NEW DELHI, APRIL 20 The advancing summer has led to water tables in most reservoirs declining to new lows this year, affecting irrigation as well as generation of hydel power across the country. The declining storage has forced many States to prioritise drinking water supply till the arrival of the South-West monsoon (in June), which is forecast to be normal this year. Per Central Water Commission (CWC) data...

BHUBANESWAR:  With the Grid Corporf Odisha Limited (Gridco) projecting State’s power demand at 5,700 MW by 2020-21, the State Government claimed that availability of power will be more than the anticipated demand.Even as the power demand of Odisha is likely to soar up by 1500 MW in the next two years, it will be easily met from three power projects coming up in government sector. Energy Minister Sushant...

Punjab News Express/Vinod Gupta CHANDIGARH: Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Commission today revised the tariff for the financial year 2018-19 for all categories of consumers by 2.17 % and has increased fixed charges for all the category of consumers by Rs. 10 per KW. As per order the domestic tariff has been increased by 10 to 14 paisa per unit and fixed charges have been increased by Rs. 10 per KW. ...

Ruchika M Khanna Tribune News Service Chandigarh, April 19 Domestic consumers in Punjab will have to pay more for the electricity they consume from the present bill cycle as the state government has revised the charges by 10 to 14 paise per unit (2.17 pc) even as the industry has been extended significant incentives.     In its tariff order for 2018-19 announced on Thursday, the Punjab State ...

The government continues to struggle to stitch together a resolution plan for stressed assets in the power sector. A second attempt to get government entities like NTPC Ltd, Power Finance Corporation Ltd (PFC) and Rural Electrification Corp. (REC) to come together and acquire stressed power projects has failed to gather much traction, said three bankers familiar with the matter. At risk is nearly Rs 3 lakh crore i...

Kurukshetra: Haryana power engineers criticized the ‘arbitrary transfer policy’ of the state government. Haryana Power Engineers Association (HPEA) stated on Tuesday that they were perturbed over the non-acceptance of their long pending demands. They said the power utilities’ management had failed to grant a meeting with the power engineers’ association to discuss their problems for the last a...

An arduous recovery for wind turbine manufacturers Things are seemingly improving for the wind industry, much depends on the competition and how they approach the auctions     The wind industry is set to recover from a steep slowdown in FY18, but competition is expected to be intense. Auctions for wind energy capacity additions are gathering pace and the industry is talking up the busines...

Haryana engineers perturbed over non acceptance of their demands April 17, 2018 06:33 PM Punjab News Express/Vinod Gupta CHANDIGARH: Haryana Power Engineers are greatly perturbed over the non acceptance of their long pending demands and arbitrary transfer policy.The management has failed to grant a meeting with Association to discuss their problems for the last about six months. Haryana Power Engineers Asso...

PSEB engineers stage dharna Tribune News Service Patiala, April 17 The executive committee of the PSEB Engineers’ Association (PSEBA) held a dharna in front of the head office of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) in Patiala against the non-fulfillment of their demands.    More than 80 engineers, including all executive members, took part in the dharna under the leadership o...

Fast cum dharna by the Punjab Power Engineers leaders April 17, 2018 06:25 PM   Punjab News Express/Vinod Gupta PATIALA: Extended Executive Committee of PSEB Engineers’ Association held a Fast-cum-Dharna today in front of PSPCL Head Office, Patiala to protest against non fulfillment of their demands by PSPCL/PSTCL Managements. The dharna was led by Sanjeev Sood President of Association ...