May 23, 2013
Lack of clarity on the implementation of incentives provided by the Tamil Nadu government affected the installation of rooftop solar power systems in households and industrial and commercial buildings. While the solar policy mandates industries and commercial entities to procure 6 percent of their power from solar sources, there has been no official com
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Renewable Energy |
May 23, 2013
A week before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to leave for Japan, his principal secretary TKA Nair was in Chennai on May 20 to hold discussions with State and Central government agencies to help speed up high-cost road and bridge projects, especially the Ennore-Manali road improvement project (EMRIP), by the end of the year.
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Roads/Highways/Bridges |
May 22, 2013
India has retained its position in top five world wind energy markets in 2012 despite poor pace of capacity addition in the states like Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
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Renewable Energy |
May 22, 2013
In Madhya Pradesh, Welspun Energy will complete its 130 mw solar photovoltaic project this August, close to a year earlier than originally scheduled, Vineet Mittal, Co-Founder and Managing Director of the company has said.
Welspun Energy won last year the right to put up the plant and sell the power to Madhya Pradesh’s State-owned electricity distribution utility in a competitive bidding process, quoting a tariff of Rs 8.05 a kwhr.
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Renewable Energy |
May 22, 2013
Farmers in Tamil Nadu will get 80 per cent subsidy to buy solar-powered pump sets for their irrigation needs. Tamil Nadu government last week announced the subsidy. The State Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said these 2,000 AC pump sets would have five Horse Power engines and provided with solar tracking panels.
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Renewable Energy |
May 22, 2013
The Tamil Nadu Electricity Consumers’ Association (TECA) has contended that enforcement of solar power obligation was equivalent to tariff increase without seeking consumers’ views and should be enforced only after a public hearing. It has also argued that in the absence of Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) asking for any upward revision of power tariff, the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) suo motu should not revise the tariff.
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Renewable Energy |
May 23, 2013
The Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah told the Rajya Sabha recently that the Ministry has constituted an Offshore Wind Energy Steering Committee. The Steering committee in its meeting held in March, 2012, decided to constitute a sub-committee under the chairmanship of Chairman, Tamil Nadu Electricity Board to suggest draft policy guidelines for development of offshore wind energy activities in the country. The sub-committee has submitted its report to the Ministry.
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Renewable Energy |
May 22, 2013
Local consumers of copper are reportedly importing the metal owing to shortage of its domestic production on the back of closure of a smelting unit of Sterlite Industries in Tamil Nadu. Sterlite's copper smelter in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu, which caters to half of India's copper consumption, has remained closed for more than a month owing to alleged leakage of gas from the
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Mining |
May 22, 2013
The National Green Tribunal heard the arguments put forth by Sterlite Industries on the case regarding the closure of its plant in Tuticorin district by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board (TNPCB). The board order for closure of the copper smelting plant on complaints of alleged gas leakage from the unit. Senior Advocate CA Sundaram, who represented Sterlite, in the hearing argued that Sterlite has invested over Rs 4,000 crore in the copper smelting plant and the same
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Mining |
May 21, 2013
To bridge the 4,000-mw power shortage in the state, the Tamil Nadu government is entering into long-term power purchase agreements and expediting generation capacity, said the Electricity Minister Natham R Viswanathan in the Assembly last week. Moving the demand for grants to the Electricity Department, the Minister said by the year-end four major projects – TNEB-NTPC joint venture at Vallur, Mettur Thermall Power Project Stage III, North Chennai Thermal Power Station Stage II, and the TNEB-NLC Joint Venture at Tuticorin – will go on stream.
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Power |
May 21, 2013
India's PSU equipment major Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) has taken a strategic decision to exit its joint venture power projects and not enter into any such alliance in the immediate future. The move follows BHEL's decline in its cash balance. It has convinced that picking up stakes in power plants by way of investment and/or in exchange for equipment supplied would hardly help in the current situation.
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Power |
May 21, 2013
Industries in Coimbatore have appealed to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) to reduce the power tariff for consumers in the rest of the State, except Chennai, as the power cut duration is not uniform throughout the State.
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Power |