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 …
Shimla: The transmission of power from the hydel projects located in the Chandrabhaga basin will be undertaken through the 9-km-long Rohtang tunnel, thereby reducing the total cost of transmission by several crores. The state government has already held talks with the Rohtang tunnel authorities to allow the transmission of power …
For the 12th Plan Period (2012-17), the Government may fix power capacity addition target at around 1,00,000 megawatt. This is the Power Ministry's proposal to the Planning Commission. “The final call would be taken by the National Development Council. It may be between 90,000 MW and 1,00,000 MW,” Member Planning …
Troubled by problems like coal shortage, high fuel prices and delayed green clearances, top industrialists engaged in power sector, including Ratan Tata and Anil Ambani, today met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who promised to address their grievances in a time-bound manner. The delegation of promoters and CEOs of over dozen …
The wait for the Navi Mumbai international airport is getting longer. The state-run City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco), nodal agency for the project, is yet to get forest clearance and approval of the Bombay High Court. Though the project had received environment clearance on November 22, 2010, the acquisition …
Mandi: Fourteen towns, including Mandi, Sundernagar and Kullu, in the state are set to get rid of the frequent breakdown of power supply and low voltage as the state electricity board is overhauling its jaded electrical and distribution system under the centrally sponsored Accelerated Power Development and Restructuring Programme. Funded …
For the first time in the history of Gangasagar mela, the Kapil Muni mandir and ashram has been lit up using conventional power supply. After a long struggle the West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (WBSEDCL) managed to introduce the conventional power supply in Sagar Island a few months …
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday inaugurated a 5-MW solar energy plant by SunEdison, the leading solar energy services provider, at Phalodi in Jodhpur district. Union Minister for Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah was also present. The plant was set up under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM). Situated …
India has indicated to its neighbour, Bangladesh that its participation in power projects here, particularly in the northeastern states, will be welcome. It has said that joint ventures in the power sector will also facilitate the evacuation of power from N-E India to Bangladesh and through Bangladesh into other parts …
The state government aims to increase the power generation through private small hydro power (SHP) projects from the present 9 megawatts (mw) per year to 30 megawatts, water resources department (WRD) secretary, CS Modak said. “Nearly 53 megawatts of power has been generated by the SHP projects in the last …
ISLAMABAD: The power sector deficit in Pakistan is about $2 billion a year, compared with $32 billion of investment needs in 2010-20, while domestic firms face high levels of corruption in a range of interactions with public officials with more than half expected to pay bribes during tax inspections. The …
Shimla: Fruit growers are a happy lot as the apple belt in the Shimla region recorded the heaviest snowfall in January in the past six years, raising hopes of a good crop. However, power generation in the state plunged to the lowest level as the discharge in rivers and streams …
State-run power producer National Thermal Power Corposration (NTPC) plans to foray into power distribution across the country in a big way. The company has already started internal discussions on the plan, expected to be finalised in medium future. “We are exploring the business model for entering power distribution, whether to …
Despite slight improvement in the weather conditions, snow-hit areas across Jammu and Kashmir continued to reel under severe power crisis for the third straight day today, with Internet and mobile phone connectivity remaining disrupted in Kashmir valley and upper reaches of Jammu region. People also struggled to get other essential …
Tehran is considering a twofold increase in power exports to neighbouring Turkey after a new electricity transfer line between the two countries becomes operational. Iran is currently exporting about 230 kilovolt per day(kV/d) of electricity to Turkey and the new transfer line will increase that capacity to 400 kV/d. Iran …
Power distribution utilities fear financial disaster as a recent government directive allowing industrial consumers to buy electricity directly from generators and traders will wipe out a third of their revenue, leaving no room for cheap supplies to farmers and retail consumers. The law ministry’s decree, in step with international practices, …
Adani Power plans to invest Rs 3,000 crore in two years to add 160 megawatt (Mw) solar power to its exisisting capacity. The company, set to commission its first 40-Mw solar power plant in Bitta village of Kutch district, Gujarat, has plans to expand it to 100 Mw. “The expansion …
BHUBANESWAR: As if the last year hike was not enough, the Coal India’s announcement of new pricing policy for upward revision in the prices of different grades of the fossil fuel has come as a shocker. Mahanadi Coalfields Limited (MCL), one of the seven subsidiaries of Coal India Limited (CIL), …
Srinagar: The Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA), an amalgam of various traders’ bodies, today gave a call for Kashmir bandh on January 6 against the power “crisis” in the Valley. “The power situation in Kashmir has turned into a crisis and we have decided to call for Kashmir bandh on January …
Ahmedabad: A conservation activist found 33 severed heads and legs of lesser flamingos in Gujarat’s Little Rann of Kutch. Bodies of the birds were missing though leading to the suspicion that they had been killed for meat. Flamingo is on the list of near-threatened birds. TOI had reported the death …
Calcutta, Jan. 2: Sagar Mela will for the first time get power supply from the mainland this year. Overhead cables were drawn from Lot No. 8 in South 24-Parganas to Sagar Island’s Kachuberia, 3km across the Muriganga river. “We installed five transmission towers between the two river banks to carry …
