Hydel power output drops 9.31% in June
EVEN as the government increases focus on power generation from alternative sources, the results, due to a bad weather and fuel shortage, are not in favour. The country
EVEN as the government increases focus on power generation from alternative sources, the results, due to a bad weather and fuel shortage, are not in favour. The country
BANIHAL: Resentment is brewing among locals in Banihal against the inability of the Systems and Operations wing of Power Development Department (PDD) Kashmir to successfully commission 50 megawatt grid station at Banihal in district Ramban PDD officials maintain that the grid station developed a serious technical snag before its scheduled date of commissioning
Thirty-one MoUs for power plants have been inked between the state and investors in the past six years, but not a single megawatt (MW) of electricity could be added to this power-crunch state.
Days before US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives In India on her first official visit after taking charge, India is learnt to have firmed up a site each in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh that will be dedicated for the first US nuclear reactors after the nuclear deal.
LUCKNOW: With plans to have a generation capacity to the tune of a whopping 25,000 MW by the end of tenure of 12th planning commission, the Mayawati government has asked the Centre to come up with policies giving preference to the landlocked states while allocating coal blocks.
Africa's Lake Kivu contains vast quantities of gas, which makes it both dangerous and valuable. Anjali Nayar asks whether it is possible to tap the gas without causing a disaster.
ANGUL: Power generation at the 3000-MW NTPC power plant at Kaniha has been hit due to coal crisis even as Mahanadi Coalfields Limited claimed to have supplied 99 per cent of coal demand of the plant in the current month. The power plant, second biggest in India, provides power to 17 states, including four southern states.
Opposition members today made a strong plea to go for micro hydel projects instead of the mega ones, to meet the power demand of the State and the NE region as well.
In a new development to the on-going gas sharing dispute between the Ambani brothers, the UPA government on Friday apprehended before the Supreme Court that the Bombay High Court
Despite nearly six years of the Centre
CHANDIGARH: Against the backdrop of hectic global parleys to neutralise the effects of climate change, the Haryana Government has decided to develop Gurgaon and Faridabad as solar/green cities, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said here on Friday.
ITANAGAR, July 17
LUCKNOW: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has blamed the Congress and its rule in the country after Independence responsible for the pathetic condition of the state and poor condition of power generation.
Recently the fuel ethanol production from crops has attracted much attention not only in the US, EU and Brazil, but also in Japan because the bio-ethanol is perceived as being "carbon neutral" and useful as a countermeasure against global warming.
MUMBAI: Plans for a 1,000 MW power plant in Thakurli may get derailed because of differences between the partners-the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and the Railways.
Anil Ambani group firm Reliance Natural Resources (RNRL) today hit out at power companies GMR and GVK for raising the bogey of unfair price advantage to it, saying that they had got into gas deals with Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (RIL) knowing that the agreement was subject to the outcome of the RNRL-RIL case.
Britain's Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) saw its income rise by more than a third in the financial year 2008/09 on higher sales from two of Britain's oldest nuclear power stations, the public body said on Monday.
The huge untapped natural resources in Arunachal Pradesh when harnessed would make it a front ranking State, Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu said today. Development of hydropower projects alone, for which the State Government has signed MOUs with several CPUs and private players, would generate at least Rs 12,000 crore to Rs 15,000 crore revenue by 2018-20, Khandu told a press conference here.
Dr Asim Hussain, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Petroleum and Natural Resources has said the delay in the execution of Iran-Pakistan Gas Pipeline project is causing Pakistan a loss of $5 million per day.
An American firm Bargamo E&A has shown interest to invest in the solar energy projects. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the firm, Hilard Herzong, called on the Sindh Governor, Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan. A statement on Sunday said that the meeting was held at the Governor House here.