आंध्र प्रदेश देश का सबसे बड़ा सौर ऊर्जा पार्क बनायेगा, इससे सस्ती बिजली के साथ पर्यावरण सुरक्षा भी होगी।
आंध्र प्रदेश देश का सबसे बड़ा सौर ऊर्जा पार्क बनायेगा, इससे सस्ती बिजली के साथ पर्यावरण सुरक्षा भी होगी।
The Haryana government will set up biogas plants in over 400 gaushalas in the state, a senior official said today.
The Haryana Gau Seva Aayog had sent the scheme of setting up of biogas plants to the states Renewable Energy department, following which the department has zeroed-in on 53 gaushalas.
“We have 437 gaushalas in the state. We told the Renewable Energy department that biogas plants should be set up in each of these gaushalas,” Haryana Gau Seva Aayog Chairman Bani Ram Mangla said.
“They have initially zeroed-in on 53 gaushalas where biogas plants will be set up in PPP mode. We (Aayog) will provide them cow dung and land of Gaushalas,” Mangla said.
The government will also organise job fairs in all districts of the state to provide employment, senior minister Vipul Goel said.
The government is also planning to provide a concession of Re 1 in the electricity tariff to the industrial sector to boost industrialisation in the state, Goel said. PTI SUN PRG ZMN PRG NSD
Source: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/hry-govt-to-set-up-biogas-plants-in-over-400-gaushalas/1/1000726.html
Tangedco at 7pm on Monday evacuated 5,079MW of wind power, a new record in wind power evacuation in Tamil Nadu and India. It was a two hour sustained supply of over 5,000MW on Monday.
For nearly 3 hours, Tangedco put 3 thermal units with a total capacity of 1,020MW on stand-by mode and also advised other power sources to operate at 50% of their capacity. “We were thrilled on Monday evening when the wind power generation started increasing. Immediately, we put private thermal units on standby and evacuated wind power to the maximum,” a senior Tangedco official told TOI.
The previous record in Tangedco’s wind energy evacuation was 4,600MW. “On May 31 this year, we evacuated 4,600MW of wind power; the total wind power consumption on that day was around 99.46 million units,” said the official.
The total power demand for Tamil Nadu on Monday evening was less than 14,000MW, thus more than one-third of the total power supply in Tamil Nadu was met by wind energy.
This year the average wind power evacuation in Tamil Nadu has increased to nearly 3,500MW per day. Wind power evacuation has been better in recent years due to better forecast. Compared to a few previous years, wind power generation increased by nearly 1,000MW this year. In 2016, wind power generation picked up in April when the total evacuation touched 1,848MW. But in 2015, due to heavy rain in May, the wind power evacuation touched only 22MW in mid May.
“The cost of wind power is lower compared to other power sources and due to better wind power evacuation, we save several crores on purchase of power,” said the official. Tangedco is ready to sell wind power to other states. “It is only to make wind power available for other states that we sought a separate corridor from Union power minister Piyush Goyal during his recent visit to Chennai,” said the official.
Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/tangedco-evacuates-5079mw-of-wind-power-sets-national-record/articleshow/59551853.cms
India is emerging as a front runner in the global fight against climate change, the World Bank has said, noting that the solar power is gradually displacing coal as an energy source in the Asian country.
“With a sweeping commitment to solar power, innovative solutions and energy efficiency initiatives to supply its people with 24×7 electricity by 2030, India is emerging as a front runner in the global fight against climate change,” the World Bank said in a news report published yesterday.
According to the bank, with its conscious choice to use significantly more clean energy to fuel its growth, India is contributing to global efforts to save the planet from the effects of climate change.
Just a few weeks ago, the country also walked away from plans to install nearly 14 GW of coal-fired power plants, largely because it is as affordable now to generate electricity with solar power as it is to use fossil fuels, the report said, praising the Indian move in this regard.
“In India and beyond, solar power is starting to displace coal as an energy source,” the bank said, adding that the cost of electricity from solar photovoltaic (PV) is currently a quarter of what it was in 2009 and is set to fall another 66 per cent by 2040.
With nearly 300 days of sunshine every year, India has among the best conditions in the world to capture and use solar energy, it noted.
