New Delhi: The recent proposal by the Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR) under the commerce ministry to impose 25 per cent safeguard duty on solar cells, if implemented, is likely to jack up retail tariffs by about 30-35 paise per unit, according to research and ratings agency ICRA. The imposition of safeguard duty at 25 per cent, if approved by the ministry of power, would increase t...

Gujarat: Cumulative Large-scale Solar Installations: 1,382 MW Under Development: 531 MW All four of Gujarat power utilities- Dakshin Gujarat Vij Company Limited (DGVCL), Uttar Gujarat Vij Company Limited (UGVCL), Paschim Gujarat Vij Company Limited (PGVCL) and Madhya Gujarat Vij Company Limited (MGVCL) have received the highest rating ‘A+,’ for the sixth consecutive year. They have consist...

The power sector continues to remain in darkness as companies barely managed to grow, led by weak demand, rising input cost, lack of a power purchase agreements (PPA), subdued merchant rates and low generation due to lack of coal availability. On an aggregate basis, 14 power generation companies reported a mere 3.66 percent growth in FY18 revenue. During FY18, all India plant load factor (PLF) barely moved 50 basis p...

  Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) collected around whopping Rs100 crore through RTGS mode on July 13, which is a very remarkable collection through digital means in the history of PSPCL and one of the largest at all-India level for a single day digital collection by any power utility.   In a release issued here, PSPCL, Chairman and Managing Director, Baldev Sran said it had been made...

No. 18 / Franchisee / 2018               13 - 07 - 2018   All Office Bearers - A I P E F Chairman / Secretary General - SIPEF / WIPEF / EIPEF / NIPEF President / General Secretary - All AIPEF Constituents   Sub : Urban Distribution Franchisee in different States   As you are aware that several Urban Distribution Franchisee agreements h...

KURUKSHETRA: Following the low supply of coal, there has been a dip in its stocks to a critical level at the thermal power plants in Haryana and this may affect the thermal power generation in the state. According to sources, the coal stock at Panipat thermal power station is critically low as only 10,000 MT of coal is available, which is just sufficient for one day. The coal stock of 3...

CHANDIGARH: There has been a dip in coal stocks to critical level at the thermal power plants of Haryana on short supply and this may affect the thermal generation in the state. According to sources the coal stock at Panipat thermal is critically low where 10000 MT of available is just sufficient for one day. The coal stock of 37000 MT and 60000 MT at Yamuna Nagar and Khedar are sufficient for 4 and 6 days resp...

CHANDIGARH: There has been a dip in coal stocks to critical level at the thermal power plants of Haryana on short supply and this may affect the thermal generation in the state. According to sources the coal stock at Panipat thermal is critically low where 10000 MT of available is just sufficient for one day. The coal stock of 37000 MT and 60000 MT at Yamuna Nagar and Khedar are sufficient for 4 and 6 days resp...

New Delhi: Higher land prices have pushed the solar power tariff to Rs 3.48 per unit in the 1 Gw capacities auction conducted by Uttar Pradesh New and RenewableEnergy Development Agency (UPNEDA), according to a source.  The Rs 3.48 per unit tariff is higher than Rs 2.70 per unit quoted in an auction conducted by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for 750 Mw Solar PV earlier this month.&nbs...

NEW DELHI: The Gujaratgovernment has set up a panel to suggest within two months a rescue plan for three large generation projects belonging to the Tata, Adani and Essargroups in the state, with combined PPA (powerpurchase agreements) for over 8,000 MW and outstanding debts in excess of Rs 22,000 crore. The panel will be headed by former Supreme Court judge, Justice R K Agrawal. Former RBI...