While the Election Commission of India is already using mainstream media to spread awareness on elections, PIB resorted to using memes to strengthen its connect with the youth.
In order to provide a leg-up to the power storage industry — which is still in a nascent stage in the country — the government is coming up with 400 MW of renewable energy tenders for round-the-clock (RTC) electricity sup
The nine transmission projects in question, with and estimated cost of about Rs 2,700 crore, were recommended by an empowered committee on transmission for more than 19,000 mega-watt of renewable energy plants.
Since its launch in September, 2017, 2.62 crore households have been provided with power connections, with only 18,734 remaining to be covered in the country
In a letter written to coal secretary Sumanta Chaudhuri, the Association of Power Producers (APP) complained that various subsidiaries of Coal India (CIL) have “suddenly and unilaterally” increased floor prices (reserve p
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has requested the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas (MoPNG) to divert a part of the cooking gas and kerosene subsidy (around Rs 25,000 crore/year) towards solar photovolatai
The firms have warned that imports of the fuel, which could drive up India’s goods trade and current account deficit, could rise further if adequate number of domestic washeries are not set up in the public and private sect
If the so-called regulatory dues of over Rs 17,000 crore are included, the outstanding amounts by the discoms to independent power producers alone would be a staggering Rs 40,770 crore.
Open access is the non-discriminatory use of transmission and distribution infrastructure of the licensees by consumers with demand greater than or equal to 1 MW for procuring electricity from the source of their choice.
“Voiding of the circular is credit negative for Indian banks. (The circular) may now have to be watered down...The resolution of stressed loans impacted by the circular will be further delayed as the process may have to be
The country’s most populous state — where aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C) losses of discoms are among the highest — declaring muted electricity requirement also coincides with rising power costs.
Though banks invoked strategic debt restructuring in more than 140 cases, they were unable to change ownership even in a handful of cases, the RBI noted
The development comes at a time when the tariff collection efficiency of the discoms, by their own admission, is deteriorating in the wake of new consumer additions through rural electrification.
Punjab, where too delayed subsidy disbursal to the discoms was a major issue last fiscal, has allocated a massive `8,969 crore to subsidise agricultural electricity in FY20.
Sources added that despite spending such a large sum, PFC won’t get the tag of the promoter of REC and the government would continue to hold the status to soothe its overseas bondholders.
Analysts estimate that about 17 GW of power plants will have to be decommissioned as they would not meet the emission norms within the deadline, mainly due to lack of space to accommodate the new systems.
The sixth round of wind power auction by the state-run Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) that concluded on Thursday discovered a tariff of Rs 2.82/unit, the highest since February last year when the price bottomed out
