The government is planning to auction 4,500 MW wind projects in the next four months to upscale the wind capacity addition in the country, sources say. “An additional bid of 1,500 MW wind projects...
Per capita consumption of electricity is one of the potent indicators of a society’s human development index. India’s per capita consumption has crossed the landmark 1000 kwph in 2015. Still it lags behind the...
Consequent to the heavy inflows into the Srisailam Project and eventual release of water from the project and subsequent power production at the hydel unit at the project, Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu sought...
Karnataka’s electricity regulator has refused to approve the power purchase agreements (PPAs) for wind power projects that were commissioned before March 31, 2017, without a fresh tariff reduction of 17% to Rs 3.74/unit. The...
Power plants are to be squarely blamed for the current coal stock crisis, Coal Secretary Susheel Kumar has said. A quarter of the country’s coal-based plants, including state-run generation companies and firms like Damodar Valley Corporation,...