Eight new power projects will be taken up in the north-eastern region and Sikkim, which after completion will augment the generation capacity of the region by 2845 mw.

The Ministry of International Trade and Industry plans to ask electric power utilities to offer favorable treatment from fiscal 1999 to environmentally friendly nonutilities selling power they

Slovkaia risks an open conflict with Austria this week over its plans to start up a Soviet-designed nuclear power station. Austria has asked for the activation of the power station to be postponed

After much dilly-dallying, Ushdev International Ltd, an upcoming player in the wind energy sector, has finalised plans to set up a 12.5 MW wind power plant at Satara in

The first ever power plant in private sector in Haryana in Sihi Sikandarpur village, will be ready for commissioning next month. This was told to newspersons today by the Haryana Power Minister, Mr

The Himachal Government will soon set up a state electricity regulatory commission to rationlise power tariffs and pave way for privatisation of the power sector.

Study : The government of Uttar Pradesh should immediately draw up an "action plan" for renovation and modernisation of its power plants, all of which are performing poorly, says study conducted by

The Union Power Minister,Mr. P.R. Kumaramangalam, has advised Cogentrix, which is putting up a 1,000-MW power project near Mangalore, that it needs to work harder at public

Amoco-Enron solar power development of the US has finally withdrawn from its 50-mw solar electric power project, based on photovoltaic technology, which was to come up at Jaisalmer in Rajasthan. Its

Chancellor Viktor Klima of Austria said that the activation of fuel rods at a nuclear power plant in neigboring Slovakia could lead to "serious problems" with