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 …
In water-scarce Shimla, where energy ministers from across India flew to discuss woes of the power sector, the host state pushed for immediate and long-term reforms in the hydro power sector. Along with other hydro rich states, Himachal Pradesh asked the government to give hydro power the same status, priority …
Creating infrastructure will need a whopping USD 4.5 trillion investments over the next decade and the cost of the money will be a challenge, interim finance minister Piyush Goyal said today. The minister, however, said finding the required finance will not be a "deterrence" for the country. "Infrastructure creation requires …
Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) says the new proposal of the Ministry of Power to fix the starting temperature of room air conditioners (RAC) at 24 degree C is a step in the right direction, as the current popular practice of fixing the starting temperature or switch ON temperature …
Hydropower generation in the country during April is nearly 20 per cent lower than planned , according to the latest data shared by the Ministry of Power. The worst hit is the Northern region where hydro power generation is 30 per cent lower than planned. Till April 23, hydro power …
Minister confident of achieving 175 GW of installed capacity well before 2020 India will set up a $350 million fund to finance solar projects, Power Minister R.K. Singh said, as the country steps up efforts to achieve its ambitious target of adding 175 gigawatts (GW) in renewable energy by 2022. …
New Delhi: Almost a third of the distressed power plants unable to repay loans worth crores are in Chhattisgarh, according to data from the Ministry of Power. Last week, the ministry submitted a list 34 such projects to a parliamentary panel on energy, 10 of which are in the BJP-ruled …
PATIALA: The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) in a letter to R K Singh Union Power Minister has made several suggestions on the power sector reforms including financial crisis facing the power distribution companies, electricity (amendment) bill 2014, solar power and nuclear power. The federation has pointed out that …
As part of the Centre’s initiative to ‘Make India Energy Efficient’, the Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) — a joint venture of Public Sector Undertakings and the Union Power Ministry — will implement the project, bearing the capital costs. Faced with a cash crunch, the Maharashtra government has decided to …
Power Ministers from the northeastern states on Wednesday called for development of power projects for the overall socio-economic development of the region. At the North Eastern Region Power Committee (NERPC) meeting here, Arunachal Pradesh Power Minister Tamiyo Taga was more critical on non-starting of power projects in his state due …
India is fully prepared to finance carbon-capture technology but the developed world's approach in this area leaves much to be desired, New and Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal has said. "The government is ready to fully finance carbon-capture technology and is in favour of opening up the technology to all. …
Union Power Minister and BJP leader Piyush Goyal noted that the past 10-15 years have seen a rapid decline in the quality of atmosphere due to increasing greenhouse gas emissions globally and it has become "probably the largest challenge" today. Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal on Monday underlined the importance …
Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said that India may become first country in the world to use only LED products for lighting needs by 2019. "India will probably become the first country in the world to use 100 per cent LEDs for its lighting needs by 2019," Goyal, the …
The Centre wants to extend interest subsidy and hydropower purchase obligation to accelerate growth of hydropower, according to a power ministry report. The Centre has proposed bringing all hydropower projects across the central, state and private sectors, irrespective of capacity, under the renewable category. The proposal is in the wake …
The Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines, Shri Piyush Goyal, while giving a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today, informed the House that Government has reviewed the status of 34 stressed Thermal Power Projects, as per the list provided by …
Earlier, the power ministry said that the waiver of these charges will applicable on plants set up before June 30, 20 Hyderabad: Industries setting up solar units will be able to avail waiver on interstate transmission charges and losses due to transmission of power generated from such units till December …
After the advent of solar plants and open access system, the distribution companies in the state have lost 1,000 MW in sales. Hyderabad: Telangana State stands fourth in the country behind Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu in terms of solar power generation. According to the Union power ministry, the …
“We are drawing up a new power allotment formula under which maximum power from Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project 3 and 4 units will be for TN,” Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal has said. A request was made by Tamil Nadu that maximum power should be allotted to the State from …
Existing power supply contracts between power generation and distribution companies should be renegotiated to ensure flexibility in the supply of coalbased electricity in order to make way for renewables, suggested a report developed under a US-India bilateral programme. While releasing the report on Thursday, minister for power, coal, renewable energy …
Move in line with Centre’s norm of shutting units older than 25 yrs Punjab’s two oldest thermal power plants — Bathinda and Ropar — are staring at closure. Taking the first step to shut both plants in phases, the Board of Directors of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL), in …
The study, developed under the US-India bilateral program “Greening the Grid”, confirms the technical and economic viability of integrating 175 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy into India’s power grid by 2022, it said. India’s solar power generation capacity would nearly double to 22 GW by the end of current fiscal …
