Not all farmers in Punjab will get free electricity, if the draft Farmers Policy framed by the Punjab Farmers and Farm Workers Commission is accepted in toto by the state government. All institutional land holders, farmer families with one or more member having held a constitutional post; ministers, MPs, MLAs, Mayors of corporations, chairpersons of panchayats, those having served or retired fr...

The next meeting of the Federal Council of NIPEF shall be held on August 17 (Saturday) at Dehradun. Agenda  for the meeting is as under 1    Adress of Chairman, Secretary General and Chief Patron AIPEF   2   Report of Chairman and Secretary General NIPEF  3   a  Main resolutions on present power sector scenario particularly government o...

CHANDIGARH: Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has forwarded   the proposal to construct three 800 MW super critical units at Ropar in the first phase in state sector to Punjab Government in December 2018  and the same  is pending with the government . PSPCL has put in place a plan to further augment its power generation capacity of Ropar thermal plant by...

BUDGET 2019 - is disappointing for Power Sector and Working Class. Finance Minister has not given any proposal how the mounting losses of DISCOMS will be reduced so that common consumers may get electricity at affordable rates. One Nation One Grid concept is useful only when all power utilities of State are integrated for which no mention in Budget proposals. Finance Minister has mentioned about UDAY scheme but...

New Delhi: Coal-based capacity addition in the Indian power sector, which fell to a low of 3,600 Megawatt last financial year (2018-19), is likely to remain subdued in a range between 5,000 Mw and 6,000 Mw in the current fiscal year and the next (2020-21), according to India Ratings and Research. “This likely decline in thermal capacity addition is attributed to the...

PATIALA: PSEB Engineers Association  has demanded that need based  adequate technical staff be recruited to avoid collapse of  power system and  restoration of basic pay of assistant engineers. A meeting of the Association was held today and was addressed by Padamjit Singh Patron, Sanjeev Sood president Devinder Goyal General secretary and other office bearers of Association. The house ...

RUPNAGAR : Hot and sultry weather across the region pushed power demand in Punjab to a new peak of 13,700 megawatt (MW) on Monday with a jump of more than 1,200 MW from last year’s maximum power demand of 12,542 MW recorded on July 9, 2018. On Monday, Punjab’s own generation was 6,290 MW and it was drawing 6,352 MW from the national grid as per its share in central sector units and from other sources a...

The All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) has demanded restructuring and integration of all unbundled power utilities in the larger interest of states for better coordination and consumer services. The Federation has written to Union Power Minister RK Singh and said the Central Government should introduce a separate section in the National Electricity Policy to integrate the state power sector. Even today, ...

RUPNAGAR : The All India Power Engineers’ Federation (AIPEF), demanded the restructuring and integration of all unbundled power utilities on Thursday. The demand was put forward to facilitate better coordination and consumer service in states across India. In a letter written to the Union minister of state for power, RK Singh, the AIPEF said that the Union government should introduce a separate section in...

All-India Power Engineers Federation has demanded integration of all unbundled power utilities in all the states. As per the reforms in the power sector, power generation, transmission and distribution have been unbundled and separate companies have been created in almost all the state.  AIPEF chairman Shailendra Dubey on Wednesday said that in the larger interest of state and for be...