Category: Power

The Uttar Pradesh government informed the Assembly that 60 lakh new power connections had been given to consumers in the last six months and efforts were on to provide quality power supply across the state. Replying to a question of Samajwadi Party member Manoj Kumar Pandey, Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma said the department had extended […]

Several areas of the State Capital are again into the grips of prolonged power cuts, which is officially claimed to be due to maintenance and new infrastructure coming up. Areas such as Namkum, Kanta Toli, Kokar, Lalpur, Upper Bazar, Kanke Road and Ratu Road felt hours of power cuts during morning and day time for […]

Alleging that ruling Congress has breached its pre-poll promise of making the power tariff completely half and now has set a cap of 400 units, the opposition members staged a walk out from state assembly on Monday. During Question Hour, Leader of the Opposition Dharamlal Kaushik raised the issue and asked question in the house […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of projects worth over Rs 33,000 crore in Bihar, including the long-awaited Patna Metro Rail Project. Laying the foundation stone of the metro project through a remote at a function at Barauni in Begusarai district, Modi said, “I congratulate the people of Patna, […]

Troubled after the Aam Aadmi Party’s ‘bijli andolan’, Punjab Power, New and Renewable Energy Sources Minister Gurpreet Singh Kangar on Sunday rubbished the “baseless slandering campaign” launched by some “opportunist politically motivated persons” in the state that electricity supply charges are very high and inflated electricity bills are being issued to consumers. Categorically declining the […]

The Odisha Renewable Energy Development Agency (OREDA) celebrated its 35th Foundation Day on Sunday here. To commemorate the occasion a workshop-cum exhibition was organised wherein all staff of OREDA, its partner organizations, invited guests and former Chief Executives of OREDA participated. The three-day exhibition on renewable energy and its applications is open forgeneral public. Minister, […]

The Centre has exempted industries like steel, cement and metal from mandatory prior environment clearance for setting up a new or expanding the existing captive power plant employing waste heat recovery boilers (WHRB) without using any auxiliary fuel. The exemption to industries having potential for heat recovery has been given to promote energy conservation and […]

BHEL Bhopal received prestigious QCI-DL Shah Silver Award for its project ‘Quality and Productivity Improvement and Up-gradation of load carrying capacity of Thrust and Guide Bearing assemblies used in vertical AC motors’. Patent application has also been registered for this innovative project. The DL Shah award was presented by HK Taneja of DL Shah Trust […]

Following traffic-cum-power block carried out at Tatanagar railway station, train services will remain affected in Chakradharpur division of South Eastern Railway ( SER) on Thursday (February 14). The traffic-cum-power block will start at 8.30 am and continue till 3 pm resulting in cancellation of three passenger trains and short termination of three trains. The trains […]

Union Power Minister, RK Singh on Wednesday said “The power sector is witnessing an increased demand which is further expected to go up in the near future. The current consumption of 1200 units per capita is expected to grow 2-3 times at par with the international consumption after each and every individual of the country […]

Om Prakash, 35, an ice cream factory owner in Chanho block has to give away half of his monthly earnings in maintaining power generators. The situation of electricity supply is purportedly in such a shambles in Chanho that Prakash’s factory has to run on generators 24×7 many a times. Similarly, Divya Kumari, 19, a student […]

Power Finance Corporation’s Profit After Tax (PAT) is up by 53% from Rs 1,355 crore in the second quarter to Rs 2076 crore during the third quarter (October-December) of the current Financial year of 2018-19. The Net Interest Income rose by 12% to reach a figure of Rs 2,435crore as against Rs 2,180 crore recorded […]