NTPC wins bid for Avantha’s stressed MP power plant, beats Adani power
NTPC has won the bid for Avantha Group's power plant in Madhya Pradesh, with a Rs 1,900-crore offer that was higher than Adani Group's bid, according to a report...
Division of Power employees between AP and Telangana – Disputes reaches new level
More than five years after the bifurcation of Telangana and Andhra
Pradesh, a longstanding dispute between the states over the distribution
of staff from power utility companies was believed...
Discoms’ outstanding dues to generators rise 45% to Rs 81,085 crore in 2019 November
Power producers' total outstanding dues owed by distribution companies increased around 45 per cent to Rs 81,085 crore in November 2019 over the same month previous year, reflecting stress...
Tata power pressurises states to sign revised PPA for Mundra UMPP
Tata Power says, it will be forced to stop operating its imported coal-based Mundra ultra-mega power project after February unless its five consumer states allow pass-through of additional fuel...
Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Bengal tops in domestic Power tariff
Rural and urban domestic consumers drawing around 400 units or more of electricity a month in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal pay the highest rates in the country,...
Debt of RattanIndia Power will be taken over for ₹4,050 crore
In one of the biggest debt resolution deals outside the Insolvency
and Bankruptcy Code, RattanIndia Power Ltd has done an agreement with
its consortium of lenders led by...
Zero-carbon electricity overtakes fossil fuels in Britain across 2019
Zero-carbon energy became Britain’s largest electricity source in 2019, delivering nearly half the country’s electrical power and for the first time outstripping generation by fossil fuels.
Odisha Electricity employees Stage Protest Opposing Privatisation of CESU
Protesting privatisation of the Central Electricity Supply Utility of Orissa Limited (CESU), members of Employees Worker Engineers Ekata Mancha today staged demonstration and held a rally in Bhubaneswar.
Rooftop Solar destroying tariff structure and cross-subsidy mechanism- MSEDCL
State discom Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) has opposed net metering system for solar rooftop consumers and demanded net billing as it is suffering revenue loss due...
Power Consumption down by 20% in Industrial states Gujarat and Maharashtra
While the usually rising power demand has fallen since August 2019, the decline has been sharper in the industrialised states of Maharashtra and Gujarat. This controverts the government’s attribution...
UDAY scheme fails, sharp spike in discom losses
Four years after it was launched, UDAY — the NDA government’s “path breaking reform” to revive electricity distribution companies (discoms) — is unravelling.
Discom losses, which...
No takers due to high tariff – Auction to procure 2500MW electricity scrapped
The Power Ministry has scrapped the auction to procure 2,500MW electricity for medium term (three years) under a scheme to provide relief to thermal power plants...
Tata Power owns CESU Odisha license for Rs.175 Crore
Tata Power on 2019 December 23 said it has bagged a 25-year licence for distribution and retail supply of electricity in Odisha’s five circles, together constituting Central Electricity Supply...
Russia’s floating Nuclear Power Plant generates electricity on 2019 December 19
Russia's Akademik Lomonosov, the world's first industrial floating
NPP (FNPP) began producing electricity on 19 December. The
FNPP transmitted its first electric energy to the isolated network of
Chaun-Bilibino junction of Chukotka...
വിഴിഞ്ഞം 220 കെ.വി. സബ്സ്റ്റേഷൻ – നിർമ്മാണോദ്ഘാടനം
വിഴിഞ്ഞം 220 കെ.വി. സബ്സ്റ്റേഷന്റെ നിർമ്മാണോദ്ഘാടനം2019 ഡിസംബർ 18 ന് വിഴിഞ്ഞം 66 കെ.വി. സബ്സ്റ്റേഷൻ അങ്കണത്തിൽ വച്ച് ബഹു. വൈദ്യുതി വകുപ്പ് മന്ത്രി എം.എം. മണി നിർവ്വഹിച്ചു. കേരളത്തിലെ ഉപഭോക്താക്കൾക്ക് ഗുണമേൻമയുള്ള വൈദ്യുതി തടസ്സം കൂടാതെ നൽകുന്നത് ലക്ഷ്യമിടുന്ന ഊർജ്ജ...
Power tariff can include discom employees salaries, allowances and pension: Delhi HC
The Delhi High Court has held that the cost incurred by power distribution companies (discoms) can be considered while fixing tariff and it would include salaries, allowances and pension...