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 …
The government is likely to consider power generators' plea for increase in tariff in view of higher coal prices and work out a solution, Minister of Power Sushil Kumar Shinde said. Shinde's comment at Indian Electrical and Electronics Manufacturers' Association's conference ELECRAMA -2012 in Mumbai comes ahead of the meeting …
New Delhi Power projects of 30,000 MW capacity that are staring at termination of coal supply linkage after missing key implementation milestones may get a breather. The coal ministry has decided against using penal provisions against these developers on a unilateral basis. The ministry has taken the view that the …
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) and the Union power ministry would soon be approaching the Supreme Court for an urgent challenge to the rising trend among states to invoke Section 11 of the Electricity Act, 2003, to bar open access between producers and consumers of electricity. They had already …
Administrative ministries including coal and power today put a spoke in the finance ministry’s proposal to ask cash-surplus state-owned undertakings to buy back their shares or pick government stake in other PSUs. The proposal aimed at meeting the Budget target of raising Rs 40,000 crore in disinvestment receipts in the …
ITANAGAR/LAKHIMPUR: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki on Friday sought intervention of Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in the on-going agitation against 2000 mw Lower Subansiri project at Gerukamukh. The development took place after protesters served a two-day ultimatum on the Assam government to break the impasse and threatened …
The Andhra Pradesh Government has requested the Centre to sanction free electricity connections to about 20 lakh Below Poverty Line (BPL) consumers. The free-power supply for the poor was sought under the under Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyuti Karan Yojana programme during the 12th plan period with an aim to provide …
NEW DELHI: Power companies will get coal blocks only if they quote low tariffs, a move that is expected to revive investment in the sector and protect consumers from spiralling electricity rates. Blocks earmarked for the power sector will be given to states, which will have to invite tariff-based bids …
Delays in commissioning of new mines and a historic dip in production from operational mines have thrown coal availability position and the associated power capacity into emergency mode. Fresh data from the Central Electricity Authority, the apex power sector planning body, reveals the current fuel stock at India’s 89 thermal …
To help them pay off dues they owe NTPC Power distribution company BSES got a belated Christmas gift on Monday when the Delhi Cabinet decided to extend financial assistance to the cash-strapped company to help it pay off its long-pending dues. Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit announced that the Cabinet has …
KOLKATA, 21 DEC: The state government will not set up any nuclear power plant in the state, said the state power minister, Mr Manish Gupta, today. He said this while replying to Forward Bloc MLA Mr Tejmul Hossain's question. He said by 2016-17, the state will generate 7,696 MW through …
The power ministry has rung alarm bells saying shortage of coal has pushed 26 power plants into “super critical coal stock positions” — having stocks of barely seven days. And 44 are “critical,” with stocks for 15 days. It has sought the Committee of Secretaries’ (CoS’s) intervention to secure coal …
The government on Monday proposed the setting up of a parliamentary panel to go into the issue of farmer suicides in the wake of contradictory figures emerging from the States and the Union Home Ministry's National Crime Records Bureau. The suggestion came after the government was cornered in the Rajya …
The Madhya Pradesh (MP) government and the Power Ministry are at loggerheads on the issue of tariff and coal linkage policies. The state has sought modifications in the policies saying that power through competitive route is not cheaper than cost-plus approach and that the 85 per cent tie-up of power …
Adani Power Ltd, a subsidiary of Adani Enterprises Ltd and a part of leading integrated infrastructure conglomerate, the Adani Group, has been conferred with the National Energy Conservation Award for 2011 by the Bureau of Energy Efficiency. The Bureau of Energy Efficiency is a part of the Central Electricity Authority, …
The Union Government today awarded the first prize to the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) in appreciation of its achievements in energy conservation for the year 2011. Viswajeet Khanna, Principal Secretary, Science, Technology, Environment and NCES, today received this award from Union Minister of Power Sushil Kumar Shinde during the …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today sought a list of pending reforms in key infrastructure sectors after released data showed that industrial output contracted in October, the first time in over two years. Singh is likely to convene a meeting tomorrow to consider ways to push these reforms, sources said. The …
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has expressed concern over tardy decision-making process that is plaguing coal, environment and power ministries. He says the delay in decisions on proposals has put a question mark on the fate of projects worth Rs 1,74,000 crore which could expose financial institutions to “greater risk”. At …
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee will chair a high-level meeting on Monday to iron out issues that are impeding the commissioning of ultra mega power projects (UMPPs). The development comes amid mounting costs of imported coal and acute paucity of domestically available coal that have led the Power Ministry to project …
The Government has cleared the setting up an inter-ministerial panel to finalise the financial compensation for NTPC Ltd against the investment incurred by the power major on a hydro project in Uttarakhand that was scrapped last year. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved the constitution of the empowered committee …
The Power Ministry has asked the Ministry of Environment and Forests to fast-track the process for grant of green clearance to coal mines attached to the 4,000-MW Sarguja ultra-mega power project in Chhattisgarh, failing which the invitation of bids may get further delayed. "We have written to the Environment Ministry …
