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 …
Urge Centre to reform debt-ridden state electricity boards Leading power sector honchos on Wednesday met the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, Pulok Chatterjee, and demanded that steps be taken to address their long-pending demands, including immediate allocation of gas to all the projects recommended by the Power Ministry, reforms …
MUMBAI: The mercury dipped to record lows on several days this winter, but contrary to expectations, power consumption in the state didn't register a simultaneous fall. Rather, demand in Maharashtra increased by 1193 MW in seven months since the peak of summer. The state consumed 18145 MW of power in …
The country plans to have a nuclear power generation capacity of 63,000 Mw in the next 20 years as atomic power is advantageous in terms of transportation and storage, Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said today. "India plans to have a total installed nuclear capacity of 63,000 Mwe (megawatt electric) by …
The Narmada Bachao Andolan claimed that Mukul Kasliwal, S Kumars scion and chairman of SMHPCL, failed to explain the fact that cost of power from the privatised Maheshwar hydel project being constructed on the river Narmada is Rs9.97 per unit. This was in the minutes of the meetings of Union …
The embattled National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) today displayed signs of flexibility to help resolve the crisis plaguing the 2,000MW Lower Subansiri hydel project at Gerukamukh in Dhemaji district on the Assam- Arunachal Pradesh border. After back-to-back meetings with Assam power minister Pradyut Bordoloi-headed group of ministers (GoM) and then …
14 technical services officers being appointed to KAS JAMMU: State Cabinet, which is meeting under the chairmanship of Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah tomorrow morning, will discuss the report of Cabinet Sub-Committee (CSC) on the return of the power projects to the State and future strategy to be adopted to ensure …
New Delhi: The government is considering customs duty waiver on coal imports to reduce the impact of a steep rise in the fuel’s international price on mainstream power producers without raising electricity tariffs. The relief may come as part of the tax proposals in the Budget, officials said. Power secretary …
New Delhi In an attempt to make power plants using imported coal viable, the government will recast its coal allocation policy to ensure these units get domestic coal too, but only up to 30% of their requirements. An inter-ministerial committee is expected to formalise the decision on February 14. The …
In a bid to give a much needed boost to distribution reforms, the power ministry has launched an ambitious action plan. It will revise Case I and Case II standard bid documents (SBDs), introduce a rating methodology of utilities to enable them get loans, provide a reform-linked interest subsidy to …
Guwahati, Feb. 5: The Union power ministry has called a meeting on Wednesday in Delhi to break the impasse over the 2,000-MW Lower Subansiri hydroelectric project. There has been no work at the project site since December 16 — the longest halt to the project — thanks to the continuing …
Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal has asked his Power Ministry counterpart Sushilkumar Shinde to freeze the capacity of coal-based power projects at 63,450 mega watt and desist from pushing fresh projects for new linkages in the next five years. In a January 20 letter, Jaiswal said Coal India Limited (CIL) and …
The Karnataka government has invoked Section 11 of the Electricity Act, 2003, prohibiting the open access and sale of exportable power by generators outside the state. The directive would come into effect from February 1 and would be in force till the end of this year. The tentative rate for …
FM to chair meeting on Feb 1 ten major projects stalled on fuel cost issues to be discussed With lending to some of the many stalled power projects becoming a major concern for financial institutions, the Union government has decided to review 10 major ones, involving an investment of Rs …
EGoM likely to meet in the second week of February With the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) likely to meet in the second week of February to discuss issues related to the allocation of gas, the Power Ministry has decided to ask the EGoM to direct Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries …
SILCHAR: Foundation stone for the much-hyped and politically as well as from ecological angle, the most debated multi-purpose hydel project at Tipaimukh in Manipur, popularly known as Barak Dam, was laid down on December 16, 2006 by the then Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde. Union Minister of State Prithviraj …
The Heavy Industries Ministry is pushing hard to ensure that the award of equipment contracts by developers of large power projects is done mandatorily through a bidding process, rather than the current practice of developers placing orders directly on the vendors of their choice. Speaking to reporters here, Heavy Industries …
New Delhi The government is set to start bidding process for the R17,000-crore Surguja ultra mega power project in Chhattisgarh which has been in limbo due to uncertainty about environment clearance for associated captive coal blocks. Government sources said that with the issue of ‘go, no-go’ area having been resolved, …
The government may fix the power capacity addition target at around 100,000 MW for the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2012-2017). The Power Ministry had proposed a capacity addition target of 100,000 MW to the Planning Commission, which is likely to accept the proposal. "Final call would be taken by National …
The Ministry of Environment and Forests has started mapping forest regions to identify “inviolate” areas, where ecologically dangerous activities such as mining may not be allowed. At a meeting with top executives of power companies here on Wednesday, Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan also promised a “transparent and consistent” policy in …
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has stepped in to iron out the hurdles impeding the supply of coal for power production. Lately, the coal and power ministries have held the environment ministry responsible for some of these hurdles. On its part, the PMO has asked the environment ministry to take …
