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NEW DELHI: With the commissioning of a 660-MW unit of a power plant in Jhajjar, Haryana, India’s installed capacity has crossed the 2-lakh-MW mark, according to the Power Ministry. The first unit of the project of CLP India — Mahatma Gandhi Thermal Power Project, Jhajjar — was recently fully...
AHMEDABAD: The government of Gujarat has identified and agreed to allocate 500 hectare of land for second 4,000 mw ultra mega power project (UMPP) in the state. After exploring Jamnagar and Kutch districts in past couple of years, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) zeroed in on Lodhva village in...
PATNA: Bihar is likely to face acute power crisis during this summer. NTPC’s power plant (200 MW) at Farakka (unit-3) has already been shut down for annual maintenance since April 1 for a period of 35 days. NTPC’s another plant (500 MW) at Kahalgaon in Bhagalpur district is non-functional...
NEW DELHI: State-run Power Finance Corporation (PFC) said it is in talks with GVK and Videocon to fund their coal mine acquisitions overseas on the condition that they bring a majority portion of the coal back to India. PFC Chairman and Managing Director Satnam Singh also said the company...
MUMBAI: Keen to set up 9,900 MW nuclear power plant at Jaitapur, which is facing opposition from various quarters, the Maharashtra Government today said the proposed project site in Konkan region is the “safest” in the world. “A day will come when coal (reserves) will end. Therefore, alternate sources...
NEW DELHI: Venture capital (VC) funding in the solar sector was off to a slow start globally in the first quarter of this year. VC funding for the quarter stood at $329 million, from 34 deals, the lowest since the fourth quarter of 2010, says a report on funding...
NEW DELHI: Areva Solar, France-based Areva’s subsidiary, has bagged a contract by Reliance Power to build Asia’s largest concentrated solar power installation. “Areva Solar, an Areva subsidiary, has been awarded a contract by the Indian group Reliance Power Limited to build a 250 megawatt (MW) concentrated solar power (CSP)...
RANCHI: The Justice MB Shah Committee, appointed by the Central Government to probe illegal mining of iron ore and manganese across the country met with a poor response in Ranchi, on the first day of the two-day public hearing. Jharkhand, accounts for a fourth of the country’s iron ore....
KOLKATA:West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is set to flag off production at the Trans Damodar Coal Mining Project on Friday at Bajora in the state’s Bankura district. This is the first project under public private partnership (PPP) model involving the government of West Bengal for commercial mining of...
HYDERABAD: APGenco has begun efforts to secure coal requirements for its expansion projects from two blocks awarded to the State-owned AP Mineral Development Corporation in Orissa and Madhya Pradesh. In addition, it is banking on increased supply from Coal India Ltd and bridging the gap through imported coal. The...