A mechanism to address the recovery of additional capital expenditures by power companies on eco-friendly equipment needs to be worked out ...

Power, coal, renewable energy and mines minister Piyush Goyal are scheduled to meet power ministers of all states in Delhi in a two-day con...

In February, the commission, under the then telecom secretary JS Deepak, had pulled up the regulator over the deteriorating health of the s...

The search-cumselection panel headed by the cabinet secretary met December 2 to whittle down the list from more than 40 applications that h...

"There is a need for transparency and disclosure and that is one way which we bring pressure on the system to deliver correctly and this go...

"What has happened in the past two years is there is a phenomenal growth in supply of coal so much so that I have virtually become redundan...

"Today discoms have to generate enough revenue to run their business or if they fail the state government has to come out and fund them"

Industry fears that large-scale addition of renewable capacity will further erode the margins of thermal power projects.

Power minister Piyush Goyal has held an exclusive meeting to review its implementation while power secretary PK Pujari has taken four such ...

“The proposal provides for the creation of an independent entity that will own, manage and regulate power transmission lines,” the official...

Once the documents are approved by the Cabinet, the power ministry will auction bids for the UMPPs, sources said.

Panelists said capacity utilisation of thermal plants had fallen sharply due to sluggish industrial growth and inefficiency of state discom...

The demand-supply mismatch in the power sector is likely to balance out in the next four to five years as industrial growth picks up, Power...

The government is considering issuing tax-free bonds to provide long-term finance to hydropower plants, power secretary PK Pujari said.

They are expected to discuss matters relating to cross- border electricity transmission, grid connectivity and power trade between both the...

"We expect to call bids for about four UMPPs before the end of the fiscal," Pujari said, adding that the UMPPs that could be offered includ...

A total of 17 Secretary-level new appointments have been cleared by the Appointments Committee of Cabinet (ACC) headed by Prime Minister Na...