NHPC extends PPA for Teesta and Rangit Power Stations

November 2016

NHPC will extend the Power Purchase Agreements for both the Rangit Power station and Teesta-V Power station, by a further 35 years from the date of c...

Tags: NHPC, Power Purchase Agreements, Commercial, Teesta-V Power station, Rangit Power station, National Grid

Govt plans Rs 3 lakh crore corridor to build 35,000 km highway network

September 2016

The Government may soon come up with an ambitious Rs 3 lakh crore Economic Corridor project to develop 35,000 km of highways for faster movement of f...

Tags: Economic Corridor project, National highways network, NHDP, Golden Quadrilateral project, BOT, HAM, Ministry National Grid Project

Indian school to achieve energy independence

December 2015

A 13.4 kWp PV installation combined with a solar energy management system called sun2safe, designed and produced by The Meeco Group, has recently bee...

Tags: PV Installation, Solar Energy, Meeco Group, Shiv Public School, Gurgaon, Diesel, Tonne, Co2, Electricity Bills, National Grid

L&T arm bags orders worth Rs 2,048 crore

December 2015

The construction arm of Larsen and Toubro (L&T) has won orders aggregating Rs 2,048 crore across various business verticals in October 2015. ...

Tags: Larsen and Toubro, L&T, National Grid, Power Grid Corporation

Govt looking at Rs.3.3 lakh cr investments in transmission

October 2015

The government is looking at an investment of around $50 billion (around Rs 3.3 lakh crore) in the transmission segment in the next five years. Piyus...

Tags: Investment, Piyush Goyal, Transmission Lines, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd, National Grid

DPSC plans Rs 250 bn investment over 5 yrs

October 2012

Power Generation and Distribution major DPSC (formerly known as Dishergarh Power Supply Company) was incorporated in the year 1919 in West Bengal....

Tags: Power Generation, Distribution, DPSC, Dishergarh Power Supply Company, West Bengal, disinvestment, IPCL, Anup Bhargava, Raghunathpur, Thermal Power Plant, Haldia, Madhya Pradesh, National grid, electricity, Financial Restructuring Plan

Blackout in north underscores need for grid discipline

August 2012

The inability of the financially strained power utilities to buy power from the market to meet excess demand and the consequent overdrawing of power ...

Tags: power utilities, National grid, transmission lines, electricity, grid tripping, CERC, Indian Electricity Grid Code