Category: Power

Authorities plan to install more than 10,000 solar panels along a 6-km stretch of the Najafgarh drain as a pilot project, people aware of the proposal said on Monday, adding that the project, which will be executed jointly by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) and BSES, will generate around 5MW of power. The […]

Navi Mumbai: A section engineer and lineman attached to Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited (MSEDCL) have been booked for negligence after a contractual employee was permanently disabled while working on a 22,000 KV electrical tower. The accused have been identified as section engineer Siddharth Dongre and lineman Arjun Chavan. “The contract labourer, Salman Muzaffar […]

Due to slow discharge of water in rivers in Jammu and Kashmir, the Union territory is heading towards a major electricity crisis, especially with the low rainfall in the past two months, officials said. They added that the UT is facing a daily shortfall of 1,500 to 2,000 megawatts, forcing the department to go for […]

The Maharashtra Metro Rail Corporation Limited’s (Maha-Metro) Pune Metro project has started generating 9,837 kilowatt (kW) of electricity from solar panels placed at operational metro stations so far, said officials The Maha-Metro has set a target of 9MW solar energy from stations and integrated workshop building at Range Hills Depot and Vanaz depot by next […]

The BJP will lock the Electricity Supply Companies (ESCOM) offices and hold an agitation if the state government fails to ensure an uninterrupted seven hours of power supply in three phases to farmers, former Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai warned on Wednesday. Addressing a farmers’ protest organised by the BJP against the “anti-farmer attitude” of […]

Sky lovers and astronomers are on the edge as this October promises a specific type of solar eclipse – an annular eclipse – that creates a “ring of fire” effect, which can be an exciting and visually stunning spectacle to watch. During an annular eclipse, the moon passes between the Earth and the sun but […]

Facing criticism from automobile dealers and buyers of non-electric two-wheelers for banning the registration from October 6, the UT administration is likely to give relief. During a meeting at the UT Secretariat here on Tuesday, UT administrator Bawarilal Purohit directed officers of the administration to examine the decision of banning the registration of non- electric […]

The UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) will identify five high-loss feeders in each district and carry out house-to-house searches to detect electricity theft and act against unscrupulous consumers. UPPCL chairman Ashish Kumar Goel issued directions to officials in a meeting at the Shakti Bhawan here on Monday. He said there was no reason why line […]

There has been no breakthrough in the standoff between the Himachal government and the Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited (SJVNL) over concessions in electricity projects, despite a meeting chaired by the central energy secretary (CES) last week. The meeting took place in Delhi and was attended by state government officials, including energy secretary Rajeev Sharma […]

With the resistant Chandigarh municipal corporation not acting on the three-day deadline given on September 19 to allocate space for electric vehicle charging stations in its 44 parking lots, the UT administration has gone ahead and started the installation work to strengthen public charging infrastructure in the city. Work began after the approval of UT […]

Under the statewide ‘Har Ghar Solar Campaign’, a camp would be organised at Janeshwar Mishra Park in Lucknow on Monday to make the residents aware of the government’s initiative to make the state capital a solar city. The ambitious scheme of the state government to generate solar power through rooftop solar plants in various districts […]

The Centre has set December-end as the fresh deadline for the commencement of the first 660 MW unit of the belated under-construction 1,980 MW supercritical thermal plant at Ghatampur in Kanpur. People aware of the development said that coal secretary Amrit Lal Meena on Friday held a high-level meeting in Delhi to review the progress […]