Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Commercial production in the plant started in 1983 and achieving above 90% PLF at an age of 30 years was outstanding performance The Korba station of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is on a move---this time to perform outstanding in the field of environment protection. The vintage plant of …
Continuing with the strong action as suggested by the Inter Ministerial Group (IMG) for not developing the coal mines, the Coal Ministry has issued show-cause notices to 12 companies, including public sector undertakings (PSUs) seeking an explanation from them for not developing the blocks and why the same should not …
On the day when Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered two new FIRs in the Coalgate scam, the Coal Ministry on Tuesday slapped show cause notices on 12 firms including state-owned NTPC, SAIL and Damodar Valley Corporation along with Bhushan Steel and Power, West Bengal Power Development Corporation threatening to …
There is finally some relief for 66,000-MW domestic coal-based generation projects awarded through the tariff bidding route. The Cabinet is likely to approve amendments to the coal distribution policy, allowing power firms importing coal to meet shortfall in fuel supply from Coal India to pass on additional fuel costs to …
Bahuguna complains that ministry is delaying clearance to power projects The environment ministry has come under fire, this time from a Congress state government, once again reopening the development vs environment debate within UPA. The chief minister of Uttarakhand has complained about the Union environment ministry to Prime Minister Manmohan …
With differences over the operation and maintenance (O&M;) charges and the gross heat rate issues in the power purchase agreement (PPA) sorted out, NTPC is all set to ink agreement for the execution of the proposed 2X250 MW Sampur power project in Trincomale, Sri Lanka, by early next month. A …
Even as the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is about to revise the cost of its 800-MW Kol Dam hydro power project, filling is still incomplete and the ponding of water may not be started this year as planned. As a result of the delay in filling and concreting in …
Trouble for big fish Jindal Steel, NTPC, Tata Steel, SAIL The Government is likely to issue show-cause notices to allocatees of 32 captive coal blocks, including Jindal Steel and Power, NTPC, Tata Steel and SAIL, for failing to develop the blocks on time. The decision to crack down on the …
Once commissioned, the plant will add 1,600 Megawatt to the company's portfolio Following its move to shift its flagship Gadarwara project from Odisha to Madhya Pradesh, power generator NTPC has crossed a major hurdle by securing the environment ministry’s approval for the Rs 11,640-crore power plant. Once commissioned, the project …
The government of Sri Lanka will sign two key agreements with the Indian state-run power utility NTPC Ltd. by the end of this month to start the work of the 500 megawatt Sampur Power Plant in the Eastern Province. Of the two agreements, thee power purchase agreement will be signed …
To Provide 1,200 MW Addl Power Lucknow: The power situation in the state is likely to improve a bit with two private sector power plants -- Rosa and Lanco -- getting operational to their full capacity. The UP Power Corporation Limited officials said that all the units of these two …
NTPC will commence commercial operations of 1,500 MW Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project at Jhajjar in Haryana after commissioning the third 500 MW unit on Friday. With this, all the three units in the first stage shall be commissioned and commercial operation started. (This means all the power generated …
Ministries of coal & power have sided with PSU power utilities The much-touted plan to optimally distribute the higher cost of imported coal among power producers via a price-pooling mechanism with cheaper domestic coal may go haywire. While a host of large upcoming private power projects would have increased their …
Coming up with a Project Design Memorandum (PDM) document for setting up and demonstration of 800 MW coal-fired plant with Advanced Ultra Supercritical (AUSC) parameters was a major stride by BHEL Tiruchi in ‘Engineering and Technology’ during 2012-13. BHEL has submitted to the Central government that the PDM it has …
After fertiliser, the power ministry has also opposed the recommendations made by the Rangarajan panel to increase domestic gas price from the current $4.2/mmbtu to $8.8/mmbtu, saying it will impact the power sector by about R46,360 crore annually. The gas supplies to the sector have completely halted from the KG …
60 power companies have signed FSAs while many have not signed citing varied reasons The Coal Ministry has asked CIL to sign fuel supply pacts with the power generation companies, including NTPC, before finalising power purchase agreements with them. "The Coal Ministry has directed Coal India Ltd (CIL) to sign …
There is a variance of between 15% and 30% in the energy content of the coal supplied by Eastern Coalfields Limited (ECL) to NPTC’s thermal power stations at Farakka and Kahalgaon and the bill amount raised, a joint testing by Coal India, and NTPC has shown. The result of the …
State-run power producer NTPC and Coal India (CIL) have agreed to begin third party sampling of coal from the state-run miner's collieries from Thursday. NTPC would begin settling its outstandings with CIL once the results establish uniformity in the quality of coal. Both companies had issues over the payment for …
Arup Roy Choudhury, CMD, NTPC Ltd inaugurated the commencement of Commercial operation of 5MW Solar Power Plant at NTPC Dadri on March 30. This is the first solar power plant of NTPC, a new beginning in renewal energy sector. The solar plant is estimated to generate 7.26 million units of …
NTPC Ltd. has refused to ink a fuel supply agreement (FSA) with Coal India Ltd. (CIL), stating that the overall quality of the coal supplied needed to be enhanced. NTPC Chairman and Managing Director Arup Roy Choudhury said here on Wednesday that CIL was sending inferior quality of coal just …
