After Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, Punjab has reportedly had a run-in with producers of renewable energy. While AP is looking for a sharp cut in tariffs, Gujarat, while not cancelling a PPA outright, has suspended the signing of PPAs with winners for about 700 MW of capacity of solar capacity. In June, UP refrained from signing PPAs for 150 MW of solar power with the winners of the reverse auction held ...

Punjab chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Monday announced a slew of relief measures for citizens and state government employees close on the wheels of Diwali festivities. He said power tariff for residential consumers in the state having upto 7 kilowatt load connection was being brought down by ?3 per unit across all the slabs. For state government employees, he announced an 11 per cent hike in dearnes...

All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) wants to draw your kind attention towards the unprecedented crisis arising out of the strike of Power Engineers & Employees of Madhya Pradesh. 2. You are aware that Power Engineers & Employees of Madhya Pradesh are forced to go on strike due to the apathetic attitude of Power Corporation management and MP Govt towards routine problems of Powe...

Leaders of the world’s biggest economies have agreed to stop funding coal-fired power plants in poor countries.— Leaders of the world’s biggest economies agreed Sunday to stop funding coal-fired power plants in poor countries and made a vague commitment to seek carbon neutrality “by or around mid-century” as they wrapped up a Rome summit before the much larger United Nations climate conf...

  Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Saturday approved a proposal of power utility Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) for terminating the power purchase agreement with private sector electricity generator GVK due to high cost. High power cost The PSPCL has issued a termination notice to the company, according to an official statement. The developmen...

  Chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi on Saturday approved the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited’s (PSPCL) proposal to terminate the power purchase agreement (PPA) with GVK Goindwal Sahib (2x270 MW) plant. Subsequently, the PSPCL issued the termination notice to the company. The termination of power purchase agreements (PPAs) made during the previous SAD-BJP government was...

Private generators are not covered under the CAG audit and they can manipulate the increase in tariff with the help of forged documents.The AIPEF also raised concern that there were two aggravating factors — one, the global prices of coal have increased which would make import a costly option and second the coal production in India has stagnated in the past three years while the demand has increased every year....

The recent power outages across the country due to an artificial shortage of coal stocks in thermal plants have led the central government to restart an old practice of blending domestic coal with imported coal. This has been raised by the All India Power Engineers’ Federation (AIPEF), in a letter to the union power minister R.K. Singh, as a move that will raise consumption costs of electricity. In the lette...

All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) in a letter to R K Singh, Union power minister on Thursday has expressed concern that electricity cost may increase at least by 30% due to the blending of imported coal with domestic coal. Notably, the Union ministry of power has advised all the coal-based thermal generating stations to maintain adequate coal-stock according to their obligations. In the case of domes...

With reference to the Ministry of Power advisory on coal based generating stations, dated 20/10/2021, All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) submits its comments / response as under. 1.         There is an extreme shortage of coal since CIL production of coal is far less than requirement. The shortage is so extreme that CIL and Govt. of India / Ministry of Power are fu...