In Tamil Nadu, the failure of the southwest monsoon has dealt a severe blow to the state’s hydroelectric power units, reducing energy generation by 33 per cent of their combined capacity.
Category: Power & New and Renewable Energy
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Power equipment industry
Hurt by economic slowdown and higher imports, the Indian electrical equipment industry’s sales have decreased by 2.4 per cent in the first quarter of 2012-13.
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India has small hydro projects with 19,750 mw potential
India has a capacity of about 19,750 mw of small hydro power projects, the Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah said.
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Alstom to build transmission line for Power Grid
A contract for Rs 2,800 crore from state-run Power Grid Corporation has been bagged by Alstom to build a 1,365-km transmission line from Chhattisgarh to Haryana
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TRAI's green initiative on telecom towers
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) recommendations on green energy applications have been approved by the Union Government.
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Action points to pull SEZs out of the doldrums
One needs to clearly distinguish between small format SEZs and large format multi-product SEZs, What started as a mad rush to have Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in business portfolio has today become
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Next generation network operation centres
Hemant Arora and Kaustav Ghosh describe the advantages for telecom to switch over to a new and more flexible system. Over the last five years, India has witnessed a rapid increase in the number of wireless subscribers
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Solar cost and tariff may converge by 2017: Experts
India’s National Solar Mission aims to increase solar capacity from 250 MW at the end of 2011 to 20 GW of grid-connected solar alone by 2022. The total installed capacity of grid-connected solar power in India is reported to be 503.9 MW so far.
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Discom's turnaround agent
An Engineering and MBA Alumnus of Delhi University, Ramesh Narayanan, the CEO of BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL), comes with 28 years of expeÂrience in the power sector.
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Steering through boom and dust
K Ravi, Managing Director, NCL Industries Limited, entered into the industry and started business much early, in his late teens when he was a student.