Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajaram Vs State of Haryana dated 27/05/2025. By the execution application, the applicant was seeking compliance of the NGT order July 5, 2024 passed in OA No. 735/2024. In the OA, the applicant has raised the grievance in respect of …
Committee favours formula to enable generators recover variation in fuel and power purchase cost A high-level advisory panel on power sector, led by power minister Jyotiraditya, on Wednesday discussed possible amendments to the Electricity Act and made various suggestions, including mechanism to pass through higher fuel costs to consumers. According …
The row over the proposed increase in natural gas prices is set to flare up because the petroleum ministry has admitted that the producer price in the new regime starting April 2014 would be at least $8.55 per million British thermal units and not $6.77 per mBtu as indicated earlier. …
The Cabinet is likely to take a call on the revision in natural gas prices on Thursday The incremental revenue for every $1 rise in natural gas prices would be Rs 706.7 crore, while the government would suffer a subsidy loss of Rs 3,155 crore on fertiliser, according to a …
New Delhi : Almost a year since the two-day outage across north India, power ministry has set an ambitious target of building the world’s largest transmission network spanning across 1,40,000 circuit kilometres by 2017 when the 12th Plan period ends. “We have an ambitious plan in the transmission sector in …
Faced with prospects of a continued decline in economic activity, a tumbling rupee and falling investor interest, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday directed the fast-tracking of infrastructure projects and unlocking of Rs. 7 lakh crore worth bank funded projects stuck for various reasons and lack of clearances at the …
Ministry of Power vide letter No. 20/13(4)2009‐APDRP dated 26th December, 2012 constituted a Committee to review the Functional Specifications of Low Cost Single Phase Smart Meters framed by an earlier Committee. The committee has been constituted under the chairmanship of Chairperson, CEA with Chief engineer (Distribution Planning & Development) as …
The ministry will now have to come up with a revised Cabinet note, with fresh suggestions from other ministries There seems to be no end to the domestic gas pricing drama, as a decision on the C Rangarajan committee’s suggestions on pricing couldget delayed further. The petroleum and natural gas …
There is finally some relief for 66,000-MW domestic coal-based generation projects awarded through the tariff bidding route. The Cabinet is likely to approve amendments to the coal distribution policy, allowing power firms importing coal to meet shortfall in fuel supply from Coal India to pass on additional fuel costs to …
In a bid to foster development of hydro sector, the Power Ministry has taken up the issue of environmental and forest clearances related to hydel projects with the Environment Ministry. Even though India is estimated to have a hydro power potential of about 1,50,000 MW, only about 39,000 MW of …
New Delhi: The power ministry is preparing a booster dose of financial incentives and easier green norms to energize the hydel sector that would also prop up 136 private projects, including those by companies aggregating a capacity of 40,000 mw, or enough power to light up 8-10 cities of Delhi’s …
Meeting slated for May 1, makes strong case for hydro to be declared as renewable energy, Jyotiraditya Scindia Union Power Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia will chair an advisory group on May 1 to discuss the bottlenecks in the development of hydro power projects, falling share of hydro power, delays in environment …
The Standing Committee on Energy tabled this report on "Development of National Grid" in the Parliament recently. Says that the government should formulate a policy to effectively address existing regional imbalances in terms of power availability. Standing Committee on Energy present this Thirty Seventh Report on Development of National Grid …
Rs 60,352-cr impact on power, urea makers; FinMin comes up with its own formula Even before an empowered group of ministers starts deliberating on a revision in natural gas prices, the finance, power and fertiliser ministries have raised a red flag on the recommendations of the Rangarajan panel. Only the …
Greenpeace on Monday called for revision of the Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) mechanism based on equity principle. The RPO framework, in its present form, has failed to deliver its mandate and many powerful states including Delhi have made a mockery of the present framework, it said in a report. The …
The government, on Monday, approved 13 power projects, entailing investments worth Rs.33,000 crore, which were pending due to various reasons. Of the 20 projects reviewed by the newly appointed Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI), 13 projects, involving investment of about Rs.33,000 crore, have been cleared, an official statement says. “These …
The government cleared a slew of infrastructure projects in the power and the oil and gas sectors on Monday, entailing investments to the tune of over Rs 58,000 crore. In the oil and gas sector, the Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) cleared 25 exploration and production blocks out of the …
The Planning Commission has recommended switching to the international pricing formula for natural gas — which presently works out to $14.5 per MBTU, almost three times more than the present price of $4.2 mBtu (per million British thermal unit) — by the beginning of the 13th Plan (2017-22). This is …
After fertiliser, the power ministry has also opposed the recommendations made by the Rangarajan panel to increase domestic gas price from the current $4.2/mmbtu to $8.8/mmbtu, saying it will impact the power sector by about R46,360 crore annually. The gas supplies to the sector have completely halted from the KG …
The proposal for the doubling of natural gas price made by the Rangarajan committee has the oil and power ministries at loggerheads. Sources said that the power ministry has held back its comments on the draft proposal circulated by the petroleum ministry for consultations as it does not want to …
Following is the text of the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh's address at the CII National Conference and Annual General Meeting, in New Delhi on Wednesday: "I am delighted to be here today to inaugurate the CII annual meeting for 2013. I have always believed that both government and business …
