Guwahati, Feb. 5: The Union power ministry has called a meeting on Wednesday in Delhi to break the impasse over the 2,000-MW Lower Subansiri hydroelectric project.

In a bid to give a much needed boost to distribution reforms, the power ministry has launched an ambitious action plan.

It will revise Case I and Case II standard bid documents (SBDs), introduce a rating methodology of utilities to enable them get loans, provide a reform-linked interest subsidy to utilities and promote distribution franchises to reduce aggregate transmission and commercial (AT&C) losses.

Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal has asked his Power Ministry counterpart Sushilkumar Shinde to freeze the capacity of coal-based power projects at 63,450 mega watt and desist from pushing fresh pr

The Karnataka government has invoked Section 11 of the Electricity Act, 2003, prohibiting the open access and sale of exportable power by generators outside the state.

FM to chair meeting on Feb 1 ten major projects stalled on fuel cost issues to be discussed

With lending to some of the many stalled power projects becoming a major concern for financial institutions, the Union government has decided to review 10 major ones, involving an investment of Rs 32,301 crore, on the coming Wednesday.

EGoM likely to meet in the second week of February

With the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) likely to meet in the second week of February to discuss issues related to the allocation of gas, the Power Ministry has decided to ask the EGoM to direct Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries (RIL) to start supplying gas to state-owned NTPC's Kawas and Gandhar expansion projects without waiting for a court decision on the gas issue between the two entities.

SILCHAR: Foundation stone for the much-hyped and politically as well as from ecological angle, the most debated multi-purpose hydel project at Tipaimukh in Manipur, popularly known as Barak Dam, wa

The Heavy Industries Ministry is pushing hard to ensure that the award of equipment contracts by developers of large power projects is done mandatorily through a bidding process, rather than the cu

The government may fix the power capacity addition target at around 100,000 MW for the 12th Five-Year Plan period (2012-2017).

The Power Ministry had proposed a capacity addition target of 100,000 MW to the Planning Commission, which is likely to accept the proposal.

New Delhi The government is set to start bidding process for the R17,000-crore Surguja ultra mega power project in Chhattisgarh which has been in limbo due to uncertainty about environment clearanc