Tata Power announced its plan to set up electric vehicle charging stations across Mumbai, and has set up the first one at its compound in Vikhroli. “These chargers would facilitate electric car users to charge their cars (Battery Electric Vehicles such as the Mahindra e2O, Nissan Leaf, etc) at any time safely and conveniently. The […]
Even as India more or less sticks to the target on adding large solar farms under its ambitious Solar Mission project, the other leg of the plan — rooftop solar — remains woefully behind target. Under the solar mission, India is supposed to have put in 5,000 megawatt of solar plants on the roofs of […]
India added only 827 megawatt of solar power generation capacity in the first three months of the current financial year, indicating a slow start to the yearly program. The addition of the first three months represents only 8.27% of the 10,000 megawatt that it is supposed to come online this year. According to India’s ambitious […]
Surya Roshni, one of India’s oldest electrical brands, said it launched what could be India’s most power efficient full-size ceiling fan — the SS-32. The fan belongs to the new breed of brushless or BLDC fans that use an electronic circuit to convert alternating current into direct current or DC, instead of a brush. Surya’s […]
Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd said it had appointed banking intermediaries for organizing investor meetings in the run up to raising Rs 6,000 cr ($930 mln) by selling foreign-currency denominated bonds. The bonds will be non-convertible, and will be issued if the meetings discover favorable market conditions and demand, the state-owned oil marketing company said. Shareholders […]
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited said it got an order from Gujarat Alkalies and Chemical Limited for setting up a 15 MW Solar Photovoltaic power plant in Gujarat on Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) basis. This takes the total solar power generation capacity being constructed by the company to 180 MW, including ground-based and rooftop-based. The […]
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) commissioned an 800 MW coal-based supercritical thermal unit at the Yeramarus Thermal Power Station located in Raichur district of Karnataka, the heavy equipment maker said. The plant is a joint venture between BHEL and Karnataka Power Corporation Limited and now has a capacity of 1600 MW. With this, BHEL has supplied […]
The Department of Atomic Energy today said that India is the first country in the world where the waste produced by nuclear power plants is being used for civilian applications. Jitendra Singh, the minister of state overseeing the department, also allayed concerns about any possible leakage of radiation from spent fuel. “There has been no […]
India has filled a little over one-third of its phase 1 ‘strategic oil reserve’ at a cost of Rs 4,258 cr, about $640 mln. The country is in the process of building five underground reserve facilities for crude oil totaling 110 million barrels (15.3 million tons) of storage capacity. Out of these, two tanks — […]
After missing its targets by wide margins in the previous two five-year plans, India is all set to comfortably meet or exceed all its power sector targets for the 12th five-year plan that ends this month. Five-year plans, borrowed from the Soviet Union, are a legacy of Nehruvian policy of setting development targets every five […]
NTPC Ltd said the Delhi Pollution Control Committee has given directions to keep all its units in Badarpur Thermal Power Station closed till January 31, 2017. The reason for the committees direction has not been disclosed by NTPC. However, the reason is likely to be concerns around poor air quality in Delhi. The plant was […]
Infrastructure company Adani Enterprises Ltd said it commissioned India’s largest tracker-based solar power plant at Bhatinda in Punjab. The 100 megawatt plant is also the largest solar project in Punjab. Tracker plants are those with motorized panels that keep tracking the sun as it moves across the sky. Compared to fixed panels, tracking panels generate 30-35% […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated three hydro-electric projects in Himachal Pradesh, representing 1,732 MW of generating capacity, to the nation today. The biggest of the three is NTPC’s Koldam, which has four generating units of 200 MW each. The second biggest was Parbati Stage-III, which comprises 4 units of 130 MW each and is operated […]
Reliance Infrastructure Limited today said it agreed to sell all itstransmission assets to Adani Transmission Limited, the largest private power transmission company operating in India. This acquisition is expected to be completed in current financial year. The entire sale proceeds shall be utilized for debt reduction, said the company. The transaction is in line with the strategic […]
ABB, a power and automation technology company, today said it will install a 600 KW fully integrated and standardized microgrid solar energy at its Vadodara facility in Gujarat to help boost renewable energy generation while reducing dependency on fossil fuel. This microgrid with a rooftop photo voltaic field at the company’s biggest manufacturing location in […]
Hydro power company NHPC Ltd said the power purchase agreements for its two power stations, Teesta-V power station and Rangit power station has been extended for another 35 years. Teesta-V has power generating capacity of 510 MW, while Rangit station has a capacity of 60 MW. The agreement extension is from the date of commercial operation […]
Heritage foods Ltd, one of the largest private sector dairy enterprises in Southern India, said it has finished the commissioning of the 2nd wind power plant at Vajrakarur of Ananthapur District in Andhra Pradesh. The wind power plant has a 2.1 MW capacity and is expected to generate 5 million units per year. At Rs […]
GAIL India Limited, a government natural gas transmission and marketing company, said it has started operation of its first UNIPOL polyethylene process line with a capacity to produce 4,00,000 tons of polyethylene per year in its Pata plant in Uttar Pradesh. GAIL’s flexible high-density polyethylene (HDPE), linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) swing plant provides access to […]
Suzlon Group, a renewable energy solutions provider, said it has won its first project from Oil India Ltd (OIL) for 52.5 MW for two sites in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. The project will provide power to around 28,000 households and will reduce .11 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per annum, said the company. The project […]
Coal India Ltd. is in “deep consultation” with Bangladesh to export the dry fuel, Anil Swarup, Coal Secretary said. Inaugurating the 2-days India Energy Forum (IEF) Coal Summit, Coal Secretary said the step has been taken in the backdrop of a sharp decline in demand for coal as well as with an inventory of over […]
