Sujay Mehdudia Seeking to address the ground reality and change the way of working of public sector power companies, the Prime Minister's Office has directed the Power Ministry to change the definition of "commissioning of projects' and use the Commercial Operation Date (COD) as the relevant milestone. In a letter to Power Secretary Anil Razdan, the PMO has said there is need for a specific milestone to unequivocally determine the actual addition to power generation capacity in the country.

Indo Asian Fusegear, a Noida-based manufacturer of electrical lighting and switchgear equipment, is planning to foray into power generation. "We are looking at options in hydel and wind projects," said Joint Managing Director P K Ranade. Ranade has already visited prospective hydro project sites in Himachal Pradesh.

VIRENDRA SINGH RAWAT The two proposed power plants in Allahabad for which Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (ADAG) company Reliance Power has emerged as the lowest bidder are yet to get clearance, from the Airports Authority of India (AAI). "The AAI clearance is required in these cases as the Bamrauli airstrip of Allahabad falls within the zone of the power projects," a senior Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) official involved with the projects told Business Standard.

NTPC, which generates nearly 30,000 Mw, is aiming at a capacity of 50,000 Mw by 2012. In its biggest-ever credit line, the Power Finance Corporation (PFC) will lend Rs 10,000 crore to the country's largest power producer, NTPC, for various projects to be completed in the current 11th Five-Year Plan. According to officials, the MoU between the two PSUs is likely to be signed in the next one week and the money will be disbursed in instalments.

Ignatius Pereira An acute power shortage gripped the State on Wednesday. Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) sources told The Hindu that austerity measures in distribution may become inevitable. The KSEB has issued a statement asking consumers to cut down on consumption. Cause of crisis

An Assocham study has said that 35 crore litres of diesel worth Rs 1,400 crores were being consumed annually by industrial and commercial units in the national capital region (NCR) for generation of captive power to make up for the shortfall in supply of state-produced electricity.

Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi on Wednesday blamed the public-sector North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) for the flash floods in Lakhimpur district of eastern Assam on Saturday. NEEPCO had released water from its Ranganadi hydel project dam in Arunachal Pradesh without any warning.

Citizens braved prolonged power load-shedding, coupled with frequent breakdowns, on Tuesday as the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation failed to meet the overall power demand despite the restoration of supply from a power generation unit of Bin Qasim Thermal Power Station. Sources in the power utility told Dawn that the Unit No 6 of Bin Qasim Thermal Power Station, which was shut down for repairs on Sunday morning when it developed a technical fault, came back into operation on Tuesday though it produced much below its original capacity of 170 megawatts.

NEW DELHI: North Delhi Power Limited has been awarded the Edison Award by Edison Electric Institute of the United States for its operational excellence in the power industry and for utilising and integrating its Geographical Information System (GIS) with other applications for network planning, operations, commercial and asset management. The prestigious annual award is given to international as well as American electric companies for outstanding contributions to advancement of the power industry.