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 …
NHPC, pre-dominantly focussed on hydro power generation, has decided to explore the possibility of a tie-up with public sector power utilities such as Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) and NTPC to make a foray into thermal power generation, including bidding jointly for a future ultra mega power project (UMPP). Sources …
The 500 MW Unit-4 of NTPC Simhadri Super Thermal Project at Parawada near here has started commercial operations – six months after it went on stream -- even as the company is set to breathe easy with improvement in coal supply position. The company, which has 500x4 MW units as …
New Delhi The government is likely to postpone the implementation of coal price pooling because of the strong opposition from consuming states who feel it would raise the cost of power generators and increase tariff for consumers. Under price pooling mechanism, CIL would have subsidised the price of imported coal …
New Delhi The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will further widen the scope of its investigations into the coal block allocation scam by looking into the role of officials of Central and state sector PSUs, including NTPC, SAIL and a host of state mineral development corporations. These utilities had got …
New Delhi The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) has proposed tapping into the Clean Energy Fund proceeds to subsidise the capacity addition envisaged in the second phase of the national solar mission. The ministry has mooted the idea in view of the prevailing uncertainty about adequate availability of …
The union coal secretary S K Srivastava ruled out any impact of the row over coal block allocation on the performances of the public sector Coal India Limited (CIL) saying that the company is surging ahead to achieve its ambitious target of 470 million tonne production in the current financial …
Power generation at National Thermal Power Corporation’s (NTPC) 3,000 MW Kaniha plant, the country’s second biggest power plant, has drastically gone down in September due to coal crunch. According to NTPC sources, a 500 MW unit has been shut down since the beginning of this month for want of coal. …
Power generation in the 3,000 MW NTPC-Kaniha has been drastically curtailed this month due to coal shortage. According to NTPC official sources, the authorities facing coal crisis have shut down one 500 MW unit from the beginning of this month, while another 500 MW unit which was closed for similar …
The state energy department has requested public sector power company NTPC to step up generation at its 2,000-Mw Simhadri power project in Visakhapatnam to ensure Andhra Pradesh's full share. The state is currently receiving only 800 Mw from the Simhadri plant compared with its full share of 1,400 Mw as …
The company is best positioned among its peers in terms of fuel availability and depends for only up to 10% of its total requirement on imported coal After its initial public offering in 2004, followed by a follow-on offering in 2009, the finance ministry is proposing to disinvest another 9.5 …
The state government has worked out a permanent mechanism to save energy through conservation measures. All key government departments like energy, municipal administration and urban development, agriculture and co-operation, industries and panchayat raj, among others, will be involved in achieving the targets. The aim: Huge energy savings through efficiency measures …
After slugging over the trigger level in the new Fuel Supply Agreements (FSAs), the two have entered into a blame game over Merry-Go-Round (MGR), a method of dispatch The battle between the energy sector’s two giants, both government-owned, Coal India Ltd (CIL) and power generator NTPC, does not seem to …
India’s state-owned power generator NTPC Ltd is still awaiting re-allocation of five of its coal mines allocations for which were cancelled earlier due to delays in production. The cancelled coal blocks, in addition to the other three awarded to the company, hold the key to the company’s future fuel securing …
Combined installed capacity 3920 MW; generation to begin from April next year Punjab’s dream of becoming self-sufficient in power would become a reality, when three major thermal plants in the private sector, with a combined installed capacity of 3920 MW, start operating and begin generation from April 2013. This was …
The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has pulled out from providing services as a consultant in setting up new generation units in UP. The development has hit the state government's efforts for enhancing power generation because of which two mega thermal projects are likely to be delayed from the scheduled …
Apprehensive that opposition by a small faction could derail or at least delay the 3,200 Mega Watt (MW) Super Thermal Power Plant (STPP) of National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), affected villagers on Saturday approached the district administration to expedite land acquisition for the project. Villagers of Darlipali and Raidihi in …
The office of the Comptroller and Auditor General is an essential instrument for enforcing the accountability of the executive to Parliament. It is wrong, as in the coal blocks and other recent cases, to cast aspersions on the CAG for pointing out the omissions and commissions of the government. The …
New Delhi The power ministry has framed new bidding guidelines to prevent private firms with cheap captive coal mines selling power at steep rates in the open market and reaping windfall profits. Speaking at the Idea Exchange programme of the Express group, power minister Veerappa Moily said the guidelines would …
The state's average power requirement for the current fiscal is projected at 4,397 MW against which the availability will be 2,751 MW Odisha is set to face average power shortfall of 1,646 MW during 2012-13, according to the 18th Electric Power Survey (EPS) conducted by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA). …
Deal Size 23000cr, Losing Bid Was By PSU Under Mantri Between 2006 and 2010, PSU power giant National Thermal Power Corporation awarded a coal mine contract worth over Rs 23,000 crore to a joint venture company in which 10% shares are held by the family of former coal minister Santosh …
