Category: Power

With credit rating firms assessing the impact of the mega PFC-REC merger on the companies’ credit profile, plans laid out by state-run power distributing companies’ (discoms) may come unstuck in the absence of adequate funding. Having been saddled with a ‘credit watch’ put on them by several ratings firms, both Power Finance Corporation (PFC) and […]

MAHBUBNAGAR: Owing to lack of funds, the irrigation department has turned into a power defaulter in Mahbubnagar district, forcing the electricity department to disconnect the power supply.

HYDERABAD: In a significant ruling, a division bench of Telangana High Court on Thursday directed the State government to restrict power supply in the Kawal Tiger Reserve area, spread over Adilabad, Nirmal, Komaram Bheem Asifabad and Mancherial districts. Finding fault with poachers being allowed to set up illegal live electrical wires, the bench made it […]

CHENNAI: After an Express article on electricity bills in the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board (TNSCB) tenements in Perumbakkam, shooting up tenfold, was published on September 30, the local Electricity Board officials have now rectified the inflated bills in 762 houses.

CHENNAI: From February 8 to 11, online service to pay the electricity bill, will not be in service for localities in the North zone, said a Tangedco release. Also, offline centres present in the north zone of Chennai, will also be closed on February 9 but will be functional on the other two days.

As much as `4,228 crore has remained unpaid to NTPC for over two months from the date of issue of bills by various distribution companies (discoms) in three states of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

KOCHI: The third edition of KREEPA Green Power Expo 2018 – 19, organised by the Kerala Renewable Energy Entrepreneurs’ and Promoters’ Association (KREEPA) in association with the Department of New and Renewable Energy, Kerala Government, ANERT and Suchitwa Mission, will be held at the Bolgatty Event Centre here from February 13-15. Power Minister M M […]

CHENNAI: For carrying out maintenance work, power supply will be suspended by Tangedco on Saturday from 9 am to 4 pm in the following areas. A Tangedco statement said, power supply will be resumed before 5 pm if work is over.

HYDERABAD: In a significant development, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday approved the proposal of Ministry of Power to allocate 85 per cent power generated from Telangana Super Thermal Power Project (4,000MW) of NTPC Ltd to Telangana. Telangana Super Thermal Power Project (TSTPP) will come up at Ramagundam in Peddapalli.

HYDERABAD: Another 540 MW power will be added to the State in April, taking the total installed capacity to 17,050 MW, according to TS Transco chairman and managing director Devulapalli Prabhkar Rao.Speaking to Express on Wednesday, he said that two units (2X270 MW) of Bhadradri Thermal Power Plant will be operational by April. The remaining […]

NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday gave its nod to a proposal for setting up 12,000 MW grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) power projects with an estimated viability gap funding of Rs 8,580 crore. The decision was taken by the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Law Minister Ravi Shankar […]

BHUBANESWAR: The State-run power trading utility, Grid Corporation of Odisha Limited (Gridco), on Tuesday urged Odisha Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) for upward revision of bulk supply price to meet its annual revenue requirement for 2019-20.