To avoid any increase in consumer tariffs, domestic power producers have pitched for keeping generation, transmission and distribution companies outside the service tax ambit. Any imposition of service tax will add to consumer tariffs,...
Delhi Power Minister Harun Yusuf today laid the foundation stone of a power sub-station in Vikaspuri area of West Delhi which will further augment power supply to nearly two lakh consumers in the locality....
TD Power Systems, a manufacturer of electric generators, is on an expansion drive to enter the large electric generators space and is investing Rs 200 crore for the expansion. The BSE-listed company currently manufactures...
Five consulting firms, including Crisil, Deloitte and REC Power, have evinced interest in conducting a study on capital expenditure of Haryana’s two power distribution companies, official sources said here. “Five companies have submitted bids...
Lanco Infratech is known to be in talks with international energy majors like AES of United States and Gaz de France to sell a part of its power business. The company had recently said...
Burdened by higher power purchase cost and lower bill structure, Reliance Infrastructure, which has controlling stake in three power distributing companies (discom) in Orissa, has suggested that the government should provide subsidy if it...
Tapping its abundant thorium reserves, the Government has decided to commence the construction of 300-MW thorium-based Advanced Heavy Water Reactor in the next 18 months, a senior official said on Tuesday. “Under the third...
Even as the group protesting Koodankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) upped the ante, the department of atomic energy (DAE) announced Tuesday it would add two more reactors to Kalpakkam Nuclear Plant in an effort...
The Gujarat power plant is a 5MW power plant and the second plant in Orissa is capable of producing 1 MW power. The project in Gujarat is sponsored by Konark Gujarat Pvt. Ltd. and...
The Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST), which supplies power to the Island City, has suggested an increase in tariffs for all categories of consumers serviced by it, except those below the poverty...
Alleging that the ill-effects of the “monopoly and the resulting arbitrary behaviour” of the public sector coal companies were apparent in the performance of the power sector, Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited (MahaGenco)...
The mercury dipped to record lows on several days this winter, but contrary to expectations, power consumption in the state didn’t register a simultaneous fall. Rather, demand in Maharashtra increased by 1193 MW in...
The country plans to have a nuclear power generation capacity of 63,000 MW in the next 20 years as atomic power is advantageous in terms of transportation and storage, Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said...
Madhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (MPERC) will take up around 100 objections for discussion, over the proposed 25 per cent hike in tariff of electricity by Western Region Power Distribution Company, during the public...
The US-based GE Energy today said it will supply equipment to Reliance Power’s 2,400 MW gas-based power project at Samalkot in Andhra Pradesh. “GE Energy has worked with Reliance Power to prepare the Samalkot...
Abhijeet Power Ltd, an unlisted utility with an operational capacity of 246 MW, plans to raise 59.2 billion rupees debt for a 1,320 MW coal-fired power project by March, a source close to the...