Our cover story on “Saubhagya” scheme titled ‘Brightening up Households’ looks into the focus, benefits and challenges in achieving the objectives of the scheme. The article hopes that the scheme, if it could achieve household electrification in full, can increase the demand for power and brighten up the livelihoods of people bereft of electricity connection hitherto. The Renew cover story on Wind Power titled ‘Facing Headwinds’, highlights that growing competitive pressure will slowdown the pace of the sector going ahead, though it could keep up the pace for now. Our feature on EPC contracts titled ‘Downturn Due” finds that slowing tenders, project actualisation, and looming threat of 70-per cent safeguard duty are likely to result in a major downturn for the EPC market. A special report on Power Equipment segment, titled ‘Powering Ahead Ful Steam’ says the equipment industry witnessed a 4.25 per cent growth in 2016-17, with exports worth 6 billion.