The All India Power Engineers’ Federation (AIPEF) has opposed the proposal of the Union ministry of power to handover 33KV transmission system assets to Transco and the formation of a joint venture company with Power Grid to improve finances. V K Gupta, spokesperson of AIPEF, said the federation on Monday had written a letter to Union power minister R K Singh, giving its detailed comments o...

This is in reference to Ministry of Power letter No. 15/1/2021 – Trans dated 01.9.2021. AIPEF submits its comments as under: 1.         The Report of the Committee referred to in Para-5 of the Ministry of Power letter dated 1.9.2021 should be made public by putting it on the website.  The first requirement is to ensure transparency and participation of all stakeho...

  Miss out on an opportunity to generate revenues by selling electricity to national grid where power prices are soaring Thermal power plants in Punjab are staring at a severe shortage of coal as most of them are left with fuel reserves that will last only for a few days or for more than a week. With this, the state has also missed out on an opportunity to generate revenues by se...

  The Union power ministry has written a letter to the chief secretary and the additional chief secretary (energy) of Uttar Pradesh on the issue of the power distribution networkThe 33 kv system power distribution network in Uttar Pradesh, like in other states, may soon be merged with the transmission network under a joint venture (JV) with POWERGRID, a Central government entity, with a view...

Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu on Saturday made a fresh demand for cancellation of the power purchase agreements (PPAs) with private power companies, adding that the step could pave the way for Congress’s electoral win in the state. He tweeted, “Faulty PPAs will be cancelled… Removing the burden of fixed charges from over the head of Punjab’s exchequer, Power wil...

The Uttarakhand government on Sunday imposed ESMA to ban the leave of the employees of Uttarakhand Power Corporation, Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited, and Power Transmission Corporation of Uttarakhand Ltd (PTCUL). The decision has come just three days ahead when the state's power sector employees have planned to orchestrate a protest on October 6 demanding pay parity, revision of allowances, and regularisati...

The Uttarakhand government on Sunday imposed ESMA to ban the leave of the employees of Uttarakhand Power Corporation, Uttarakhand Jal Vidyut Nigam Limited, and Power Transmission Corporation of Uttarakhand Ltd (PTCUL). The decision has come just three days ahead when the state's power sector employees have planned to orchestrate a protest on October 6 demanding pay parity, revision of allowances, and regularisati...

Chandigarh With paddy harvest on since a fortnight, the Centre has pushed Punjab to focus on ex-situ management of the crop stubble. Ongoing schemes of in-situ management will continue. The ex-situ management of paddy stubble means adopting methods in which the stubble is moved from its original place. The most common way is to tie the stubble in bundles and supply it as fuel in biomass-based power generation plan...

Former chief minister and Leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda stated that the BJP-JJP government in Haryana is not only against the farmers but the coalition government has an indifferent attitude towards the interests of the state. “For the first time we have no member from Haryana in Bhakra Management Board (BBMB) since last one year. If we do not have any representative in the boa...

A lot has been written about the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2021, but nothing has generated more discussion than the concept of having multiple distribution companies (discoms) in a given geographical area. The Bill states that anybody desirous of engaging in the distribution business has to ‘register’ with the state electricity regulatory commission concerned, and that the regulatory commission would b...