Singapore court tells Pratt & Whitney to supply engines to Go FirstGo First stopped flying and appealed for insolvency proceedings in the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on May 2 due to cash problems a...
06 Jul, 2023, 07.17 PM IST
Power Min revises framework to supply cheapest power lot first to consumersThe gains out of the proposed Day-Ahead National Merit Order Dispatch Mechanism would be shared between generating stations and their consu...
26 Apr, 2023, 06.31 PM IST
On 'Sharqat Day', homage paid to 114th Mahrattas for their supreme sacrifice in World War IIn this particular action, the unit won two Distinguished Service Orders, four Military Cross, six Indian Order of Merit, 16 Indian Disting...
29 Oct, 2022, 07.18 PM IST
PTC India begins supplying 270-MW electricity to Kerala under Centre's pilot schemePTC India was selected as an aggregator to facilitate the sale and purchase of power.
31 Dec, 2021, 04.30 PM IST
For national merit order dispatchThe power grid is no longer a clutch of regional grids but an integrated, national one. This makes merit order dispatch on a national basis...
09 Jun, 2021, 11.03 PM IST
Government moots routing all power purchase via exchangesPower secretary Alok Kumar said MBED is a major initiative for bringing efficiency in energy procurement. “It will help develop truly one n...
03 Jun, 2021, 09.32 AM IST
Government's decision to impose basic customs duty on solar imports will lead to a spike in tariffs: ICRAKadam said that despite the spike, tariffs will not cross the 3-rupee upper limit, which would continue to remain cost-competitve from the ...
11 Mar, 2021, 07.25 PM IST
Shell seeks more clarity on decarbonisation policy and further reform in power sectorReforms will remove hurdles to open access and allow power trading exchange to grow
18 Nov, 2020, 12.51 PM IST
As candles are ready to be lit at 9 pm, power utilities asking people to switch off only lightsIndian grid system is designed to operate at a frequency of 50 Hz (or cycles per second). A sharp drop below this level or a sharp rise abo...
05 Apr, 2020, 04.24 PM IST
Kamalanga deal is value-accretive, JSW Energy may expand capacityJSW Energy believes that the acquisition of GMR Energy’s Kamalanga power project in Odisha will be value-accretive and aims to improve the ...
18 Feb, 2020, 11.12 AM IST
Discoms make a beeline for cheaper power supplied by NTPC under SCED systemUnder SCED power generating cos raise capacity utilisation of more efficient plants which are located closer to coal mines and thus have lo...
28 Jul, 2019, 02.33 PM IST
Piyush Goyal launches App to procure coal, portal for power purchaseGoyal launched a mobile application facilitating flexible coal swap between state-run and private plants and aweb portal to make electricit...
06 Jul, 2017, 12.49 AM IST
Flexible coal utilisation, power dispatch transparency to save Rs 20000 crore in 5 yrs: Piyush GoyalOptimum utilisation of coal through flexibility in coal utilisation and transparency in merit order power dispatch would save the consumer ...
05 Jul, 2017, 04.40 PM IST
How playing the Tata, Adani card will do no good to power producersThe CERC order does take into account the higher returns likely for the coal subsidiaries of Tata and Adani in Indonesia, following the reg...
22 Mar, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Reliance Power wins appeal against CERC order on Sasan UMPPAPTEL set aside CERC's impugned order and has directed it to decide the matter afresh including the issue of maintainability raised by Sasa...
13 Aug, 2013, 03.33 PM IST
Reform coal policies to fix power cutsIt makes sense to provide for a transparent pass-through mechanism to take into account higher incremental costs of sourcing coal from over...
27 Jun, 2013, 11.10 AM IST
- Oil ministry asks power ministry to examine why power cos using less gas
The oil ministry has asked the power ministry to examine reasons that could be forcing generation companies to consume less than their gove...
21 Jun, 2010, 07.09 AM IST