“Clearly, the market agrees, as is evident from the significant drop in the cost of solar power. In its latest solar auction, the country achieved a record low tariff of INR 2.44/unit (4 cents/unit) for a project in the desert state of Rajasthan,” the report said.
Noting that the Indian government is setting ambitious targets that include 160 gigawatts (GW) of wind and solar by 2022, the bank said that not only will this help hundreds of million people light their homes it will also enable children to study at night, provide families with refrigerators to preserve their food or TVs to entertain themselves.
“It is also an incentive for international firms to invest in India’s solar market,” the bank added.
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/india-emerging-as-front-runner-in-fight-against-climate-change-world-bank/articleshow/59500216.cms
In a bid to meet the high demand during the summer months, Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation (UPPCL) has signed short-term bilateral agreements with several power producers, including Tata Power, PTC, NTPC Vidyut Vitaran Nigam, JSW and Maharashtra State Electricity Board, for the month of July. Giving details of the agreements, a senior official of the power corporation said approximately 1,500 MW power would be purchased in July through DEEP (discovery of efficient electricity price) e-bidding portal as well as from short-term bilateral purchases through open tenders. “The purchases would be made in two time slots of 19.00-24.00 hours in the evening and from 00 hours till 5.00 am in the morning and the cost of all these power purchases would be below Rs 4 a unit,” the official said.
The DEEP portal, launched last year by Union minister of state for power, coal, new & renewable energy and mines Piyush Goyal in New Delhi, provides a common e-bidding platform with e-reverse auction facility to facilitate nationwide power procurement through a wider network in order to bring uniformity and transparency in the process of power procurement.
As of now, UPPCL has made arrangements to buy additional power for the month of July only, while plans are being firmed up to buy a similar quantum of power for the months of August and September too, in order to tide over the shortfall of approximately 1500 MW-1800 MW power between demand and supply.
Uttar Pradesh’s average demand during peak hours goes up to 20,000 MW, while its available supply is around 1700-1800 MW. In order to fill the gap, the state often turns to bilateral power purchases as well as spot power from the exchange.
Source: http://www.financialexpress.com/industry/uppcl-signs-agreements-to-buy-1500-mw-power-for-summer/752986/
मोदी सरकार द्वारा शुरु की गई (उज्जवल डिस्कॉम्स एश्योरेंस योजना), जिसको उदय भी कहा जाता है। ये राज्यों के लिए फायदेमंद साबित हो रहा है… इस योजना की मदद से राज्य में अब बिजली चोरी कम हो गई है इसके साथ ही बिजली के दाम भी घट रहे हैं। डिस्कॉम का कर्ज में भी कमी आई है और बिजली के दाम भी घटे हैं।
उर्जा मंत्रालय द्वारा जारी की गई रिपोर्ट में अब-तक 16 राज्यों और उनकी डिस्कॉम्स ने केंद्र सरकार के साथ MOU साइन किया है। इनमें से ये राज्य ऑपरेशनल में शामिल हैं-
गुजरात, गोवा, कर्नाटक, पुडुचेरी, सिक्किम, उत्तराखंड, मणिपुर, मिजोरम, अरुणाचल प्रदेश, त्रिपुरा और मिजोरम में ऑपरेशन शामिल है।
हालांकि, MOU इन राज्यों ने किया है साइन-
जम्मू-कश्मीर, झारखंड, छत्तीसगढ़, तेलंगाना, असम, मेघायल, तमिलनाडु, मध्य प्रदेश, आंध्र-प्रदेश, उत्तर प्रदेश, पंजाब, बिहार, हरियाणा, हिमाचल प्रदेश, राजस्थान, महाराष्ट्र शामिल है।
उदय योजना में राज्यों में कम हुई बिजली चोरी-
मणिपुर में इस साल बिजली चोरी में 7.3 की कमी आई है।
हरियाणा में 4.8 बिजली चोरी की कमी आई है।
गोवा में 3.8 बिजली चोरी की कमी आई है।
झारखंड में 4.8 की कमी आई है।
राजस्थान में 3.7 की आई है।
उत्तराखंड में 2.7 बिजली चोरी में कमी आई है।
गुजरात में 2.0 की कमी आई है।
बिजली हुई सस्ती-
गोवा में इस साल 2.85 प्रति यूनिट हो गई है, जोकि 2015-16 में 3.34 प्रति यूनिट थी।
जम्मू कश्मीर में 3.44 प्रति यूनिट हो गई है, जोकि पहले 3.72 प्रति यूनिट थी।
गुजरात में 4.20 प्रति यूनिट हो गई, जोकि पहले 4.25 प्रति यूनिट थी।
बिहार में 4.26 प्रति यूनिट हो गई है, जोकि पहले 4.39 प्रति यूनिट थी।
आंध्र प्रदेश में 4.32 प्रति यूनिट हो गई है, जोकि 4.70 प्रति यूनिट थी।
