Shakti Pumps (India) announced that the Government of India has announced a mega scheme namely Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Uttham Mahabhiyan (PM-KUSUM) with an objective to scale up use of
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) has found more oil in an exploration block in Gujarat and described the discovery as significant.
P B Jayakumar / Mumbai July 2, 2010, 1:14 IST From micro wind turbines to rice husk, low-cost solutions are being tested to drive the huge market hunger for energy First they came up with the Tata Nano. Then Swach, a water purifier. Followed by a low-cost housing programme. Now the Tata group is planning to repeat the success in the power sector.
Jayajit Dash / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar July 05, 2010, 0:59 IST OREDA to electrify 1000 inaccessible villages this year Orissa may have the most number of un-electrified villages in the country after Jharkhand but the state is upbeat on meeting the target for electrification of all its villages by December 2011.
<p>Kalpana Pathak / Mumbai July 7, 2010, 0:42 IST<br /> <br /> To set up solar and wind power panels across the country.<br /> <br /> State-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) plans to set up solar power panels and power plants at its over 18,100 retail outlets across the country at a cost of Rs 500 crore.<br />
Tata Power, along with its consortium partner Australia-based Arrow Energy, has been awarded the Satpura coal bed methane (CBM) block in Madhya Pradesh during the CBM IV bidding round.
In a major relief to oil exploration companies, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs today granted a three-year drilling moratorium to 30 deepwater block production-sharing contracts (PSCs) signed under various rounds of exploration till the fifth round of the New Exploration Licensing Policy (Nelp) ,where drilling commitments are pending as on January 1, 2009.
London-listed Essar Energy, part of the shipping-to-telecom conglomerate Essar Group, today said its arm, Essar Power Ltd (EPL), had agreed to acquire Navabharat Power Pvt Ltd. Navabharat Power is setting up a 2,250-mega watt (Mw) coal-fuelled power plant at Dhenkanal in Orissa.
Virendra Singh Rawat / New Delhi/ Lucknow July 14, 2010, 0:26 IST The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), under the Union Ministry of Power, is conducting an energy audit in large municipalities of Uttar Pradesh.
The petrol pricing strategy of oil marketing companies (OMCs) is likely to be clear in the second fortnight of this month. The oil companies have been consulting each other to decide the periodicity of petrol price revision. Petroleum Secretary S Sundareshan said the OMCs were having consultations to decide the frequency of price revisions.
Government-controlled oil marketing companies (OMCs) today decided to review retail prices of petrol on a monthly basis. However, the date for the next price review and the mechanism to fix the price are yet to be finalised.
