India Energy Dashboards Version 2.0

• 14 Apr 2021

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Recently, the government think tank NITI Aayog has launched India Energy Dashboards (IED) Version 2.0.

• NITI Aayog launched the Version 1.0 in May 2017.

Key Points

• About:
  
  • India Energy Dashboards (IED) is an endeavour to provide single-window access to the energy data for the country.
    
    • It is an initial step towards building a comprehensive, open, and freely accessible energy data portal for India.
  • Energy data published/provided by Central Electricity Authority, Coal Controller’s Organisation, and Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas is compiled in the Dashboards.
  • The IED Provides time series data from FY 2005-06 until FY 2019-20.
  • IED provides data at sub-yearly frequencies as well. This includes monthly data and API (Application Programming Interface) linked data from some portals maintained by the government agencies.
  • API linked data from Saubhagya, UJALA, PRAAPTI, and Vidyut PRAVAH has been incorporated in the dashboards.

Saubhagya Scheme

• Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana – ‘Saubhagya’ was launched in September, 2017 with a target to electrify all households by December 2018.
• All the states had declared on Saubhagya portal that all the willing un-electrified households had been electrified as on 31^st March 2019, except 18,734 households in LWE (left wing extremist) affected areas of Chhattisgarh.

UJALA Scheme

• UJALA (Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All) is a zero-subsidy scheme launched by the Government in 2015.
• It is touted as the world’s largest domestic lighting project.
• Every domestic household having a metered connection from their respective Electricity Distribution Company is eligible to get the LED bulbs under the Scheme.

PRAAPTI

• It is a web portal launched in 2018 by the Ministry of Power.
• ‘PRAAPTI’ stands for Payment Ratification and Analysis in Power Procurement for bringing transparency in invoicing of generators.
• The power distribution companies are able to clear the invoices and reply to claims raised by the generators on this portal.

Vidyut PRAVAH

• The Mobile/Web App provides real-time information of current demand met, shortages if any, surplus power available and the prices in Power Exchange.

Source: PIB