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 Report of the Standing Committee on Energy deals with the action taken by the Government on the Recommendations/Observations contained in their Tenth Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) on the subject ‘Availability of Gas and Coal for Power Sector’ pertaining to the Ministry of Power.
New Delhi The power ministry has set up a panel to look into various proposals including introduction of appraisal system for central and state electricity regulators. The mandate of the committee is to examine and make recommendations on proposed amendments in the Electricity Act, 2003. Sources said the panel, chaired …
The Central Government has directed Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) to sign gas sales and purchase agreement (GSPA) with NTPC and 10 other city gas distribution (CGD) companies to supply gas from the KG-D6 fields. Recently, Communist Party of India (Marxist) Rajya Sabha member Tapan Sen had, in a letter to …
The Attorney General (AG) has advised the government that if it wants to revoke the permission given to Reliance Power to divert surplus coal from mines attached to the Sasan power project, it will have to show that the company violated the terms under which it was allowed to use …
New Delhi Power companies have sought intervention from the power ministry to ensure that coal supply is maintained to power plants through the memorandum of understanding (MoU) route until fuel supply agreements (FSAs) are signed. This comes after the Central Coalfields Ltd (CCL), a Coal India Ltd subsidiary, recently issued …
New Delhi The power ministry has written to the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure to mandate a uniform 50% risk weight to bank loans for state-owned Power Finance Corporation (PFC) and Rural Electrification Corporation (REC), a move which could lead to banks doubling their exposure to these companies if it finds …
Producers say move shows CIL's attitude towards meeting fuel supply obligations In a twist to the unending drama over coal supply, Coal India Ltd (CIL) has refused to supply to power plants commissioned since December 2011. The move is set to stall investment worth Rs 40,000 crore in new power …
In yet another push for granting open access to all electricity consumers with power requirement of 1 Mw and above, the power ministry, exercising its power under section 107 of the Electricity Act, 2003, has issued directives to the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) stating that regulators have no jurisdiction …
New Delhi Looking to bring in more transparency, the power ministry is expected to introduce competitive bidding guidelines for short-term procurement of electricity next month. The guidelines, prepared after consultations with stakeholders, would be applicable for power being procured for a period of less than one year. “We are almost …
New Delhi India is mulling inviting Qatar to invest in the country’s energy sector, and may offer equity stake to the Gulf nation in NTPC’s gas-based project in Kerala for assured fuel supply for the plant. Power ministry which is battling with acute gas shortage at its generating stations is …
Coal India Ltd (CIL), the world’s largest coal producer, would finalise at least eight fuel supply agreements (FSAs) by Tuesday, said its new chairman and managing director, S Narsing Rao. However, sources said the country’s largest power producer, NTPC, was yet to sign new FSA with the city-based company, as …
BHUBANESWAR: Repeated requests by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to the Union Ministry of Power for additional allocation of power from the Central pool has fallen on deaf ears. Facing power crisis for more than two years now, the State Government has been demanding additional allocation of 500 MW from the …
With CAG breathing down their necks, power and coal ministries have agreed that a blanket relief to ultra mega power projects to divert excess coal to other power plants be scrapped, starting with Reliance Power Ltd’s (RPL) Tilaiya UMPP. “The Ministry of Power is of the view that incremental coal …
Planning Commission is eyeing a power capacity of about 100,000 MW in 5 yrs The Planning Commission is unlikely to agree to the Power Ministry's proposal of adding only about 76,000 MW electricity generation capacity in the 12th Plan (2012-17) even as the sector battles acute fuel shortage. According to …
Coal ministry argues in favour of CIL saying co extracts fuel at half declared mining cost of private firm Reliance Power The coal ministry has asked the power ministry to review allocation of coal bocks to companies, and argued that electricity costs would have been lower if mines had been …
Govt already preparing Bill to institutionalise a sector monitor to decide prices, standards not fast enough, suggests Shinde to Jaiswal Amid the controversy over Coal India Ltd’s (CIL) signing of fuel supply agreements (FSAs) with power companies, the Union power ministry has demanded quick action on a regulator for the …
“ Kudankulam atomic reactor's first unit will be commissioned in 45 days'' The Central government is considering allocating 300 MW of additional power to Tamil Nadu from the Central Grid and a proposal to this effect has been placed with the Ministry of Power. This is to help out the …
The Union Minister of State for Power, K.C. Venugopal said that Kerala has started receiving 100 MW additional power from Central pool from Saturday evening itself. Talking to The Hindu, the Minister said that an additional of 100 MW has been announced two weeks ago. However, due to technical faults, …
With the commissioning of a 660 MW unit of a power plant in Jhajjar, Haryana, the installed capacity in the country has crossed two lakh megawatt mark, according to the Power Ministry. The project of CLP India -- Mahatma Gandhi Thermal Power Project, Jhajjar – was recently commissioned. With this …
The recent Presidential directive that makes it mandatory for Coal India Ltd to enter into fuel supply agreements (FSAs) with new power plants seems all set to address their concerns. But it is doubtful whether any available stocks will be given to the old power plants, particularly in the public …
