Techno-legal and engineering consultants for the power sector
Electricity No Problem represents electricity consumers and power producers before electricity regulators, and engineers the substations, lines and solar plants behind them.
Two practices, one team
Most power disputes are engineering problems with a legal edge. ENP handles both, so nothing is lost between the plant and the hearing.
Techno-Legal Petitions and disputes
Regulation decides what a consumer or power producer pays and earns. ENP prepares and argues the petitions, backed by engineers who understand the plant and the meter behind each dispute.
- Regulatory Practice and ARR FilingsARR and tariff petitions, objections, RPO and REC matters
- Tariff and LicensingTariff category disputes, rebates, surcharges, licence conditions
- Open AccessWheeling, banking, open access charges, sale through the exchange
- Captive PowerCaptive status, Form V, rebates, additional surcharge
- Power Purchase AgreementsProcurement, PPAs and wheeling agreements, surplus energy
- Sections 126 and 135Unauthorised use, theft assessments, supplementary bills
- Representation Before CommissionsAPTEL, CERC, MPERC, MERC, DERC, CSERC and the Ombudsman
Engineering Design and supervision
From feasibility to commissioning, ENP acts for the owner on solar plants, substations, lines and distribution networks, and manages the contractors who build them.
- Project Management ConsultancyOwner's engineer for solar, transmission and distribution
- Advisory and Project ManagementFeasibility studies, DPRs, plant sizing, energy advisory
- EPC and SolarEPC tendering, contractor management and, on selected projects, erection
- Drone IR Survey of Solar PlantsThermal imaging to find hot spots and failed strings
- Distribution Network DesignNetworks for new cities and industrial areas, route surveys
- Substation and Industrial DesignSubstations, industrial systems, power factor and voltage
Describe it in a few lines. Mr. Ajay Porwal’s team will tell you how ENP can help.
Regulatory orders
ENP has acted in many matters before APTEL, CERC, MPERC, MERC, DERC, CSERC and the Electricity Ombudsman. Each page sets out the petition, the subject and what the forum directed.
| Order date | Forum | Matter |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Sep 2026 | MPERC Captive Status CommitteeRepresentation under Regulation 9 | UltraTech Cement: captive status verification Distribution company directed to verify Form V from generation records, without insisting on ABT meter data. |
| 10 Sep 2026 | Electricity Ombudsman, MPCase L00-08/26 | Sunrise Foods: supplementary bill after an open CT Bill cancelled; a fresh bill to be raised on one third of the R and B phase consumption. |
| 15 Jul 2026 | MPERCPetition 05/2026 | Porwal Auto Components: refund of additional surcharge Levy on a captive user held not sustainable; refund with carrying cost and outstanding demand withdrawn. |
| 5 May 2025 | MPERCReview Petition 03/2025 | Prism Cement: renewable purchase obligation Double counting of captive energy accepted and the RPO recomputed. |
Every case number can be checked on the website of the commission that issued the order.
Engineering projects
Owner's engineering, design and project management for public sector and industry, from the first feasibility study to commissioning.
Naya Raipur: power distribution for the new capital city
ENP's largest power distribution assignment: the complete technical, commercial and regulatory groundwork for the power network of a new state capital.
- Location
- Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh
- Capacity
- 250 MW
- Period
- 2008 to 2011
- DPR for power distribution
- Power purchase tender and PPA
- Design and tender documents, three phases
- Transmission and open access
UltraTech Cement, Sidhi: export of 100 MW at 132 kV
Approval for export of 100 MW of power at 132 kV, wheeling, and open access without contract demand.
- Solar PMC
GAIL Vijaipur: 1.8 MWp ground mounted solar PMC
PMC for a 1.8 MWp captive ground mounted solar plant: design, construction supervision and commissioning.
- Solar PMC, ongoing
Oil India Ltd, Jaisalmer
Project management for a 1.3 MWp captive solar plant.
- Solar and storage, ongoing
HPCL Renewable and Green Energy
DPR and feasibility for solar and battery storage plants in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
Led by Mr. Ajay Porwal
Founder and Principal Consultant
Mr. Ajay Porwal began his career in 1977 on a thermal power plant at Grasim Industries, Nagda, worked on EHV transformers and switchgear at Crompton Greaves, and built 220/132/33/11 kV substations as a director of Luminaires and Switchgears. He founded Electricity No Problem in 2002 to bring that engineering into the regulatory room.
Has appeared before
- Appellate Tribunal for Electricity
- Central Electricity Regulatory Commission
- Madhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission
- Electricity Ombudsman, Madhya Pradesh
Memberships
- ISLE
- CII
- FICCI
- Pithampur Audhyogik Sangathan
Insights
Notes on regulation, captive power and solar from ENP’s practice.
Harnessing solar power: the rise of captive solar power plants in India
Solar energy has emerged as a game-changer in the global push for renewable resources, and India has been at the forefront of this transition. Captive solar power plants are changing the way businesses and industries generate electricity.
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