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 …
This CAG report tabled in the Parliament today contains results of the performance audit of 'Ultra Mega Power Projects under Special Purpose Vehicles' with focus on the effectiveness and transparency in award of Ultra Mega Power Projects to the developers. The report contains the results of the Performance Audit of …
To avert a total breakdown of the grid system and prevent a major blackout in future, the northern grid States have formulated a 12-point plan including installation of automatic demand management schemes. At a recent meeting held at the Power Ministry, the plan was agreed upon by a dozen States …
New Delhi Falling KG-D6 output, costly imported LNG hem in power plants India's gas-based power stations are facing an uncertain future. Depleting output from Reliance Industries’ KG-D6 block and non-availability of adequate infrastructure to handle liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports are set to trigger suspension of about 7,000 MW of …
It can only happen in UPA. Hours after Union Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde presided over the most extensive power cuts in Indian history, affecting an estimated 670 million people over 16 long hours of complete blackout in the last two days of July across north and east India, he was …
Up from global 7th in 2008 among 40 large generation firms, says Washington think tank NTPC contests charge of prime polluter India’s state-owned NTPC Ltd is the world’s sixth-largest polluter among a total of 40 large power generating companies, according to the Centre for Global Development (CGD), a Washington-based think …
The Ministry of Environment and Forest has rejected GVK Group's request for using high speed diesel (HSD) instead of natural gas at one of its power generation plants in Andhra Pradesh. The Expert Appraisal Committee of MoEF, while rejecting the GVK Group’s request, advised it to submit an application which …
Asks State to arrange for transmission Union Power Minister M Veerappa Moily on Sunday said the Centre is ready to provide additional 1,500 mega watt (MW) of power if the State government ensures availability of transmission lines connecting the Central grid with the State. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines …
New Delhi Facing flak for slashing natural gas supplies to fuel-starved power plants across the country so that requirement of one station in Maharashtra can be met, the Oil Ministry has kept in abeyance its order diverting Reliance Industries' KG-D6 gas to Dabhol plant. The ministry had on August 1 …
Taking the tussle between Tamil Nadu and Kerala over Koodankulam Atomic ower Plant project to the next level, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has met Union Power Minister Veerappa Moily to demand an increased share from the project for Kerala. Citing that Kerala is going through a severe power crisis due …
The recent power grid collapses that affected large parts of the country exposed scant regard for installation of protection systems and grid code. On Monday, the Union Power Ministry frowned upon these irregularities and asked the stakeholders to carry out independent third party audit of the protection system and adhere …
JAMMU: Concerned over regional grid failures last week, Union Power Ministry today issued fresh set of directions to eight Northern States including Jammu and Kashmir for carrying out mandatory reforms with thrust on special protection system for the power grids and automatic demand management scheme. It has also fixed time-lines …
Jaipur: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday assured the Centre that the state would abide by the all the regulations with regard to drawing power from the Northern Grid. The assurance came during the chief ministers’ and state power ministers’ meeting on Grid Supply Management held in Delhi, and presided …
The Power Ministry today proposed to carry out an independent audit of transmission grids within three months, a move that comes amid massive failures of grids last week that affected half of the country’s population. The decision was taken at a meeting here chaired by Power Secretary P. Uma Shankar …
Even as the Power Ministry is struggling to find answers to last week’s nation-wide blackout which had plunged 90 per cent of the country into darkness, its plans to enhance gas-based power capacity seems to be in danger of receiving a serious setback as owing to constantly dipping domestic output …
Following collapse of Northern, Eastern & North Eastern grids on July 31, new Power Minister Moily called for this meeting The Power Ministry today proposed to carry out independent audit of transmission grids within three months, a move that comes amid massive failures of grids last week that affected half …
Work has started on the Asian Development Bank (ADB)-funded project of Rs 650 crore in seven towns of power-starved Bihar for upgrading electricity transmission lines to cut down losses. The project will be completed by June 2016, said sources in the Power Ministry, which facilitated the loan. The seven towns …
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki called on the Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Jayanti Natarajan in New Delhi on Wednesday. The Chief Minister requested the Union Minister to expedite the pending forest clearance of the Tawang Basin Hydro Power Project of NHPC, stated a release. The …
To break the long deadlock by shipping out minimum 80% of the contracted quantum Coal India will modify fuel supply pacts before signing them with power companies to incorporate the changes that have been proposed by its board at this week's meeting, thereby breaking the deadlock over the issue of …
Blamed by the Centre for the two successive days of blackout, state governments Wednesday decided not to buy electricity from outside their states at all, sending the price of electricity crashing to zero even at evening peak hours. Later in the evening some of the states came back to the …
New Delhi Power minister M Veerappa Moily has called a eeting of chief ministers of states affected by the grid collapse on August 6 to take stock of the situation and prevent recurrence of one of the world’s worst blackouts in recent times. The idea is to impress upon states …
