Jaipur: Rajasthan is a frontrunner to get more than half of the 5180 megawatt solar projects auctioned in the past two months by Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), NTPC and Maharashtra gover

GREATER NOIDA: Electricity has taken 71 years from India’s Independence to reach a village just 5km from a plant of the National Thermal Power Corporation in Dadri.

India has an ambitious goal of installing 175 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2022, or a little more than the country’s current peak demand, as part of its Paris climate pledge to cut carbon emiss

Most power plants are likely to miss the revised deadlines for complying with stricter air pollution emission norms, said Andrew DeLeone, Managing Director, GE Power India.

In the next couple of years, state-owned thermal power generator NTPC will shut plants with an installed capacity of 2,200 megawatt (mw) or 2.2 gigawatt (gw), including Delhi’s Badarpur Power Plant

A proposal to rid Andaman of polluting diesel by switching to clean-burning natural gas for generating power, fuelling automobiles and kitchens has remained stuck in red tape for more than two year

Stakeholders, including state-owned power distribution companies (discoms) and private power producers, have objected to key amendments to the Electricty Tariff Policy, 2016.

NTECL Vallur, which is a joint venture of NTPC Ltd and Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB), is located on Chennai’s outskirts in neighbouring Tiruvallur district.

The findings of a study by the US-based Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis (IEEFA) show India cancelled 464,727 coal-based generation projects planned since 2010