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State-run NTPC Ltd has been facing problems at several of its power projects due to issues related to equipment supplied by Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel), said several people aware of the developments.
Turbine-generator (TG) sets supplied by India’s largest power generation equipment manufacturer to the country’s largest electricity utility have developed problems at Bongaigaon (Assam), Vallur (Tamil Nadu), Rihand and Faridabad (UP) plants over the last three years.
KSEB Limited has told the Electricity Regulatory Commission that it would not be able to meet the new renewable energy targets set for it by the commission. According to the power utility, total additional capital investment required for adding about 189.6 MW of non-solar and about 504 MW of solar, ...
The first half of this financial year saw a jump in electricity demand led by states such as Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and Telangana, shows data from the Central Electricity Authority. Maharashtra was the single largest consumer of electricity in India with a demand for 75,169 million units (MU) du...
The government plans to procure 10 million pre-paid meters to be deployed in Uttar Pradesh as part of the Saubhagya scheme, which aims to add more than 40 million households to the power grid by December next year.
Leading national and international companies, including L&T, HPL, Landis and Gyr, ...
The railways has registered savings of Rs. 5,636 crore in power bills from April 2015 to October 2017, the transport behemoth said today. It also projected a cumulative saving of Rs. 41,000 crore in the next ten years.
“The Indian Railways (IR) has succeeded in achieving a cumulative saving of ...
Railways Minister Piyush Goel means business now. During an event, he confirmed that diesel engines would be abolished in India, and every train and route would be electrified by 2020. How will it benefit the system? Approximately Rs 11,000 crore would be saved, and environment would be protected, i...
To promote digital transactions, power discom BRPL today launched a Bharat QR code-enabled facility for payment of electricity bills. The consumers opting for digital payment can get cash back from minimum 10 per cent up to Rs 75 per cent per transaction, a BRPL spokesperson said.
The facility was la...
The government seems to be waking up from slumber to tackle the persisting problem of stubble burning as Power Minister RK Singh on Thursday said that state-run NTPC would float a tender to buy farm stubble at Rs 5,500 per tonne for power plants. The move will check farmers from burning stubble , wh...
Power meters in Haryana are set to enter the mobile pre-paid mode. The Haryana Power Utilities has firmed up plans to install pre-paid electricity meters at houses in the state. Consumers would get power according to the amount of the pre-paid recharge done by them. They would also be able to shut t...
The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) will shell out a subsidy of ₹7,724 crore for 2017-18 for free supply and at reduced tariff of electricity to various segments of consumers.
The Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission has cleared the tariff subsidy and directed th...
The BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh government is using strong-arm tactics, such as the unilateral termination of power purchase agreements (PPAs), to get generators to reduce electricity tariffs.
These developments, in Uttar Pradesh and a handful of other states, are in one sense a fallout of India’s shift ...
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