Category: Power

During their questioning by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday, former ICICI Bank CEO, Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar submitted documents related to their personal finances as well as investments in different companies; details of movable and immovable properties; and disclosures made before the Reserve Bank of India, SEBI (Securities Exchange Board of […]

The two-day-long power cut witnessed after a blast in the 400 kilovolt (kV) transformer on Sunday evening in Palam Vihar once again has exposed poor preparedness of the Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN), town and country planning (TCP) department and Haryana Urban Local Bodies to address the problem of inadequate power infrastructure in private […]

The Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has sent a show-cause notice to the company running the Okhla waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in southeast Delhi, asking it to explain “why its Environmental Clearance (EC) granted in 2007 should not be kept in abeyance”. The letter, a copy of which is with HT, is […]

Areas from Malabar Hill to Mahim went without power supply for two hours on Sunday morning, after a Tata Power receiving station faced a technical snag. The Tata station supplies power to Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST), which distributes power in the island city. The outage affected residents of Mahalaxmi, Worli, Haji Ali , […]

Nearly 100 residents of a high-rise in Sector 78 gathered on Sunday to protest against the builder after he allegedly put a cap of ₹1,000 on the recharge of prepaid electricity meters. The protest took place at the Aditya Urban Casa society premises and saw residents complaining about various civic issues there. The society has […]

If the sweltering heat was not enough, unannounced power cuts in different pockets of the city, such as Mulund, Vikhroli, Thane, Andheri, Lokhandwala, Goregaon and Versova, in the past two weeks have irked Mumbaiites. While citizens said the outages have been lasting up to an hour, sometimes five times a day, most electricity firms have […]

Having spent more than Rs1 lakh every year on electricity bills till now, the Krishna Mahal cooperative housing society in Chembur has managed to save 95% of that cost with its 7.15 kilowatt-power (kWp) rooftop solar power plant. The 11-storey building had been spending nearly Rs 1.12 lakh every year for an average annual consumption […]

Electricity in the state is set to get more expensive from April 1. While the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) will hike the cost of electricity by 3% for every unit, Tata Power and Adani Electricity — which cater to Mumbaiites only — will increase the price by 2% and 1% respectively from […]

The country can save 3.5 billion units of electricity every year if the Indian Standard Time (IST) is advanced by 30 minutes, two senior Indian scientists who first proposed the idea of a time-zone shift a decade ago said on Monday. At present, India is five-and-half hours ahead of the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), and […]

The Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN), on January 29, asked Parsvnath Developers Limited, builder of Parsvnath Exotica in Sector 53, to provide electricity connections to all the residents living in towers B-1, D-3, 4 and 5 and C-4 of the housing society located, by installing submeters at earliest. The residents of these towers are […]

The UP Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) has started gearing up to deal with issues that are likely to arise when the operation of electric vehicles (EVs) begins in a big way.

The Juhu campus of Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey (SNDT) Women’s University on Wednesday inaugurated a 500 kilowatt-power (kWp) solar project. Considered one of the largest rooftop renewable energy projects in the city, the solar setup, which was installed in October 2018, has already reduced the Juhu campus’ electricity bill from Rs 10 lakh a month […]