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 …
Bhopal, 25 July: Madhya Pradesh government has decided to allot over 282 hectares of land to NTPC for setting up two thermal power projects in the state. These projects, which would come up in Chhatarpur and Narsinghpur districts, would have total capacity of 6,600 MW. These decisions were taken at …
Alstom India Ltd has said that its thermal services business has obtained a contract worth nearly Rs 344.5 crore (€53 million) for the renovation of NTPC’s gas turbines at its 657-MW Jhanor Gandhar Gas Power Station stage-1 project at Bharuch district in Gujarat. The contract has been awarded to Alstom …
A programme to have 10,000 off-grid solar homes in the State by the end of 2012-13 is expected to take off in a month. The project, pending clearance with the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, is awaiting approval for release of money from the Central pool, said sources …
Lucknow Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation’s (UPPCL) chickens have come home to roost. With outstanding dues of R8,636 crore on July 5 — which the corporation says it has reduced to R4,500 crore now — the loss-making UPPCL finds it no longer has enough money to buy power from generating entities …
The board of state-owned miner Coal India (CIL) would meet on July 31 to decide on the contentious issue of the format of fuel supply agreements (FSAs)with power companies. So far, the meeting has been postponed five times. New FSAs have become a bone of contention, as a lot of …
Two of NTPC Ltd’s operating units — Talcher Thermal Power Station and Talcher Super Thermal Power Station — were ranked among the 25 best power stations in the country. The ranking was done in terms of plant load factor (PLF) for the April-June quarter of the first fiscal. Both the …
Power major NTPC has expressed hope of getting back three out of its five de-allocated mines from the government this month. “We may get these mines (Chatti Bariatu, Chatti Bariatu (S), Kerandari) this month,” Chairman and Managing Director Arup Roy Choudhury told PTI. The Coal Ministry last year had deallocated …
Alstom Projects India Ltd has secured orders worth nearly Rs 530 crore from BHEL to supply components and services for the 660-MW supercritical boilers at NTPC sites of two units in Mouda, Maharashtra. Alstom said it was the licensor for BHEL’s supercritical technology and was collaborating with the latter under …
New Delhi Coal India may now be allowed a lower fuel supply commitment of 65% to power companies as against 80% prescribed earlier, but will pay a much higher penalty of up to 40% of the value of the coal in short supply in case of failure to meet this …
KOKRAJHAR: Along with the rest of the nation, the 63rd Vanamahatsav was observed in Kokrajhar at the behest of the Department of Forest on Sunday. The Deputy Chief of BTC, Kampa Borgoyary inaugurated the Permanent Nursery at Siljan under Chakrasilla Wildlife Sanctuary with a plantation drive. The permanent nursery has …
The country is facing acute coal shortage, hitting hard the power sector and moves are afoot to ensure that the production is enhanced The Coal Ministry has given three de-allocated mines, including two of NTPC, to CIL and asked it to appoint mine developers to begin the production from these …
PMO is believed to have accepted the demand of Coal India to lower the minimum supply level to 65% from 80% State-run NTPC today said it would abide by the Prime Minister's Office directive of signing the fuel supply agreement with Coal India at a minimum assured supply of 65%. …
Just outside the national capital, the first unit of the new 1,500 MW gas-based Bawana power plant is ready to generate electricity, but is forced to idle away. Reason: the Delhi government-owned Pragati Power Corporation Ltd, which is to run the plant, has failed to arrange the gas needed to …
Country’s largest power producer accepts changes proposed by Prime Minister’s Office The country’s largest power producer NTPC has accepted the changes proposed by the Prime Minister’s Office in the new fuel supply agreement, ending the standoff with Coal India. “We have no issues as long as CIL supplies coal. We …
Prices in Eastern Coalfields blocks may go up by 12%; power generation costs set to increase Public sector Coal India has hiked prices for non-coking coal mined from selected blocks in Western Coalfields by up to 15% The development comes after CIL rolled back the hike in prices of coal …
Concrete efforts are being made to increase installed power generation capacity in view of rising demand for power in the State. For this, the State Government has chalked out an integrated scheme. Implementation of the scheme has been started. There is a programme to increase power generation capacity by about …
Energy and metal cos with mining interests setting up environment team for sustainable mining State-owned energy and metal companies having mining interests have begun hiring people to manage the environment around mines and enable them to make progress through a minefield of approvals. Making a tentative attempt to bridge a …
The coal ministry would push for significant dilution of the provisions of Coal India Ltd (CIL)’s current fuel supply pacts with power companies in tomorrow’s meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). “The ministry will propose lowering CIL’s supply commitment under new fuel supply agreements (FSAs) to 65 per cent …
Two days after Coal India Ltd (CIL), the world’s largest coal producer, entered into fuel supply agreements (FSAs) with 27 power companies, some power producers, including Maharashtra State Power Generation Co Ltd (Mahagenco), on Wednesday raised objections against some terms of the pacts. Mahagenco, one of the largest power producers …
At a time when the whole country including Odisha is reeling under acute power shortage, the 3000 Mw power plant of National thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) at Kaniha, the second largest power station in India, is forced to regulate generation due to less supply of coal. According to sources, the …