तेलंगाना में 4.66 प्रति यूनिट गो गई है, जोकि पिछले साल 5.07 थी।
हरियाणा में 5.01 प्रति यूनिट हो गई है, जोकि पहले 5.01 प्रति यूनिट थी।
Source: http://medhajnews.in/power_and_infrastructure/news.php/uday-scheme-benefit-for-states–44099–hi
Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines, Shri Piyush Goyal launched here today the ‘MERIT app (Merit Order Despatch of Electricity for Rejuvenation of Income and Transparency – http://meritindia.in/)’ and the e-bidding portal for providing e-Bidding solution to States to select Independent Power Producers (IPPs) for procurement of power by transferring their domestic coal under the scheme of flexibility in utilization of domestic coal.
Briefing the media on the occasion, Shri Goyal said that both the initiatives are taken in the direction of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘Minimum Government and Maximum Governance’ through ‘Speed, Skill and Scale’. The app and the web portal would result in optimum utilization of Coal which would save the consumer close to Rs. 20,000 crores five years down the line, the Minister added.
Shri Goyal said that use of technology to increase transparency and accountability and transfer maximum benefit to the consumer reflects a 360-degree approach of a ‘Government in Action’. The Government is dedicated to ensure access to affordable, quality, 24×7 Power for All, in Prime Minister’s vision of New India, the Minister added.
Over the last three years, India has rapidly achieved adequacy in terms of availability of power. Now the time has come to shift the focus to optimal utilization of the valuable and scarce energy resources for achieving economy and efficiency in operation. The merit order stack is a common approach to the problem of minimizing the sum of generators’ operating costs while honoring the operational constraints of the available generation to supply the demand in a secure and reliable manner.
The Tariff Policy, 2016 provides that the States/DISCOMs shall follow merit order for procurement of power and there should be uniformity in merit order mechanism. During the Power Ministers’ conference held at Vadodara in Oct, 2016, it was decided to constitute a Committee to examine the status of implementation of Merit Order Dispatch, issues involved therein and for ensuring proper dispatch of renewable energy sources while following the merit order principle. Accordingly, Merit Order Dispatch Committee was constituted in October 2016 with Chairperson, Central Electricity Authority (CEA) as its Chairperson and Joint Secretary (OM), Ministry of Power (MoP) as its Member Secretary. The Committee had representation from MNRE, CERC, POSOCO and States. The Committee submitted the report along with recommendations to MoP.
The recommendations of the Committee have been prepared with regard to Transparency in Merit Order operations and promotion of Renewables through effective implementation of Must-Run status of Renewables. Most states follow merit order operation; however, details in this regard need to be made transparently available. Hence, there was a need to have a mechanism to quantify deviation from merit order and check its reasonableness. The adherence to merit order optimizes the power procurement cost and benefits both utility and ultimate consumer.
In this direction, a web portal and mobile apps for Merit Order Despatch of Electricity (MERIT) have been developed in association with POSOCO. The app displays extensive array of information regarding the merit order such as daily state-wise marginal variable costs of all generators, daily source-wise power purchases of respective states/UTs with source-wise fixed and variable costs, energy volumes and purchase prices. The app also gives information regarding reasons for deviation from merit order such as must run conditions, transmission constraints etc.
The advantages of MERIT app are as follows:
Today, the Minister also launched the e-Bidding portal, which has been designed to facilitate States in inviting bids for procurement of power from the prospective IPPs in transparent and fair manner. The successful bidder shall be selected through e-Reverse Bidding process.
