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Electricity (Amendment) Bill may come before Cabinet for approval

Union Cabinet is likely to take up for approval the Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021 in the next few days, which seeks to enable power consumers to choose from multiple service providers

Discoms' outstanding dues to gencos fall 15.25 pc to Rs 82,305 cr in May

Total outstanding dues owed by electricity distribution utilities or discoms to power producers fell 15.25 per cent to Rs 82,305 crore in May 2021 from a year ago. Distribution companies (discoms) owed a total Rs 97,111 crore to power generation firms in May 2020, according to portal PRAAPTI (Payment Ratification And Analysis in Power procurement for bringing Transparency in Invoicing of generators). The outstanding dues of discoms towards electricity producers have been increasing year-on-year as well as month-on-month for years showing perennial stress in the power sector till February this year. It has started tapering off from March 2021. Total dues in May increased sequentially compared to Rs 77,203 crore in April this year. The PRAAPTI portal was launched in May 2018 to bring in transparency in power purchase transactions between generators and discoms. In May 2021, the total overdue amount, which was not cleared even after 45 days of grace period offered by generators, stoo

Kejriwal promises 300 units of free electricity in Uttarakhand if AAP wins

Ahead of 2022 Uttarakhand assembly elections, Delhi CM,AAP convener Arvind Kejriwal promised to guarantee 300 units of free electricity to the people

Recovery tracker: Power generation up, more people get back to office

Indicators like traffic and emissions also show some signs of recovery, though more in some parts of the country than others

Navjot Singh Sidhu pitches for 300 units of free power in Punjab

Toeing on AAP lines before Punjab Elections announcing pre-poll sops subsidised electricity , Congress leader Navjot Sidhu advocated for a 24-hour supply with no power cuts, free power up to 300 units

Maha: Power firm guard killed by villagers during drive against defaulters

A security guard of a private power supply company was killed allegedly by a group of villagers here in Maharashtra during a drive against electricity bill payment defaulters, police said on Sunday.

Power crisis worsens in Pak, citizens suffer 16 hours of load-shedding

Pakistan is reeling under heavy load-shedding resulting in leaving citizens without electricity for 16 hours.

Jharkhand to ink pacts with power producers for 3,040 MW electricity

Jharkhand government is in the process of finalising pacts with several power producers for sourcing 3,040 MW electricity, an official statement said

India's average daily electricity use in May fell 10.4% from April

India's average daily electricity use fell 10.4% in May from April, a Reuters analysis of government data showed, as states imposed lockdowns to rein in a second wave of coronavirus infections

India may build new coal plants due to low cost despite climate change

Coal's contribution to electricity generation in India fell for the second straight year in 2020

Nordic region, Bitcoin's green haven, is running out of surplus electricity

Clean Nordic power available for Nordic mining set to dwindle; electricity needed to mine Bitcoin surged 66-fold since 2015

60 villages in Maharashtra's Nashik without electricity for last 10 days

People from sixty villages in Trimbakeshwar Tehsil of Nashik district have been facing difficulties as there has been no electricity for the last 8-10 days in this region

Power of tech tools: Andhra using AI to control electricity purchase costs

Day-ahead predictions are critical, as they have implications for how much electricity should be generated in coal plants and how much should be purchased through the open market

ITC pledges to meet 100% grid electricity needs from renewables by 2030

Firm has been expanding its renewable footprint over past two decades, meets 40% of its electricity needs from wind, solar and biomass; Its investment in renewable assets is about Rs 1,000 cr

Peak power demand expected to touch record 5,400 MW this winter in Delhi

The peak power demand of Delhi in the last winter season was 5,343 MW on January 1, 2020

Weekly economic indicators stuck in narrow range, exports remain subdued

Electricity, freight numbers improve over previous week; but remain lower early-October levels

Power trips in Mumbai: Financial capital, adjoining areas face rare outage

The outage even bought the city's suburban rail network to a halt even as stock exchanges continued to function

Hurricane Delta leaves thousands without electricity in Louisiana

Delta has been downgraded to a tropical depression, but not before leaving roughly 575,000 thousand customers without electricity

Villages along LoC connected with national electricity grid after 70 yrs

Villagers in these areas have also enthusiastically participated in elections with the turnout always being over 60 per cent, Garg, who took over as DC in February 2019, said

Just 2 papers for power connection: Govt drafts easier, user-friendly rules

Among a slew of consumer-centric rules, the ministry has proposed to give those who have set up rooftop units or solarised their irrigation pumps the right to produce electricity for self-use