The government plans to enact a law soon to make states accountable for power distribution, Union Power Secretary P Uma Shankar said.

"We are preparing a State Electricity Distribution Responsibility Bill," Power Secretary P Uma Shankar told reporters.

Govt will kick start its financial restructuring plan for the power distribution companies from January, next year.

New bidding norms for thermal power projects are likely to be finalised by December 31, Power Secretary P Uma Shankar said today.

The Govt is mulling setting up separate electricity transmission islands for essential services like Railways and Airports.

Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde has cancelled his official tour to Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh to attend to the power crisis in northern sta...

"NTPC should speed up the coal production from the coal blocks re-allocated to them by the Coal Ministry," Power Secretary P Uma Shankar sa...

Power sector has the potential to create as many as six lakh jobs during the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2012-17), a top government officia...

'The Coal Secretary has assured that CIL will be able to spare coal, provided the developer picks it up from the pit head.'

In an interview with ET Now, P Uma Shankar, Power Secretary, talks about the steps taken towards cutting transmission and distribution loss...

At the upper end of the price band, the issue size will be Rs 4,660 crore. The offer will be at 5.4% discount to the Friday's closing price...

NTPC's coal requirement is likely to touch 165 million tonnes (MT) in the next financial year (2011-12), of which it may import 12-15 MT.

Eight industrial sectors, including power and fertilizers, would invest 30,000 crore to save 10 million tonnes of oil equivalent in the nex...

"In the next 2-3 days we would be able to finalise the modalities (of the Orissa UMPP)...we are trying to sort it out soon," Power Secretar...

The power ministry has asked state-run generation utility NTPC to pull up its socks for ensuring timely completion of projects.

The Power Ministry today said all efforts were being made to bring the 20 per cent follow-on-public (FPO) offer of state-run Power Finance ...

Rural Electrification Corp (REC), a state-run financier of power projects, on Monday said it will invite bids for its follow-on public offe...