Punjab was forced to undergo long power cuts for upto six hours after two units of the Ropar Thermal plant tripped today, leading to acute shortage of power. The state lost as much as 420 MW power on Friday due to the tripping of the two thermal power generation units at the Ropar power plant.

The JP Group has emerged as the lowest bidder for the Karchana power plant to be established in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh. The group quoted the lowest power production cost, Rs 2.970 per unit of power to be produced by the 2x660 megawatt plant.

AGARTALA, Oct 26

The Jaffna Peninsula will be supplied with 24 hour uninterrupted power from early November, Power and Energy Ministry sources said.
The construction of the 36 MW thermal power plant in Chunnakkam has been completed and would be commissioned in early November, a Ministry spokesman said.

Power and Energy Ministry says the Jaffna peninsula is to receive uninterrupted power supply from November following the completion of the 36 MW thermal power plant in Chunnakkam.
A Ministry spokesman said the construction is near completion and the power station will start its operation early November.

Sudheer Pal Singh / New Delhi September 5, 2008, 0:15 IST

The recent claim made by state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) that it was the world

Press Trust Of India / Miami September 01, 2008, 0:13 IST

India is the third biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, with state-owned NTPC topping the list of companies belching the deadly gas, according to the new data released by a Washington-based think-tank, which has advocated an

As the mercury shot up to 34 degrees Celsius with 66 per cent humidity on Monday, the city experienced more than eight hours of staggered load-shedding as the privatized Karachi Electricity Supply Company faced a shortfall of 500 megawatts in meeting the demand. The power outage was caused by problems faced by the utility's Bin Qasim plant's Unit 6, but the utility's management was not prepared to admit this.

Power secretary Anil Razdan feels the churning in the Indian energy sector holds out untold opportunity to the country's manufacturing industry.