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 …
Firms offer as little as Rs 2.62/unit, lower than average price of coal-based power The price of solar power touched a new low on Wednesday in the bidding held for the Bhadla Solar Park in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur district. Companies looking to put up a 250-megawatt (Mw) unit there put a …
Solar power tariffs appear to be on a free fall in India to find a new floor at Rs 2.62 per unit, some 18% lower than the average price of Rs 3.20 charged by India's largest generation utility NTPC for electricity generated by its coal-fired plants. The historic low was …
With ultra-low tariffs, Rewa paved path for scale-up of green energy without viability gap funding For about 12 years till 2002, some 1,200 hectares in Badwar, Madhya Pradesh, were used as a firing range by the Army. Fifteen years after the guns fell silent, there has been a dramatic change …
VARANASI: The solid waste management (SWM) project of Varanasi will be operated by a private company, which has expertise in generating power by using solid waste as fuel. Urban development minister Suresh Khanna said that the state government has decided to engage Eco Green for SWM in Lucknow and Varanasi. …
For power producers it's time to rejoice. Thermal power companies including NTPC, the biggest of the lot, would be paying less for their coal requirement this month onwards as the Coal Controller, after a mammoth exercise, has reassessed and downgraded quality of about 177 coal mines across the country, sources …
As per energy blueprint, two solar photovoltaic power plants in Port Blair will have battery storage of 25 MW As part of an ambitious greening effort in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a plan to set up Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) power plants at two sites in Port Blair with battery …
The company has a capacity of over 23,000 MW under implementation at 23 locations. State-run power producer NTPC on Sunday said it has commissioned the second unit of 660 MW of Mouda Super Thermal Power Station Stage-II. “We wish to inform that 2nd unit of 660 MW of Mouda Super …
Amid widespread talk of falling solar tariffs, a recent study has thrown up a contrary conclusion. "Adjusted for changes in capital costs and other parameters, bids in India have not trended down in the last 18 months," Bridge to India, a consultancy, said in a report that analysed price trends …
Though the government is taking numerous measures to cut down on environmental pollution levels, an audit report by the Comptroller and the Auditor General of India (CAG) has indicated that existing power plants in the country are not adhering to the norms meant to safeguard ecological interests. The CAG report, …
Threatens drastic action if emissions exceed permissible limits The National Green Tribunal (NGT) will monitor measures taken to prevent air pollution caused due to spread of coal dust to Old City and other areas of the city and directed AP Pollution Control Board and Visakhapatnam Port Trust to submit it …
The renovation and modernisation of ailing thermal power plants under the 12th Five Year Plan has been severely affected by poor financial condition of state utilities as a mere 4,702.26 MW capacity could be modernised against the planned target of around 30,000 MW for the period 2012-17. Higher project cost …
Solar power generation costs are set to dip further during third and fourth quarter of 2017-18, helped by expected softening of interest rates and a drop in solar panel prices due to a supply glut in the international market, analysts say. Solar power costs had hit a low of Rs …
Central thermal power utility NTPC has got an environmental clearance to double the capacity of imported coal brought through the inland waterways to its Farakka plant. In January, NTPC requested the environment ministry to extend the permission to import coal through National Waterway 1, using barges from Sagar to Farakka …
DADRI: NTPC Limited installed a Robotic Dry Cleaning System (RDCS) for the solar panels at its solar PV plant in Dadri on Thursday. This is the first time in India a robotic method is being used for cleaning solar panels, said D K Sood, regional executive director NTPC Dadri, Badarpur …
The government has decided to set up 20 new air quality monitoring stations this year before winter when the air quality deteriorates significantly owing to multiple reasons. Processing of tenders has already started and this process will be completed by April, said the government. The stations will monitor eight parameters …
After years of delay India's largest generation utility NTPC on Thursday finally realised its coal mining dream, putting on track efforts to secure fuel supplies and transform into an integrated power company. Finance minister Arun Jaitley and Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das, at a function held in Ranchi, flagged off …
The government looks set to extend the December 2017 deadline for coal-fired power stations to meet stricter emission norms, allowing time for them to consider replacing retro plants with modern units that release much less particulate and gaseous pollutants into the air. According to power minister Piyush Goyal, the environment …
The price of electricity production using solar energy is increasingly outpacing other alternate sources. According to a report in the World Economic Forum, Solar and wind energy are finally at par or cheaper than fossil fuel capacity in more than 30 countries. The price of electricity production using solar energy …
“Completely meeting requirements of revised environmental norms by December 2017 may not be feasible,” admits the office of Ravindra Kumar Verma, chief of CEA. FACED with the fact that almost none of the over 400 thermal power plants across the country has complied with new emission norms notified more than …
Coal cost constitutes 60 to 70 percent of the total generation tariff of coal based power stations and has significant impact on cost of supply of power to consumers. Keeping this in view, a performance audit of fuel management in coal based power stations of NTPC Limited was taken up. …
