Tamil Nadu managed to narrow the gap between electricity requirement and availability to a negligible 23 million units (MU) in 2016-17 as against a deficit of 690 MU in 2015-16.
Customers who have been complaining about delay in getting net meters for their roof-top solar plants need not run around as the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) has si
The garbage enclosures are being used as public conveniences in several places
The grouping of garbage bins by installing enclosures may have partly helped in covering up overflowing garbage from public eye, but it has resulted in nuisance of a different kind.
Generation touched almost 2,000 MW on Monday and Tuesday
Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation (TANTRANSCO) said that load shedding was not resorted to in the urban areas of the State as wind power generation touched almost 2,000 MW on Monday and Tuesday. May Day being a holiday and abundant wind energy available, the corporation was able to provide the relief.
A proportionate system of assessment of energy consumption will be done in respect of low-tension consumers to give effect to the revised power tariff.
Of the two crore LT consumers the category of domestic consumers accounts of 1.6 crore. Following the tariff revision order issued by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC), the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) has sent a circular to its distribution circles all over the State for calculating the electricity charges.
Domestic consumers are among those whose electricity tariff will go up steeply from April.
Table: Existing and new tariff (Low tension supply). The hike in the tariff ranges between 75 per cent and 110 per cent and there is not much change in the tariff revision, ordered by the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC), compared to the proposal mooted by the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO).
