REC, PFC INK MOA WITH STPL FOR FINANCING BUXAR THERMAL POWER PLANT
REC Limited and Power Finance Corporation Limited (PFC) – CPSEs under the Ministry of Power have signed a Memorandum of Loan Agreement with SJVN...
JERA DECLARES STEPS TO ACHIEVE NET ZERO EMISSIONS
Besides inclusion of renewable power, JERA is also expecting to achieve 20% use of ammonia at its coal-fired power plants by 2035...
Renewable To Rise: Thermal Will Remain Baseload Mainstay
Enabling timely fund availability (equity and debt) is key to have required pace of capacity addition.
“India will chart its own course of energy transition…”
Recently, in a free-wheeling interaction with Electrical India (EI) team, Dr Vivek Soni, Faculty of Management, PhD & MTech (IIT Delhi), and a Certified Independent Director -MoCA, Govt of India, revealed his observations and expectations from the ongoing developments in the Indian Power Sector. Here is the Part 2 of the interaction; remaining parts will appear in the next issues of EI…
BHEL COMMISSIONS AN 800 MW SUPERCRITICAL THERMAL POWER PLANT
As India’s largest manufacturer of power generating equipment, BHEL has so far installed more than 1,90,000 MW of power equipment globally…
INDIA’S NUCLEAR CAPACITY TO REACH 22,480 MW BY 2031
The government has accorded ‘in-principle’ approval for five new sites for locating nuclear power plants in future...
Negative outlook for energy infra sector amidst COVID-19 crisis
India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) has revised its outlook for energy infrastructure companies to negative from stable for FY21, as the COVID-19-driven lockdown is...
Outage Planning and Analytics helps nuclear power plant operators
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) and GE Digital introduce Outage Planning and Analytics (OPA), a digital solution to help nuclear power plant operators plan,...
Need to revive stranded Gas-based Power Plant
Gas turbines are found to be more efficient than coal power plants at full load and at minimum complaint load. However, their efficiency range is broader and their minimum power load is higher than those of coal power plants. - Ashok Upadhyay
India is 3rd largest producer of power in the world: R K Singh
Reforms linked distribution schemes and changes in tariff policy are some of the measures under consideration.
PM DEDICATES THE FIRST UNIT OF TELANGANA SUPER THERMAL POWER PROJECT TO THE NATION
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi has recently dedicated the first 800 MW Unit of phase 1 of Telangana Super Thermal Power Project of NTPC...
Understanding the Nuclear Option
On 2nd of February 2024 India generated about 3% of its electricity from nuclear power as against 80% from coal. In contrast nuclear energy...
BHEL commissions 1320 MW supercritical power project in Odisha
Located in Jharsuguda district of Odisha, the project is owned by Odisha Power Generation Corporation Limited (OPGC), a joint venture company of the Government of Odisha and AES, a US-based energy company.
HEADWINDS REMAIN FOR THERMAL POWER SECTOR
“As the macro and sectoral factors improve, backed by strong legislative and policy measures - such as amendments to Electricity Act and Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code - stress in the thermal power sector will abate but it is a long road ahead!” - Sambitosh Mohapatra, Sandeep Kumar Mohanty
APL, IHI, KOWA SIGN MOU TO STUDY FEASIBILITY OF USING 20% LIQUID AMMONIA FOR...
Adani Power Limited (APL), IHI Corporation, and Kowa Company, Ltd. (Kowa), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to study the feasibility on a...
EDF PLANS TO BOOST INVESTMENT TO MAINTAIN UK’S NUCLEAR OUTPUT
EDF, Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity that manages the country’s eight nuclear power station sites, has planned to invest a further £1.3billion...
BARAKAH NUCLEAR POWER PLANT UNIT 1 COMMENCES COMMERCIAL OPERATION
Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS) has recently informed that the Barakah nuclear power plant Unit 1, which is a commercial nuclear...
COAL IMPORTS IN THE AGE OF ENERGY TRANSITION
This is the age of energy transition, de-carbonisation is the buzz word, the demolition of coal-based pants in Europe is not a distant memory,...
Peeping Into The Indian Power Sector
In the last around two years, Indian power sector has grown at a very fast pace. Some of the plans, although made by the previous government, they could not accelerate their execution process. The present government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal; has been successfully driving the sector towards an all round success. They have for the first time outpaced the growth rate of several areas under this sector… - P K Chatterjee
Assessing India’s clean energy progress
The following text highlights a recent report by BloombergNEF and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Assessing India’s clean energy progress and developing modes for cleaner economic growth.
