CER APP

Centre for Energy Regulation is an endeavor towards comprehensive and sustained institutional strengthening in the Indian power sector striven for enhanced academia-utility-regulatory interactions. It is an initiative led by the Department of Industrial and Management Engineering (IME) at IIT Kanpur which is India’s first of its kind dedicated to regulatory research in the energy sector. CER addresses the need to supplement regulatory research and knowledge base to understand and analyse key issues in the power sector. The Centre works in close cooperation with key stakeholders in the Indian power sector particularly the Electricity Regulatory Commissions (ERCs), electric utilities and academia. It also aims to develop a network with institutions in India and abroad. The Centre targets to contribute to policy and regulatory advocacy based on regulatory research utilising its regulatory knowledge base, comprising of database and learning tools.