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09 Oct 2021

Coal crisis: Will you face power cut tomorrow?

The Ministry of Coal and Coal India are making efforts to increase dispatch. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A total of 14 power plants have temporarily stopped functioning in Uttar Pradesh.

09 Oct 2021

Coal crisis: Power cuts imposed in Punjab as plants run at reduced capacity

Coal-fired power plants are running at a reduced capacity. The demand for power at present is about 9,000 megawatts (MW) in the state. Three private sector power plants are having a coal supply of up to two days.

New coal linkage policy

17 May 2017

CCEA gives nod to new coal linkage policy

The new coal linkage policy for power plants will help producers ensure fuel supplies in an organised manner.

17 Apr 2017

Novel tech could shrink power plants tenfold, enhance efficiency

The term asupercritical` describes the state of carbon dioxide above its critical temperature of 31 degrees Celsius and critical pressure of 73 atmospheres, making it twice as dense as steam.

New power tariff policy

20 Jan 2016

Centre clears new power tariff policy to boost investment, clean energy

The Centre on Wednesday unveiled a new power tariff policy which allows 100 percent expansion by existing power plants, passing on levies to consumers and purchase of 100 percent electricity produced from waste.

17 Nov 2015

Policy on coal linkages likely in 15 days: Govt

To ensure fuel supply to power plants, the proposed policy for coal linkages is likely to be finalised within a fortnight, the government said Tuesday.

07 Oct 2015

Adani Power in talks with Welspun Group to buy power plants

Adani Power Wednesday said it is in talks with Welspun Group for buying ready to build coal-fired power plants.

14 Sep 2015

Gujarat govt to set up new SRP battalion to boost security

In a bid to strengthen security at critical installations like power plants, ports and dams, Gujarat government has decided to create an additional battalion of State Reserve Police (SRP) of 1,200 armed personnel.

Centre on Power woes

03 Jun 2015

Goverment talks of contingency plan to tackle power woes

"Today, we have stocks which can run these power plants for almost 20-22 days continously...," the minister said, adding that the buffer stock has been built up. "Power plants are ready to produce more. They have sufficient capacity in the system. Sufficient contingency plans have been drawn up," the minister said.

06 Apr 2015

SEZ: Govt withdraws duty benefits for power plants

The Commerce Ministry in a notification on guidelines for power generation in SEZs said the directive issued in March 2012 was being withdrawn and the position of February 2009 was being restored.

05 Apr 2015

Short-term fuel supply to power projects extended till June

In a fresh directive, the Coal Ministry said that supply of fuel to power plants, the blocks of which were cancelled by the Supreme Court last year, will continue till June-end.

26 Mar 2015

RIL counters govt assertion on idle power plants

Reliance Industries has countered government's assertion that power plants were lying idle due to fall in output from its KG-D6 fields, saying most of these units were built much before the fields were even discovered.

25 Mar 2015

Cabinet clears pooling of gas prices to help revive stuck power plants

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on Wednesday approved a major policy intervention, through an innovative mechanism, to revive and improve utilization of the stranded gas based power generation capacity in the country.

09 Jan 2015

Coal India to import around 2 LT of coal

State-owned Coal India Ltd (CIL) will import around 2 lakh tonnes of coal either next month or in March for suppling it to power plants.

05 Jan 2015

Coal India transporting extra coal to power plants

"Coal India (CIL) is suppling extra volumes of coal to the power plants and the Railways is fully cooperating with the coal PSU," an official said.

Coal rationalisation

02 Jan 2015

Proper coal linkages with power plants to save Rs 1,114 cr

Rationalisation of coal linkages with power plants would result in savings of about Rs 1,114 crore on account of transportation costs.

11 Dec 2014

Coal swapping to save Rs 6,000 crore: Govt

To improve fuel supplies to power plants, government is working on swapping arrangement of coal which will help save Rs 6,000 crore, government informed Lok Sabha on Thursday.

02 Dec 2014

Efforts on to link coal mines with nearest power plants: Secy

Efforts are under way to rationalise coal linkages with power plants to save an estimated Rs 6,000 crore a year to save on transportation of the fuel, government said on Tuesday.

public sector banks

25 Nov 2014

Public sector banks may take hit of Rs 96K cr due to coal block cancellation

Public sector banks may take a hit of Rs 96,484 crore due to cancellation of coal blocks to power projects, Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha said on Tuesday.

19 Oct 2014

CIL signs 162 fuel supply agreements with power plants so far

State-owned Coal India has so far signed 162 fuel supply agreements (FSAs) with power plants.

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