CCEA relaxes 3-year tapering coal linkage policy...

  The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) relaxed the coal tapering linkage policy thereby relaxing the coal supply to 9 power projects with investments worth about Rs 60,000 crore with capacity of 11,000 megawatt (MW). These power projects which were initially proposed to benefit from this relaxation were -Essar Power’s...

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Ujaas Energy to install 160 kW Solar system of NALCO's head Office in Odisha...

  National Aluminum Company Ltd has selected Ujaas Energy Ltd for installation of a large grid interactive solar PV project of 160kw at its head office in Bhubaneswar in Odisha. The project would be executed under the allocation from Solar Energy Corporation of India and would be synchronised with the grid. Once installed, the project...

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UP dials NTPC after Jaypee pulls plug on power project...

  Almost seven years after bagging the project and following a series of hiccups in land acquisition, Jaypee Infratech has finally conveyed to the UP government its unwillingness to construct the 1,320-MW Karchana power project in Allahabad. A desperate state government has now initiated talks with the central PSU, NTPC, to take...

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How to power up the rooftop solar in Tamil Nadu...

  Except the nice feeling, Dutchman Toine van Megen, an Indophile who has been living in this country for over 40 years, gets nothing for the electricity he pumps into the grid from his rooftop solar power plant. If everyone could afford to be like the former executive of Suzlon and the co-Founder of Auroville Consulting, there would...

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Study: Takeaways from CERC tariff norms...

  The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has come out with a new set of draft tariff regulations for 2014-19. The regulations, when approved, would be applicable to all central sector power generating and transmission companies, and generators and transmission licensees proposing to sell power to more than one state...

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DERC ponders over discoms’ demand for new rates...

  Aam Aadmi Party may have promised to slash power tariff in the city by 50% but Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) is considering the discoms' demand for new rates towards power purchase adjustment costs (PPAC) from January 1. "We are studying the claims made by the discoms and verifying them. Depending on whether the...

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Power Sector Yet to Get its Act Together...

  Like any other year, this calendar year also did not bring any good cheer for the power sector. Fuel linkages be it coal, gas or other sources were the factors that held back the sector growth. While power plants from AP to Maharashtra stalled production as promised gas linkages from power plants from AP to Maharashtra continued...

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Damodar Valley Corporation power project stares at dead end...

  Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) was one of Jawaharlal Nehru's 'temples of modern India'. But decades of conflict with beneficiary state governments and mismanagement have turned the eastern powerhouse into a 'temple of doom', presiding over a financial dead end. In a confidential report to the power ministry, Arup Roy Choudhury,...

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Analysis: Indian Power sector sees return of investors...

  The Piramal Group led by Ajay Piramal is scouting for investment opportunities in the Indian power sector, in a move that is as much an indication of the intentions of a conglomerate with money to invest as it is of growing investor interest in the business. “The Piramal Group is looking at investment options and is evaluating...

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The sun, a school and a farewell to power cuts in Tamil Nadu...

  Students and teachers of Ramaratnam Nursery and Primary School in Mylapore have not had to bear the brunt of power cuts for almost one year, all thanks to the solar power plant installed on the roof of the building. The school housed in the Madras Sanskrit College has installed an ‘On Grid’ type solar plant in which electricity...

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