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 …
LEH: The Rural Electrification Corporation Limited has approved and sanctioned a project for Rs. 198.08 crores for electrification of Leh district. Out of the Rs.198 crores, Rs. 38 crores will be sent on scheme for rural electricity infrastructure and rural household electrification for 6909 rural household in Leh district and …
HIGH ON ASH: NTPC's coal-fired plants produce 40,000 MT of fly ash a day, all of which is recycled as building materal (Pic by Tribhuwan Sharma) Our village, Rani Bari, was relocated twice to make way for two different phases of NTPC's power projects,' says Tej Pratap Mishra, a 45-year-old …
Deputy Chief Minister Muzaffar Hussain Beig today said that government was committed to provide basic amenities to the people especially in the rural and far-flung areas. He claimed "massive development has taken place in all sectors during the last five and half years and people can make feel the difference …
Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje is a risk taker. She often rushes in where her political counterparts fear to tread. Power, for her, has a different meaning, and in this case, literally so. Facing Assembly elections in November this year, Raje took the gutsy but politically suicidal step of cutting …
The Raj Bhavan in Calcutta could plunge into perpetual darkness if governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi chooses to express his empathy not just with the denizens of the state capital but also with the vast rural populace of Bengal. For, figures available with the Centre reveal that Bengal has among the lowest …
For the second consecutive day today and much to the embarrassment of the CPI-M leadership, Raj Bhavan, plunged into darkness for an hour this evening. Power in the palatial building was also switched off for an hour in the afternoon. A Raj Bhavan spokesperson pointed out that a decision is …
The Sindh government would allocate Rs 400 million in the provincial budget for fiscal 2008-09 for the electrification of 360 villages of the province. The Sindh irrigation and power department has already forwarded the proposal of the project to the finance department for its inclusion in the next budget, a …
Perched on Killa Hill, Tobakla, a remote tribal hamlet in Tripura's South district, now shines in the dark with a non-conventional solar power plant supplying energy under the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vaidyutikaran Yojana. A septuagenarian, Bikram Singh Jamatiya is a delighted man today. "My village is remote which can be …
The Rajasthan Government proposes to release about 5 lakh new domestic electricity connections in the rural areas this year in accordance with an announcement made by Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje in her Budget speech. The three public sector power discoms in the State have issued guidelines in this regard. An …
The conventional grid-based electricity has not been able to reach many remote rural areas and small settlements. The Planning Commission has identified over 80,000 villages are unlikely to be electrified. The SEBs (state electricity boards) often consider such locations financially not viable due to the high cost of laying transmission …
Bokaro: With the Lok Sabha elections just a year away, PM Manmohan Singh on Tuesday turned the foundation-laying ceremony of the Bokaro Steel Plant's expansion and modernisation programme into an occasion for announcing sops for Jharkhand. He said the Centre was planning to open a new university and an institute …
The public sector Jaipur Vidyut Vitaran Nigam has formulated an ambitious plan for supply of electricity to 693 villages and 1,296 hamlets in seven districts of Jaipur, Bharatpur and Kota divisions this year with an expenditure of Rs.197.57 crore. The Chairman and Managing Director of Jaipur discom, R.G. Gupta, said …
The state government is determined to ensure arrangements of drinking water, power and roads in every village. This was said by Panchayat and Rural Development Minister Rustam Singh while laying the foundation stone of a stop dam to be constructed at a cost of Rs 64.84 lakh at village Bamrauli …
People have seen a change in their quality of life, thanks to the solar lighting system. "My son stays up later than all of us, studying through the night," says Guddi Devi, a resident of Dabkan- Kartikeya Singh, Alwar It is a simple device but it has shrunk the nights …
Eighty families living in Galapalleyaya village in the Ibbagamuwa DS division in a memorandum to Salinda Dissanayake, Kurunegala district MP and Minister of Coconut Development has requested him to take action to provide them with electricity under the Keppetiya-Yakadagolla-Galapalleyaya rural electrification scheme which was opened on April 24, 2007. Although …
Over the past decade, thousands of families in Rajasthan's remote villages have installed solar lighting systems at their homes, which harness solar energy to generate electricity. It is a simple device but it has shrunk the nights in Rajasthan's countryside. Over the past decade, thousands of families in the state's …
In a major boost to attain self sufficiency in energy, the Centre today allotted a huge number of solar energy instruments to Asom. During the financial year 2007-08, a total of 750 solar home-lighting systems, 50 solar street-lighting systems and 500 solar lanterns were allotted to Asom. Sources from the …
Dilapidated roads, un-electrified villages betray govt claims The claims of the coalition government to provide a responsive, efficient and people-friendly administration and its commitment to provide the citizens all basic amenities stare in disdain, when the reports of dilapidated roads in different parts of the state and villages without electricity …
The Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) has sanctioned a sum of Rs 55.86 crore to carry out various developmental activities. This will include release of new domestic connections to people living below poverty line (BPL), erecting 11 KV lines and aerial bunched cable, installation of new distribution transformers and distribution transformer …