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 …
To provide relief to the power sector, which is reeling under a fuel crisis, the Planning Commission has circulated a paper on public-private partnership in electricity generation. In the paper, the commission pointed to the problems faced by power producers using domestic, as well as imported fuel. It has suggested …
If the ministry has its way, rates will not be fixed by appropriate commissions, but by competition In a bid to provide a much-needed relief to crisis-hit power companies, the power ministry has proposed changes in the Electricity Act to reform the tariff determination mechanism. If the ministry has its …
New Delhi Top executives of private power companies such as Tata Power, Reliance, Lanco and Torrent Power met Union power minister Veerappa Moily on Friday to seek his intervention to ensure a speedy resolution to pending fuel issues relating to the sector. A huge generation capacity is facing the prospect …
Shaken by the recent failure of the northern grid and subsequent collapse of the eastern and north-eastern grids, the Union Power Ministry has decided to take up the work of connecting the southern grid with the national grid on a war footing, a task likely to be achieved by 2014. …
Even as the Coalgate is likely to take a toll on power sector by leaving fate of a number of private power companies captive coal mines in limbo, Planning Commission is banking high on private sector for power generation in the 12th plan (2012-17). The panel in the final document …
The Central Bureau of Investigation is finalising a report on its probe into the allocation of coal blocks and is understood to have unearthed discrepancies in the allocations, with the involvement of officials of State governments at various levels. The CBI is preparing the ground for lodging of a first …
With investment running into thousands of crores of rupees languishing due to fuel supply constraints for power plants, a mega delegation comprising heads of 24 private sector power companies will meet Power Minister M Veerappa Moily on Friday. Private companies contributed 26 per cent — Rs 166,000 crore — of …
ITANAGAR: Arunachal Pradesh has urged the centre for speedy commissioning of the 2000 mw Lower Subansiri Hydro Electric Project at Gerukamukh on Assam -Arunachal border saying agitation in Assam by some organisations over the proposed dam resulted in huge loss to national exchequer. A delegation led by MP Takam Sanjoy …
To make the bid for the Sasan power better its rivals’, Reliance Power (RPL) included several innovative items as fixed assets. These included “refrigerators and other domestic appliances” that supplemented its experience of running power projects when it bid for the 4,000 MW project. The items were shown among a …
Issues like amendments to the Electricity Act 2003, relating to section 11 invoked by states to curb open access; single buyer model; appraisal of regulators, etc are likely to dominate the discussion between power minister Veerappa Moily and the Forum of Regulators (FOR), a representative body of power regulators, on …
GUWAHATI, Aug 27 – The National Hydro Electric Power Corporation (NHPC) which today had a discussion with the Krishak Mukti Sangram Samiti (KMSS) and the Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP), has agreed to keep in abeyance its work on the Lower Subansiri Hydro-electric Project till its next round of …
Most of the members of Group of Ministers raise objections, oppose transfer of executive powers to regulator. The long-awaited coal regulator can turn out to be a routine approving authority, not an independent body, as different ministries are not willing to surrender control over pricing of the resource or the …
The Vallur thermal power project, a joint venture project of the erstwhile Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) and the NTPC, should have supplied at least 375 megawatt of electricity to Tamil Nadu nearly two years ago – October 2010. The State should have got another 375 MW from the project …
The Centre is planning to levy heavy penalties on States that overdraw electricity and imprison their Chief Secretaries to curb the practice that cause grid failure. “I am contemplating now [a] heavy fine and also a provision to imprison authorities and Chief Secretaries for disobeying that... Perhaps, we need to …
The Union Power Ministry has decided to integrate the southern grid with the national grid in January 2014, Minister for Power and Corporate Affairs M. Veerappa Moily said here on Sunday. He said it was scheduled earlier for December 2014, and the Ministry had now decided to advance it. Restructuring …
New Delhi In a deviation from the existing policy barring domestic coal linkage for power projects bid out on the basis of fully imported coal use, the government is set to clear domestic coal allocations for six such projects totalling a 4,650 MW capacity. Of these six projects belonging to …
CAG report points the finger at Manmohan for discrepancies Reeling under the impact of several scams, including 2G spectrum allocation, UPA-II was buffeted on Friday by another serious allegation that it had caused a Rs. 1.86- lakh crore loss to the exchequer by not ensuring transparency in coal blocks allocation …
Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal has rejected the Comptroller and Auditor-General’s conclusion that coal blocks allocation helped private companies gain Rs. 1.86 lakh crore. Talking to journalists after the report was tabled in Parliament on Friday, he said: “The policy adopted to allocate coal blocks was not faulty. There could …
The second meeting of the National Ganga River Basin Authority’s inter-Ministerial group in Delhi on Tuesday could not make much headway on the contentious issue of the under-construction hydro-electric project on the Alaknanda at Srinagar in Uttarakhand. The group, headed by Planning Commission Member B. K. Chaturvedi, heard the builders …
The two-member panel asked by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) to probe the twin national grid collapses on July 30 and 31 has said prevention of such occurences requires strict adherence to grid discipline. A CERC official told Business Standard the report was given last Thursday. It has blamed …
