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The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is probing alternative routes for laying the 220KV line from Pallikara sub-station after it fails to find a solution to the objection raised by SmartCity to using its land for overhead lines. The line-laying work has been grounded for the last 10 months due to the standoff. SmartCity that got the land from KSEB objected to the overhead line and insisted on underground cables.
The government agreed to pay Rs 15 crore for laying the underground cables but KSEB that sought Rs 60 crore found it too little.
The Ernakulam district administration's share of dues to the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) has touched a whopping Rs 25 lakh. Though the actual bill was Rs 7 lakh for the period from 2006 to 2008, it has reached Rs 25 lakh after the various departments of the District Adm...
Signalling that the power situation in the state is turning to worse, the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) has recommended the State Electricity Regulatory Commission to regulate the supply of power to consumers during 2012-2013. According to KSEB, power usage by the domest...
K. Radhakrishnan, former Member (Generation) of the Kerala State Electricity Board said he fears that the latest report by the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel (WGEEP) on the Athirapally hydro-electric project smacks of a move to torpedo major power projects evolved by Kerala. ...
The Union minister for state for power K C Venugopal's announcement that an additional 135 MW power was allotted afresh to Kerala has turned out to be another publicity exercise as it was not a fresh allocation, but a belated partial release of 180 MW power due to Kerala. The min...
The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is undecided about the need for reworking its annual plan for phased utilisation of its hydroelectric resources in the wake of the government's direction to keep the water level in Idukki reservoir at a moderate level.The government's dir...
Kerala Electricity Minister Aryadan Mohammed has said that hydel power is the best option for Kerala to meet its energy requirements. "But the fact is that the State is unable to go forward with hydro-electric projects because of strong opposition to such projects," he said. The ...
The Kerala government has asked the officers of Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd. (PGCIL) to find out whether the proposed Koodankulam-Madakkathara power line could be avoided by increasing the capacity of the existing 220 KV line.
In a setback to the proposed Cheemeni gas-based project, the Ministry of Environment has returned the proposal submitted by Kerala for preliminary approval for the project. An expert panel under the ministry returned the proposal with the observation that it did not factor the re...
The government may have withdrawn the cyclic load-shedding, but the power situation leaves a lot to be desired in the state. According to informed sources in the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB), the electricity supply in the state is dwindling by the day as the board heavil...
Opposition in the Kerala Assembly staged a walkout on 10-10-2011 morning after the Speaker refused leave for an adjournment motion over load-shedding enforced by the State Government. The adjournment motion was piloted by Mr A.K. Balan of the CPI(M), a former Electricity Minister...
