Electrification of end-uses and the growth of solar and wind is changing how electricity systems operate on all time scales. This report analyses how seasonal variations in both demand and supply affect electricity system operations to 2050 – in Europe, India, Indonesia and Korea – and what sources will be …
The Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) is a flagship programme of the government of India which began in April 2005 and aimed to accelerate the pace of rural electrification programme in the country. The Ministry of Power is the nodal agency implementing the scheme with a mandate to attain …
PROJECT: Reducing indoor air pollution, helping poor rural farmers by promoting ethical trading, providing energy access to the poor and developing sustainable urban transport solutions. ORGANISATION Shell Foundation WHY FOR-PROFIT
This study attempts to establish the challenges associated to solar energy scenario in rural living of south-east of Indian province namely West Bengal and to suggest an inexpensive solar artifact with an aim to cater to the areas which are scarcely electrified and primarily in countryside. Stockpile of fossil fuels …
Tucked away in the Barnawapara wildlife sanctuary of Chhattisgarh is a small village, Deba. The national power grid is yet to reach there. But there is no interruption in the scheduled power supply to its 75 households. While power cuts are frequent in grid-connected villages across the state, the only …
Solar electricity lights the maximum number of villages in Chhattisgarh—but barely so. Tucked away in the Barnawapara wildlife sanctuary of Chhattisgarh is a small village, Deba. The national power grid is yet to reach there. But there is no interruption in the scheduled power supply to its 75 households. While …
Indian farming has grown on unmetered electricity that has, over the decades, led to large-scale transmission and distribution losses, theft and corruption. The only way out of this quagmire is a subsidy based on kilowatt hours delivered directly to the farmer using latest information technology, says Mohinder Gulati The woes …
Close to 5,000 villages in Madhya Pradesh do not have electricity, while in another 3,000-odd villages, less than 10 per cent households have access to power, said a study conducted by the Madhya Pradesh Planning Commission on
Shillong: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) report has revealed that there has been a shortfall in the achievement of targets under most of the flagship programmes in Meghalaya while one project was still incomplete even after 24 years. According to the report, the shortfall ranged between 41 per cent …
This is the sixteenth report on ‘Small and Mini Hydel Projects’ pertaining to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy. One of the responsibilities entrusted to the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is to deal with the micro/mini/small hydropower plants upto 25 MW capacity,
The FM gave only nominal backing to the bouquet of social schemes clubbed under Bharat Nirman.The overall increase was Rs 10,000 crore over the previous year,adding up to Rs 58,000 crore. But in real terms,this could mean much less as the revised outlays for previous years are well above the …
The Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) is one flagship programme of the UPA government where the entire budgeted allocation of Rs 33,000 crore has been committed, but the desired result is still elusive. RGGVY, a component of Bharat Nirman, was launched in April 2005 with a mandate to electrify …
Arunachal Pradesh has asserted that it would become one of the leading states of the country both economically as well as socially by commissioning its various hydropower projects. Sources told The Telegraph that in a memorandum submitted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently, Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu stated …
PATHANAMTHITTA: Making Kerala the first totally electrified State in India is the mission of the Left Democratic Front government, A.K. Balan, Minister for Electricity, has said. He was inaugurating the work on the 33-kV electrical substation at Poozhikkad near Pandalam on Monday. As many as 79 of the 140 Assembly …
The plan panel, however, has asked the Bihar government to speed up power sector reform in the state during the current financial year itself Intending to give fillip to the efforts made by the state government, the planning commission on Tuesday agreed to give a substantial 20 percent hike to …
One of the objectives of Jammu and Kashmir Energy Development Agency (JAKEDA) is to promote and implement projects aimed at meeting the energy requirements of remote and unelectrified areas of the State by harnessing new and renewable sources of energy.
