Union Power Secretary P Uma Shankar informed that the Centre sanctioned budgetary support of around Rs 49,730 crore for the power ministryÂ’s fl agship rural electrifi cation pro gramme called Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana during the 12th Plan. The ministry also harnessed Information Technology for ensuring quality power supply to different parts of the country, he said.
Category: Power & New and Renewable Energy
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CIL Price Pooling
Following the rejection of the model proposed by Central Electricity Authority (CEA) for price pooling of imported coal, Coal India (CIL) is in the process of preparing a new model. Reports suggest that the company would fine tune the model proposed by CEA to include all possible scenarios.
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Ramky's JV for waste to energy projects
Ramky Enviro Engineers along with Chinese company Chongqing Sanfeng Environmental Industry Group plans to address the waste to energy project market in India through a joint venture (JV). This venture is aimed at expanding the scope of the work to be handled together, according to M Gautham Reddy, Director, Ramky Group. A memorandum of understa nding (MoU) was signed with the Chinese company and the efforts will be to make use of each others expertise in waste to energy projects. The JV will be
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Bank's Cautious OnWind Energy Projects
According to senior executives in financial institutions and private equity funds, financial viability of distribution licensees, evacuation infrastructure gaps and project approvals are the constraints to utility-scale wind energy projects. The project viability is primarily dependent on their ability to sell power.
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Gujarat Solar Park bags award
Wärtsilä India conferred the 10th Wärtsilä-Mantosh Sondhi Award on Gujarat Power CorpoÂration (Gujarat Solar Park)
for their significant contribution to the Indian energy sector. DJ Pandian, Principal Secretary, Energy & Petrochemicals, Govt of Gujarat, accepted the award from Björn Rosengren, President and CEO, Wärtsilä Corporation.
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A powerful visionary
Anil Sardana is the Managing Director of Tata Power since February 2011. Beginning August 2007 till January 31, 2011, he was the Managing Director of Tata Teleservices (TTSL) and Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra). Prior to August 2007, he worked in Tata Power for more than five years.
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Integral leadership
Sumant Sinha is the Chairman and CEO of ReNew Power. He brings his vast experience in the Indian renewable eneÂrgy space, international finance, comÂbined with unique operating experience to the firm. Prior to setting up ReNew Power, Sumant was the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Suzlon Energy. Sumant was responsible for refinancing SuzlonÂ’s entire outstanding debt worth $3 billion, raised an additional $800 million and restructured $500 million worth of foreign convertible bonds in an extremel
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Solar power at Delhi station
To power the premises of New Delhi railway station, the Delhi Division of Northern Railway is looking at the option of using solar energy. Under the pilot project, solar panel of 1 MW capacity will be installed in the non-utilised portion of the rooftop. Authorities highlighted the need to conserve energy and reduce the power bill of the station.
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PowerGrid sub-stations to be remote-controlled
By 2013, all PowerGrid sub-stations will be remotely controlled by the National Transmission Asset Management Centre at Manesar, said RN Nayak, Chairman and Managing Director, PowerGrid. There will be cameras observing the functioning of devices and equipment and the stations will be virtually managed remotely, he said, adding that having eight persons per sub-station was a waste of manpower.
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India suffers over 11% power generation loss
A Central Electricity Authority review has said that India suffered a power generation loss of over 11.46 per cent, in 2011-12, on account of fuel shortage, transmission bottlenecks and an equipment proÂblem. All India electricity
generation in the country during 2011-12 has been at 876.89 bu. The increased forÂced outages were due to incÂreased forced shutdown of units due to coal supply problem and transmission constrÂaints and equipment problems of some new units, the CEA report said.