GETTING GREEN IS NOT THAT DIFFICULT ANY MORE Today our world moves with the power of internet on websites and Apps provided platform where we spend lot of time. However, have we, ever thought that how much power or electricity we are consuming while surfing on the website or using different mobile applications? Have we ever tried or wondered to know that from where this electricity is coming, what is it sourcing, isthat electricity is environment friendly or not. May be you are surfing a website or working on your computer and Phone to make our environment green, but in the process how much CO2 you are emitting. I do not have number that how much of man hour we spend on computer and on are cell phone , but for me it’s more than 16 hours in day, and I use electricity supplied the state utility, which hardly supply 1-2% of electricity
KSK Energy Ventures Ltd has synchronised its first 600 MW unit of KSK Mahanadi power plant with the national grid and begun power generation. This is part of the 3,600-MW (six units of 600 MW) fuel-integrated power plant in Chhattisgarh. It will go through the necessary stabilisation procedures before commencement of power supplies to contracted utilities. T.L. Shakar, Chairman of KSK, in a statement said: “These developments demonstrate real progress, with such large generation initiative having been successfully handled by the operating team with all the challenges on ground and under the tough economic environment.” The $3.6-billion single location greenfield private coal-based power plant, when completed, will address the power requirements of Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Goa and Andhra Pradesh. KSK Energy shares firmed up 11.22 per cent to close at Rs 54.50 on the BSE. rishikumar.vundi@thehindu.co.in
Welspun Energy will complete its 130 MW solar photovoltaic project in Madhya Pradesh this August, close to a year earlier than originally scheduled, Vineet Mittal, Co-Founder and Managing Director, told Business Line recently. Welspun Energy won last year the right to put up the plant and sell the power to Madhya Pradesh’s state-owned electricity distribution utility in a competitive bidding process, quoting a tariff of Rs 8.05 a kWhr. Mittal said that Welspun completed the financial closure for the project only in February. Additional capacity The entire project, therefore, would have taken less than six months to complete, he said, adding that the speed of execution set a benchmark for Welspun itself. Welspun Energy today owns solar power producing assets worth 111 MW — in Gujarat and Rajasthan. However, in the current year, the company would add 300 MW of capacity, Mittal said. This 300 MW would include the 130-MW in Madhya Pradesh, but would not
Chinese solar photovoltaic module producers are scouting for partners in India to use the local manufacturing capability to serve the global markets, according to Chairman of Titan Energy System, Rao S.Y.S. Chodagam. With several countries seeking to levy anti-dumping duties on Chinese solar PV products, their efforts to seek Indian manufacturing partners is aimed at addressing the global requirements, he said. Rao told Business Line that they have been approached by couple of Chinese companies offering to be partners and help mutually grow business. This is because, they are not able to sell their products globally due to curbs and see this as a mutually beneficial approach. Earlier, speaking at a solar PV event held here today, he said that there has been an ongoing probe into the dumping related issues since November 2012. This was taken up as domestic manufacturers are faced with tough times unable to sell what they produce while
Andhra Pradesh Government is planning to offer 20 per cent subsidy in addition to the 30 per cent subsidy offered by the Union Government for solar units. According to a statement from the Energy Conservation Mission, the additional subsidy will come through budgetary support. Households can sell extra solar power to the grid at pool cost. The State Government is planning to conduct a solar exhibition in coordination with industry and trade bodies, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Federation of Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry. This is aimed to highlight the impact of solar power for the benefit of industries, entrepreneurs and the general public. M. Sahoo, State Principal Secretary, Energy, in a statement said the accent was on harnessing solar power by encouraging industries and other entities to set up solar power plants for captive consumption as well as for third-party sale within the State. AP Transco has invited bids
The Coal Ministry has hit back at the Power Ministry for raising coal quality issues with the Cabinet Committee on Investments (CCI), headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. The issues raised are “completely unjustified,” the Coal Ministry said in a strongly-worded reply to the Power Ministry on its note submitted to the CCI. It, in fact, blamed the public sector power producer NTPC for not signing agreements with Coal India, leading to payment delays. The Coal Ministry also made it clear that no new proposal relating to quality and sampling could be taken up, as a number of power utilities, including Government-owned, had already signed fuel supply pacts. NTPC has not signed fuel supply pacts for nearly 5,000 MW capacity, leading to a deadlock between the two Maharatna companies. “NTPC has failed to make payments as per the bills raised by the coal companies. This has raised the dispute between the two organisations (NTPC and
The developments relating to the issue of licences for coal mining during the United Progressive Alliance regime's first term have trained the spotlight on the weaknesses and inadequacies of the process that was followed. Almost seven years after the exercise began, the most visible outcomes are the resignations of a Cabinet minister and a senior government law officer. But a fundamental question remains: after seven years of trying to dramatically change the coal supply situation, where's the coal? It obviously wasn't supposed to happen this way. The policy establishment has learnt a large number of lessons from its experiences with private investment in infrastructure. Many of the hurdles are yet to be eliminated, but, broadly speaking, over the past decade, there has been significant progress in a number of sectors. Power was perhaps the most constrained of the infrastructure sectors until a decade ago. Restrictions on interstate flows, large price
The viability of nearly 20,109.85 MW domestic fuel-starved gas-fired power plants now solely depends on State distribution companies’ (discoms) agreeing to pay a higher price for electricity. This is because generating power from expensive imported gas would push tariffs up by at least Rs 3-4 per kwh. The Power Ministry, which has tried several measures to help power plants, including price pooling of gas, now seems left with no other option. “There are no changes in domestic gas supplies. The gas-based power plants are now running at plant load factor of 30-35 per cent. Diversion from other sectors can only keep increasing the availability, but will not help much,” P. Uma Shankar, Secretary at Ministry of Power, told Business Line. “The most crucial factor is tariff increase,” he said. Uma Shankar is due to retire on June 30. However, a Power Ministry official said “Increase in tariff is possible only if discoms are willing to
Tariff hike is no panacea to the ills plaguing the State’s power utility Tangedco and the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) should find out the causes for its losses and suggest a remedy, according to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Consumers’ Association (TECA). It also wanted an end to industrial and commercial users being made to underwrite the losses Tangedco incurs by subsidising power supply to others at a time of increasing competition, which is eroding the price competitiveness of industries in the State. Making a submission before the TNERC here on Friday, D.Balasundaram, President, TECA, Coimbatore, said the utility had projected a revenue deficit of Rs 10,344 crore in 2013-14 on a sale of 63,866 MU of power or around 175 MU of energy a day. But he felt that even if it sells 300 MU of energy a day (109,500 MU in a year), it would not earn a surplus. This
The World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) recent ruling against Ontario’s domestic content requirements for renewable energy projects is setback for India, which is defending a similar case filed against it by the US. But the country has not given up hopes of a favourable verdict, as it believes that the finer details of its case are different. “Our situation is very different from Ontario’s. In our case, production is for Government procurement, which cannot be brought under WTO discipline. Besides, in phase-II of the solar mission, we propose to divide the 750 MW capacity put on offer into two. Some projects would mandate domestic content, and some would be open for use of imported products,” a senior official from the Ministry for New & Renewable Energy told Business Line. The Commerce Department, which represents the country at the WTO, is analysing the details of the Ontario verdict. “We are at the moment going through the
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