Electrification of end-uses and the growth of solar and wind is changing how electricity systems operate on all time scales. This report analyses how seasonal variations in both demand and supply affect electricity system operations to 2050 – in Europe, India, Indonesia and Korea – and what sources will be …
After releasing 48,000 electricity connections till November during the current financial year, the Jaipur Vidyut Vitaran Nigam on Monday decided to release 15,569 new agricultural power connections till March 31, 2009. Jaipur Discom Chairman and Managing Director R.G. Gupta said at a meeting of senior officers here that the financial …
The villagers in Madhugiri are blessed because the by-election has brought them uninterrupted power supply for nine hours as against just three hours of quality power supply earlier. They are enjoying this luxury from last 15 days and this will last till December 27, the day of polling. But the …
MADURAI: T. Kallupatti, 50 km from here, may appear yet another sleepy small town in the State. But what is less known is that it is one of the four town panchayats identified for a pilot project for biomass power. At T. Kallupatti, 35 street lights, seven sodium vapour lamps …
The Government is mulling over implementing Gujarat-model rural electrification in the State with an estimated budget of Rs 3,500 crore, through which the villages will get 24-hour electricity. Informing this to media persons here on Sunday, Minister for Energy K S Eshwarappa said, if all went well, the Gujarat-model
TIRUCHI: Tiruchi district, with a little more than 50 per cent of its population in rural areas, has only 245 solar streetlights and 50 solar homelights in the villages. To achieve even this level of penetration of solar-powered gadgets, it took five years (2002-2007). According to an official of the …
BRIGHTER OPTIONS Ranchi: Indicator lights are now illuminating homes of the remote Jarga village in Angara block. Technically known as light-emitting diodes (LED), usually found on electronic devices
Members cutting across party lines expressed concern over the slow pace of rural electrification under Rajiv Gandhi Gram Vidyutkaran Yojana (RGGVY). Energy Minister SN Patro had a tough time in handling the members during question hour and passed the buck to the Centre for delay in sanctioning State projects and …
Eleven years ago, Pathampara, a 90-minute drive from Kannur, made headlines when it stopped petitioning the government for electricity and instead began generating its own power from a very small facility using the flow of a local stream to run a turbine. Pathampara's achievement has been replicated in the Narmada …
The government is re-considering the proposal to include rural electrification and hydro power projects under the priority sector lending target of banks. The proposal, earlier approved by a sub-committee of the group of ministers (GoM) on power sector-related financial issues, was turned down by the finance ministry on technical grounds. …
By Dhanya Sri As India has got a great potential to tap solar, wind and biomass, hydro power and sea wave power, we should look at these areas to help rural areas. India still has 1,00,000 villages to be electrified out of which 20,000 are considered as remote, for which …
With a few months remaining for the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government's five-year tenure to end, it is now clear that the goals set by it under its flagship socio-economic development programme Bharat Nirman are likely to be missed by wide margins in at least four of its six components. …
The Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited (KERDL) has commissioned 599 renewable projects, including wind, small hydro, co-generation and biomass projects, out of the 815 allotted to it by the State government, said its Managing Director, V P Hiremath. Delivering a talk on
A 33KV power substation under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme has been scrapped because of the inability of the North Dinajpur administration to acquire land for the purpose. District magistrate Sukumar Bhattacharyya said the project, whose foundation stone was laid in January this year, had been shifted from Gadahat, …
KENDRAPARA: Around 29 villages inhabited by 35,000 villagers within Bhitarakanika National Park have no proper road communication system, thanks to government indifference. Due to this reason, villagers, who mostly depend on agriculture and pisciculture, find it difficult to sell their products, particularly perishable items. Jagabandhu Nayak, former block chairman of …
Former senior banker and Chairman of Highnoon Group of Companies Jawaid Tariq Khan has offered to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani free solar- based electrification of a village of the latter's choice. According to a press release here, details are being worked out between the Prime Minister's Secretariat and Highnoon …
Agartala, Nov 5: The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has agreed to provide financial support to 8,719 remote villages of 10 states, including 1,704 hamlets in the Northeast in the current fiscal. State Science and Technology Minister Joy Gobinda Debroy told UNI here today that the ministry will support …
Based on practical knowledge and international experience accumulated via past and ongoing World Bank operations, this Note aims to provide World Bank staff and others interested in off-grid electrification with useful guidelines for designing sustainable off-grid projects. Given the unique features of projects and country situations, the note does not …
