CONTENTS
Right To Access Energy
1. The ‘Fundamental’ Right to Access Energy: 3
Issues, Opportunities and Challenges in India by Sanjit Kumar Chakraborty
2. Access To Clean Energy : Challenges Faced By India-23
Bushra Quasmi
Power Sector and Its Regulation in India
3. The Electricity Act, 2003 –Liberalizing The Power Sector-37
Meenakshi Prasad & Apurv Parashari
4. Electricity Act and its Implementation in India-48
Kirti Singh
5. Role of Regulatory Mechanisms In Energy Sector:-69
Focus on Promotion of Renewable Energy, Reducing
Environmental Impact And Increasing Energy Efficiency
Deva Prasad
6. Power Sector Contracts in India-82
Dr. Sairam Bhat & Rohith Kamath
7. Power Purchase Agreements –108
Questionable Sanctity in a Volatile Market
Mandakini Ghosh & Parinay Deep Shah
8. U.P. Power Corporation Ltd. And -17
Ors v Anis Ahmad: Power Theft - Settling The Domain
And The Dichotomy
Dr. Anuja S.
9. Case Comment: Hindustan Zinc v CERC-131
Manjeri Subin Sunder Raj
10. Case Comment: GMR Energy Limited & Ors. v-139
Government of Karnataka & Ors.
Nishtha Chugh and Yatharth Gupta
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Energy Sectors: Law and Policy
A. Nuclear Energy
11. Nuclear Energy in India -153
Dr. Shashikala Gurpur & Pratima Puri
12. Civil Nuclear Liability-183
Dr. Sandeepa Bhat
13. Nuclear Power: Yay or Nay-201
Sanjana Kala
B. Oil and Natural Gas
14. Towards A New Blueprint For Oil And Gas -214
Licensing In India
Adarsh Mohandas & Smrithi Bhaskar
15. Natural Gas Pricing In India-229
Jeydev CS
C. Renewable energy
16. Conservation Of Non-Renewable Energy Resources Need-244
For International Co-Operation
Dr. Anu Prasannan
17. Competitive Bidding for Wind sector in India-257
Deepthi Swamy & Debapriya Das
18. Renewable Purchase Obligation As An Instrument-273
For Achieving India’s Low Carbon Growth
Deepthi Swamy & Sharada R. Shinde
Legal Challenges to Energy Security
19. Policy And Legal Dimensions Of Energy Security In India -293
Dr. Sairam Bhat, Manjeri Subin Sunder Raj & Shibu Sweta
20. Market-based Mechanisms, Energy Efficiency and -325
Climate Change Mitigation: Legal Considerations
Jai Mohan & Surya Binoy
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Ecological Concerns, Climate Change and Energy
21. Analyzing Law and Policy on Renewable Energy in midst of -359
Energy – Environment Debate
Dr. Uday Shankar and Niladri Mondal
22. Energy, Environmental Pollution and the Law:
Indian Perspective-379
Dr. T. Raghavendra Rao
23. Mitigating Climate Change: Indian Perspective -403
Dr. Ashish Kumar Srivastava & Anurag Kumar Srivastava
24. Thermal Power In India: Environmental Perspective -423
Dr. Subir Kumar Roy
25. Economizing the Law sans Conservation:-451
Fallacy in Prudence of Energy Audit toward
Enhanced Cost Efficiency
Dr. Debasis Poddar
International Trade Law and Energy
26. Trade in energy and the WTO Law-473
Dr. Sunitha Abhay Jain & Namit Bafna
27. Rationalizing Global Trade Agreements -489
To Promote Green Energy
Saumya Chaudhuri
28. Recent Indian Judgments on Energy Law and Policy
Sharmila Raman Menon -498
About the Editors-513
Abot the Authors -515
Index-522.