The South African Cabinet has approved the South African Renewable Energy Masterplan (SAREM) for implementation, targeting energy security and broader industrial growth. The plan seeks to address challenges associated with local capacity, infrastructure and investment by providing a roadmap for developing renewable energy and battery storage technologies. For investors, the …
Blamed by the Centre for the two successive days of blackout, state governments Wednesday decided not to buy electricity from outside their states at all, sending the price of electricity crashing to zero even at evening peak hours. Later in the evening some of the states came back to the …
The arrival of solar power in meerwada last year has changed the lives of all living in the remote village Life in the remote village of Meerwada used to grind to a standstill as darkness descended. Workers downed tools, kids strained to see their schoolbooks under the faint glow of …
New Delhi Power minister M Veerappa Moily has called a eeting of chief ministers of states affected by the grid collapse on August 6 to take stock of the situation and prevent recurrence of one of the world’s worst blackouts in recent times. The idea is to impress upon states …
Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court wants the States of Punjab and Haryana to find ways of preserving drinking water. A Division Bench of the vourt has made it clear that a working group could be constituted for the purpose. The directions come at a time when Punjab has …
“By putting off a cost reflective tariff and extending subsidies, we may seem to help the consumer, but what we are actually doing is bleeding the State electricity boards and eventually burdening the consumer with surcharge after the losses become untenable,” said an official of the power department explaining why …
Yamunanagar/Ambala: Haryana has become the second highest power purchaser in the country after Punjab. Haryana has been making daily short-term power purchases of about 330 lakh units. This despite the fact that at the onset of this financial year, the state government had announced that there would be no power …
Ranchi, Aug. 1: A day after the eastern grid collapse, Jharkhand’s districts continued to reel under outages today even though generation from the twin thermal power plants at Patratu and Tenughat slowly gathered momentum. Power officials, however, claimed with generation from the DVC plants as well from the northern grid …
States in denial; data shows massive overdrawing was overlooked The “blackout” on Monday and the “torturous Tuesday” have clearly brought out the deficiencies in the management of the power grids across the country and there is no reason for anybody to believe that this would not happen again. Notwithstanding the …
Rejecting the Centre's claim that states were to be blamed for the power crisis, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav today said it was not right to blame Uttar Pradesh for the recent grid failure. "It is a matter of investigation...It is not right to blame Uttar Pradesh for grid failure," Akhilesh …
Power cuts triggered by the grid collapse on Monday and Tuesday have flagged the need for investing in the power systems. The Delhi Government on Tuesday decided to act on the warning that the grid collapse turned out to be and set up a committee to enforce system strengthening and …
TIME TO BLOW THE FUSE A 2nd consecutive day of blackout stunningly caps the shameful blowouts of governance & policy the country has been suffering with impunity. On a day half of India lost power, the govt fanned the outrage by entrusting the portfolio to a part-time minister The New …
New Delhi: Close to six months ago, the Kudankulam nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu was stalled by a group of anti-nuclear protesters who, skillfully allied with local church groups, won the support of fishing communities. A bill that aims to provide a share in profits from mining to local populations …
New Delhi: Tuesday’s grid collapse, like Monday’s, was triggered at Agra, a major interconnect between the northern, western and eastern grids. On Monday, the Agra relay station had tripped to trigger a blackout. This time too, the station kicked off a domino effect after suspected overdrawal by some states in …
DURGAPUR, 31 JULY: Mining operations in certain coalmines under Eastern Coalfield Limited (ECL) was affected, but no miners remained trapped due to today’s power disruption. Auxillary power was used to evacuate around 1,000 miners from three mines ~ Moira, Chapuikhash and Luchipur. Around, 3 MPA auxillary power was drawn from …
Monday’s grid collapse took place barely one-and-a-half months after the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), in a scathing order, had directed states, especially from the northern grid, to strictly follow the grid code and discipline to avoid overdrawal of power. Further, CERC, currently in the process of issuing another order …
With the massive power breakdown in the Northern Grid impacting supply in eight States of Northern India, industry chambers, on Monday, called for major reforms in the power sector to bridge the increasing gap between demand and supply. “One of the major reasons for the collapse of the power grid …
Shocked Worst affected are MSMEs without adequate power back-up facility. The blackout in north India due the disruption in northern power transmission has hurt industry and raised concerns over the stability of the network. North India experienced the worst electricity disruption after almost a decade when the transmission lines tripped …
Northern Grid fails for 2nd consecutive day, Eastern & North Eastern Grids collapse, more than half of the country without power Blaming overdrawal of power by certain states for the current crisis, Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today said the government is working to bring back normalcy in about one hour. …
JAMMU, Jul 30: Like all other North Indian states, J&K; too faced complete blackout since 2.30 AM on Monday, following sudden Northern Grid failure, with all its essential services, including the hospitals, PHE, Railways, adversely hit up to 1.30 PM. According to Chief Engineer System and Operation (PDD) Amit Gupta, …
Metro Service Hit, Traffic Lights Go On Blink, Taps Run Dry: Worst Outage In 10 Years; 300m Suffer New Delhi:It was a black Monday for nearly a quarter of India’s population as the worst power crisis in almost 10 years led to the northern grid, the largest arterial network for …
