Power

The News Insight: When people in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack remained without power for more than 10 days, the Government was on a back foot. The outrage in media and public was the worrying factor for the Govt, which was having a tough time to…

Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy, has expressed confidence that all Discoms in India will be making profits by 2019. "This is important, as we cannot burden people of India with tariff…

The Government of India, the State of Bihar and the DISCOMs of Bihar (North Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited, and South Bihar Power Distribution Company Limited) signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under the Scheme UDAY –…

A total of 258 villages in six states were electrified during the third week of February under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna, an official statement said on Monday. "Of these electrified villages, 120 villages belong to…

The energy shortage has been reduced from 8.5% in 2011-12 to 2.4% in the current year i.e. 2015-16 (upto October, 2015), which is the lowest ever. Further, the peak shortage has reduced from 10.6% in 2011-12 to 3.2% during the current year…

As per information received from Coal India Limited (CIL), the subsidiary coal companies of CIL are supplying the requisite quality and quantity of coal to all power stations under Fuel Supply Agreement (FSA). In terms of FSA, Joint…

The Central Mine Planning and Design Institute (CMPDI) has identified following 7 blocks (5 Lignite & 2 Coal) for development of Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) technology in India. A. Lignite Blocks: 1. Sindhari West,…

UDAY (Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana) Scheme of Ministry of Power is getting enthralling support from several states. After Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Rajasthan, State Governments of Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), Himachal…

CIL has assessed a tentative capital  investment of Rs. 57,000 crores for the next five years to ramp-up its coal production to one billion tonnes by 2019-20 from the production level of 494.80 Mt. in 2014-15.  This was stated by Shri…

Bhubaneswar, 11th Sept: The Collectors of all 7 districts namely Ganjam, Gajapati, Puri, Jagatsingpur, Kendrapara, Nayagarh and Khurda have been directed to start evacuation and ensure 100% evacuation of people to cyclone, flood shelters…