While it is true that industry watchers are rather wary of foreign participation in the critically controlled domestic nuclear space, what with the Nuclear Liabilities Bill marking a rather ugly bump on this road, more such joint ventures should be able to strike the right note with potential investors, manufacturers and vendors. While the policy environment today is still not very cordial for foreign reactor manufacturers or fuel exporters, the lights are definitely green for civil contractors, and for technology and service providers. The time is just right for opening up a few more doors.

While we do more in adding capacity, the need to conserve energy has more than immediate significance. Real estate can be the harbinger of change in this regard. With a comprehensive and exhaustive green building code in existence and with both the MoP and the MNRE constantly stressing on the need to conserve, real estate definitely needs to grow greener. With this issue, we’re showing them how. Innovation is also key to conservation and our En Con section lists a couple of interesting new devices that could change the way we think ‘energy conservation’.

Power financing has witnessed more IPOs and Orient Green Power has been the latest in jumping on the band wagon. Whether it makes a lot of sense for business is another tale altogether. With inputs from market analysts, we have dissected Orient’s IPO and hope that retail and institutional investors stand to gain from this story.

Two years into the serious business of being a platform for power exchange, the Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) seems to be doing a grand job. From day-ahead and futures trading to the introduction of newer trading instruments such as RECs, IEX has come a long way. The Spotlight this issue is trained on the power exchange pioneers. We trace the company’s beginnings and talk to the man at the helm of things.

Wishing you all a happy and informative read!  

Saptarshi R Dutta
Editor