India

India’s coal shortage is getting worse.

The decision included a Rs3.03 per unit fuel-based increase in power tariff and rejection of the power ministry’s request to consider Rs47,000 per ton as reference fuel price, instead of Rs67,000 per ton. - File photo

The decision included a Rs3.03 per unit fuel-based increase in power tariff and rejection of the power ministry’s request to consider Rs47,000 per ton as reference fuel price, instead of Rs67,000 per ton. - File photo

Despite a spate of protests that halted its construction, the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant has received the green light to continue.

The Power Development Board has proposed an increase in electricity price by Tk 0.41 per unit or 11 percent for bulk users.

Co-located events, POWER-GEN India & Central Asia, Renewable Energy World India & HydroVision India 2012 will bring together more than 300 international speakers.

The general consensus was to expedite the development of Nepal's hydropower sector after the 2-day hydropower summit in Kathmandu.

India's transmission sector achieved  much more than the targeted stringing of transmission lines for the month of February.

India's Ministry of Power has refuted the audit's allegations that its Hydro Wing overlooked the non-adherence of the national hydro policy by Arunachal Pradesh.

Siemens wil supply solar receivers for a 50MW solar power project in Rajasthan, India.

JSW Techno has revealed to investors the risks faced by its group company JSW Energy in the latter’s quest to become a major force in power generation.

India's power ministry has advised developers to refrain from setting up new gas-based projects till 2015-16 .

Gamesa Corporacion Tecnologica SA won an order to build and operate a 6-megawatt wind farm in India’s Andhra Pradesh state.

India's President Pratibha Devsingh Patil happily noted the 50% decline insolar tariff bids since the start of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission in January 2010.

Formalities to import electricity from India has been completed by the government of Bangladesh, thereby allowing its national grid to get 500-megawatt by July 2013.

The Indian government says it will not compromise on nuclear safety in light of stubborn public protests about the safety of India's existing and new nuclear power plants.