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 …
Experts to offer technical guidance to TANTRANSCO Tamil Nadu has more hope for an improved power supply network, with a technical team from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) visiting Chennai soon to help the Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation (TANTRANSCO) enhance its operations. Besides offering financial support to set up power …
The Union Minister of State for Power, K.C. Venugopal said that Kerala has started receiving 100 MW additional power from Central pool from Saturday evening itself. Talking to The Hindu, the Minister said that an additional of 100 MW has been announced two weeks ago. However, due to technical faults, …
In January, PM Manmohan Singh had promised a "practical, pragmatic and viable solution" to the plethora of problems plaguing the power sector "within a month". An expert suggests a roadmap to get there in good shape and in good time.
Hong Kong Power Construction Corporation of China said on Friday it had signed a $2.4 billion contract to build the second phase of a massive coal-fired power complex in southern India that will help meet soaring local demand for electricity. The second phase of the project for India's Infrastructure Leasing …
Indian power cos having coal supply pacts with Indonesian firms fear that ops will be affected if nation is hit by tsunami. Amassive earthquake off Indonesia on Wednesday rattled investors and sparked fears of a fresh crisis in coal supplies to the beleaguered domestic power sector. Shares of power generators, …
Shillong, April 11: The state power department today said by 2014 Meghalaya will be self-sufficient in power production. Meghalaya, with 185MW, had a power surplus till 2000. Assam was the main buyer of power from the state. The situation went worse since 2001, with the setting up of several industries …
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Eenec) yesterday approved three power projects with a combined capacity of 715 megawatt (MW) aimed at meeting the growing demand for electricity in the capital and adjoining areas through local production. The approvals came at a meeting presided over by Prime Minister …
MUMBAI: Will the wind mills, whose project cost has been paid fully by state's consumers, be allowed to sell electricity at higher rates in the open market? The state power ministry has objected to the Maharashtra electricity regulatory commission's (MERC) nod to around 40 wind mills to sell their power …
Unavailability of natural gas and destruction of forests and water bodies due to our inability to use our coal fields optimally is having a huge impact on our health and environment Two monopolies. One private; the other public. One in gas; the other in coal. Both equally disastrous for the …
Orissa is set to get power allocation of up to 50 per cent from the second and third Ultra Mega Power Plants (UMPPs) proposed in the state, Union minister for power Sushilkumar Shinde said here. The minister, however, ruled out possibility of allocation of 50 per cent power for the …
Pune Loss-making Wind turbine maker Suzlon Energy is considering a stake sale in its wholly-owned subsidiary REpower Systems SE, reports say. Repower is based in Hamburg, Germany, and manufactures onshore and offshore wind turbines with installation of around 3,600 wind turbines around the world. Suzlon had acquired Repower at a …
For a state government that pats itself for having turned Gujarat into a power-surplus region by connecting all the urban and rural areas to the electricity grid, the census data of 2011 — that shows over 11 lakh households without electricity — could come as a shock. The housing data …
Gandhinagar: The Reserve Bank of India in its latest report, ‘State Finances: A Study of Budgets of 2011-12’, has identified Gujarat as one of the states where power sector reforms, despite being initiated early, have failed to create the “desired impact” on the financial position of the state power utilities …
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu will get only 200 MW of power from Gujarat against the demand of 500 MW due to the non-connectivity of the southern grid with the new grid and the state’s power woes will come to an end once the connectivity is established by 2014, said a source …
Pune Troubled wind turbine maker, Suzlon Group, on Wednesday announced the sale of a block of wind assets for about R200 crore to repay its debt. These windfarms are located across India, with a majority of them located in Tamil Nadu. Suzlon’s foreign currency convertible bonds comes up for redemption …
Kolkata West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has finally intervened to provide land to industry on easier conditions. The government has removed the ceiling of a maximum 24 acre that an industrial unit could buy in the state directly. The West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill 2012 introduced in the …
Despite the facts that no synchronization and electricity generation is possible at EL 154 meters of the Maheshwar dam, that there is no survey of the impact of submergence at EL 154 meters, and that less than 15% of the villagers of the 61 villages affected by the Maheshwar dam …
Scarcity of water for thermal power projects is likely to affect electricity generation in Maharashtra in summer. The dipping lake levels might force the Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited (MahaGenco) to shut down a 250 mega watt (MW) set at the Paras thermal power station in May. “The dipping …
To tide over the power crisis, the Centre has allotted 50 MW of additional power to the state, Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said here on Sunday. Speaking after inaugurating the 400/220 KV substation of the Power Grid Corporation at Ellapully here, Shinde said that it was only three …
The Mamata Banerjee government on Monday passed its first pro-industry Bill amending Section 14Y of the West Bengal Land Reforms Act, 1955, that lifts the land ceiling in several cases of industrial operations. Monday’s legislation gave a much wider ambit to Section 14 Y of the Act, which only allowed …
