Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Moser Baer’s Rs. 100- crore 5-MW solar grid interactive photovoltaic (SPV) plant in Sivaganga has technology suited specifically for Indian climate Located in the hinterland is a project that proved to be a trump card for those advocating solar power as a solution to the power crisis in the State. …
About 60 coal-based power plants were planned in Chhattisgarh after 2005 as opportunistic business plugged into easy money and bad governance. M Rajshekhar reports that barely 15 plants will come up. And the situation in rest of India is just as bad. From his room in a modest district administration …
Part of initiative to tackle power crisis in the State The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is charting out an action plan for extensively exploiting the solar energy potential to tackle the power crisis gripping the State. Official sources told The Hindu here that a high-level expert panel appointed by …
However, State Government has to relax policies on third party sales India had the potential to exploit solar power to a large extent that would enable industries to reduce its dependency on an unreliable grid supply and diesel-powered generators, which are fast becoming expensive as the Government begins to withdraw …
Rattled by the din over alleged irregularities in allocation of coal blocks, the government is bringing back ‘inspector raj’ in the power sector. Proposed norms envisage ‘independent engineers’ being stationed at each upcoming thermal project for round-the-clock monitoring of operations, something that private developers are calling excessively “intrusive” and “unworkable”. …
SHILLONG: The State Government has decided to enter into a joint venture to develop a thermal power project from coal sourced out from the Mandakini-B coal block located in Odisha. The decision to this effect was taken at a State Cabinet meeting held here on Thursday. Power Minister AT Mondal …
The Rs 3,550 cr project would help the state, which is currently facing 3000 Mw power shortfall The trial run of the 600 Mw Mettur Thermal Power Station (MTPS) in Mettur, Tamil Nadu today achieved full capacity, according to a senior official from the BGR Energy System, the private firm …
GUWAHATI, Oct 9 – After quite a long time, the State today emerged power surplus. It recorded 18 MW of surplus power this noon, that is – off peak load hour – in the parlance of the power engineers. However, the State recorded a shortfall of 311 MW during the …
Solar energy project launched at Central Prison, Poojappura If the State does not come up with alternative sources of power generation, it will face a severe power crisis by 2020, Minister for Electricity Aryadan Mohammed has said. He was speaking at the switch-on ceremony of a solar energy project set …
Project at Poojappura penal complex set up at a cost of Rs.7.9 crore Home Minister Thiruvanchoor Radhakrishnan will inaugurate a solar-energy project and a new restroom for visitors at the Central Jail, Poojappura, here on Wednesday. A press release issued on Tuesday said the solar energy scheme would make the …
Mytrah Energy Ltd. has proposed to add another 270 MW of wind-based power taking its total operational capacity across the country to 610 MW by mid-2013. The two-year-old Independent Power Producer company with a revenue of Rs.165 crore in the first half of the current fiscal and a projected profit …
14-hour power cut coupled with high cost of diesel takes a toll Unable to cope up with 14 hours of power cut a day and high cost of diesel to run generator sets, BHEL Small and Medium Industries’ Association (BHELSIA) has kept its options open on exploring alternative sources for …
The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) on Thursday filed a petition before the Kerala State Electricity Regulatory Commission (KSERC) virtually seeking a second tariff revision within a matter of two months. Only in July the commission had issued a tariff order permitting the KSEB to increase the tariffs across the …
Power utilities may continue to delay projects due to inadequate fuel supply The bailout package for state electricity boards (SEBs) announced on Monday has cheered power utilities but they believe the key for revival of the troubled sector lies in fuel availability. Power utilities may continue to delay projects as …
The company is best positioned among its peers in terms of fuel availability and depends for only up to 10% of its total requirement on imported coal After its initial public offering in 2004, followed by a follow-on offering in 2009, the finance ministry is proposing to disinvest another 9.5 …
Cabinet approves Rs. 1.90-lakh crore turnaround package Consumers nationwide should brace themselves for higher electricity tariffs, with the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Monday approving a Rs. 1.90-lakh crore debt restructuring package for the State Electricity Boards to facilitate a turnaround of the State distribution companies (discoms). The …
Business: Standard & Poor’s has said it expects no significant reforms in the Indian energy sector before the general elections, heightening concerns that this could keep India in line for a ratings downgrade. The ratings agency said the restructuring of state electricity board loans in the power sector was a …
Jharkhand State Electricity Regulatory Commission (JSERC) issued a showcause notice to Jharkhand State Electricity Board on Monday, seeking an explanation on its inability to provide quality power to consumers, particularly those in the state capital. The immediate provocation of the commission’s angry missive was a report published in The Telegraph …
The Vallur thermal power project, a joint venture project of the erstwhile Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) and the NTPC, should have supplied at least 375 megawatt of electricity to Tamil Nadu nearly two years ago – October 2010. The State should have got another 375 MW from the project …
Reforms, competition in distribution and ending coal monopoly are the only antidotes to power failures The power failure in India on July 30-31 was big news in US media. When the radio and TV stations began calling with the question whether this spelt the end to India’s claims to global-power …
