The West Bengal Cabinet has approved Power Department’s proposal of handing over the 1,600 MW Katwa thermal power project to NTPC. The Left Front government had taken up the initiative to set up the thermal power station at Katwa over 1,050 acres and West Bengal Power Distribution Company Limited was supposed to set up the [...]

OPG Power Gujarat Private Limited has allegedly started construction for a 300 MW coal based thermal power plant in Mundra area of Kutch district without necessary clearances. Following this, a joint team of the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) and the Gujarat Pollution Control Board (GPCB) has recommended to the State government to [...]

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has released a report titled `Minimisation of water requirement in coal based thermal power stations`. In the study, it has said that dry condenser cooling systems offer a possible solution for power plant installation at sites where availability of water is scarce, since requirement of plant consumptive water reduces by [...]

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) recently conducted a study on application of dry cooling system in thermal power plants (TPPs) across the country. In the study, the CEA has contended that dry condenser cooling systems used in TPPs are technologically costlier than comparable wet cooling systems. The study, which was carried out for a plant [...]

Chhattisgarh Power Generation Company Limited (CSPGCL) has sought an Expression of Interest (EoI) for disposal of dry fly ash produced at three thermal power stations (TPS). The three thermal power plants are the 440 MW Korba TPS, the 840 MW Hasdeo TPS and the 500 MW Dr. Shyama Prasad Mukherji TPS. The TPSs get raw [...]

JSW Energy, a company promoted by Sajjan Jindal, has started with the design and engineering related works associated with its upcoming 1,320 MW super-critical coal based thermal power plant, located in Raipur in the state of Chhattisgarh, and is currently evaluating bids for the BTG equipment package. Currently, the acquisition of 300 acres of land [...]

Asian Institute for Sustainable Development (AISD) and TERIA have conducted a comparison of the extensive socio economic survey (SES). The pre-bid survey has revealed that the difference in pre and post bid costs is maximum for the component `coal block R&R`. The Rs 1,994 core difference in figures has been primarily attributed to the Rs [...]

Even as land acquisition hurdles are posing a trouble to Jharkhand Integrated Power Limited’s (JIPL’s) 4,000 MW Tilaiya ultra mega power project (UMPP), the Reliance Power wholly owned subsidiary now has to resolve the critical issue of a stupendous Rs 3,131 crore increase in Rehabilitation and Resettlement (R&R) cost over the original pre-bid estimates. The [...]

Status details of the commissioning status of solar photovoltaic (PV) projects under batch-I of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) phase-I are provided below. The projects are under the rooftop photovoltaic (PV) and small solar power generation programme (RPSSGP)– a generation based incentives programme under the JNNSM scheme. Photon Energy Systems Limited (1 MW): [...]

The Union Ministry of Coal has decided to one last shot before deallocating the Gondulpara coal block – jointly allocated to Tenughat Vidyut Nigam Limited (TVNL) and Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC). Earlier, the Ministry had earlier recommended the coal block for de-allocation, has now decided to hold back after the Government of Jharkhand and Jharkhand [...]