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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, March 6, 2017 – Officials of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and the African Forum for Utility Regulators (AFUR) held discussions with some 50 power regulators from across Africa during the 13th Annual AFUR and Annual General Assembly (AGA) Conference, which took place from February 27 to March 2, 2017 …
Capacity Addition (Generation and Transmission) · Thermal capacity of 1560 MW has been added during the month of November, 2013 after commissioning of Dhariwal TPP Unit-I (300 MW), Shree Singaji TPP Unit-I (600 MW) and Barh STPS St:-II, Unit – IV (660 MW). · Hydro capacity of 75 MW has been added during the month of November, …
The share of private sector investment in new capacity addition has increased from 9.1% in the 10th Plan to 41.9% in the 11th Plan. As per extant policy, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) up to 100% is permitted in power sector, under the automatic route for generation, transmission and distribution. Recently, the Government has liberalized the FDI policy …
During 2012-13, as against supply target of 342.31 Million Tonnes, dispatches to power utility sector from Coal India Limited (CIL) was at 343.79 Million Tonnes, a growth of more than 10% over the previous year. This information was given by the Minister of State for Coal, Shri Pratik Prakash Bapu Patil in a written reply …
The Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power Shri Jyotiraditya Scindia informed Lok Sabha today that as per extant policy, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) up to 100% is permitted in the power sector, under the automatic route, for: i) Generation and transmission of electric energy produced in hydro electric, coal/lignite based thermal, oil based thermal …
The Government has notified a scheme for Financial Restructuring of State Owned Distribution Companies (Discoms) on 05.10.2012. The scheme contains various measures required to be taken by State Discoms and State Governments for achieving the financial turnaround of the Discoms by restructuring their debt with support through a Transitional Finance Mechanism by Central Govt. The …