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 …
There Will Be No Load-Shedding For Industry Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: Realising the deep danger of crop failure looming large in the wake of erratic and uneven rainfall across Gujarat, the state government has started to supply power to farmers for 19 hours a day. State energy minister Saurabh …
The government has signed an agreement with World Bank to improve the power system in Haryana. The bank will finance the Haryana Power System Improvement Project. The development objective of the project is to improve the availability, efficiency and accountability of electricity supply in Haryana through strengthening the transmission and …
A White Paper prepared by an expert agency recommends setting up two nodal bodies - Sikkim Hydro Power Corporation Ltd (SHPC) and Sikkim Transmission and Distribution Corporation Ltd (STDC), to better harness the State
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday demanded an additional allocation of at least 300 Mega Watt power for the State from the Centre to tide over the drought like situation in wake of poor monsoon.
The huge untapped natural resources in Arunachal Pradesh when harnessed would make it a front ranking State, Chief Minister Dorjee Khandu said today. Development of hydropower projects alone, for which the State Government has signed MOUs with several CPUs and private players, would generate at least Rs 12,000 crore to …
MUMBAI: Plans for a 1,000 MW power plant in Thakurli may get derailed because of differences between the partners-the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and the Railways. MMRDA commissioner Ratnakar Gaikwad had recently announced the joint project. But according to senior railways officials, the railway land in Thakurli, which …
LUCKNOW: The White Paper released by chief minister Mayawati did paint her government on a brighter side, but at the same time it put forth the difficulties and the lack of support from the Central government. In fact, the Paper rolled the ball in the Centre's court for timely completion …
LUCKNOW: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has blamed the Congress and its rule in the country after Independence responsible for the pathetic condition of the state and poor condition of power generation. Reacting to the allegations levelled by Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi that BSP government in the state was …
Opposition members today made a strong plea to go for micro hydel projects instead of the mega ones, to meet the power demand of the State and the NE region as well. Raising the issue during the debate on the demand for a grant of Rs 47,426.96 lakh of the …
ANGUL: Power generation at the 3000-MW NTPC power plant at Kaniha has been hit due to coal crisis even as Mahanadi Coalfields Limited claimed to have supplied 99 per cent of coal demand of the plant in the current month. The power plant, second biggest in India, provides power to …
LUCKNOW: With plans to have a generation capacity to the tune of a whopping 25,000 MW by the end of tenure of 12th planning commission, the Mayawati government has asked the Centre to come up with policies giving preference to the landlocked states while allocating coal blocks. On Tuesday, chief …
Water levels in reservoirs are shrinking as snow-fed rivers have got reduced to a trickle. The water level in the Pong reservoir is 387.93 metre against last year
The government yesterday said that 83% of the population is now supplied with electricity. It plans to provide electricity countrywide by the year 2012. The Secretary to the Ministry of Power and Energy, Mr. M.M.C. Ferdinando said that a number of electricity projects are now under way to meet future …
Thirty-one MoUs for power plants have been inked between the state and investors in the past six years, but not a single megawatt (MW) of electricity could be added to this power-crunch state. For, in most of the cases a little development has taken place on ground for these MoUs …
BANIHAL: Resentment is brewing among locals in Banihal against the inability of the Systems and Operations wing of Power Development Department (PDD) Kashmir to successfully commission 50 megawatt grid station at Banihal in district Ramban PDD officials maintain that the grid station developed a serious technical snag before its scheduled …
EVEN as the government increases focus on power generation from alternative sources, the results, due to a bad weather and fuel shortage, are not in favour. The country
Sushil kumar Shinde, Union Power Minister. It is tough to get things moving in the power sector, which is a sad story of shortages and missed deadlines on the one hand, and a graveyard of project proposals on the other. But can this government make any difference? In his second …
New Delhi: After the present dry spell brought several hydel projects in the north on the brink of closure, the firms operating these plants are seeking easier regulatory terms and incentives. The companies say such changes will help them fight nature
KARTIKAY MEHROTRA Despite revising its capacity targets for the second consecutive fiscal to aspire to more realistic goals in 2008-2009, the power ministry has fallen short of the cumulative benchmarks by more than 4,000 Megawatts owing to lack of supplies, manpower and commissioning of projects. The deficit in the most …
