Major Power Companies Research Articles

ASSESSING CSR PRACTICES IN INDIA'S POWER SECTOR: A COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION

This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices within India's power sector. The study aims to analyze the extent, effectiveness, and impact of CSR activities undertaken by major power companies, focusing on sustainability, community development, and environmental stewardship. Through a mixed-methods approach, including qualitative case studies and quantitative data analysis, the research highlights best practices, identifies gaps, and offers recommendations for enhancing CSR initiatives. The findings suggest that while there is a growing commitment to CSR in the power sector, challenges such as inconsistent implementation and inadequate stakeholder engagement persist. This paper contributes to the discourse on CSR by providing actionable insights for policymakers, industry stakeholders, and academics interested in promoting responsible business practices in the energy sector.

Transforming HR Functions Through Shared Service: Insights from Indian Public Sector Power Major

The case is about a prominent Indian public sector power company involved in the entire power generation value chain, encompassing fossil, hydro, nuclear and renewable energy sources. The organization is geographically divided into eight zones/regions: Central Region, DBF Region, Western Region-I, Western Region-II, Eastern Region-I, Eastern Region-II, Northern Region and Southern Region. In a conversation between Mr Anuj Kapoor, the Director of HR at this major power company, and Ms Abhika Choudhary, a researcher and academician, the discussion revolved around implementing human resources shared services (HRSS) within the organization. Initially undertaken to address manpower optimization challenges within HR functions, the complete transformation of HR functions through shared services gave Mr Kapoor valuable insights. Reflecting on this journey during the meeting with Ms Choudhary, he explored the entire spectrum from idea generation to implementation, including navigating resistance to change and post-implementation feedback. While Ms Choudhary diligently recorded the discussion to gain practical insights into the technological intervention in organizational HR functions, the flow of the conversation encountered a hurdle when delving into one specific post-implementation feedback from employees. This feedback pertained to the dichotomy of face or faceless HR in the era of HRSS within the company.

Energy Growth and Sustainability Through Smart Grid Approach: a Case Study of the Nigeria Electric Grid

Over the last few years, energy growth and sustainability in Nigeria have suffered many difficulties resulting to inadequacy in the country’s power supply. Numerous solutions proffered by industry experts and energy reforms by the Nigerian government have brought little or no improvement in the energy sector including the unbundling of the nation’s major power company (Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN). The nation’s poor power supply resulting from outdated and unmaintained transmission and distribution facilities, inadequate power generation coupled with decrepit metering system used by consumers have immeasurably affected the nation’s economic development. This paper aims at introducing smart grids and distributed generation approaches as the potential and viable solutions to solve Nigeria’s poor power generation, transmission, and distribution issues. The smart grid technology transforms the nation’s traditional grid technology in order to achieve improved efficiency and reliability by incorporating new communication technologies, which have been lacking in the Nigerian power system. In this paper, the Nigerian energy sector is also examined and the benefits of smart grids to the sector are presented. The current situation of Nigeria in terms of smart grid implementation is also assessed and discussed while its challenges and recommendations are documented. However, it is concluded that in modernizing the current grid and considering the potentials of smart grid, numerous benefits can be achieved and the power supplied to consumers will be significantly improved.

Conducting a Survey of Research on High Temperature Superconducting Transformers

Given the unique electrical and magnetic properties of superconductors, high temperature superconducting (HTS) transformers will play a central role in the electricity industry in the future. Therefore, identification and analysis of this type of transformers seems necessary and indispensable. To date, many types of development plans for HTS transformers have been carried out by major power companies and important research institutes, and it is expected that this type of transformers will become one of the superconducting power equipments installed at the first stage of commercialization in the power system. However, a review of reports and papers published in this field shows that there is still much work to be done to improve the design and performance of these transformers. This article presented a review classified by subject of previous research to help orient future research into the design, analysis, and manufacturing of this type of transformers.

Nanotechnology in Japan: A route to energy security after Fukushima?

This article reviews the recent shift in Japan’s nanotechnology policy and regulation, analyzing policy documents and government guidelines as well as interviews with prominent scientists and government officials. The authors consider the potential role of nanotechnology in addressing Japan’s pressing energy security challenges after the Fukushima nuclear accident. They find that Japan’s regulatory focus on preventing and controlling exposure to nanoparticles, rather than on merely reporting and registering the use of nanomaterials, arguably provides greater flexibility and societal support for scientists to experiment with a variety of ideas for using nanomaterials—particularly solar power technologies for distributed energy generation, such as artificial photosynthesis. Japan provides a valuable case study of two major economic and political challenges to the development of energy-related nanotechnologies: industry pressure to continue investing primarily in centralized electricity generation from sources that are environmentally risky but profitable to major power companies, such as nuclear power and fossil fuels; and growing public interest in the research, development, and rapid rollout of nanotechnology-enhanced renewable energy sources that are well suited for distributed energy generation, while the effectiveness of nanotechnology regulation is still being tested.

