Power Industry

Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: United Progress Alliance chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday dedicated a 980 MW (2x490 MW) Dadri power project stage-II of NTPC Limited to the nation. The project will provide power for next month's Commonwealth Games here. Speaking on the occasion, Ms.

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P Vinod Kumar, Kavitha Venkatraman Chennai: Decks have been cleared for the fast-tracking of Tamil Nadu Electricity Board’s (TNEB) 2 X 800 mw coal-fired power project to be set up in the Ennore special economic zone (Ennore SEZ) with state-run power utility getting the much-needed clearance from the ministry of environment and forests to go ahead with the project. The power-starved state is

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Tata Steel, seeking a greater role the government in promoting Indian industry, has called for an ultra mega steel plant policy, on the lines of the similarly named policy to promote the power sector. “There is a gas policy; there is a policy for power plants. The steel sector, too, requires a policy like ultra mega steel plants.

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Hyderabad, Sept. 7: When a litre of bottled water costs not less than `14 in the market, the irrigation department is supplying water to industries at a rate that is mind-blowing. Industries across the state get river and canal water at just `1.50 per 3,790 litres.

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New Delhi: Facing problems with Chinese power equipment, state-owned Durgapur Projects is believed to have approached BHEL for carrying out repair and recommission the 300-mw thermal power plant in West Bengal. Chinese firm Dong Fang had supplied turbine to DPL, which has become inoperable due to some technical snag since last three months, sources in the know said. When contacted, Li Qi, CE

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The power arrangement blueprint for the Commonwealth Games was prepared nearly two years ago, but with the event less than a month away, the arrangements on the ground have sharply deviated from what was projected on paper. According to the Power Department’s conservative estimate, demand for power in Delhi during the Games should come to 5,000 MW.

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About 250 delegates, including 60 from foreign countries, to take part in international meet International Atomic Energy Agency will send three specialists to the meet CHENNAI: The Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR), NTPC and Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited have signed a memorandum of understanding for the development of an advanced ultra super critical technology to be used f

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Mandi, September 2 Power producers and the Himachal government are planning to contest the recommendations of the Shukla Committee before the High Court.

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The group will develop 240-Mw geothermal power project A consortium of Tata Power, Australian energy major Orion Energy and PT Supraco Indonesia has won the Sorik Marapi geothermal project in the Northern Sumatra region of Indonesia.

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Sudheer Pal Singh / New Delhi September 3, 2010, 0:30 IST Method to replace the current practice of allocating blocks on official discretion; aim to introduce more objectivity in the process In a move aimed at ushering in long-pending reforms in the coal sector, the government has decided to auction three sets of coal blocks.

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