First 10,000 Customers To Get Solar Rooftop Subsidy In Tamil Nadu...

 

In order to promote domestic electricity capacity, the Tamil Nadu government is offering a capital subsidy of Rs 20,000 for every 1 kW solar rooftop system. This was promised by Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa back in April.

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According to the renewable energy development arm of the State Government, Tamilnadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA), the cost of a 1 kW solar rooftop system comes out to be Rs 1,00,000. The government will give a subsidy of Rs 30,000, with the investor paying only Rs 50,000. TN will offer another Rs 20,000. This subsidy will be offered on a ‘first come first served’ basis.

TEDA expects that the solar system will generate 1,600 units a year. Now at a tariff of Rs 5.75 per kWhr, the annual savings will be about Rs 9,200.

The subsidy will be given only to grid-connected, battery-less systems, and only for domestic consumers (‘LT-1A’ category), reports Hindu Business Line. Solar power generated is to be consumed within the building. Consumers may choose to buy the solar systems from a list of vendors approved by TEDA. TEDA will “float a tender for empanelling the vendors,” the GO says according to the report.

The subsidy is applicable for only 1 kW systems, that too only for the first 10,000 applicants.

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NTPC seeks gas from KG Basin beyond 2014...

 

NTPC has asked the Government to extend gas supplies from the D6 block in the Krishna Godavari (KG) basin beyond 2014.

In 2009, an empowered group of Ministers (eGoM) allocated 4.46 million standard cubic metres per day (mmscmd) to the public sector power sector.

Out of the total gas allocated, 2.30 mmscmd has been contracted with Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), the operator of D6 gas fields. The present gas sale agreements are valid till March, as the allocation of KG D6 gas was made for five years.

“It is understood that the production from KG D6 fields is likely to continue beyond March 2014. From a fuel security point of view, continuation of supply of KG D6 gas in future is very crucial for NTPC gas stations,” NTPC wrote to the Power Ministry recently.

NTPC uses the KG D6 gas at its power stations in Anta, Auraiya, Dadri and Faridabad.

In addition, NTPC has informed the Government that RIL and its partners are unilaterally changing the terms and conditions of the gas-sale-purchage-agreement (GSPA) in their favour. For example, in the new draft, GSPA has proposed that the seller will have no liability and the buyer will have no right to sue the seller for any delay or shortfall or interruption of gas.

NTPC has said that the supplies under GSPA may get restricted under two circumstances — lack of availability of gas, in line with Government directives. However, RIL is not agreeing to modification of GSPA.

The public sector power producer has sought the nodal Ministry’s intervention for resolution of differences over GSPA.

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NGO puts up green hurdles to NTPC’s Bangladesh project...

 

Some NGOs in Bangladesh are against NTPCBSE 1.36 % setting up a 1,320-mw thermal power plant at Rampal in the Sunderbans beyond the Indian border. According to them, a coal-fired plant will pollute the area, rendering permanent damage to the fragile ecological balance in the region — home to mangroves and the Royal Bengal Tiger.

The opposition came up despite both the countries signing an agreement to set up the plant in Bangladesh. It is being set up as a 50:50 joint venture between India's NTPC and Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) at an investment of about $1.5 billion.

On October 22, the foundation stone for the plant was laid by senior government officials from both sides. National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources , Power and Ports, a strong local NGO, organised a march to the plant site on the day the foundation stone was laid.

"Coal is the dirtiest means of energy generation. We want the location of the proposed plant to be moved and instead of setting up coalfired thermal power plant, solar and other means of green energy generation can be taken up," Pinaki Bandopadhyay, a senior member of the NGO, told ET from Bangladesh.

"In India, thermal power stations can be built at 25 km away from a forest area. If NTPC abides by that law in India , then why are they setting up the plant so close to the Sunderbans in Bangladesh?" he wondered.

The NGO, which is learned to have the backing of powerful opposition leaders in the country , also does not want national resources like coal and oil to be used by foreign companies. "We also feel that the environment and ecology impact analysis report prepared by the Bangladesh government has a number of flaws and it needs to be prepared again," the activist said.

The report tries to quantify the effect of setting up a factory on the ecology and the environment in the area. The NTPC project has been facing hurdles right from the beginning. The first was the suitability of the land that was offered by the Bangladesh government.

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Adani Power posted a net los off Rs. 2609.10 Mn for the Q2 Quarter...

