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 …
Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal has directed the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) to expedite work on the 800 MW Kol Dam project and ensure that it was commissioned by the target date. He also urged to adopt Jawahar Lal Nehru Government Engineering College, Sundernagar, so that it could come …
Kaithal: A 220 kV substation at a cost of Rs 45 crore will be set up at Kalayat on 12.5 acres soon. This was stated by Randeep Singh Surjewala, power, water supply and sanitation minister, while addressing party workers at Kalayat yesterday. He was here to extend an invitation to …
Chandigarh: A minister said the state Cabinet today cleared purchase of Innova vehicles for MLAs. The PSEB has been facing problem of funds to buy power and imposing cuts ranging from 6 to 8 hours. Sources said the Cabinet also approved buying of eight more vehicles for the Chief Minister's …
With the CM putting pressure to ensure that the 1,500 MW power plant at Bawana is completed in time for the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Power Minister A K Walia has indicated that the plant may soon be granted "mega project status' by the Union Ministry of Power. "There are certain …
The IT city now has an energy audit control room for close monitoring of power consumption, the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) claims. With computers zooming in on consumption-related data, the control room is giving impetus to energy audit, for which electricity meters are being installed at all transformers, …
B.S. Satish Kumar BANGALORE: The power shortage assumed crisis proportions in Karnataka on Monday. Depletion of storage at hydel resources and technical snag at a generating unit at the Raichur Thermal Power Station have aggravated the problem. The power utilities resorted to unscheduled loadshedding throughout the State, including Bangalore, to …
Companies Reluctant To Sign Purchase Agreement Delhi government's ambitious Bawana power project may be running into trouble. The project that was conceived to make the Capital selfsufficient in power generation and inaugurated by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh a few months ago, may not find takers for its power so easily. …
Members and activists of the Bharatiya Kisan Union (Sidhupur) staged a dharna in front of the office of deputy chief engineer, Sangrur distribution circle of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB), here today to compel the authorities to accept their demands, especially the release of the tube well connections under …
Chairman of the PSEB Y.S. Ratra has said the Board has decided to ban transfers of all categories of officers and employees from July 15 to October 31 to ensure minimum disturbance in the offices during the on-going paddy season. Ratra has warned the delinquents of severe departmental action for …
BANGALORE: Karnataka is facing a 700 MW power shortage on account of a weak south-west monsoon and depletion of water-level in its hydel reservoirs. To tackle the power crisis, the State has decided to take various steps, including cloud seeding and purchasing more power from the Central grid and private …
Funds crunch limits options Starved of funds to purchase adequate power to meet the demand in the state, the PSEB authorities have started imposing heavy power cuts, varying from 6 to 8 hours daily. Sources said the demand for power yesterday was in the range of 1,750 lakh units against …
Gladni station repairs not enough, long-term solution needed It appears summers in Jammu are jinxed. If last summer it was the water shortage problem due to break down at Sitlee water filtration plant, this year it is worse with the Gladni Station, which supplies power to three districts of Jammu …
Hisar- As many as 1360 cases of power theft have been detected and a penalty of Rs 2.80 crore has been recovered under the Power Theft Informer Scheme launched by the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN). A senior Nigam official said 40 per cent of the recovered amount of …
India is the fifth largest bilateral donor in Afghanistan after the US, UK, Japan and Germany. Present assistance: $750 million. Projects involve hydro-electricity, power transmission lines, road construction, agriculture and industry, telecommunications, information and broadcasting, education and health. Major works include:
UT Administrator Gen eral (Retd) S F Rodrigues has asked officials in the Administration to look at alternative sources of energy for the city. Speaking at a public hearing session on Monday, he suggested that the alternative sources of energy could provide a long-term solution to the energy crisis. A …
To ensure judicious use, move beyond rhetoric For the past two days, three districts of Jammu region viz., Jammu, Rajouri and Poonch have been facing severe power crisis after a major fire broke out in one of the transformers in Grid Power Station Gladni in Narwal on Wednesday night on …
In the last four years, power generation from thermal power units of the State have fallen down. In the earlier regime of Congress, 14560 million unit of electricity was generated from thermal units, but during the last four year rule of Bharatiya Janata Party government, various thermal units of the …
Jangveer Singh The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) is getting pushed in the red to meet needs of non-paying consumers and earning the dubious distinction of topping the country in the purchase of costly power. According to data available with the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), the board had to …
As would be expected in a maturing market, there are considerable changes in the wind energy industry, particularly when viewed over a period of several years rather than in any one year in particular. The size of wind farms continues to grow, as does the size of the wind turbines …
