The tiny tots at the Aided Upper Primary School in Podavur village continue their endeavour to conserve environment and energy.

This time around, they not only managed to save 3,939 units of electricity during August-September in select households in a nearby locality but have sent out a strong message against wasteful power consumption at a time when the State is seriously debating the rising energy use in the backdrop of a grim power scenario.

State to give total co-operation, the company is planning to expant to 1,000 MW

Raasi Green Energy Private Ltd today signed a MoU with the Tamil Nadu Government to set up a solar farm in the state of Tamil Nadu with an investment of around Rs 920 crore. The new plant will come in the southern district of Ramanathapuram district. The company exchanged a MoU with Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) in front of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa at Chennai today.

Rs.15 for a unit for those exceeding 300-unit monthly limit

The Kerala State Regulatory Commission has ordered to levy Rs.15 per unit from domestic consumers who exceed the 300-unit monthly limit set for them. The current power tariff for the consumers in the 300 to 500 unit slab is Rs.7.50 per unit. On crossing the 300 unit consumption limit, the consumers now will have to pay a penalty of Rs.15 per unit. The new rate will come into force from December 15 to May 31, 2013.

Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) heaved a sigh of relief with the recent movement of coal from the mines of the Panem Coal Mines Limited in Pakur district of Jharkhand.

The 22-day-long agitation in one of Jharkhand’s largest mines run by Panem Coal Mines Ltd was called off on December 9 after the company headed by its chairman and managing director (CMD) Ujwal Upadhyay agreed to implement the provisions of the agreement it signed with the Rajmahal Pahari Bachao Anndolan Samiti in 2006.

Continuing its crackdown on non-serious players, the Ministry of Coal deallocated two more coal blocks- Baitarani West and Naini- allotted in Odisha in view of the unsatisfactory progress in development of the coal mines and end-use plants.

The deallocation has been effected by the ministry on the basis of recommendations made by the inter-ministerial group (IMG) of the Centre on coal block allocation. The government has also forfeited 50 per cent bank guarantee provided by the allocatees at the time of allotment.

The government plans to enact a law soon to make states accountable for power distribution, Union Power Secretary P Uma Shankar said on Wednesday.

CESC Limited will take over power supply services from the Jharkhand State Electricity Board (JSEB) by early next year. JSEB consumers feel this new arrangement will remove their long-standing grievances and discontents against the state’s power board.

The Member (Distribution), JSEB, CD Kumar told Business Standard on Thursday that in the process of biddings, CESC had acquired the bid and a letter of intent was issued to the company in October this year.

State will have to wait for unit to stabilise to get full quota

Will the commissioning of the first unit of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) lead to less load shedding in Tamil Nadu? There may not be much change in the situation in the immediate future, according to a section of experts. However, a former Member (Generation) [MG] of the erstwhile Tamil Nadu Electricity Board says there will be some impact on the grid once generation from the first unit stabilises.

In the backdrop of India progressing towards increasing efficiency of coal fired power plants to reduce green house gas emissions even while holding on to the trajectory of economic growth, an inte

Central project was in limbo for two years

A Union government project to make Thiruvananthapuram a ‘Solar City’ is showing signs of revival. The project lay dormant for two years, until the last Corporation Council meeting. The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy had decided to make Thiruvananthapuram and Kochi ‘Solar Cities’ under the 11th Five Year Plan.