Leading the Smart Grid Revolution with UHV

With the rapid development of the grid, smart grid has become an undoubted trend. World's major power companies are searching for local smart grid technologies in transmission intelligence, substation intelligence and distribution intelligence and other areas. And China is leading our own smart grid revolution with world-class UHV power technologies, both in AC and DC. Chinese UHV have suffered countless hardships on our road. The development of UHV and smart grid technologies in China and their position in the world prove that the UHV technologies line with China's national conditions. It is the road we must follow in the development of smart grid in China.

한국형 스마트 전력량계 부가서비스 적용방안 연구

Electronic watt hour meters(WHM) for high pressure running in domestic were installed to the digital type meter and ones for low pressure are expected to complete within several years. Domestic power metering technology is being beyond a simple framework with an electronic type and is rapidly evolving to intelligent smart metering systems in conjunction with promotion of a national smart grid project. Major policy outlook of the world's major power company regarding Intelligent metering is the application of the fare structure diversification and is the improvement of level of service to customers. In addition, electric power companies should focus on the cost reduction and the improvement of management efficiency through an efficient operation of distribution facility. In this paper, we are about to make an observation of the additional services technology development trend of the overseas smart meter and to have a view of value-added services(VAS) system of smart meter suitable for the domestic environment based on the technology development of VAS utilizing electronic watt hour meter performed by recent research projects.

Will Cross-Ownership Re-Establish Market Power in the Nordic Power Market?

The integration of the power markets in Norway and Sweden in 1996 significantly constrained the major power companies’ ability to exercise market power within their national borders. In recent years, however, mergers and reciprocal acquisition of shares have reduced the number of independent players on the Norwegian-Swedish power market. The aim of this paper is to explore to what extent increasing cross-ownership among the major power companies in Norway and Sweden might re-establish the market power that was lost when the two national power markets were integrated. The analysis is based on a numerical model, assuming Cournot quantity setting behavior, of the Norwegian-Swedish power market. The simulation results suggest that partial ownership relations between generators tend to increase horizontal market power and thus the market price of electricity.

Health risks of electric and magnetic fields caused by high-voltage systems in Finland.

Health risks of power-frequency electric and magnetic fields (EMF) in the generation and transmission of electric power were investigated in a program comprising nine separate projects. The central objectives were to assess the practical importance of electric and magnetic field exposure as a health risk, to produce data applicable to field management measures at a major power company, and to support and spur research activities on electric and magnetic fields as environmental agents. Electric and magnetic fields seemed to be weak environmental factors, but the findings were uncertain and controversial as to the health risks except that, electric field strengths (about 1.5 kV.m-1) found even in the vicinity of 110 kV power lines may cause interference with cardiac pacemakers. There is still a need, however, for further basic research focused on the interaction mechanisms of electric and magnetic fields and biological tissue.

A Model State Water Code for River Basin Development

River basin development generally calls to mind the Tennessee Valley, the Missouri Valley, the Colorado Valley-large areas, covering several states or parts of states. Attention focuses on the basin and on the role that rivers, once thought of as barriers, have come to play as nationally or regionally unifying forces. The over-all problems seem, at first blush, primarily to be federal ones that transcend purely state or local interest. But the fact is that rivers form and cross the boundaries of several states, and these states, thus, have exerted and will continue to exert a great influence an their development. Moreover, no matter how unified a basin plan may appear to be as a whole, it is composed of many separate subbasins and projects which may be totally contained within a single state and which must be internally coordinated as well as externally related to the major basin plan. River basin development, accordingly, is seen to be not an exclusively federal function consisting entirely of the large works constructed by the federal government on the major rivers. The states, their lesser governmental units, and private agencies, too, play an important role. Thus, some states even engage in the actual construction of projects, through such agencies as the Montana Water Conservation Board1 and the state-created authorities that have developed the Texas coastal rivers.2 Irrigation, conservancy, public-power, flood-control, and drainage districts also construct works that individually and in the aggregate make significant contributions to full river basin development.3 And much activity is directed by private interests, ranging from the large coordinated projects of the major power companies, cooperative water companies, and major industrial users to the individual efforts of a single farmer who controls the water on his fields. For the most part, these public and private agencies operate under state law, and these institutional laws, consequently, have an important effect upon river basin development. But the state laws that have even greater influence are those dealing with the private water rights of individuals. Some features of river basin development may, of course, depend wholly upon