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 …
The Asian Development Bank will provide Rs 221 crore to Reliance Power for its Rs 700-crore 40 MW solar project in Rajasthan. The US Exim Bank has already agreed to fund Rs 304 crore. With this, RPower has completed the financial closure of the project. The debt to equity ratio …
The country's largest power generator NTPC has chalked out ambitious plans of taking its capacity to over 1,28,000 MW by 2032. "NTPC is currently working on many new projects for rapid capacity addition and plans to become 1,28,000 MW plus company by 2032," CMD NTPC Arup Roy Choudhury while addressing …
Cairn India has been ranked the fastest growing oil and gas exploration firm in the world, even as heavyweights like ONGC and Reliance Industries slipped in a list of top-performing energy firms globally. With a three-year compounded growth rate (CGR) of 116.5%, Cairn was ranked by energy information provider Platts …
NTPC Ltd hopes to ramp up its generation capacity to over 1,28,000 MW by 2032 from the current installed capacity of close to 35,000 MW. “NTPC is currently working on many new projects for rapid capacity addition and plans to become 1,28,000-MW plus company by 2032,” the company Chairman and …
In a bid to provide protection to vital installations along the Gujarat coastline, the State Government has undertaken a project to study how coastal vegetation could help in mitigating the impact of natural disasters like tsunami and cyclone. The bio-shield project, being implemented by the Gujarat Coastal Zone Management Authority …
Indian companies seem to be shying away from making their carbon emission details public, according to a survey by a UK-based non-profit body. Only seven per cent of Indian firms give out complete and verified data about their carbon emissions, says London-headquartered Environmental Investment Organisation (EIO) in its study. Among …
89 plants with total capacity of 40,000 mw don’t have stocks even for four days Average coal stocks at India’s thermal power plants have dipped below “critical” level, or are enough to last less than a week, against the norm of 22 days, mounting more pressure on electricity generating companies …
Bhubaneswar: In a joint initiative, Kerala and Odisha have firmed plans to set up a 2,000 MW thermal plant in Odisha, sourcing coal from Baitarani fields in the state. The project details were discussed at a meeting of senior officials from the two states, held in Thiruvananthapuram with the initiative …
State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) plans to take up to 49 per cent stake in one of the five proposed nuclear power plants of Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL). “We are in discussions with NPCIL for incorporating a joint venture for setting up a nuclear power …
A massive campaign will be taken up during the next five years, with the assistance of the local public sector units as well as the private sector, to grow 40 lakh trees in and around Visakhapatnam to combat the ill-effects of industrial pollution and haphazard urbanisation, according to Dr T. …
State-owned NTPC today said it had formed a joint venture with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Kyuden International Corporation to develop clean energy projects in India in the next three years. The JV, Pan Asian Renewables Pvt Ltd, has been incorporated among NTPC, ADB and Kyuden International Corporation to …
National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd (NTPC) has said that a joint venture company under the name ‘Pan-Asian Renewables Private Ltd’ has been incorporated on October 14 with NTPC Ltd, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Kyuden International Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Kyushu Electric Power Company Inc. (Kyushu), as partners. …
New Delhi The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has decided to crack the whip on states overdrawing power much beyond approval. It may slap penalty on Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Rajasthan which heavily overdrew electricity from the northern grid during the recent power shortage, causing blackouts in several regions. The …
India's solar power sector is gathering steam, with 150 companies rushing in to offer 2,500 megawatts of projects for the second round of bidding, seven times the allocated capacity of 350 mw for which bids were invited, raising hopes that electricity tariffs from the renewable source would fall below . …
India's coal ministry plans to give priority to NTPC Ltd. when selling the fossil fuel through electronic auctions as part of efforts to mitigate a supply shortage at the state-run company's power generating stations. "We are discussing the proposal with the power ministry," Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal told reporters Wednesday. …
India's coal ministry wants companies that mine coal for their own use to pay for the welfare of people displaced by their projects, in line with a similar proposal for commercial miners, Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said. Under a new mining bill recently passed by the federal cabinet, commercial miners …
The Power Ministry has asked the Oil Ministry to allocate gas to 10 power projects that are running at half of their generation capacity due to non-availability of the fuel. “We have written to the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas to provide 8 mmscmd (million standard cubic metres per …
State Major Produces 4000 MW Less As Rains, Telengana Agitation Disrupt Fuel Supply New Delhi: The power situation has worsened as generation at state-run utility NTPC’s several plants across the country has been hit because of recent heavy rains in coal producing areas in eastern and central parts of the …
Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday warned power company Indiabulls against playing into the Akali-BJP hands and intimidating farmers in Gobindpura. He asked the company to compensate the farmers according to the latest land acquisition policy approved by the Centre. Addressing a press conference at Gurdaspur, Amarinder said …
New Delhi: The city continued to be hit by long power cuts, leading to water crises in many areas, even as the Delhi government blamed poll-bound UP for aggravating the problem while promising to end the outages in a day or two. Residents of Vikaspuri in west Delhi had barely …
