
energy produced
24. Energy and Emission (Pollution)
25. Waste heat recovery
26. Green house gases
27. Green labeling
28. Efficiency benchmarks
29. Kyoto Protocol
30. Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
31. Carbon trading / emission trading
32. Multi purpose dams (reservoirs) ; power and irrigation

Perfect market/completionno individual buyer/seller can affect the tariff/market price