Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Nayar river is vanishing - a yatra reveals conservation goes beyond science and policy" appearing in ‘The Down To Earth’ dated 03.06.2025. The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Nayar …
SHIMLA: The Himachal Pradesh government is going to float global tender for the 960 MW Jangi-Thopan-Powari hydro power project proposed at Satluj basin in Kinnaur district. The state power department has taken the decision to invite global bids for this mega project within next three months. For the past 10 …
Awaits Ministry’s nod for formal inauguration The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) commissioned the first two units (200 MW each) of the 800 MW Kol Dam project yesterday after two machines were synchronised with the northern grid successfully. The other two units, of same capacity, would be commissioned soon, NTPC …
Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVNL), a government-owned hydro power producer, has moved the Supreme Court seeking a direction to the Centre to consider its plea for grant of environment and forest clearances to its three proposed hydroelectric projects coming up in Uttarakhand. The SJVNL, a 75:25 joint venture between the …
The project cost will be executed with a 75:25 debt to equity ratio Shimla-based public sector undertaking Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) on Thursday signed a project development agreement with the Nepal government for building the 900-megawatt (Mw) Arun-3 hydro electric project. The project cost is estimated at around Rs …
Public sector Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN), which owns and operates the country’s largest Nathpa Jhakri hydroelectric project, has drawn up a plan to harness 500 MW of power from renewable resources during the 12th plan. The joint venture company of the Centre and the state is aiming at creating …
In order to facilitate more hydro power generation in the country, the Power Ministry plans to make it mandatory for electricity distribution utilities to buy a percentage of their requirement from hydel stations. “We are looking at a provision to create HPOs (Hydro Purchase Obligations) like RPOs (Renewable Purchase Obligations),’’ …
Anti-dam lobbyists have hailed the rejection of forest clearance for the proposed 1500MW Tipaimukh multi-purpose project by the forest advisory committee. A few days ago, at a meeting convened in New Delhi, the committee, which is a unit of the ministry of environment and forest, declined to accept diversion of …
Public sector enterprise Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) has acquired 100 per cent equity in Buxar Bijlee Company and it has been allotted a coal block in the Deocha-Pachami belt in West Bengal for its upcoming 1,320-MW power plant at Chausa in Bihar. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed …
Decks have been cleared for the signing of a Project Development Agreement (PDA) for the execution of a 900-MW Arun-III project with the Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) for setting up a subsidiary in Nepal. SJVN Arun-III Power Development Pvt Ltd has been registered with the Company Registrar of Nepal …
A controversial hydroelectric project in the northeast may run into rough weather with the Environment Ministry hesitant to grant green clearance to the project which involves cutting 78 lakh trees and 27,000 bamboo columns. The construction of the proposed 1500 MW Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydroelectric Project (HEP) downstream of the confluence …
A controversial hydroelectric project in the northeast may run into rough weather with the environment ministry hesitant to grant green clearance to the project which involves cutting 78 lakh trees and 27,000 bamboo columns. The construction of the proposed 1500 MW Tipaimukh Multipurpose Hydroelectric Project (HEP) downstream of the confluence …
Amid fresh concerns in Bangladesh over the construction of two proposed dams in Meghalaya, State Power Minister Clement Marak said on Wednesday that construction of the hydropower projects would not have any impact in Bangladesh. Power-starved Meghalaya is proposing to construct two dams: One across the Umiew River known as …
An Environment Ministry panel has recommended conditional nod for a hydro-electric power project located on River Beas in Hamirpur district of Himachal Pradesh. The Expert Appraisal Committee for River Valley and Hydro Power Projects (EAC) has recommended environment clearance for Dhaulasidh Project subject to submission of the updated avi-fauna list, …
The Citizens Concern for Dams and Development (CCDD) has expressed its concern with the formation of a sub-group between the governments of India and Bangladesh for conducting joint surveys to assess the issues of Tipaimukh Dam and to facilitate an early construction of the proposed 1500 MW mega dam over …
At a time when coal supply constraints are keeping thermal power generation capacity under-utilised, hydropower producers, too, are facing the heat. Reservoir levels are down to 16 per cent from 27 per cent last year, setting the alarm bells ringing for hydropower generators. If rainfall fails, the situation could turn …
Shimla: The 775-MW Luhri Hydroelectric Project has run into rough weather with the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) of the Union Ministry for Environment and Forests for river valley projects expressing concern over its environmental fallout in view of the extremely long head race tunnel (HRT) and reservoir, which will affect …
State-owned power companies including hydropower giant NHPC have snapped supplies to defaulting utilities — BSES Delhi and a distribution firm in Uttar Pradesh — and have started trading the electricity profitably in open market, top executives told. NHPC chairman and managing director ABL Srivastava told ET that the company began …
Imphal, Feb. 19: The campaign against Tipaimukh hydroelectric project is gaining momentum in Manipur with various local organisations joining the anti-dam cry and demanding scrapping of the project. Today, students and villagers from 10 villages of Imphal West took out a bicycle rally in the district. The campaign was kicked …
Keen on taking advantage of the national solar mission, the public sector Sutlej Jal Vidyut Nigam (SJVN) will make a foray into the renewable energy sector with a pilot solar power project in the state, to be set up alongside the Nathpa Jhakri project. Pilot Project The pilot project will …
Water resources minister Ramesh Chandra Sen on Sunday told the parliament that the government was selecting experts to constitute the Bangladesh side on the joint survey team for studying the impacts of the proposed construction of Tipaimukh Dam across the Barak River in the Indian state of Manipur. ‘Bangladesh has …
