The Government of India has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Government of Maharashtra and Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Co Ltd (MSEDCL) under the Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) at the two-day State Power Ministers Conference in Vadodara.
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9,653 villages electrified till date under DDUGJY
A total of 327 villages have been electrified across the country from 1st to 7th August 2016 under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna (DDUGJY). Out of these electrified villages, seven villages belong to Arunachal Pradesh, 12 to Assam, 10 to Bihar, four to Chhattisgarh, 68 to Jharkhand, four to Madhya Pradesh, 11 to Manipur, 136 to Meghalaya, eight to Nagaland, 24 to Odisha, six to Rajasthan, two to Tripura, 31 to Uttar Pradesh and one each to Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka
Mahavitaran to buy power from consumers
To reduce wastage of solar energy and incentivise people to go green, Mahavitaran Ltd has introduced ´net metering´, a provision allowing house owners and office complexes to sell unused power generated by their photovoltaic units to the discom
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The government is finally taking note. While it is too early to say that a solution to the woes of distribution companies (DISCOMs) is just around the corner, the wheels are in motion.
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Export zones: Need new forms of partnership
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