After missing its targets by wide margins in the previous two five-year plans, India is all set to comfortably meet or exceed all its power sector targets for the 12th five-year plan that ends this month. Five-year plans, borrowed from the Soviet Union, are a legacy of Nehruvian policy of setting development targets every five […]
India is planning to increase its nuclear power generation capacity to 44,628 megawatt, about eight times the current capacity of 5,780 MW, the Prime Ministers’ Office said today. At present, India has seven nuclear power plants. However, given that most of these were set up decades ago, most of these facilities contain individual units of […]
Water levels of dams in central and south India are abnormally low this year, going by data of hydro-electricity production across India. According to data of electricity produced by dams in India from April 2016 to February 2017, both the south and central India are facing extreme shortage of water. The average production of hydro-electricity […]
The central Indian state of Chhattisgarh has come out as a leader in India’s quest to take electricity to remote villages where grid-based power cannot be supplied due to economical reasons. The state accounts for 550 of the 852 ‘decentralized distributed generation’ schemes set up with central assistance so far, according to data sourced from […]
ABB, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of large electrical equipment, said it crossed the 4.5 GW milestone in terms of sales of wind power generators in India, and that the country is likely to add 4 GW of capacity this year. India has a target of having 60 Gigawatt of wind-power capacity and 220 […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated three hydro-electric projects in Himachal Pradesh, representing 1,732 MW of generating capacity, to the nation today. The biggest of the three is NTPC’s Koldam, which has four generating units of 200 MW each. The second biggest was Parbati Stage-III, which comprises 4 units of 130 MW each and is operated […]
ABB, a power and automation technology company, today said it will install a 600 KW fully integrated and standardized microgrid solar energy at its Vadodara facility in Gujarat to help boost renewable energy generation while reducing dependency on fossil fuel. This microgrid with a rooftop photo voltaic field at the company’s biggest manufacturing location in […]
Renewable energy company Suzlon Group said it has won orders for a combined capacity of 111.30 MW in August and September, which includes Serum Institute of India Ltd, Rajasthan Gum Group. “The corporate and SME orders have been received from mixed bag of customers across diverse industry segments including chemical, infrastructure, manufacturing, textiles, power, entertainment, food […]
Heritage foods Ltd, one of the largest private sector dairy enterprises in Southern India, said it has finished the commissioning of the 2nd wind power plant at Vajrakarur of Ananthapur District in Andhra Pradesh. The wind power plant has a 2.1 MW capacity and is expected to generate 5 million units per year. At Rs […]
Wonderla amusement park had set up a solar plant with an installed capacity of 500kW at it´s newly opened unit in Hyderabad. The installed solar plant will generate 2000 units of power daily and it is expected cater to 25 percent of Wonderla’s daily power requirement. The capacity can be enhanced to 1000kW. By this […]
Suzlon Group, a renewable energy solutions provider, said it has won its first project from Oil India Ltd (OIL) for 52.5 MW for two sites in Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. The project will provide power to around 28,000 households and will reduce .11 million tonnes of CO2 emissions per annum, said the company. The project […]
ABB India, a power and automation technology company, inaugurated a new solar inverter manufacturing facility at Nelamanagala in Bengaluru, said the company. The facility is set to double the solar inverter manufacturing capacity of the company to 2GW in a span of five months, added the company. ABB inverters manufactured at Nelamanagala help power 40% of […]
Tata Power’s total generation capacity increased 9% to 9,432 MW in the April-June quarter compared with the same quarter last year, boosted by a fresh addition of 273 MW wind power. The growth in wind power generation was due to commissioning of 44 MW Lahori wind farm project in Madhya Pradesh and Cennergi, its 50:50 African […]
Tata Power’s South African joint venture Cennergi started commercial operations at its 95 MW Wind farm project in South Africa’s Tsitsikamma Community. The wind farm comprises of 31 V-112 3.075 MW Vestas, high-wind turbine with very high capacity factor. As the preferred bidder, Cennergi was selected for two wind projects under the second window of the Renewable […]
Suzlon Group, one of India’s pioneering alternate energy equipment maker, said it got a 132 MW wind tower contract from ReNew Power. The order comprises of Suzlon’s latest product offerings and includes S97.90m tubular tower and S97 120m Hybrid Tower with a rated capacity of 2.1 MW each, the company said. The S97 120m is […]
Tata Power exited its stake in the PT Sorik Marapi Geothermal Power project in Indonesia. The company said it has sold — via its Singapore subsidiary — its 50% stake in OTP Geothermal Pte., which in turn owns 95 per cent interest in the 240 MW power project in North Sumatra. The stake was sold […]
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd announced that it secured an order for setting up 30 MW (3×10 MW) of Solar Photovoltaic Power Plants on engineering, procurement and construction basis from West Bengal State Electricity Distribution Corporation. The order is valued at Rs 169 crores. The SPV plants of 10 MW each are to be set up […]
The Ministry of Shipping said it is installing solar and wind based power systems at all the Major Ports across the country. It aims to set up 90.64 MW of Solar Energy Capacity at twelve Major Ports and 70 MW of Wind Energy Capacity at four Major Ports by 2017. These major ports have started […]
India is set to nearly double its solar power generation capacity in the ongoing financial year and comfortably exceed its target of adding 1.8 GW of extra capacity during the year. According to numbers obtained from various government sources, the country is all set to end the current financial year with a total solar power generation capacity of about […]
Tata Motors Limited, India’s largest automobile manufacturer, has become the second Indian company to join RE100 – a global initiative of the world’s most influential companies committed to 100% renewable power. The company, which manufactures a range of commercial and passenger vehicles as well as defence and homeland security vehicles, has set itself the goal […]
