Urban India’s parking woes: an overview
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
Vehicular congestion and insufficient parking facilities are significant emerging challenges for India’s mega and metropolitan cities, severely impairing mobility. Although curtailed by constitutional
Mumbai: In a bid to conserve power, the Central Railway and the Western Railway have started replacing the old tube lights across all the stations, its offices, loco sheds and railway workshops with new energy saving ones.
MUMBAI: To tackle the shortfall of electricty during summer, the state government is likely to buy electricity from the open market. A key functionary of the Democratic Front government said the proposal to buy 500 MW would be passed in the cabinet meeting to be held on Friday. At present, the state has a shortfall of 4,000 MW daily and the demand for power increases in the summer.
MUMBAI: The Tata Power Company Limited, one of the largest integrated private power utilities, on Monday announced the commercial operation of its new 250-MW Unit 8 at its Trombay thermal power station. The commissioning of the unit promises to bridge the increasing demand-and-supply gap of power for the city.
India is rapidly developing wind energy resources to satisfy its growing needs for electricity. However, the suitability of a particular location for the development of a wind energy project depends on a large number of factors.
MUMBAI: Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Anil Kakodkar said an inadequate uranium supply had made the task of maintaining the pace of the nuclear power generation programme a very challenging task.
Mumbai When skyrocketing electric bills
Mumbai: For a state already grappling with severe power shortage, this news is sure to come as a shock. If experts are to be believed, Maharashtra will now have to brace itself for more hours of load-shedding following a major snag at Chandrapur and Khaparkheda thermal power stations.
MUMBAI: About 24 lakh power consumers in suburban Mumbai may be saved from a big hike in their electricity bills with Reliance Infrastructure and Tata Power deciding to bury the hatchet. The two companies had been at war over the allocation of power capacity.
Mumbai: The distribution wing of the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB), now Mahavitaran (MV), proposes to increase the rate of electricity supplied to consumers across the board within the next few weeks.
MUMBAI: The engineering marvel Bandra-Worli sea link, which opens on June 30, is likely to consume 1,000 KW power a day, enough to meet the electricity requirement to 100 households. "We have installed a transmitter which has 1,000 KVA capacity. This has been placed keeping the demand in mind," Bajaj Electrical's Head Engineering Project Lalit Mehta said.