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Loans of Rs 7.62 lakh cr provided to thermal power plants in India: Report

Loans of Rs 7.62 lakh cr provided to thermal power plants in India: Report

🕔16:59, 15.Dec 2022

New Delhi, Dec 15 (IANS) Loans amounting to Rs 7.62 lakh crore have been provided by 84 lenders, both national and international, to thermal power projects in India, with a capacity of 1,000 MW and above between 2005-2022, a new report

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PM likely to inaugurate greenfield airport, 600 MW power plant in Arunachal next week

PM likely to inaugurate greenfield airport, 600 MW power plant in Arunachal next week

🕔21:25, 19.Oct 2022

Itanagar, Oct 19 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to visit Arunachal Pradesh next week and inaugurate the greenfield airport in Itanagar and a 600 MW Kameng hydro electric power project, officials said on Wednesday. A senior official of the

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IndianOil & NTPC sign agreement for powering IndianOil refineries with renewable energy

IndianOil & NTPC sign agreement for powering IndianOil refineries with renewable energy

🕔12:51, 19.Jul 2022

New Delhi, July 19, 2022: IndianOil and NTPC signed an agreement to form a joint venture company to meet the power requirements of upcoming projects of IndianOil refineries on July 18, 2022, in New Delhi. Unified in the purpose of increasing

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Coal production rose to 34 MT in first half of May

Coal production rose to 34 MT in first half of May

🕔06:30, 25.May 2022

To meet the rising power demand, coal production increased to 34 million tonnes (MT) in the first half of May, the government said on Tuesday, adding that total coal production increased to 33.94 MT, achieving a growth of 36.23 per

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Delhi reels under coal crisis; power supply to Metro, hospitals may get hit

Delhi reels under coal crisis; power supply to Metro, hospitals may get hit

🕔12:30, 29.Apr 2022

The Delhi government has expressed concern over the possible shortage of coal in the power plants that supply electricity to the national capital. New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) The Delhi government has expressed concern over the possible shortage of coal in

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Excavation work for two 700MW N-power plant at Kaiga begins

Excavation work for two 700MW N-power plant at Kaiga begins

🕔18:09, 28.Apr 2022

India’s atomic power major, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) on Thursday began the excavation work for construction of two 700 MW power plants at Karnataka’s Kaiga. Chennai, April 28 (IANS) India’s atomic power major, Nuclear Power Corporation of India

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Shortage of coal: Two thermal plants in TN shut

Shortage of coal: Two thermal plants in TN shut

🕔13:07, 13.Mar 2022

Two thermal power plants in Tamil Nadu at Mettur and Thoothukudi (each 210 MW capacity), have been temporarily shut down due to the shortage of coal. Chennai, March 13 (IANS) Two thermal power plants in Tamil Nadu at Mettur and Thoothukudi

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NTPC achieves another milestone, surpasses highest annual generation of previous years

NTPC achieves another milestone, surpasses highest annual generation of previous years

🕔19:48, 19.Feb 2022

Mumbai, 19th Feb 2022: NTPC has recorded a generation of 314.89 Billion Units upto 18th Feb’22, surpassing the maximum annual generation of 314 BU achieved in 2020-21. Last year, the generation was 270.0 BU till 18th Feb, indicating improved performance

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India’s power demand expected to grow 6-7% in FY23: Ind-Ra

India’s power demand expected to grow 6-7% in FY23: Ind-Ra

🕔07:21, 4.Feb 2022

New Delhi, Feb 4 (IANS) India’s overall electric power demand is expected to grow between 6 and 7 per cent in FY23, due to a higher base, according to India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra). It said that the impact of third

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Centre to tweak coastal regulation laws for gas-based power plant at Andaman & Nicobar Islands

Centre to tweak coastal regulation laws for gas-based power plant at Andaman & Nicobar Islands

🕔16:34, 23.Nov 2021

New Delhi, Nov 23 (IANS) The Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) has decided to tweak one of its own laws, rather two connected regulations, to allow a gas-based power plant at the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The draft

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Many nations join call for no new coal plants

Many nations join call for no new coal plants

🕔13:43, 25.Sep 2021

New Delhi, Sep 25 (IANS) Following China’s announcement to stop overseas coal power finance, a group of countries like Sri Lanka, Chile, Denmark, France, Germany, Montenegro and the UK have announced a ‘No New Coal Power Compact’, aiming to encourage all

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Coal India subsidiary looks at JV with NTPC for 1600 mw power plant

Coal India subsidiary looks at JV with NTPC for 1600 mw power plant

🕔08:41, 29.May 2018

Kolkata, May 29  Coal India’s subsidiary Mahanadi Coalfields Ltd (MCL) is in discussion for forming a joint venture (JV) with state-run NTPC Ltd to run the proposed 1,600 megawatt pit-head power plant in Odisha’s Sundergarh district, an official said on

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Sri Lanka, China to co-build power plant

Sri Lanka, China to co-build power plant

🕔14:26, 19.Jan 2018

Colombo, Jan 19  Sri Lanka and China on Friday signed a joint venture agreement to construct Sri Lanka’s largest dendro power plant in the country’s south. The power plant will produce 70,000 megawatts of renewable energy a year to the

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BHEL commissions 93 MW Steam Turbine based Power Plant at Hazira for RIL

BHEL commissions 93 MW Steam Turbine based Power Plant at Hazira for RIL

🕔10:54, 24.Nov 2016

New Delhi, November 24: Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has commissioned a 93 MW steam turbine-based Captive Power Plant (CPP) at Hazira in Gujarat. Notably, this is the second unit of the 4×93 MW steam turbine-based CPP, being set up

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BHEL commissions 500 MW Thermal power plant in Jharkhand

BHEL commissions 500 MW Thermal power plant in Jharkhand

🕔13:12, 6.May 2016

New Delhi, May 6: Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has added another coal-based power plant to the grid by successfully commissioning a 500 MW thermal unit in Jharkhand. The unit has been commissioned by BHEL at Bokaro Thermal Power-A Station

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Nalco, Iran’s IMIDRO set up joint task force for smelter, power plant

Nalco, Iran’s IMIDRO set up joint task force for smelter, power plant

🕔10:22, 12.Apr 2016

Bhubaneswar, April 12  Aluminium major Nalco said on Monday that it will set up a joint task force with Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organisation (IMIDRO) to deliberate on a proposed smelter and gas-based power plant in

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L&T to build power plant for Rs.1,700 crore

L&T to build power plant for Rs.1,700 crore

🕔15:35, 16.Sep 2015

Mumbai, Sep 16  Engineering and construction conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) on Wednesday announced it has won from Japan’s Marubeni Corporation a Rs.1,700 crore-contract to set up a 400 MW gas-based power plant in Bangladesh.“Bangladesh Power Development Board awarded the

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Kudankulam n-plant likely to resume supply early December

Kudankulam n-plant likely to resume supply early December

🕔13:40, 26.Nov 2014

New Delhi, Nov 26  The first unit of the Russian built Kudankulam nuclear plant, which stopped operations late last month after a malfunction in the unit’s turbine, is expected to resume power generation by the first week of December, the

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Indian nuclear power plants accident-free last year

Indian nuclear power plants accident-free last year

🕔12:23, 3.Sep 2014

Mumbai, Sep 3  Not a single out of 33 incidents in various nuclear power plants in India during 2013-2014 has been classified as “accident” as per the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, India’s atomic energy regulator said Tuesday. While

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