 

Adani Power Ltd has posted the increase in total income from Rs. 15511.70 mn for the quarter ended September 30, 2012 to Rs. 31080.30 mn for the quarter ended September 30, 2013.

Adani Power Ltd has posted a net loss after taxes and Minority Interest of Rs. (10719.10) million for the quarter ended September 30, 2013 as compared to net loss of Rs. (2609.10) mn for the quarter ended September 30, 2012.

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Power sector can sink the economy sans reform...

 

The power sector is in crisis, thanks to misplaced priorities and opportunism in policymaking, particularly at the state level. Two decades after tentative reforms and opening up in the sector, policy stays fixated on generation capacity, never mind huge revenue leakage in power distribution, lack of capacity in transmission and avoidable , policy-induced shortage of coal and gas.

Already, with several state power utilities financially moribund and simply lacking creditworthiness for increased offtake, multiple power producers have announced stalling of operations; entire projects are now on the back burner.

And yet, the power ministry's penchant for new generation activity remains quite undiminished . It is currently soliciting investor interest for two ultra-mega power projects, one each in Tamil Nadu and Odisha, with a combined investment requirement of about Rs 50,000 crore, which are slated to supply to several states.

But the fact remains that several of the state utilities expected to procure the power have run up huge losses and outstandings because of reckless politically-mandated tariffs, attendant giveaways and plain open theft of power, with the powers that be turning a Nelson's eye to the matter.

What is worse is that the policy establishment seems, verily, to have lost interest in arresting the mounting commercial losses in distribution. The annual Economic Survey no longer gives details of the massive forfeiture involved, although a line buried deep in the text does mention, more as an afterthought, that the yearly distribution losses amount to as much as 1% of gross national output,or about Rs 1,00,00 crore.

Itclearly makes little sense to coagulate big-ticket investments when the monies horrendously fettered away, mostly by way of power theft, are twice that. The runaway losses would surely short-circuit the entire power sector, with grave economy-wide implications. Hence the vital need for vision and proactive policy to stem distribution losses and stamp out routine theft, invest in transmission and unclog coal and gas supply.

 

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UPERC asks Discoms not to impose late payment surcharge to the consumers...

 

The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) has ordered all Discoms not to impose late payment surcharge upon those consumers who have been unable to settle their dues because of slow internet connections at billing counters.

The order, issued by the commission a day ago, comes as great relief for thousands of consumers in Noida and Ghaziabad who had been complaining of difficulties in paying bills for the past one month.

Residents had complained that they were unable to make payments despite standing in serpentine queues at billing centres for hours.

They said that though they were not at fault for being unable to make bill payments, the discom, Paschimanchal Vidyut Vitaran Nigam Limited (PVVNL), was imposing penalties on them. "It's very unfair to expect consumers to pay penalties when they have to return without making payments despite standing at the queues for hours," said OP Sharma, a resident of Sector 16 in Noida. The discom had told consumers that bill payments were affected due to a state-wide malfunction of the internet system of the power corporation.

The commission has directed discoms to extend the last dates for payment of dues. The orders were issued after a petition was filed by UP Rajya Vidyut Upbhokta Parishad, a state-level electricity consumers' body. The petition had been filed after similar problems were experienced by power consumers in Lucknow.

Discom officials said that work is on to fix the problem of internet connectivity. "Consumers will be intimated about the revisions done to their due dates of payments," said a senior discom official.

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MY Eco Energy forays into the bio-fuel industry...

 

Pune based, My Eco Energy has announced its foray into the bio-fuel industry which is involved in the manufacturing of waste to bio-diesel, a non-petroleum based fuel.

Bio-diesel is made from from waste materials including vegetable oils and animal fat available for consumer and commercial use.

As said by the  company, "Looking at the current scenario of the dependency on non-renewable fuel systems, there is a growing demand for a non-petroleum based fuel. It is this demand that Bio-Diesel by My Eco Energy addresses."

The company offers the consumers a completely natural, high-performing and low-environment depleting fuel option for their Diesel fuelled vehicles. Bio-diesel could be efficiently utilized by transport companies as well as across machinery equipment like electricity generators, industrial boilers & furnaces.

The company will initially cater primarily to consumers in Maharashtra and neighboring states through 20 distributorships. Over time, it plans to expand its network to over 250 dealer owned retail pumps in the state over the next year.

The company said that the fuel could either be used alone or blended with conventional petro-diesel in unmodified diesel-engine vehicles.

