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March 27, 2023 09:23 PM IST The comments on the draft scheme would have to be submitted with the ministry by April 14, 2023, an office memorandum stated.
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March 11, 2023 09:12 AM IST However, the advisory was put in abeyance. Reacting to the directive, the Delhi government said the LG has once again violated the Constitution and the Supreme Court directives by ”illegally” extending his remit.
- March 10, 2023 06:03 PM IST
For instance, expecting a surge in demand for coal by power plants during the summer, the railways has increased its coal transportation by 11.92 percent in terms of tonnage.
- February 21, 2023 03:20 PM IST
This order (under Section 11 of the Electricity Act) shall remain valid for generation and supply of power from March 16, 2023 to June 15, 2023, stated a notice sent to 15 thermal plants that use imported coal.
- February 19, 2023 12:44 PM IST
Keeping in view the immense utility of the PSPs in grid stabilisation as well as meeting the peaking power demand, a need for formulating separate guidelines to promote PSPs was felt to set the direction of its development, the minsitry said in the guidelines.
- December 20, 2022 03:57 PM IST
One of the key indicators of financial distress of discoms is mounting power purchase dues towards the generation companies (gencos).
- November 30, 2022 01:58 PM IST
"With the implementation of Electricity (LPS and Related Matters) Rules, 2022, remarkable improvement has been seen in recovery of outstanding dues of Suppliers including Generating Companies, Transmission Companies and Traders," a power ministry statement said.
- November 22, 2022 06:54 PM IST
India is the only G-20 country in the Top 10 on the index, an independent monitoring tool for tracking the climate protection performance of 59 countries and the EU
- October 17, 2022 05:24 PM IST
Power Minister RK Singh also talked about phasing out low-efficiency solar PV manufacturing, a PLI scheme for grid-scale energy storage systems and a policy to allow setting up of independent storage spaces which can be used by states to bank their excess renewable energy for later use.
- October 14, 2022 05:13 PM IST
The report on “performance of power utilities 2020-21” released by union power minister RK Singh found that both billing efficiency and collection efficiency decreased in the last financial year, resulting in a further increase in the national average AT&C loss.
- September 06, 2022 07:47 PM IST
The decision comes over three months after the power ministry had written to the environment ministry, seeking a two-year delay for the mandatory compliance of the emission norms.
- September 04, 2022 12:16 PM IST
The Electricity Amendment Bill 2022 which seeks to create competition in the power distribution sector by providing consumers with options to chose between multiple services providers in an area, was introduced in Lok Sabha on August 8, 2022 and was referred for scrutiny to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy on the same day.
- June 09, 2022 09:28 PM IST
India’s power demand hit an all-time high of 210.8 gigawatts (GW) on June 9, driven by a spike in demand from households amid an ongoing heat wave and a pick-up in industrial demand.
- May 30, 2022 02:40 PM IST
The energy hungry nation expects the plan to reduce power generation by 58 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) from the 81 utilities to save 34.7 million tonnes of coal and cut carbon emissions by 60.2 million tonnes, the power ministry said.
- May 29, 2022 03:53 PM IST
The ministry said that due to rising demand for electricity and coal supply from local coal companies falling short of demand, it has advised all Gencos, including IPPs, to blend 10 percent of imported coal for power generation by April 28, 2022.
- May 28, 2022 08:10 PM IST
According to an internal power ministry presentation , India is anticipated to confront a bigger coal shortfall in the quarter ending September as a result of higher power demand, increasing the likelihood of widespread power disruptions, according to a Reuters report.
- May 25, 2022 05:35 PM IST
The scheme will allow the discoms to pay dues in up 48 monthly instalments, which can save around Rs 19,833 crore on late payment surcharge.
- May 25, 2022 11:47 AM IST
India initially had set a 2017 deadline for thermal power plants to comply with emissions standards for installing flue gas desulphurization (FGD) units that cut emissions of toxic sulphur dioxide. That was later changed to varying deadlines for different regions, ending in 2022.
- May 24, 2022 09:56 PM IST
The Power Ministry has recommended the Ministry of Coal to take steps to increase output from Coal India Ltd and its subsidiary Singareni Collieries Company Ltd (SCCL) by 10 to 12 percent this fiscal year, citing the impact of energy outages on economic recovery.
- May 20, 2022 10:57 AM IST
India had asked utilities to import 10 per cent of its total requirement, or about 38 million tonnes, to blend with local coal as demand was outstripping supply, adding that delivery of 19 million tonnes had to be ensured by end-June.
- May 18, 2022 08:53 PM IST
As power demand continues to soar even as power generators scramble for fuel, the government has asked all imported coal-based power units to run at full capacity by invoking Section 11 of the Electricity Act.
- May 13, 2022 08:34 PM IST
Vivek Kumar Dewangen is a 1993 batch IAS officer of the Manipur cadre.
- May 07, 2022 08:15 AM IST
India’s power demand hit an all-time high of 207.1 gigawatts (GW) on April 29, driven by a spike in demand from households amid an ongoing heatwave and a pick-up in industrial demand.
- May 06, 2022 02:49 PM IST
Around 7,600 megawatts of imported coal based-plants are not running as they would incur losses at the current levels of coal price.
- May 06, 2022 10:41 AM IST
Section 11 of the Electricity Act gives the government the authority, in extraordinary circumstances, to order any generating company to operate and maintain its stations.
