Bring power projects out of drawing board, KERC tells government....

  'Commission five pending projects, buy 1,500 MW every year'.For a brighter future, the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) has directed the state government to commission all power projects that are on the drawing board and stranded halfway through. Five projects are on the drawing board now, meant to generate 10,400...

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Second unit of GMR’s Kamalanga plant commercially operational...

  The GMR Group is establishing 3x350 MW coal-based thermal power plant at Kamalanga in Odisha’s Dhenkanal District. The first unit of 350 MW commenced generation on April 30, 2013. The second 350 MW unit of GMR Kamalanga Energy Limited (GKEL) was declared commercially operational on 11 November 2013. Power produced from GKEL is...

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Power demands goes down as mercury goes down in parts of country...

  Extended monsoon and arrival of winters in parts of the country, the demand for electricity is witnessing downward trend on Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) where the total purchase bids received were close to 3596 million units (MUs) as against the total sale bids for 4453 MUs in October 2013. Higher supplies as against the demand...

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Talwandi Sabopower plant to be dedicated to the public in November...

  Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab Sukhbir Badal has said that the Talwandi Sabo thermal power plant would be dedicated to the public on November 25 at a function organised at Talwandi Sabo. Stating this here on Monday, after visiting the Talwandi Sabo plant and reviewing the progress, Badal said that the first unit of 1980 Mw of...

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Fuel cost saps margins of Reliance Power...

  A 30 per cent rise in fuel cost at Rs 827 crore (Rs 637 crore in the previous year quarter) brought down the margins of Reliance Power for the September quarter. This is despite the company clocking higher revenues and its 1,200 MW Rosa Plant in Uttar Pradesh logging 90 per cent plant availability. Apart from the Rosa Plant, its...

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Hydropower sector goes on the back burner in Uttarakhand...

  At a time when the Uttarakhand government has launched a campaign to highlight its achievements in the media, the hydropower sector, a key growth driver in the hill state, has virtually been put on the backburner. Even in its new official book on developmental works that was released by Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna on the state’s...

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Bid submission dates for Odisha, Tamil Nadu UMPPs extended till end of november 2013...

  The bid submission dates for the proposed ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) in Odisha and Tamil Nadu have been extended to the last week of this month. The dates for submission of preliminary bids for the Odisha and Tamil Nadu UMPPs have been extended due to amendments in certain provisions of the RFQ (Request for Qualification),...

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Tatas, Jindal Steel to lose captive coal mines...

  Tata Group, Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL), and Monnet Ispat & Energy are among the 11 companies that will have to give up captive coal blocks. Tata Group and JSPL were given mines to develop coal-to-liquid (CTL) projects, while nine companies, including Monnet Ispat & Energy, were awarded blocks to feed steel and power...

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