The ministry said that the respective thermal power plants may approach the appropriate commission (power regulator) for approval of additional cost on account of this change in law. ...

New Delhi: The government is considering making it mandatory for all power projects funded by state-run banks to procure local equipment. A public procurement mechanism with purchase preference to domestic equipment manufacturers for future electricity generation, transmission and distribution projects is in the works, a senior government official said. The mechanism will apply to any procurement order f...

CHANDIGARH: More than two months after it abruptly stopped supplying electricity to Haryana citing financial crunch, the Adani Power Limited (APL) has restored the power supply to the state from its power project at Mundra in Gujarat. The restoration would come as a relief to the state during the summer. The supply was restored after the state government made a payment of Rs 485 crore to APL on account of reimburs...

SUPPLY RESTORED AFTER STATE GOVT MADE PAYMENT OF RS 485 CRORE; OVER RS 500 CR OF EXCESS PAYMENT RECOVERED FROM FIRM CHANDIGARH: More than two months after it abruptly stopped supplying electricity to Haryana citing financial crunch, the Adani Power Limited (APL) has restored the power supply to the state from its power project at Mundra in Gujarat. The restoration would come as a relief to the state during the sum...

Thanks to the rise of low-cost electricity from wind and solar plants, a third of India’s coal power plant capacity is likely to be ‘stranded’. Since India has 197,171 MW of coal power, a third of it (65,723 MW) is quite a lot, and the big question is, what to do with them. In 2017, most of the coal plants in the country produced, on an average, only 60 per cent of the electricity they could, and...

NEW DELHI|KOLKATA: The government on Thursday directed coal companies to supply additional coal to state-owned power generating plants, leaving the private sector unhappy. The notification issued by coal ministry asked Coal India and Singareni Collieries to make “out of turn coal allotment” to state and central electricity generation companies to help them meet increased power requi...

Patiala: With temperature in the northern state hovering between 44 and 46 degrees Celsius, maximum power demand in the region reached 51,846 MW on Wednesday as against power supply of 12,370 lakh units. Haryana had a shortage 0f 400 MW while Punjab had no shortage. On May 22, India recorded maximum cumulative power demand of 1,70,121MW, around 8% higher than the same month last year. Peak demand shortage in the c...

Water released from Bhakra is considered as lifeline of Malwa belt in Punjab From page 01 PATIALA : With the Bhakra reservoir level going below 1,500 feet in May, nearly 50 feet lower than the same time last year, the states of Punjab and Rajasthan are staring at an irrigation crisis during the paddy-sowing season. More worrying is the decline in water inflow since melting of snow in the glaciers is almost...

No.12 / Pay Scales / 2018                       27 - 05 - 2018   All Office Bearers - A I P E F   Chairman / Secretary General - SIPEF / WIPEF / EIPEF / NIPEF   President / General Secretary - All AIPEF Constituents   Sub : Pay Scales & Allowances   After 7th Pay Revision by GOI Pay Revision process ...

No.11 / NCCOEEE / 2018                       27 - 05 - 2018   All Office Bearers - A I P E F   Chairman / Secretary General - SIPEF / WIPEF / EIPEF / NIPEF   President / General Secretary - All AIPEF Constituents   Sub : National Convention of NCCOEEE at Delhi on 08 June 2018   Please refer to this offic...