McNally Bharat Engineering Company Limited has secured a Rs 4.15 billion engineering, procurement and construction contract from Andhra Pradesh Power Generation Corporation Limited. The scope of the contract covers design, engineering, manufacturing, supply, commissioning, operations […]
L&T Construction has secured a contract from West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Company Limited for strengthening the sub-transmission and distribution network in Nadia, West Bengal, under the Integrated Power Development Scheme. In addition, L&T Construction […]
Hindalco Industries Limited is planning to set up a 24 MW solar PV power plant in Sambalpur district, Odisha. The project, entailing an investment of Rs 1,500 million, will be built within the premises of […]
Statkraft BLP Solar Solutions Private Limited (SBSSPL) has commissioned a 5 MW solar PV plant in Karnataka. The company will sell power from the project to three Karnataka-based clients – one institutional user and two […]
Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL) has synchronised the 15 MW solar PV plant at Belampally in Telangana. The commissioning of the project is in line with the conditions and timelines mentioned in the PPA. […]
Siemens Limited plans to commission a 400 kV static var compensator (SVC) system at the New Wanpoh substation (-200/+300 MVAr) in Jammu & Kashmir in 2017. The company has already commissioned two such SVC systems at […]
Essar Power’s 270 MW power project at Hazira, Gujarat, has attained 100 per cent capacity utilisation within three months of commissioning. The project can run on multiple fuels like coal, corex fines and corex gas […]
The 330 MW Unit 4 of Adani Power Limited’s 4,620 MW Mundra coal-based power plant in Gujarat has created a national record by running continuously for 600 days and generating 4,142.56 units of electricity. Earlier, […]
Tata Power Solar Systems Limited has expanded the capacity of its solar PV cell and module manufacturing facility at Bengaluru, Karnataka, with an investment of Rs 1 billion. The two-stage expansion has increased the company’s […]
The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change’s Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has deferred the forest clearance for the 3,097 MW Etalin hydroelectric project (HEP) in Dibang valley, Arunachal Pradesh. The FAC found major inadequacies […]
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has issued a formal clearance for reopening NTPC’s 705 MW Badarpur thermal power station in the National Capital Region of Delhi. The coal-based plant has been closed since November 2016 […]
The Assam government has asked NTPC to prepare a detailed project report for the proposed 1,600 MW coal-based power project at Margherita in Assam. North Eastern Coalfields Limited is expected to provide linkage to the project. […]
The Tripura government will export 60 MW of additional power to Bangladesh. The latter had sought 100 MW of power but due to the lack of transmission facilities in Bangladesh, only 60 MW will be […]
The Punjab and Jammu & Kashmir governments have agreed to resume work on the 206 MW Shahpur Kandi hydroelectric project across the Ravi river in Gurdaspur, Punjab. The project with a 55.5 metre high dam […]
Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (TPDDL) has collaborated with telecom equipment maker Nokia to modernise its electrical grid with an advanced communications network as part of its roadmap for smart grid implementation. Nokia has provided TPDDL […]
The Sikkim government has signed an MoU with the central government under the Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojana (UDAY). Sikkim will earn an overall net benefit of about Rs 2.07 billion through the scheme by way of cheaper […]
NTPC has commissioned the 660 MW second unit of the Mouda Super Thermal Power Station Stage-II in Maharashtra. With this, the commissioned capacity of the Mouda Super Thermal Power Station has reached 2,320 MW and […]
The MoP has issued over 3.8 million energy savings certificates (ESCerts) to designated consumers (DCs) under the first cycle of the Perform, Achieve and Trade (PAT) scheme. The ESCerts were issued on February 16, 2017 […]
US-based Westinghouse Electric Corporation (WEC) plans to go ahead with its proposal to build six nuclear reactors in Andhra Pradesh in partnership with Larsen & Toubro Limited. The recent decision of Toshiba Corporation, WEC’s Japanese […]
The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has released the Annual Generation Target 2017-18 report. As per the report, the CEA has fixed the generation target at 1,229.4 billion units (BUs) for 2017-18. About 78 per cent […]
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