World energy issues monitor 2024
In a world where the demands for secure, affordable and sustainable energy are ever-increasing, global and national energy systems are showing signs of deficiencies and strains everywhere. There is an
Power Transmission
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Adani Power to invest Rs 3,000 cr in solar power
Adani Power plans to invest Rs 3,000 crore in two years to add 160 megawatt (Mw) solar power to its exisisting capacity. The company, set to commission its first 40-Mw solar power plant in Bitta village
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Coal India’s new pricing policy to hit consumers
BHUBANESWAR: As if the last year hike was not enough, the Coal India’s announcement of new pricing policy for upward revision in the prices of different grades of the fossil fuel has come as a shocker.
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Kashmir bandh called against power crisis
Srinagar: The Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA), an amalgam of various traders’ bodies, today gave a call for Kashmir bandh on January 6 against the power “crisis” in the Valley. “The power situation in
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33 lesser flamingos killed for meat in Guj
Ahmedabad: A conservation activist found 33 severed heads and legs of lesser flamingos in Gujarat’s Little Rann of Kutch. Bodies of the birds were missing though leading to the suspicion that they had
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Sagar power
Calcutta, Jan. 2: Sagar Mela will for the first time get power supply from the mainland this year. Overhead cables were drawn from Lot No. 8 in South 24-Parganas to Sagar Island’s Kachuberia, 3km across
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Capital blackout averted after CERC intervention
New Delhi The threat of a blackout looming over the Capital due to the payment dispute between NTPC and BSES discoms has been averted, with the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) restraining
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Privatisation in power distribution of Agra causing loss
Alleging that giving power distribution of Agra city to private hands was causing huge losses to the UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL), the All-India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) on Friday demanded
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Empowering Bihar: policy pathway for energy access
This new Greenpeace report illustrates the changes that have to be made, both in terms of institutional and government policies to enable the state of Bihar meet its energy requirements.
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Punjab congress manifesto for Punjab elections 2012
Today Punjab is facing crisis in all spheres, be it stagnating agriculture, flight of industry from Punjab, poor education quality, poor healthcare, rising epidemics of cancer and drug addiction, unprecedented
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Report of the Working Group on Power for Twelfth Plan (2012-17)
The Planning Commission constituted the Working Group on Power to formulate the programme for development of the power sector during the 12th Plan. Since its constitution in March 2011, the Working Group