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 …
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 …
Unfavourable conditions severely affected hydro power generation in the state during 2012-13 with the country’s largest Nathpa Jhakri project producing 833 million units (MU) less compared to the last financial year. It was for the first time since 2006-07 that the project missed the generation target set by the Union …
The Power Ministry is considering setting up a National Power Committee for ensuring stricter grid discipline among the States and penalise the ones overdrawing electricity from the grid. “The Power Ministry is working on it and CERC and CEA would also be part of the exercise. Not only penalty, it …
BHOPAL: The state government has initiated legal proceedings to terminate power purchase agreement with Maheshwar Hydel Power Corporation Limited, starting with serving a legal notice of default to the promoters of the company. Delay in execution of the project is said to be the major reason for this action. Notice …
It only mentions that inter-state short-term access is now fully functional Open access to consumers especially for 1 Mw and above is yet to take off on a large scale. However, the Economic Survey is completely silent on this aspect, though it does mention that open access at the inter-state …
Chief minister Jagadish Shettar has written to Union power minister to consider setting a UMPP in Karnataka Karnataka has sought to push the Centre to set up an Ultra Mega Power Project ( UMPP) in the coastal Dakshina Kannada district. In a letter to Union Minister of State for Power, …
Cyrus Mistry, Anil Ambani and Chanda Kochhar on the 22-member advisory panel Power sector heavyweights including, Tata Group Chairman Cyrus Mistry and ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani, along with top bankers, will meet power minister Jyotiraditya Scindia tomorrow to discuss issues hurting fresh investment running into lakhs of crore in the …
The coal ministry, accepting the demands of the power ministry, has agreed to re-draft the Bill for a regulator for the coal sector by seeking to empower the watchdog to fix prices of coal and including a member from the power sector as a member in the regulatory mechanism. The …
The coal ministry, accepting the demands of the power ministry, has agreed to re-draft the Bill for a regulator for the coal sector by seeking to empower the watchdog to fix prices of coal and including a member from the power sector as a member in the regulatory mechanism. The …
The 1,000-km pipeline will feed industries at Belgaum, Dharwad, Gadag, Bellary, Davanagere, Chitradurga, Tumkuyr, Ramanagaram & Bengaluru State-owned gas utility GAIL India Ltd today commissioned a Rs 4,500 crore pipeline carrying gas from the just operationalised Dabhol LNG terminal into Bengaluru that promises to change the energy landscape of the …
New Delhi: In a move that exposed a key regulatory lacuna in the power sector, the Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCIL), the central transmission utility, stymied the attempt by some generating companies, including NTPC and Tata Power, to snap supplies to discoms failing to honour the payment security mechanism …
The Cabinet Committee on Investment ( CCI), in its second meeting, will take up for green nod Coal India Ltd’s (CIL) 20 projects with combined production capacity of 37 million tonne a year, which can fire more than 7,000 MW power generation capacity. Besides, the CCI is also expected to …
The Union coal ministry has floated a Cabinet note seeking approval of the Cabinet Committee on Investment ( CCI) to free investments worth Rs 1,347 crore stuck in coal mines stuck due to lack of environment clearances. The coal ministry and the Ministry of Environment and Forests ( MoEF) have …
The Centre has taken a stand in the Supreme Court that there is no legal provision to place the Thein Dam/Ranjit Sagar Project and the Shahpur Kandi Dam Project, both on Ravi river, under the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) as sought by Haryana in its suit. “It is clear …
Units with a combined capacity of 16, 000 Mw to be affected Coal-based power plants with 16,000 Megawatt (Mw) capacity, entailing an investment of more than Rs 80,000 crore, are unlikely to get the benefit of coal price pooling. The coal ministry has said these projects would be kept out …
The power ministry has set up an advisory committee —comprising head honchos of key public and private sector power companies, chiefs of leading banks as well as industry experts, heads of industry associations and non-government organizations — to discuss issues relating to the sector and suggest reforms. The panel, which …
Within days of China announcing three new hydroelectric projects on the Brahmaputra river and catching India by surprise, the Centre has set the ball rolling to build the strategic Tawang hydroelectric project in Arunachal Pradesh. The 800-MW power project proposed to be built on the Tawang Chu river has got …
The government plans to divest 9.5% stake in NTPC to raise up to Rs 12,000 cr In a move that could boost the valuation of NTPC, the government will restore allocation of three cancelled coal blocks of the public sector company on Tuesday, a month before the power generator’s public …
