National Coordination Committee of Electricity Employees and Engineers (NCCOEEE ) decides to hold a day-long massive demonstration on the day whenever Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021 is placed in Parliament, said, V K Gupta Spokesperson of the All India Power Engineers Federation. NCCOEEE is concerned that the agenda of the NDA government shows that Electricity Bill 2021 will b...

It is no secret that a healthy and efficient power sector can catalyse India’s post pandemic economic recovery. Universal access to affordable, clean and modern energy is key to the wellbeing of a growing population besides enhancing industrial competitiveness. In this context, the recent amendments proposed by the government to the Electricity Act 2003 can be a game changer, by unleashing the next ...

  Power engineers in Punjab and Haryana will join their counterparts from across the country in protesting at their respective power utility headquarters and generating stations against the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021, on the first day of the winter session of Parliament. V K Gupta, spokesperson of All India Power Engineers Federation , said the real objective of the bill was to p...

Thermal power plants can set up renewable energy generation capacity either by themselves, or through developers, and the gains from the bundling of renewable energy with thermal will be shared between generators and state-run power distribution companies (discoms) on a 50:50 basis, the government said. The Union ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) on Tuesday issued guidelines to allow thermal generation c...

 Haryana Power Minister Ranjit Singh has said that the four Power Distribution Corporations of the State have become profitable as a result of the reforms made in the power sector in the last two years. Haryana has emerged as a model before the country in this matter, which was discussed by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a meeting held with the Chief Ministers and Finance Ministers of the states...

  India will have to at least double its capacity in the next decade to reduce dependence on coal and integrate with its grid renewable energy generation such as solar and wind, which is intermittent in nature, chairman and managing director AK Singh said in an interview. Edited excerpts:   What is the role of hydro projects in India in the wake of the...

State CPM secretary Tammineni Veerabhadram said on Friday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government taking back the farm laws and tendering an apology is a victory of farmers fighting for it. He said the "decision is a big victory for the farmer and all other political parties, civil society organisations and the CPM cadre, and people who have extended their support". Veerabhadram said it was such ...

The Indian government’s pollution watchdog has proposed new guidelines to steer decommissioning of coal-based power plants in the country, suggesting a range of measures including an Environmental Management Plan and an Environmental Impact Assessment report for the decommissioning process. The draft guidelines were prepared by the Central Pollution Control Board following the March order ...

If such action is allowed to go through, other states may follow suit, thereby posing a systemic risk to power sector investments- existing and upcoming-including investments in much needed RE space, Association of Power Producers has said. Power companies have written to Punjab governor Banwarilal Purohit, saying the state government's efforts to renege power contracts will jeopardise investments of ?27,00...

Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on Saturday demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi withdraw the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020. The Chief Minister asked the Central government not to pass the Bill in Parliament. Stating that the TRS will strongly oppose the move in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, he said demonstrations would be organised on a large scale with farmers if the Centre attempts to pass the Bill. The T...