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Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik sought a special package with an allocation of Rs 525 cr from the Thirteenth Finance Commission (TFC) for three additional sectors to accelerate the pace of development in the State. Naveen met commission chairman Vijay Kelkar in Delhi on Tuesday and discussed the additional memorandum submitted by the State Government detailing the need for financial assistance for the three sectors.The Chief Minister said that though Orissa pioneered the reform programme in the power sector and privatisation of distribution system, it is being penalised by being denied benefit from the restructured accelerated power development and reforms programme (APDRP), which has a total outlay of Rs 51,577 cr.
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has asked the Union ministry of power to provide separate budget allocation for state load despatch centres (SLDC). State governments exercise indirect control over SLDCs to ensure that there is no open access of electricity for other states. This...
State-run power utility NTPC today started receiving natural gas from Reliance Industries' (RIL) eastern offshore KG D-6 fields at the government-approved price of $4.2 per mmBtu price. NTPC's Anta plant in NCR region this morning started receiving 0.6 million standards cubic meters per day of KG D-...
The much publicised 10,000 mw gas-based Dadri Thermal Power Project of Anil Ambani is nowhere in site even after lapse of its gestation period of three years. But what has made UP to cut a sorry figure is the fact that the project, showcased as a great `power house' with a potential to ease the stat...
Bringing relief to consumers whose power bills for June, July and August were unusually high, the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) passed an order to ensure that for these months, consumers be charged only 30 per cent higher than their bills for the corresponding period in 2008. The or...
In an effort to spread awareness regarding judicious use of energy, Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) is trying to rope in school authorities to target students. The Board has already asked the schools to use CFLs and is also organizing special seminars in school premises to create awareness amo...
The power ministry, which is the administrative ministry of state-owned National Thermal Power Corp Ltd, has said if the country's biggest power generator is denied gas from Reliance Industries Ltd's Krishna-Godavari block at $2.34 per mBtu, it will not take the burden but pass the additional cost o...
After a probe threw up the possibility of the BSES using faulty billing software, a red-faced Delhi government is now planning to ask the discoms to install parellel meters in households that have complained of inflated bills. After six months, if it is seen that the reading of the parellel meter is...
Several commercial and residential customers of Reliance Infrastructure (R-Infra) in Mumbai are planning to shift their electricity connections to Tata Power Company (TPC). Around 4,000 restaurants in Mumbai and its suburbs say the shift to TPC would work out to be over 50 per cent cheaper for them....
The Uttarakhand Electricity Regulatory Commission (UERC) fixed power tariffs in the hill state with an average increase of 15 per cent, effective from October 1 this year for a period of six months. Making the announcement, UERC chairman V J Talwar said the average increase in power tariff for indu...
