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 …
New Delhi:NTPC on Tuesday signed a long-term agreement to supply 250 mw to Bangladesh Power Development Board, making it the first Indian generation utility to ink a deal for exporting electricity to aneighbouring country. NTPC entered into the deal through its wholly-owned trading arm NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd. The …
A panel chaired by Planning Commission member BK Chaturvedi that was set up by the Group of Ministers last September has recommended that state-owned electricity giant NTPC may consider relocating its 3x660 mega watt North Karanpura project in Jharkhand since it would otherwise block six billion tonnes coal reserves perpetually. …
Solar projects that feed power into the grid and are available to their full capacity will be considered as commissioned under the National Mission. This has been stated by the Ministry for New and Renewable Energy. With the Solar Mission coming into public glare because of allegations that the Lanco …
This video presents the talk by Raghuvir Pradhan, Ekta Parishad, Chhattisgarh on green clearances at the Anil Agarwal Dialogues, organised by CSE at New Delhi, during February 24-25, 2012
Government keen to ensure 75,000-Mw capacity addition in the 12th Five Year Plan After missing targets in the previous two Five Year Plans, the ministry of power now wants to ensure that a capacity addition of 75,000 Mw is achieved in the 12th Plan starting in April. Accordingly, the ministry …
To supply super-critical steam turbines and generators Toshiba JSW Turbine and Generator has bagged an order from NTPC for the supply of three 800 MW (3 x 800 MW) super-critical steam turbine and generator island packages for the Kudgi Super Thermal Power Project, Stage-I, in Kudgi, Karnataka. The contract value …
With companies missing deadline for the National Solar Mission, NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN) has encashed bank guarantees of 14 project developers including Lanco Infratech, Aftab Solar, Amrit Engineering and Alex Solar. Of the 14 projects, Lanco is engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contractor in three. The action follows with …
New Delhi NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN), the nodal agency for implementing the National Solar Mission, has encashed the bank guarantee of 14 developers who failed to meet the commissioning deadline under the first batch of Phase-I. Lanco is engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contractor in at least three of …
NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN) has come down heavily upon 14 project developers for failing to meet the commissioning deadline under the first batch of phase I of the national solar mission. An NVVN official said that in terms of strict compliance of the guidelines, bank guarantees of these developers …
NVVN recovers Rs 28 crore from erring firms. Acting tough on companies that did not commission solar power projects on time, NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN) Limited has encashed a part of bank guarantee of 14 of them. The companies were awarded projects under batch one of the first phase …
New Delhi The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared decks for the NTPC’s R29,700-crore investment plan by upholding the central utility’s decision to disqualify Ansaldo Caldaie from bidding for the bulk supply of 660 mw super-critical boilers. The state-owned power generator was unable to award the contract that included 11 supercritical …
NTPC Ltd hopes to award a Rs 16,000 crore equipment order by March-end after a ruling by the Supreme Court on Thursday settled a case with a bidder in favour of the state-owned power major. The process of awarding equipment order for NTPC’s nine units of 660 MW each was …
Following NTPC's exit from ICVL, the government is mulling a couple of options for distributing power major's 14% stake among the existing shareholders— SAIL, RINL, NMDC and Coal India. One of the options, which might pave for smooth distribution, is allocating the 14% stake in proportion to the current shareholding …
The Railways is likely to announce plans to develop three industrial freight corridors in Chhattisgarh in the coming Budget. The projects, taken up on the initiative of the Chhattisgarh government, are to be rolled out in the form of special purpose vehicles where the Railways would be a stakeholder, along …
New Delhi The power ministry on Monday pulled up NTPC for its slow development work in allocated captive mines, which led the coal ministry to cancel allocation last year. “NTPC should speed up coal production from the coal blocks re-allocated to it by the coal ministry,” power secretary P Uma …
It is in the very early stages, but the thinking in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Corporation is for the newly set up Solar Energy Corporation to put up a 1,000-MW solar park in the country. Confirming this to Business Line, Mr Tarun Kapur, Joint Secretary in the …
State-owned NTPC Ltd’s capacity addition target of 66,000 mega watt for the Twelfth Plan period could take a knocking as legal hurdles hold up the placement of equipment orders for key projects slated to come up over the next five years. The company has been unable to go ahead with …
Provisional 5 per cent fuel price adjustment surcharge Consumers in the Capital will have to shell out more for power from this month with the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission on Thursday allowing a provisional 5 per cent fuel price adjustment surcharge for the power distribution companies BRPL, BYPL, TPDDL and …
Bhubaneswar: Anticipating power shortfall in the upcoming summer months, the Grid Corporation of Odisha (Gridco) is in the process of striking power banking deals with other states to ensure uninterrupted availability of power and tide over the deficit. From April 1, Odisha is set to get 200 MW from northern …
NewDelhi: Lanco, the company accused by Delhi based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) of illegitimately cornering contracts worth Rs 13,000 crore under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar mission, has objected to the allegations and said “they were not crosschecked with the company and were wrongly perceived”. In a statement …
