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 …
New Delhi: In an indictment of ham-handed approach towards infrastructure projects, the World Bank is downgrading the 412mw Rampur hydel plant being constructed in Himachal Pradesh by Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Ltd, which recently concluded its IPO, on ground of tardy progress and management slack arising from long-pending vacancies on …
The Centre has put in place an enabling legal, regulatory and policy framework to promote market-based energy efficiency in the country and the focus now is on implementing schemes aimed at reducing the energy intensity of the economy. Speaking at a national seminar organised by FICCI here on energy efficiency, …
NEW DELHI: Stating that rapid economic growth and industrialisation were the major challenges that need to be met head on, Union Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said power generation capacity addition during the XI Plan would be about 74,000 MW, almost close to the original target of 78,577 MW.
POWER minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that about 74,000 mw of new generation capacity could be added during the Eleventh Plan period, betraying a lack of clarity in the government on this issue. The minister had earlier scaled down the capacity addition target to 62,000 mw from 78,577 mw due …
New Delhi: The power ministry has opposed a move for immediate imposition of import barriers, including slapping of upto 14% safeguards duty, on power generation equipment from China to protect domestic manufacturers such as state-run Bhel. Instead, the ministry favours introduction of such measures from April 2012, or the beginning …
The government has set aside upwards of Rs 30,000 crore for the upgrade and maintenance of almost 115 hydro and thermal power generating units, including some thermal stations commissioned as early as 1968. About 20 of those thermal units were built before 1980 and had been slated for retirement before …
Minister Gives Detailed Analysis On Coalfields To Manmohan Singh FACED with criticism over the delays in providing forest clearances, environment minister Jairam Ramesh has provided a detailed analysis on coalfields to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. In his letter, Mr Ramesh has asked Prime Minister Singh to take up the matter …
Katya B Naidu / Mumbai April 03, 2010, 0:58 IST The Ministry of Power is looking to clear swiftly coal linkages for projects based on supercritical technology, said sources. According to top officials in the government, supercritical power projects would get linkages to coal mines on a priority basis, compared …
Expert committee report by Ministry of Power on Economics of LED lighting in India. Identifies major barriers to LEDs penetration and details the road map to be taken up at policy & action levels to accelerate it. This paper looks at the policy option of using a bundled Multi-State Demand …
Business is down at the Surya Chambal power plant, but not because of recession. It is the fuel. This power plant runs not on coal, but on mustard husk. When it was set up four years ago in Kota, in Rajasthan, mustard husk was in surplus. It cost Jyoti Ranjan, …
Govt Feels NTPC Should Focus On Other Avenues Such As Wind & Solar Energy THE power ministry has ruled out any possibility of allowing state-owned power major NTPC to sell power in the open market.
Gujarat, Andhra & Orissa May Be Allowed To Go In For Second Ultra Mega Power Project POWER capacity creation is set to get a boost with some states seeking government
NEW DELHI: The power ministry may be the government's main instrument for implementing measures to reduce carbon emissions and improve efficiency in the energy sector but a group of experts put together by the Planning Commission to prepare a roadmap to turn the country on a low carbon growth pathway …
PALAKKAD: Palakkad district on Tuesday became the first fully electrified district in the country. Announcing this, Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that the government was working on a target of bringing electricity to all villages in the next two years. He said that the Centre would sanction a …
PALAKKAD: Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has said that all the 1.15 lakh villages in the country will be provided electricity by 2012. Declaring Palakkad as the first total electrified district in the country at a function in Ottappalam near here on Tuesday, the Minister said that 68,000 villages …
Palakkad in Kerala has become the first fully electrified district of the nation. The Union power minister, Mr Sushil Kumar Shinde, officially announced this on Tuesday in the presence of the state electricity minister, Mr A.K. Balan. The government had taken out a special package to electrify all the 11 …
