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In what could be seen as a testimony of the quality of its work, a staggering 94 per cent of the orders received by state-run power equipment manufacturer BHEL last year came from the private sector. The private power generation companies, which till recently patronised Chinese equipment makers, have come back to BHEL only due to its quality and performance parameters offered by the PSU.BHEL received equipment orders worth 11,700 MW in 2009."Private power companies, which earlier gave the contracts to the Chinese firms, are coming back to us... In fact some of them have scrapped their contracts with the Chinese vendors and are approaching us for supply of equipments," BHEL CMD B.P. Rao told PTI .
Privatisation of power sector is going to dent the pockets of power consumers in Delhi. Delhiites could be paying up to 70% more on power bills from April 2010 if discoms have their way. As per the tariff petitions submitted to Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC), discoms BYPL, BRPL and N...
As many as 40 allwomen squads will keep an eye on billing irregularities, meter tampering and power thefts in the state from February onwards. The squads will be set up by the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Ltd (MSEDCL) and will be called Damini squads . They will report directly...
The central government has decided that one company can only implement up to three ultra mega power projects or UMPPs at any point in time in an attempt to ensure that these large projects , typically above 4000 MW, achieve financial closure and start generating electricity at the earliest. The move...
With around 8,000 Mw of power projects in various stages of development, the coastal district of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu is well on its way to emerge as the south india's power generation hub. A total of Rs 42,000 crore is being invested in these projects .roughly half, according to Thoothukudi Co...
In a decision that would dig deep into power consumer's pockets, maharashtra chief minister Ashok Chavan gave nod to hike the electricity duty levied on industrial and residential consumers, cinema theatre owners and traders by 2 to 3 per cent. The government expects an increase by Rs 723.43 crore i...
Even as the Punjab government has agreed to provide relief to other categories of consumers besides farmers from the recent power tariff hike, it has been consistently defaulting in payment subsidy for free power to farmers and SCs and BPL families.The total default figure on power subsidy has reach...
Power traders, including PTC India, Adani, NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam and Tata Power, are expected to be the major beneficiaries of the new regulations issued by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) to fix the margin for inter-state trading in electricity. Trading margin would apply to...
Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) has increased the duration of load shedding from existing four to five hours due to reduction in hydel generation by over 50%. Heavy snowfall in the hills has led to steep fall in hydel power generation with a few hydel stations having stopped functioning altoge...
An airplane, entirely powered by solar energy, dubbed as a technological breakthrough, will feature at the third World Future Energy Summit (WFES) that will host world leaders, policy makers, experts and investors from hundred countries across the world.The project was developed by Bertrand Piccard,...
