However, only Rs 9,021 crore, or about 17% of the expected total, has been spent through the National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF) to which Rs ...

The minister further said no changes have been proposed in the current budget with regard to the Clean Energy Cess.

Last yea Arun Jaitley had doubled the cess on coal production to Rs 400 per tonne from Rs 200 per tonne and renamed it as clean environment...

Patnaik’s argument is that Odisha has to “face the adverse effects of coal mining such as displacement of people, environment pollution, re...

The purpose of clean energy/environment cess was for financing and promoting clean energy initiatives, funding research in the area of clea...

NTPC has made a saving of Rs 446 crore in energy bill in April this year despite recent increase in Clean Energy Cess on coal.

Indian Captive Power Producers Association today said the budgetary proposal to double cess on coal was not a "progressive tax" and should ...

Renaming the Clean Energy Cess as Clean Environment Cess, the govt today proposed to raise the cess on coal, lignite and peat from Rs 200 a...

Power tariffs may go up significantly as the government has proposed to double clean-energy cess on coal to Rs 400 per tonne from Rs 200 pe...

The cess is presently levied on coal, peat and lignite to finance and promote clean energy initiatives and fund research in this area.

In a written reply in Lok Sabha, Coal and Power Minister Piyush Goyal said Rs 3,527.75 crore was collected in the last fiscal as clean ener...

Suzlon is confident of bagging orders to the tune of 2,000-2,500 MW over a period of two years, said chairman Tulsi Tanti.

The government has raised clean energy cess from Rs 50 per tonne on coal to Rs 100 per tonne. This will result in the rise of cost of gener...

The cess is presently levied on coal, peat and lignite to finance and promote clean energy initiatives and fund research in the area of cle...

The government is likely to collect Rs 5,200 crore in 2014-15 from Coal India after doubling the clean energy cess from Rs 50 per tonne to ...

"The total tax revenue generated through 'Clean Energy Cess' was Rs 1,066.46 cr for 2010-11 and Rs 3,249.40 cr for financial year 2011-12.

Energy security concerns and environment have been further embedded in the Budget with a slew of fiscal incentives and budgetary support fo...