Power grids need to be more intelligent, feels Alstom chief...

  India is a world leader in the power transmission business, but lags behind in the transmission end of the business, said Gregoire Poux-Guillaume, Executive Vice-President, Alstom, and Head of Alstom Grid Worldwide, here on Wednesday. Speaking at the inaugural session of ELECRAMA 2014, an international event of the power transmission...

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Mosaic Plans Crowd sourced Solar Expansion to Developing Countries...

  Leading solar crowdsourcing firm Mosaic is the latest entrant into clean energy’s next big market: off-grid applications. Thanks to a grand prize of $1 million from Verizon Powerful Answers, Mosaic will develop a mobile app and expand loan products to emerging markets in Africa, Brazil, India and Asia. With machine-to-machine...

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Fire breakout at a unit of Tata Power's Trombay plant...

  Fire broke out at a 250 MW unit of Tata Power's thermal plant at Trombay and the company said that the reasons for "the event" as well as the damages would be ascertained in "due course". Power generation from rest of the units remain unaffected by the incident. The project has an operational capacity of 1,580 MW. The company...

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Toshiba reinforce thermal power business in India...

  Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has reinforced its thermal power generation business in India by integrating the engineering function of Toshiba India Pvt. Ltd. into Toshiba JSW Turbine and Generator Pvt. Ltd., a manufacturer of turbines and generators based in Chennai, Tami Nadu. The company, which has been renamed...

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BORG Energy expand presence in North India with launch of smart grid technology...

  BORG Energy India, a subsidiary of BORG Inc., has launched the BORG Astra plus Home Series, a Range of fully loaded micro solar power plants in the Northern Part of India. BORG Astra Plus Home Series micro solar power plants generate maximum power output and are offered in four ranges - 500W, 1000W, 1500W and 2500W.They have the...

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Second Kudankulam unit to start commercial operation from Sept...

  The second unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) will start generating electricity from September, Union Minister V Narayanasamy has said. "Ninety-five per cent of the work for second unit of the plant has been completed and we should start commercial operation from the unit by September 2014," the Minister of State...

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Borg Energy to invest $45 mn in India...

  Borg Energy, a solar power solutions provider, plans to invest USD 45 million (Rs 279 crore) in India on projects including a rural electrification programme. The investments are likely to be made in next six months. The company, which entered the country last year, is in advanced discussions with some states in North India for...

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CIL to once again invite fresh applications for coal import...

  State-owned  Coal India  (CIL) will once again invite fresh applications from interested entities for importing coal that would be supplied to power plants under fuel supply agreements as the earlier tender floated by the PSU elicit no response. "We will float a fresh tender anytime...There was no response to the the...

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India's first greenfield Nuclear power site to begin operations...

  India’s first greenfield site for nuclear reactor in 14 years is set to become operational on Monday when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh lays the foundation for two 700-MW nuclear power plants at Gorakhpur in the Fatehabad district of Haryana. “The two units are likely to produce commercial electricity by 2020-21 as it would take...

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West Bengal deals double whammy to RP-SG's CESC...

  Fears arise that minuscule tariff hike, unchanged key rates could strangle the power producer. The West Bengal state power regulator has dealt a double whammy to the RP-Sanjiv Goenka group’s flagship CESC which supplies power to Kolkata and some adjoining areas. CESC has been allowed to raise tariff by a measly 0.15% or less than...

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Buying hydro power may become mandatory for discoms...

  The Union power ministry is planning to make it mandatory for power distribution companies (discoms) to buy electricity from hydel projects — a move that would put them on a par with renewable power plants. The idea is to attract investments into the sector and raise the falling share of hydroelectricity in the country’s power mix....

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