Power ministry launches app, portal for states

The power ministry on Wednesday launched a mobile app and a portal for tracking and managing merit order despatch of power. The app, called MERIT (Merit Order Despatch of Electricity for Rejuvenation of Income and Transparency), would entail savings of nearly Rs 20,000 crore to consumers in the coming five years.

Merit order stack is an approach to the problem of minimising the sum of generators’ operating costs, while honouring operational constraints of available generation to supply in a secure and reliable manner, said a government’s statement.

Union Minister Piyush Goyal said, “Producers can reduce power costs by 10 paise