India has suffered a slowdown due to weak industrial growth. There is an immediate need to improve the macro-economic environment to accelerate the pace of reforms. As the year 2012 ends and the New Year rolls in, the existing troubles need immediate resolution.
Category: Power & New and Renewable Energy
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Infrascape 2013 | Positive changes in 2013
In the power sector, 2012 has been a very bad year with zero projects commenced. Unfortunately all the ingredients of the sector have gone wrong. Coal, environÂmental clearances and land became a huge problem for any power project. So whatever projects were on the anvil have also got delayed or shelved.
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Infrascape 2013 | Policy reforms to accelerate capacity building in distribution
When we reflect on the developments in the power sector in 2012, we find that it was a mixed bag. The generation sector saw a phenomenal, unprecÂedented, capacity additÂion thus, bridging the energy gap to a great extent. Today, the total installed generation capaÂcity is over 209,000 MW after an addition of over 50,000 MW in the 11th 5 year plan period.
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India, US join hands to develop solar energy
An initiative has been jointly taken by India and the United States to develop solar energy through photovoltaic (PV) projects and concentrated solar power (CSP), also known as solar thermal. This comes four months after India experienced one of the worldÂ’s biggest blackouts, which affected more than 680 million people.
Titled ‘SERIIUS’ (Solar Energy Research Initiative of India and the United States), the $50 million project would be conducted by the Bangalore-based Indian Institute of Science
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Govt asks power firms to sign FSAs within a month
One month deadline has been given to the public sector power companies to sign fuel supply agreements (FSAs) with Coal India (CIL). The deadline has been set up by the Prime MinisterÂ’s Office (PMO) on December 17. The PSUs include NTPC and it they fail to meet the deadline the FSAs would be withdrawn, the PMO has warned.
Sources told a leading news agency that the PMO has asked Power Ministry to direct power PSUs to sign fuel supply agreements (FSAs) with CIL within a month from December 17.
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Faridabad SMEs to buy power from pvt discom
Many small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Faridabad region of Haryana, who are members of the Faridabad Small Industries Association (FSIA), are joining hands and eyeing an arrangement for collective power purchase from a private electricity distribution company. SMEs in Faridabad are faced with bleak power situations that hurt their efficiency,
FSIA members said this could be the countryÂ’s first example of an SME cluster buying power from a private electricity distributor.
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Tata Power to modernise Trombay thermal plant
Tata Power has proposed modernisation of its 500 MW Unit 6 at Trombay Thermal Power Station. The plan includes addition of coal firing equipment and installation of pollution control equipment
to make the unit work on coal, oil and gas, wherein all three fuels can be combined in any percentage.
This is being done to control spiralling oil cost, the company said. The proposed modernisation will improve utilisation of full capacity of 500 MW. It will also reduce fuel cost and help lower tariffs
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Haryana for hydel project in Bhutan
Haryana government is setting up a joint venture hydel power project in Bhutan in partnership with the Royal Government of the independent State. Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that the State would get 1,500 to 2,000 MW power from Bhutan in next four to five years at rates economical than thermal power.
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SuzlonÂ’s arm wins order in Canada
For delivery of 51 wind turbines, Suzlon Group subsidiary, REpower Systems SE has concluded a contract with wpd Europe GmbH, a subsidiary of project developer wpd AG, the company announced. As part of this, a service and maintenance agreement (ISP) for a total of 15 years for the new projects was also concluded, the company said in a statement. The REpower MM92 turbines, each with a rated power of 2.05 MW, are intended for six projects to be constructed and commissioned in 2014.
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BGR generators for NTPCs project
To supply two 800-MW steam turbine generators for NTPCÂ’s Lara Super Thermal Power Project, BGR Energy is set to start work on the Rs 1,548-crore contract in Chattisgarh. The NTPC project is a 4,000 MW project of 5 x800 mw and the Chennai-based BGR Energy will provide two (2x800 MW) steam turbine generators for the project.