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Pointing out that the average power tariff charged from the consumers in India was one of the highest in the world, the Planning Commission has lashed out at the distribution utilities for their poor power procurement planning and portfolio optimisation skills.

If the things go the right way, Orissa's first attempt to harness tidal power for generating electricity would be in the form of a 1236 MW plant along the creeks in Mahakalpada in the Mahanadi deltaic region.

Gujarat, Andhra & Orissa May Be Allowed To Go In For Second Ultra Mega Power Project

POWER capacity creation is set to get a boost with some states seeking government

BHUBANESWAR: While the State is reeling under power crisis, the Government has not taken any proactive measures during the last 15 years to add hydro generation capacity despite huge potential.

THE government will bid out at least two ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) of 4000mw each in April 2010 to make up for the slippage in power capacity addition in previous years, a senior power ministry official said.

BHUBANESWAR: Ironic as it may sound, problems of encroachment and land grabbing have not spared electrification projects even as a hard-pressed State Government is compelled to resort to load shedding. Electrification of Badagarh-Kesura sub-station, a World Bank-assisted project, is a case in point.

L&T POWER Development Company, a unit of India

BHUBANESWAR: Cumins India Limited (CIL), a leading manufacturer of diesel engines and generators, commissioned its pilot rural electrification project at Kohla, a lesser known village, in Dhenkanal district about 60 km from here on Thursday.

Bibhuti Barik

BHUBANESWAR: The inhabitants 65 tribal families of remote Kolha village in Dhenkanal district never thought of experiencing the joy of electricity in their lifetime.

But now with indigenously developed straight vegetable oil (SVO) technology, they would fulfil their long-standing desire.

BHUBANESWAR: While the steel project of Posco is hanging fire due to stiff resistance from the public over land acquisition, the BJP today announced its support to the farmers of Angul and Dhenkanal districts opposing acquisition of agricultural land in the Rengali right canal command area for independent power projects (IPPs).

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