Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
The Ceylon Electricity Board is planning to convert its thermal power plants from diesel and naphtha to Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) with a view to significantly reducing the operational cost of thermal power plants. This project will review the relevant existing feasibility studies and prepare an Environmental Impact Assessment and …
Virendra Singh Rawat / Lucknow July 18, 2008, 0:22 IST The first lowest bid of Lanco Infratech was also found too high. Even as the high-level energy task force (ETF) will decide the fate of the two thermal power projects in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh with a total capacity …
CHENNAI-BASED BGR Energy Systems has secured a Rs 4,900-crore EPC contract from Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadam Ni-gam for its 2x600 MW Kalisindh Thermal power project at Jhalawar in Rajasthan. This greenfield project is perhaps the largest engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract in the country. The scope of the project …
Resolves to avoid power cuts between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m No power stations suffered from coal shortage Cabinet pins hopes on forecast of rain HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh Cabinet on Wednesday decided against imposing power cuts on domestic/commercial sectors at night and to postpone stoppage of generation by the …
Chennai, July 16: BGR Energy Systems has bagged engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) from Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam to construct 2 x 600 MW thermal power plant. Stating that the new plants will come in Jhalawar, Rajasthan B G Raghupathy, chairman and managing director, BGR Energy said that the …
Salem AGITATED by the lack of transparency in the functioning of the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB), 100 people, mostly farmers, on Tuesday sought clarifications under the Right to Information (RTI) Act from the District Environmental Engineer's office. "TNPCB has consistently treated citizens as trouble-makers and enemies, and has …
As the mercury shot up to 34 degrees Celsius with 66 per cent humidity on Monday, the city experienced more than eight hours of staggered load-shedding as the privatized Karachi Electricity Supply Company faced a shortfall of 500 megawatts in meeting the demand. The power outage was caused by problems …
B.S. Satish Kumar BANGALORE: The power shortage assumed crisis proportions in Karnataka on Monday. Depletion of storage at hydel resources and technical snag at a generating unit at the Raichur Thermal Power Station have aggravated the problem. The power utilities resorted to unscheduled loadshedding throughout the State, including Bangalore, to …
Pakistan could have avoided the adverse effects of the high cost of petroleum products including petrol, diesel and furnace oil, if it had avoided over reliance on petroleum based products for generating thermal power and had instead given encouragement to use indigenously produced coal in power generation, reports UPP correspondent. …
In the last four years, power generation from thermal power units of the State have fallen down. In the earlier regime of Congress, 14560 million unit of electricity was generated from thermal units, but during the last four year rule of Bharatiya Janata Party government, various thermal units of the …
Co Ties Up Fuel Linkages, Plans JV With Kolkata Co For Project EMCO, the Rs 994-crore power company, plans to build a 600 megawatt coal-fired power plant in Chattisgarh, the second such project from the Mumbai-based company, as surging demand for electricity attracts large global funds and foreign power majors …
Vijayawada, July 1: India's first power plant using IGCC (integrated gasification combined cycle) technology is being constructed at Vijayawada thermal power station. Setting the stone for this 125 megawatt (MW) capacity power plant, the Union minister of state for commerce and power, Mr Jairam Ramesh here on Tuesday said the …
The objective of the present study is to assess the migrating behaviour of nickel and chromium through the soil collected around an ash-pond site through laboratory studies and an undertaking of contaminant (Nickel and Chromium)- soil interaction phenomena for unraveling the transport mechanism of nickel and chromium through soil and …
ANDHRA'S LONG MARCH Ch Prashanth Reddy / Hyderabad June 27, 2008, 0:04 IST With six major power projects involving an investment of over Rs 35,000 crore in the offing, Krishnapatnam, hitherto a remote and neglected area in Nellore district of southern Andhra Pradesh, is fast emerging as a power generation …
Uttar Pradesh government has given its nod to the proposal of NTPC to set up a 4,000 mw power plant in Lalitpur district of the state. The state government would hold 30% equity in the plant and 75% of power generated would be used in Uttar Pradesh, Cabinet secretary Shashank …
Plans to add 10,000 MW capacity in the next five years CONSOLIDATING GROWTH: Prasad Menon (left), Managing Director, with S. Padmanaban, Executive Director, Operations, Tata Power, addressing a press conference in Mumbai on Monday. Tata Power has reported a total revenue of Rs. 5,915.91 crore in the year ended March …
Tata Power Company (TPC), the country's largest private power generation company, plans to invest Rs 25,000 crore to boost its capacity by six-fold to 12,800 mw by 2013. At present, the company is implementing new power projects to the tune of 5,500 mw. Tata Power, which produces about 2,400 mw …
Rajasthan Vidyut Utpadan Nigam has speeded up work for lighting up the boiler in the sixth unit of the Suratgarh super thermal power station after its successful hydro-test last month. The power plant's capacity will go up to 1,500 MW when the sixth unit of 250 MW starts functioning.Vidyut Utpadan …
"Set up single agency to oversee implementation' Jairam Ramesh NEW DELHI: Annoyed at delays in the commissioning of power projects, Minister of State for Power and Commerce Jairam Ramesh on Monday said the functioning of some public sector units was "unprofessional.' New thermal station Mr. Ramesh made his displeasure known …
