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 Centre is keen to start the hydro power projects in the state. Declaring that Arunachal is a priority state for development of hydro-power sector, Additional Secretary, Union Ministry of Power, B P Pandey in a meeting with state Chief Minister Pema Khandu recently said that the Centre has identified …
The government looks set to extend the December 2017 deadline for coal-fired power stations to meet stricter emission norms, allowing time for them to consider replacing retro plants with modern units that release much less particulate and gaseous pollutants into the air. According to power minister Piyush Goyal, the environment …
The burden of subsidising the power bills of agricultural and low-income families is set to move from industrial consumers to large domestic and commercial consumers of electricity. The government plans to introduce a new tariff structure to charge more from large domestic power consumers rather than industrial units that currently …
The Report contains the results of audit examination of the implementation of the Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme by the Ministry of Power and State power utilities. The Restructured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP) was launched in December 2008 as a continuation of the Accelerated Power …
India recorded overall power deficit of 0.7 per cent in the first 7 months of the current fiscal, with availability of 681.34 billion units, as against demand of 686.09 BU, Parliament was informed today. The government has planned to make the country energy surplus with generating target of 1,178 billion …
The deadline to achieve 100% rural electrification has been advanced twice. But several states have been severely lagging. West Bengal didn't electrify a single village in six months, Uttarakhand and J&K; did only two each. Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dream project of electrifying all 18,500 dark villages in the country …
“The farmers and the industries of India will continue to get affordable and sufficient power supply,” Goyal said. The first Switch Global Expo — an exhibition and summit for national and international players in electrical engineering — kicked off in Vadodara on Thursday. Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani inaugurated the five-day …
Private, state thermal producers exceed capacity addition targets; hydro, nuclear power languish Lanco, Dabhol bag half of gas in e-auction by Power Ministry Power generation will be 100 per cent of the envisaged capacity addition target of 88,537 megawatt (Mw) by the end of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan. The sector …
The ministry of power's initiative Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for all (UJALA), has already resulted in 55.7 million units of energy savings and has reduced carbon emissions over 45,000 tonnes. UJALA has benefitted more than 5 crore citizens across 18 states and 4 union territories. This has been possible …
Government is considering reclassifying large hydro power plants as renewable projects, Power Minster Piyush Goyal said today, adding that it can help India achieve clean power capacity of 225 GW by 2022. Removing the distinction between small project (up to 25 MW) and large hydro project can help India projecting …
Power Minister Piyush Goyal reiterated India’s stand for the implementation of ‘Polluter Pays’ principle on international carbon emissions. Mr. Goyal also sought to downplay the “song and dance” around the fact that the U.S. and China have ratified the climate accords signed in Paris, saying that as the largest polluters, …
Sri Lanka will not go ahead with the joint venture with India’s National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) to build a coal power plant in eastern Trincomalee district, the Supreme court was told today, after strong objections from environmentalists and the public. The decision of the Ministry of Power and Energy …
A two-year old study released in 2015 by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), (a well-respected non-profit public interest research and advocacy organization in New Delhi) concluded that NTPC, India's largest power producing Coal Company was way below the prevailing standards across various parameters. The study, which analyzed 47 …
Minister claims hike in coal output, better offtake by generation plants; Discoms losses coming down post UDAY launch Union Minister for power Piyush Goyal on Wednesday said there is no thermal power plant in India which is stranded for want of coal, largely due to increase in coal production and …
The matter before the SC pertains to a suo moto one where in August 2013, the apex court had halted work on all hydro-electric power projects in the wake of the 2013 Uttarakhand disaster. Even as the water resources, river development and Ganga rejuvenation ministry under Uma Bharati had categorically …
“The Centre, the State and the DVC officials can sit together and take a decision on long-term measures” Union Power minister Piyush Goyal on Monday said there was no controversy between the Centre and States over release of water from the dams controlled by Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) even as …
Government is likely to get an estimated Rs 23,944.4 crore from clean environment cess in the ongoing fiscal. "The estimated amount of clean environment cess to be collected by CIL and deposited with the government of India for the year 20116-17 based on the budgeted estimated production of CIL is …
India's total power generation rose by 7.13 per cent in April-July period this fiscal to 391.16 billion units, Parliament was informed today. "The electricity generation in the country increased to 391,163.27 million units (MUs) during 2016-17 (April-July, 2016) from 365,146.09 MUs during 2015-16 (April-July, 2015), thus registering a growth of …
CHENNAI: The 4000 MW coal-fired Cheyyur Ultra Mega Power Project (UMPP) would be a financial disaster for the consumers, the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Ltd (TANGEDCO) and the State government, said a report by the US-based Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). It suggested that Tamil …
India's total electricity generation capacity has crossed the 300,00 MW (mega watt)-mark, including more than 42,848 MW renewable energy sources such as solar and wind power plants, power minister Piyush Goyal told the Rajya Sabha on Monday. Private sector accounted for 1,24,995.51 MW of the total capacity as on June …
