Istanbul: India's Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Saturday said that the government is augmenting domestic capacity for building critical and ultra-super critical technologies based power plants to meet the growing need for electricity. "Domestic capacities for building power plants with super critical and ultra-super critical technologies are being established to reduce the coal requirement of electricity production," Shinde said in his address to the World Energy Leaders Summit being...
03:49 AM, Apr 22, 2012
Washington: The World Bank has approved about $ 1.09 billion financial aid to Pakistan for funding its two projects that would improve the country's power supply in the crucial agricultural sector. While the Tarbela IV Extension Hydropower Project will add power generation capacity of 1,410 MW, the Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Productivity Improvement Project is geared toward maximising water use efficiency for increased yield per unit of water. "The Tarbela IV...05:21 AM, Mar 21, 2012
By Ramesh Chandak Indian Power sector is in crises. It is not only a sectoral challenge but now has become a national challenge. The Shunglu Committee has said that Discom (distribution companies) losses are over Rs 100,000 crore and largely funded by the banks, so even the banks will have an issue. Most of us are discussing about generation and coal availability. But even the more serious problem is of...05:55 PM, Feb 20, 2012
New Delhi: PMO on Monday started the exercise to review the performance of the power sector, as a follow up to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's meeting with the power company honchos last week. "The issue of coal shortage and how to ramp up coal production in the country was discussed in the meeting at PMO," sources said. Top power company heads including Anil Ambani and Ratan Tata had discussed with...01:34 AM, Jan 24, 2012
The government aims to bring down the deficit to 5.5 per cent in 2010/11. ...07:56 PM, Oct 19, 2009
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