Royally ignored: Small hydroelectric projects suffer from solar power rise

Though the government has not done anything to discourage the sector, its disinterest is evident.

Green norms breach: 15 coal-firing power plants fined Rs 38 cr

Units ordered to deposit penalties by June 5; Central Pollution Control Board may pursue closure orders

SC refuses to extend pollution norms deadline for power producers

The association of power producers sought extension to deadline for meeting pollution norms to 2024 from 2022

How India’s beaches can unlock a nuclear-powered future

India’s Indigenous Prototype Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactor and abundant thorium reserves hold key to India’s future energy security

MONEYMAKERS

Power faults

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Slender beams

Shine a light

Researchers have come up with a promising invention to make solar power commercially viable

DVB PRIVATISATION

DVB prepares action plan

New power project

What's up?

Is Sri Lanka's controversial power project taking off?

Will new categorisation of hydropower plants lead to sector's revival?

The Union Cabinet recently brought all hydro power projects of more than 25 MW capacity under renewable category which caused a jump in their …

Dupont decried

After the Thapar-Dupont plant was driven out of Goa, and it found a refuge in Tamil Nadu, a ho,n,t's nest has again been stirred up

Will the Bill on Electricity Amendment change the power sector for the better?

Distribution companies in India have long been known as loss-making entities

India’s power sector suffered loss of Rs 2.9 lakh crore in 2013: World Bank

Calls for more efficient transmission grids and regulation measures

Home grown power

More and more villages are opting for affordable, manageable micro-hydel projects

Coal-run power plants cause 23,000 premature deaths in EU; Asia under scanner

Pollution triggered nearly 12,000 new cases of chronic bronchitis and over half-a-million asthma attacks in children in 2013

Gujarat's Kakrapar nuclear plant shut down after leak

The reactor will take at least 24 hours to cool

Now land acquisition stir in Punjab

Farmers protest thermal power project by Indiabulls  

DEAL

Budget 2023-24: Centre lacks clarity on India’s climate change obligations

Government should not allow the ageing units to operate endlessly and instead consider the environmental damage and GHG emissions from such units

Coal crisis: Why Delhi’s coal stock is critical & what other states are doing

Delhi generates 1,107 megawatts of electricity and imports 4,154 MW from neighbouring states

INDIA

Assembling power

The world's largest barge-mounted power plant will be operational in Pakistan by 1999