Indian Power Sphere: 11/18/13

November 18, 2013

Fairwood to make India global hub for green energy solutions...

Fairwood Smart Green, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Singapore-headquartered Fairwood Smart Green Global, has lined up plans to eventually turn the Indian operation into global production hub for hardware and software for hi-tech automation products and solutions for renewable and infrastructure projects across the world. Singapore-based...

Three Indian firms shortlisted for Zayed Future Energy Prize...

Three Indian firms have been shortlisted for the Zayed Future Energy Prize, the world's top award for innovation in renewable energy and sustainability. The finalists, announced yesterday from 552 submissions from 88 countries, include three global corporations, small and medium enterprises from India, the United States and Belgium,...

Interaction with ABB's global head of power on India's renewable energy segment...

While weak macro-economic situations hamper India’s power infrastructure sector, multinational power products makers, ABB Ltd have evolved a flexible business model to sail through the weakness in domestic market. In an interaction with Rutam Vora, during the opening of its new transformers factory at Savli, ABB Ltd’s global head...

Monthly review of Indian Power Sector - October 2013...

During the month of October 2013, around 530 MW of generating capacity has been installed under the Indian Power Sector reaching the total cumulative generating capacity at around 229.25 GW. Further around 411 Circuit Kms of transmission lines are also added. Summary of the review of Indian Power Sector for the...

REPower, Suzlon Group company, to unveil its new offshore wind turbine 6.2M152...

At EWEA offshore 2013, the Suzlon Group - the world's fifth largest wind turbine manufacturer - will unveil its new offshore turbine, the REpower 6.2M152. With the new offering, the company once again sets standards in the cost-effective generation of offshore wind energy. Some of the features as highlighted by the company...

Reliance Infra commissions india's first privately owned transmission line between Pune-Parli...

Reliance Power Transmission Ltd, a SPV of Reliance Infra has commissioned the 311 km Pune-Parli transmission line. The line is part of the 1,500 km Western Region System Strengthening Scheme II, and will connect industrial centres of Maharashtra like Pune, Aurangabad and Beed. This is India’s first 100 per cent privately owned...

NTPC cancels Rs 700 crore gas turbine tender with Finmeccanica subsidiary...

In A bid to avoid any embarrassment from probes by investigating agency, India’s largest thermal power generator NTPC has scrapped a gas turbine tender worth over Rs 700 crore with Italian firm Ansaldo Energia SpA. Genoa-based Ansaldo Energia is a subsidiary of Finmeccanica, the parent company of tainted Agusta Westland. Indian...

Roadshows for Coal India's 5% stake sale begin...

Coal India is the biggest loser on the Nifty, shedding around 1 percent in intraday on Monday. The world's largest coal miner starts off its second round of roadshows for the 5 percent stake sale and will continue till November 26. The government will hold roadshows in Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia from next week. ...

TEDA launches Chief Minister's Solar scheme...

Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA) has launched Chief Minister’s Solar Rooftop Capital Incentive scheme, which offers a subsidy of Rs 20,000 for a kilowatt capacity solar plant. With the launch of the scheme, the domestic power consumer could apply for installing a grid-connected rooftop solar photovoltaic...

MoP's draft replies on queries with respect to "implementation of Central Eletricity Act 2003 - a review"

The Ministry of Power has prepared draft reply to a list of queries with respect to the 'Implementation of the Central Electricity Act, 2003 - A Review'. The draft replies prepared ranged from queries relating to steps taken in furtherance of the objectives of the Central Electricity Act, 2003 to queries on challenges affecting...

NTPC's Farakka Super thermal power project starts imported coal movement...

NTPC rose 0.82% to Rs 154 at 9:35 IST on BSE after the company said that the company's Farakka Super Thermal Power Station in West Bengal had started the movement of imported coal by barges through inland waterway. The announcement was made during trading hours today, 18 November 2013. NTPC's Farakka Super Thermal Power Station...

Research: harvest two times more energy from solar cells...

Researchers in Cambridge and Mons have investigated the process in which the initial electronic excitation can split into a pair of half-energy excitations. Researchers are trying to improve efficiency is to split energy available from visible photons into two, which leads to a doubling of the current in the solar cell. Researchers...

Premier Solar ties up with US firm to invest $400 m in Andhra Pradesh...

Premier Solar has tied up with Chicago-based renewable energy company New Generation Power to set up solar farms in Andhra Pradesh. The consortium, which plans to invest $400 million (Rs 2,500 crore) in the next couple of years, has already secured contracts to set up 70-MW capacity and will bid for another 245 MW under the Andhra...

Coal India hikes transportation fees...

State-run monopoly miner Coal India has increased the amount it charges its clients for transporting coal from the minefields to the loading points, a move that is likely to result in a hike of about 2 paise per unit in the price of power sold to households. "We have been forced to hike the charges because diesel prices have increased...

UP Government inaugurates 110 MW unit at kanti; assures a 500MW power plant soon...

Heralding a new era in the field of power generation in the state, CM Nitish Kumar on Sunday dedicated the 110MW first unit of Kanti Bijli Utpadan Nigam Limited (KBUNL) to the people of the state. He announced on the occasion that one more power plant of 500MW would come up at Kanti, on the outskirts of the town, soon. Hitherto,...

Coal India may hike prices by fiscal-end...

Coal India Ltd, the monopoly miner of the resource, may go for a price hike by end of the current fiscal following a fall in its earnings due to drop in the average quality of coal mined. A better understanding of the actual need to raise prices would happen by the end of third quarter as by then old stocks would be fully cleared...

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