Nod to policy over thermal power allocation
The Cabinet on Thursday approved a new policy for allocation of power to be generated by upcoming state-run thermal power plants, earmarking 50 per cent share for the home states.
The Cabinet on Thursday approved a new policy for allocation of power to be generated by upcoming state-run thermal power plants, earmarking 50 per cent share for the home states.
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ENGINEERING conglomerate Larsen & Toubro expects its power equipment subsidiary, L&T Power, to become one of the top contributors to the company
NEW DELHI: Moser Baer Power Projects on Tuesday announced that it had tied up for funds with Macquarie SBI Infrastructure for funding the first phase of its 2,520 MW thermal power project at Anuppur in Madhya Pradesh by offering the latter minority stake in the project. First phase Addressing a press conference here, company Promoter Deepak Puri said Macquarie SBI Infrastructure would invest R
More than 70 per cent of work in two units of 600 mega watt coal-based thermal power plant in North Chennai Thermal Power station at Athipatu village of Thiruvallur district is completed and the units will go critical by January 2012, according to TNEB officials. Chief engineer of the station N Murugesan told reporters visiting the site that the boiler drums for units I and II have been lifted
<p>Thermal Power Houses of Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Company had January 20 a special day for generating record power. Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Company Limited's Amarkantak Thermal Power House Chachai, Satpura Thermal Power Centre Sarni and Sanjay Gandhi Power House Birsinghpur generated maximum power on January 20.
Bhel, NTPC & IGCAR Join Hands For Project A 800-MW coal-fired power project based on more efficient advanced ultra supercritical thermal power technology is being set up jointly by BHEL, NTPC and Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR). The .
The Thermal Power Stations of Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Company Limited have added yet another feather in their caps with setting a new record of maximum generation of electricity in a day. Sanjay Gandhi Thermal Power Station, Birsinghpur has touched the highest mark with generating 302.03 lakh unit power on January 26.
Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Wednesday said that efforts were being made to make the state self-reliant in power by 2012.
Chairman of State Electricity Board and CMD of East Region Electricity Distribution Company Pankaj Agrawal on Friday awarded Birsinghpur, Sarni and Pench power stations of Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Company Limited for excellent performance in generating power. Sanjay Gandhi Thermal Power Station, Birsinghpur was conferred with the first 'Excellent Performance Award' for building the image
Forget about the highly questionable technology for the proposed 1,650 megawatt nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district from the French power major Areva, or even the objections of the Finnish environmental watchdog body STUK for the Olkiluoto plant, which is being replicated at Jaitapur. The fact is that nothing can prevent time overruns and, therefore, cost escalation.
Jaipur: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday met Union minister for coal Sriprakash Jaiswal in Delhi and requested him to immediately allot coal linkage and coal blocks for power projects in the state. During the meeting, the chief minister demanded that the coal blocks allotted to Rajasthan in Chhattisgarh be set aside from
Two days after a group of villagers ransacked the site of the under-construction 1,980-MW Bara thermal power plant in Allahabad and damaged property, the developer JP Power Ventures has started moving out the expensive construction equipment and other machinery. The decision, which would stall the project, has been taken to avoid damage to the Rs 900-crore machinery and equipment at the site.
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi has requested Minister for Railways Mamata Banerjee for inclusion of a slew of projects in the Railway Budget for the year 2011-12. In a letter to the Railway Minister, Gogoi requested Banerjee for new lines for strengthening the Railway infrastructure in the Northeast and Assam, which include a new railway line from Salona to Khumtai and Jorhat to Sivasagar for creatin
The Delhi Cabinet has given an in-principal approval for setting up the 750-MW Pragati-II power plant at Bamnauli, a project that has been under discussion for a long time. The Bamnauli project is integral to the Delhi
Bhubaneswar: Three private companies have evinced interest to set up 2490-MW thermal power plants at an estimated cost of Rs 10,000 crore in Bhdrakh districts, energy minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak informed the State Assembly here on Tuesday. Replying to a question during the Question Hour, he said that while L&T has decided to set up 1,680 MW capacity captive thermal power plant at Dhamra f
A proposed joint venture between the Indian Railways and NTPC for setting up a 1,320 MW thermal power plant in West Bengal has been caught in a tussle between the railway ministry and Bihar government over issues relating to a similar joint venture. The power plant, proposed to be set up at Adra in Purulia district of West Bengal, has been made a part of Bhartiya Rail Bijlee Co, a 26:74 joint v
BHUBANESWAR: Acting on a writ petition filed by one Suresh Pradhan and others, the Orissa High Court today issued notices to the Centre and State Government along with Jindal India Thermal Power Ltd over establishment of its power plant at Deranga in Angul district. A Division Bench of Chief Justice V Gopalagowda and Justice BN Mohapatra has also directed status quo on the public roads within
Decision taken after reports of protests over land acquisition for 2,640-Mw power project. The Ministry of Environment and Forests on Tuesday directed East Coast Energy to stop construction at its 2,640-Mw thermal power project in Srikakulam, Andhra Pradesh, owing to protests by farmers. The ministry, in its letter, said,
The Orissa government has threatened it will not support the Union power ministry