The Cabinet, on 4th May 2016, approved the proposal for allowing flexibility in utilization of domestic coal amongst power generating stations. Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has issued the methodology for utilization of domestic coal within State/Central generating stations on 8th June 2016, followed by the issuance of a memorandum by the Ministry of Power on 10th June 2016. The methodology for use of transferred coal in Independent Power Producers (IPPs) generating stations was issued by Ministry of Power on 20th February, 2017.
Ministry of Power, along with PFC Consulting Ltd and MSTC Ltd, has developed the e-bidding portal. The link for portal is available on the website of Ministry of Power and PFC Consulting Ltd. Other dignitaries present on the occasion included Shri Ajay Kumar Bhalla, Secretary Power and other senior officers of the Ministry of Power.
Source: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=167149
Power distribution companies have saved Rs. 12,000 crore interest outgo after states took over their debt as part of the Centre’s Ujwal Discom Assurance Yojna (UDAY), the Union power ministry has said. Governments of 16 states have taken around Rs.2.08 lakh crore debt of the distribution companies as per terms of UDAY agreements.
These loans were running at interest rates of around 11%-12% per annum and now be serviced by states at 7%-8.5%. A few discoms have also restructured their balance loan portion, reducing the interest burden by another 3%-4%, the ministry said in a statement issued on Tuesday. The average gap between cost of power supply and revenue has decreased to 45 paise in FY17 from 59 paise in FY 16 in the backdrop of reduced interest outgo, tariff rationalisation and improved billing, it said.
At all India level, billing efficiency has increased by 2% to 83% in 2016-17 while the average aggregate technical and commercial loss has come down to 20.2%. Power procurement cost has reduced in many states including Goa, Jammu & Kashmir and Gujarat. The average cost of power purchase has reduced to.`4.16 per unit from .`4.20 per unit in FY16.
While 16 states, including Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Bihar, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, joined Uday for debt recast, while 10 other states including Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Goa, Karnataka, Manipur, Sikkim, Arunachal Pradesh and Kerala joined for operational benefits. Puducherry is also part of the scheme for improving operational efficiency of its discom.
As per the scheme, total liability opted for restructuring by 15 states through bond issuances was Rs. 2.69 lakh crore. So far, states have issued bonds of entire .`2.09 lakh crore and discoms have issued bonds worth Rs.23,000 crore. Bonds worth .`37,000 crore are yet to be issued. In all, 86% of the restructurable debt of states has been restructured so far under Uday, the statement said.
Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/energy/power/discoms-save-rs-12000-crore-interest-outgo-after-states-take-over-debt/articleshow/59448727.cms
FMCG companies are revising prices of their products after the implementation of GST and are extending the tax benefits to the consumers under the new tax regime.
The companies such as Patanjali, ITC, HUL and Marico are either slashing the prices of goods or increasing the grammage of the product on dispatches made from July 1 onwards.
“The company is committed to pass on the benefits of reduction in effective tax rate to its consumers wherever applicable and has firmed up the price reductions,” Marico CFO Vivek Karve told PTI.
He further added:”The new prices will hit the market eventually”.
“Effective steps are being taken to pass on the benefits to the consumer, wherever such benefits accrue due to the recently announced GST rates,” an ITC spokesperson said.
Yesterday, HUL had reduced prices of some of its detergents and soaps, extending the tax benefits to consumers under the GST regime.
The company had slashed the price of its detergent soap Rin bar of 250 gm to Rs 15 from Rs 18 and increased weight (grammage) of its Surf Excel bar costing Rs 10 to 105 gm from 95 gm at the same price.
Companies are extending the benefits either in the form of price reduction or increasing the weight of the existing packet in the same price brackets.
“We are passing on the entire tax benefits to the consumers. This would be in both ways – by slashing the price and increasing the grammage,” said a spokesperson of Haridwar based Patanjali.
The GST council has put daily usage goods as bathing soap, hair oil, detergent powder, soap, tissue papers and napkins under 18 per cent tax slab.
Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/cons-products/fmcg/fmcg-companies-to-extend-tax-benefits-to-customers-slash-prices/articleshow/59428487.cms?utm_source=WAPusers&utm_medium=twittershare&utm_campaign=socialsharebutton&from=mdr
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