Page 8 - Electricity

Reliance Infrastructure removes KPMG from BSES stake sale process

KPMG's exit from the mandate means the entire process will now start afresh, led by RInfra itself

Despite high consumption, India's electricity generation fell 14.3% in May

Overall electricity generation fell 14.3% in May, a Reuters analysis of provisional government data showed, compared with a decline of 24% in April

Drinking water, electricity restored in most parts of Amphan-hit Kolkata

KMC personnel assisted by other agencies and a team from Odisha were busy clearing the roads even as vehicular movement resumed in most areas.

Kejriwal asks officials to prepare roadmap for AAP's key pre-poll promises

Kejriwal said he had given the heads of departments (HoDs) a week's time to prepare an action plan on how to implement the "10 guarantees"

Power populism

States should resist the temptation to hand out free electricity

Electricity to housing, West Bengal govt rolls out sops ahead of polls

The state finance minister has announced in its Budget free electricity for consumers with quarterly consumption up to 75 units

India's electricity supply rises 3.25% in Jan after 5 months of decline

Power supply rose to 106.36 billion units in January, up from 103.01 billion units last year, an analysis of daily load despatch data from state-run Power System Operation Corp Ltd (POSOCO) showed

India's annual electricity demand grows at slowest pace in 6 years

Electricity demand is seen as an important indicator of industrial output and a sustained decline could mean a further slowdown

Free electricity, bus rides to continue if AAP returns to power: Kejriwal

Each MP gets four thousand units of electricity free but when the poor get 200 units of electricity free, then these 'netas' have a problem, he said

Household electrification benefits men more than women in India: Study

According to the study, households tended to have more male-used appliances than neutral, and more neutral than female-used appliances

Growth in India's energy consumption, power supply hits five-year low

In five years, there has never been a situation where demand has fallen against planned energy generation

India reaches power generation capacity of 365 GW: Govt tells Parliament

Peak as well as energy requirement deficit was less than one per cent during the first seven months of 2019-20: Govt

Tata Power arm to set up 10,000 microgrids, help electrify 5 million homes

The TP Renewable Microgrid would be set up in collaboration with Rockefeller Foundation

EESL, NIIF form joint venture to deploy smart meters across India

The new joint venture, named IntelliSmart Infrastructure will implement, finance and operate the smart meter roll-out program of power distribution companies

Delhiites staying on rent will now get free electricity up to 200 units

The announcement comes ahead of the Delhi assembly election, which is scheduled to take place early next year

The slowdown is for real and will not go away quickly: JSW Energy

Power demand has been very good for the last two-three years and for this year as well, says Prashant

Drive to install smart meters in every household is off to a slow start

Supply has been lagging, but EESL says earlier kinks in system getting smoothened

Networked Bharat

Vast networking programmes are overshadowing traditional infrastructure projects

Why the demand for power is surging despite India's growth slowdown

Data on diesel, another fuel closely tied to industrial performance, offers more evidence of the slowing factory demand

UP power regulator gives consumers a shock with 8-15% tariff hike

UPERC says tariff hike was imperative due to increase in expenditure concurrent with decrease in revenue of the state power discoms