Produced from various feed stocks including waste vegetable oils and non-edible oils like used cooking oil and acid oils and tallow, the company said that this was an environmentally safe, low polluting fuel suitable for most diesel engines.

 

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Essar withdraws the application for grant of distribution license in gurgaon...

 

Essar Projects, the group company of Essar, has withdrawn its application from Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission for grant of power distribution license in Gurgaon's Municipal Corporation area.

Essar Projects had earlier sought license to distribute power in municipal area of Gurgaon in Haryana as the second energy supplier in the district and had filed the application as per the provision laid under section 14 read with section 15 of Electricity Act, in the month of March this year.

If the license had been granted to Essar Projects, it would have been the second distribution license holder after state-owned Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) for supplying power to energy consumers within municipal limits of Gurgaon.

Gurgaon circle is a very potential area in terms of revenue generation and consumer load. DHBVN generates almost 50 per cent of its revenue from Gurgaon circle only out of its total five circles. Gurgoan has power consumer base of 3.60 lakh with average power load of 700-800 MW.

Pegging the capital outlay on this project at Rs 1,519 crore, the company in its application had said that it would set up its own distribution network for supplying power to the consumers.

The company had kept the cost of power from own generation and purchase at Rs 5.19 per unit with hike of 3-4 per cent per annum.

The Electricity Act, 2003 provides for second power distribution license provided, the company has its own power distribution related infrastructure.

 

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Tata Power Solar commissioned 10 MW Solar plant in Karnataka for Jindal Aluminum...

 

Tata Power Solar has commissioned the 10 MW Solar Power Project at Chitradurga, Karnataka for the Jindal Aluminum Ltd (JAL) in the timeframe of four months from the land allotment date.

The plant so far is the largest in the Karnataka and is expected to produce around 18 Million kWh annually.

The plant consists a total of 48,000 multi crystalline modules, each with an average output of 240Wp, has been installed on the 52 acres non-agricultural land in Kalamarahalli, Chitradurga, Karnataka.

After land conversion process, it was developed into a solar farm with 16,000 foundations laid to support the structural framework of 2,000 mounts within a span of 2 months.

Tata Power Solar has designed and built more than 70 MW of grid connected projects to-date. Some of its recent notable projects are: 17 MW power plant in Mithapur, Gujarat, 5MW GMDC project in Bhuj and 10MW Emami project in Charanka in Gujarat.

Recently, the Company bagged a 50 MW solar power plant project from NTPC in Rajgarh, MP & 28 MW solar power project from Tata Power in Satara, Maharashtra.

According to a report by Central Electricity Authority (CEA), Karnataka faced an energy deficit of 17.8 percent. As part of the RPO targets fixed by the state electricity regulators, Karnataka is mandated to purchase 0.25% from solar energy as a percentage of its total procurement during a year. JAL has entered into a 25 year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) to provide power at Rs. 8.25 per unit flat for the whole tenure of 25 years.

 

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Alstom T&D to supply transformer package for NPGCL Power Plant...

 

Alstom T&D India will supply a power transformer package for Nabinagar Power Generating Com Ltd' (NPGCL) super thermal power project located in Bihar. The project is part of a bulk tender which has been set up to accelerate the pace of thermal capacity addition.

This order, worth approximately Rs 105.5 crore (14 million), covers design, engineering, manufacture, supply, testing, erection and commissioning of generator transformers and associated power transformers and shunt reactor. The Nabingar power transformer package is due to be delivered by October 2017.

All equipment will be manufactured by Alstom T&D India's transformer manufacturing and testing facility in Naini (Uttar Pradesh), the company said in a statement.

Alstom builds fast train and the highest capacity automated metro in the world, provides turnkey integrated power plant solutions and associated services for a wide variety of energy sources, including hydro, nuclear, gas, coal and wind, and it offers a wide range of solutions for power transmission, with a focus on smart grids. The Group employs 93,000 people in around 100 countries. It had sales of over 20 billion and booked close to 24 billion in orders in 2012/13.

Alstom T&D India, has a strong portfolio of products, solutions and services, comprising the entire range of transmission equipment up to extra and ultra high voltages (765 kV and beyond) including air-insulated switchgear (AIS) and locally manufactured power transformers and gas-insulated switchgear (GIS). It also provides power electronics solutions (HVDC, FACTS) to create super highways and offers highly advanced power management Smart Grid solutions for transmission and distribution including renewable energies integration. With over 3,500 employees and eight world class manufacturing units, Alstom T&D India is future ready to support the rapidly evolving transmission sector in India.

 

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