Abandon state monopoly in coal and captive mining

February 2017

The coal sector remains the most inefficient and least open to private investment, despite coal being the country´s primary source of fuel, says Krri...

Tags: Nishant Upadhyay, Sanket Palshikar, Saptashya Roy Chowdhury, Associates, Singhania Associates, Pai Committee Report, Transmission, Electricity, Modernisation, Crude steel production, FDI, Coal, United States, DMF, Sriprakash Jaiswal

Sterlite Power starts Purulia project

February 2017

Sterlite Power has commissioned its fifth project, the Purulia-Kharagpur Transmission Project, which will supply 1,200 MW of electricity to Ranchi in...

Tags: Sterlite Power, Purulia-Kharagpur Transmission Project, Electricity

Sterlite Power starts Purulia project

February 2017

Sterlite Power has commissioned its fifth project, the Purulia-Kharagpur Transmission Project, which will supply 1,200 MW of electricity to Ranchi in...

Tags: Sterlite Power, Purulia-Kharagpur Transmission Project, Electricity

SPML Infra bags orders worth Rs 8000 crore

January 2017

New orders worth Rs 800 crore were received by SPML Infra Ltd for power substation, rooftop solar power plant, water & wastewater treatment and munic...

Tags: SPML Infra Ltd, Power substation, Rooftop solar power plant, Water, Wastewater treatment, West Bengal State Electricity Transmission Company, Jharkhand Urja Sancharam Nigam Limited, Municipal solid waste management, Solar Energy Corporation of India Ltd

Mitsubishi Corp launches energy storage demonstration project in Delhi

January 2017

Mitsubishi Corporation has reached a basic agreement with AES Corporation and Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL), which distributes electr...

Tags: Mitsubishi Corporation, TPDDL, Electricity, AES Corporation, AES Energy Storage, Advancion technology, Stabilising electricity grids, Renewable energy, Power Transmission, Distribution

Power Grid evinces interest to invest in Telangana

January 2017

Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) has evinced interest in investing in power transmission lines in Telangana. “PGCIL has expressed its...

Tags: PGCIL, Power transmission, State electricity department, K Chandrasekhar Rao, Power, North East West Grid

Tamil Nadu joins UDAY, ‘Power for All’ gets a boost

January 2017

The Ministry of Power has signed an MoU for Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) with Tamil Nadu in New Delhi, on 9 January, 2017. With the signing o...

Tags: Ministry of Power, MoU, Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana, 24x7 Power For All, EESL-led schemes, LED bulb programme, PPP, Central Electricity Authority, Ministry of Coal, MNRE, PGCIL, NTPC, BEE, EESL, REC

PEA of Thailand to add 8 more Grove cranes

January 2017

The Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) in Thailand has ordered eight Grove GMK2035E all-terrain cranes. The cranes are new additions to the PEA f...

Tags: Provincial Electricity Authority, Grove GMK2035E all-terrain cranes, GMK2035 cranes, Crane superior mobility, VDS Machinery, Grove all-terrain cranes, Superior off-road mobility, Mercedes engin