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Road to the top!
Public utilities have played a significant role in India´s growth story. Be it garnering wealth for the nation, ensuring planned development, contributing to public exchequer, working towards sustainability and social empowerment or initialising corporate governance, they have always been in the forefront. Here, we look at the power sector PSUs and their contribution to the country.
Public Utilities, POWER TODAY, PSU, UDAY, Electrified, GARV, UJALA, LED Distribution, Vidyut PRAVAH App, Electricity Generation, GCV, Powergrid Commissioned Projects, NTPC, REC, PGCIL
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Brighter days ahead
Slow, to negative and now, to flat growth, diesel genes market has witnessed a roller coaster ride in the past five years. A couple of years back, the projections were that the DG sets market will surpass the $ 3.3 billion mark by 2018. Now, given the sustained sluggish scenario the projections are tempered.
Diesel Genes, Energy, Power Today, Ravi Bhandari, Disctribution, Discoms, Hydro Electric Power, IDEMA, TRAI, Central Electricity Authority Of India, Renewable Power, Renjini Liza Varghese
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Hydro Power - the ¨out of fashion¨ renewable
For the last 2,000 years, man has used water to produce power in one form or another. Beginning from the water screw, to the waterwheel and watermill, and finally to the water turbine - we have innovated it all, learnt it all, used it all.
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Watts tripping?
Way back in 2012, the then Comptroller & Auditor General Vinod Rai had estimated that the country had lost Rs 1.86 lakh crore due to the way coal blocks were handed out. The resulting scandal may well have been the single most important reason for the eventual demise of the UPA.
Vinod Rai, Coal Blocks, UPA, CAG, CIL, Land Acquisition Act, Infrastructure Today, Power Today, Smart Cities, Rural Electrification Programmes, Industrial Corridors, SEB, World Bank Report, Tripping
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How the budget can fire power
On 28th February, when Finance Minister Arun Jaitley presents his second budget (after his Interim Budget 2014 in July) the power industry may expect some major policy relief as it will be the first full-fledged budget presented by the FM.
Arun Jaitley, Finance, Power, Moef, Coal, Mines, Supreme Court, Goi, GW, IPP, Ppas, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gram Jyoti Yojana, Integrated Power Development Scheme, Renewable Energy, National Solar Mission
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Total Recall
Finally, with the government of India kick-starting the coal auction process, well on time (thanks to the Supreme Court timeline verdict), the Centre has silenced all the critics and has opened a new chapter altogether in the ´black gold´ sector.
Total Recall, Supreme Court, Coal, Mines, Ergo, Prakash Javadekar, Environment And Forest Clearances, Moef, Yogesh Daruka, Pwc, Coal Washing, Power Plant, Coal India Limited, CIL, Anil Swarup
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