ALL INDIA POWER ENGINEERS FEDERATION    No. 17 - 2019 /Integration of Power Utilities                           26 - 06 - 2019   Hon,ble Sri R K Singh Minister of State for Power, New & Renewable Energy (I/C) Shram Shakti Bhawan New Delhi   Sub: Integration of all unbundled power utilities in Sta...

The power demand in Haryana on Tuesday exceeded 9,700 MW the first time this season, reveals the data obtained from the Northern Regional Load Despatch Centre website. On Monday, the power supplied in the state was 1,977 lakh units with the maximum demand of 9,244 MW. The thermal units in the state supplied 515 lakh units. Yamunanagar thermal units supplied 122 lakh units, Khedar thermal units supplied...

New Delhi: The government is thinking of setting up regional regulators to review the performance of independent state electricity regulatory commissions, as a rising gap between average revenue and costs has worsened the financial position of powerdistribution companies. The proposal, first mooted by an advisory committee led by former power minister Suresh Prabhu, needs...

In a welcome move, public sector companies NTPC and Power Grid Corporation of India have formed a joint venture to set up a national electricity distribution company. The decision paves the way for a central public sector entity to enter the power supply business, which up until now has been largely the preserve of state distribution companies. Coming at a time when state discoms are struggling to co...

24x7 power is the government’s priority, India’s new power minister Raj Kumar Singh said on May 30. His predecessor, Piyush Goyal, declaredIndia a power surplus country two years ago. A government dashboardsays 99.99% of rural homes – which account for nearly 7 in 10 Indian homes – now have grid power.At the root of the contradictions between almost-universal elec...

Bhopal: For more than 25 lakh unmetered rural consumers of Madhya Pradesh, discoms have proposed to increase the power tariff by as much as 100%. This has been claimed by retired additional chief engineer of the energy department in his objection against the proposed power tariff hike before the Madhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC). “Twelve per cent is on...

Visakhapatnam: S Nagalakshmi, a 2012 IAS batch officer, is the new chairman and managing director of Andhra Pradesh Eastern PowerDistribution Company Limited (APEPDCL), Visakhapatnam. The Andhra Pradesh government appointed an IAS officer to the discom, which was hitherto headed by two non-IAS officers under the previous Telugu Desam Party government’s rul...

NEW DELHI: Distribution companies (discoms) will no longer be able to get away without paying for the power they procure for supplying to consumers. The power ministry is ushering in a payment security mechanism on the principles of the pre-paid system to ensure prompt payment to generation companies (gencos). This is part of structural changes being implemented...

NEW DELHI: Distribution companies (discoms) will no longer be able to get away without paying for the power they procure for supplying to consumers. The power ministry is ushering in a payment security mechanism on the principles of the pre-paid system to ensure prompt payment to generation companies (gencos). This is part of structural changes being implemented...

Heralding a major change in the power distribution sector of the country, two leading public sector utilities — NTPC and Power Grid Corporation of India — have formed a joint venture to set up National Electricity Distribution Company. This paves way for NTPC, a leading power generator, and Power Grid, which owns India’s largest power transmission...