Power Minister Piyush Goyal on Friday said it is experimenting with a technology, brown- out, which can provide some power backup to households in the event of a grid failure leading to blackouts.

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The Ultra Mega Power Projects, the New Exploration Licensing Policy, the National Highways Development Project and the SEZ policy were all expected to change the face of the nation.

Power Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia also checks and balances have been put in place to avoid re-occurrence of any major grid collapse, similar to the one witnessed last summer.

Fluctuating between hope of fuel supplies and despair of prolonged grid failures, it was mostly a gloomy year for the power sector in 2012, but it is looking forward to brighter days.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said the government plans to provide affordable electricity to all households in the next five years.

Consumers will have to fork out more for using electricity from next year as power sector reforms kick in to bail out loss-making utilities run by state governments.

Finance Minister P Chidambaram has suggested setting up of a National Investment Board (NIB) under Prime Minister to accord speedy clearances to mega proposals.

In the event of a deallocation, the mines are likely to be handed over to CIL. The state-owned producer is by no means the epitome of efficiency when it comes to production and supply. Many power projects are likely to get delayed without assured supply of coal.

Bottlenecks in mining, delayed rail movement and costly imports are posing a major challenge to step up output and avoid the kind of grid collapse that had left 600 million people in the country without electricity last month.

The Uttar Pradesh government has said the state averted another failure of the Northern Grid at around 10 am on August 20, as electricity supplies were timely cut to certain districts.

If India is not to repeat the paralysing grid collapse that occurred on the last two days of July, every single link in the chain that is India's power system will need reform.

Delhi Metro has set a new record. Within 10 days of registering its highest ever ridership, the Delhi Metro on Thursday set a new milestone: nearly 22 lakh commuters.

Jolted by the worst-ever blackout, the government is mulling setting up separate electricity transmission islands for essential services like Railways and Airports, besides major cities to insulate them from any similar crisis in the future.

Returning to Finance Ministry after three-and-a-half years, he will have to address challenges like inflation, decline in the value of rupee and scare among foreign investors due to some recent decisions.

Assuring the nation that the massive power outage due to transmission grid failure will not recur, new Power Minister Veerappa Moily on Wednesday said he has called a meeting of chief ministers of some of the affected states on August 6.

For the first time, the three inter-state transmission networks - Northern Grid, Eastern Grid and North-Eastern Grid - tripped together.

Electricity supply has been restored in close to 80 per cent of the areas in the northern India region, including the national capital, which were severely impacted by power failure since Tuesday afternoon.