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A promising start to Uday scheme with state discoms reducing commercial losses and interest costs

By : sustainabilityo..., Aug 8, 2016

State power distribution companies have sharply reduced commercial losses and interest costs, giving a promising start to Power Minister Piyush Goyal's Uday scheme that aims to set right...

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Subject Tags: electricity , UDAY Scheme

GST Bill passed; your power bill set to rise 8%

By : sustainabilityo..., Aug 4, 2016

The GST regime might help most manufacturing sectors, but will inflate the electricity costs by up to 8% as the government has decided to keep electricity out of the ambit of new tax...

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Subject Tags: electricity , GST

Restriction on electricity injection blowing wind out of wind projects

By : sustainabilityo..., Aug 2, 2016

Restriction on electricity injection into the national power network is blowing the wind out of wind power generation units.

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Subject Tags: electricity , Wind Energy

India tastes its largest single-day power trade

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 21, 2016

India's largest power exchange IEX traded 141 million units (MUs) of electricity last Friday. Nothing unusual about it, except that the volume of power bought and sold that day represented the...

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Engineers Develop Public Urinals that Generate Electricity

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 15, 2016
Researchers have been harnessing the power of urine for a while, working with microbial fuel cells that employ a process that generates power.

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India can achieve 1.65 billion units of electricity next year: Piyush Goyal

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 8, 2016

The country can achieve as high as 50 per cent growth in electricity production up to 1.65 trillion units next year, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said today.

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Subject Tags: electricity , solar energy

Cheapest power in 2030: solar PV

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 21, 2016

The world is about a decade away from reaching the point of "peak fossil fuels" in the electricity-generation sector, after which less will be burned each subsequent year. That's according to...

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Subject Tags: electricity , Solar PV

Government decides to electrify 5.98 crore un-electrified households by December 2018

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 20, 2016

India has scaled up its electrification drive to target every household and shed the tag of being a nation with surplus supply to distribution companies but having one-third of its population...

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Tata's Club Enerji initiative saves 17.25 million units of electricity

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 20, 2016

A bid to control energy wastage by organizing a sustained conservation awareness movement has saved 17.25 million units nationally. An initiative of Tata Power, the movement christened 'Club...

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Power plants of PSUs allowed to swap coal, similar rules for private companies in offing

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 13, 2016

The power regulator has allowed power plants owned by central and state power utilities to swap coal for its efficient usage and reduction of transportation charges, a move that will lead to...

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