According to reports, the Tamil Nadu government on Thursday claimed that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has blacklisted the state’s electricity board, but banks here said they had not received any communication from the central bank that barred them from lending further loans to Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB). Earlier, while announcing her Cabinet’s decisions, state Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said the debt-ridden TNEB...
November 21, 2011
Essar expects big play in power plants with Foster Wheeler tech…
With a technology-transfer agreement with the US power major Foster Wheeler under its belt, Essar Projects expects a large play in India in what is touted as the ‘future technology for India's power sector'. The technical agreement is for thermal power boilers of the ‘circulating fluidised combustion bed' type. CFBC is said to be the...
GERC ropes in GEDA to monitor RPO and issue RECs…
The Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC) has directed the power bodies to take preventive actions to minimize the accidents. The regulator suggested electricity distribution companies to focus on safety and form safety cells to give immediate attention to the same. According to the GERC directive, power bodies of the state will form a committee to monitor accidents in electricity distribution companies. Ninth meeting...
AP power sector gets Rs 1,604 cr from Centre…
The Andhra Pradesh government has directed all the distribution companies (discoms) to bring down aggregate technical and commercial losses to below 15 per cent in major towns in the state. To achieve this target, the discoms have been asked by the state energy department to fully gear up for the implementation of the Re-structured Accelerated Power Development and Reforms Programme (R-APDRP) meant for this purpose, within the...
China Light Power project likely to be operational by 2012…
The 1320 MW (2X 660 MW) coal based super critical thermal power project of China Light and Power India at Jhajjar in Haryana is expected to be operational between January and March 2012. According to sources, headquartered in Hong Kong, China Light and Power is one of the largest power companies in Asia Pacific with interest in over 50...
Power cuts in all sectors…
Continuous dry spell and delayed Kharif season has forced the energy sector to continue power cuts on almost all sectors of the society _ domestic, agricultural and industrial _ to manage the gap between supply and demand. At present, the power shortfall stood at around 25 mu (million units) per day.Keeping in view the forthcoming Rabi season, the Kiran Kumar Reddy government has already placed orders with power exchanges and...
Power sector requires 6.6 lacs manpower…
India''s power sector, which has embarked on ambitious capacity addition plans, is projected to require more than 6.6 lakh additional manpower during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-17). Grappling with severe power shortages, the country expects to see the addition of about 1,00,000 MW of generation capacity during the 12th Plan, even as many existing projects are running behind schedule due to various factors, including fuel supply...
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