Probe ordered into land allotment to Hinduja Power Corporation in Visakhapatnam

Company failed to set up power plant even 10 years after it took possession of site

Solar trick

A number of solar mission projects operational only on paper

Power ministry gets a jolt

Rewards for power from sun, wind

CWC may commission cumulative impact assessment of dam projects in Brahmaputra basin in Assam

2,000-MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Project in the basin has been stalled since 2011 due to safety concerns

CSE disputes CEA’s study urging relaxation of SO2 norms for thermal plants

‘The study is incomplete and its findings invalid’

Residents protest Tata Power’s modernisation plans for Trombay plant

Modernisation will increase pollution, say residents

Bidding exposes solar tariff game

The ambitious solar mission is set to start on shaky ground

Solar Entrepreneurs

Alternatives to dumping Fukushima wastewater into the Pacific

Japan plans to dump treated, radioactively contaminated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the Pacific but it could be used in other …

Rooftop solar energy: Revised net metering cap in the new draft electricity rules means good news

The bidirection meter that will calculate the final bill after net metering should be a smart prepayment meter

India’s coal power sector continues to disregard water norms: CSE report

CSE surveyed over 154 GW coal power capacity and found about half of freshwater-based power plants were non-complying with 2015 water norms; most …

US Supreme Court puts Obama’s Clean Power Plan on hold

The Plan requires at least a 32-per cent cut in CO2 emissions from the power sector compared to 2005 levels by 2030

This heatwave is not a weather blip

Energy in news on June 7

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on energy

Talking of solar power

No alternative

Asia turns to nuclear power as the demand for energy soars

N-weapons destroyed

Nuclear bribes

IN FOCUS

Atomic flare-up

Nucleocracy's nonsense

Nuclear industry peters out

PAKISTAN

Nuke is no good