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Power market trades 6,540 MU in May amid coronavirus lockdowns

The term-ahead market comprising intra-day, contingency, daily and weekly contracts traded 383 MU during the month.

PFC, REC sanction loans worth Rs 1.18 trn under discom liquidity package

Both the firms have disbursed around Rs 31,100 crore under the package

Power producers seek more time to install emission controlling equipment

An association of power producers has sought more time to install emission controlling equipment at their plants, saying various issues, including COVID-19 followed by supply disruptions from China, have posed challenges in meeting the December 2022 deadline. In a letter to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), the Association of Power Producers (APP) has sought another three years to complete the process. As per a government order, all thermal power plants in India have to install the flue gas de-sulphurisation (FGD) technology that reduces sulphur oxides emissions on burning of coal, in a phased manner by December 2022. In the letter, the APP has apprised the top office that under the current circumstances meeting the deadline would be a challenge as the COVID-19 outbreak has led to supply disruptions of equipment from China. Only about 20-30 per cent of the emission reducing components, it said, are manufactured in India and for a major share of 70-80 per cent, the country is ...

Power producers need a new paradigm amid low, unpredictable demand

PPAs are proving inflexible in a regime of falling demand and the rise of renewable power

17 independent power producers to forgo imported coal for domestic supply

Adani Power, GMR Energy, Avantha Power, Lalitpur Power, and Vedanta are some of the private companies that have applied for the 'import substitution' scheme of the Centre

Flickering interest in 'round the clock' power

Renewable energy players are doubtful if any mainstream player will even evince interest

Power gencos' outstanding dues on discoms rise 37% to Rs 70,000 cr in Sept

In September this year, total overdue amount, which was not cleared even after 60 days of grace period offered by generators, stood at Rs 52,408 crore as against Rs 34,658 crore in the same month last

Govt's franchise model in power supply will interest private firms: Experts

However, some say the benefits have not been encouraging and full privatisation might be better

Power gencos outstanding dues on discoms jump 57% to Rs 73,000 cr in July

According to PRAAPTI portal, discoms owed a total of Rs 46,779 crore to power generation companies in July 2018.

Power producers in a fix as piling dues from discoms choke their cash flows

By October 2018-end, accumulated dues had climbed to almost Rs 39,000 cr, leaving generators such as NTPC, Adani Power and Tata Power in distress

Post-monsoon coal supply may trip power plants facing 175K-Mw daily demand

The power ministry has allowed all power producers to import coal as the domestic supply situation remains poor

Power producers seek relief for stranded gas-based projects

Of India's current installed power generation capacity of 330 GW, gas-based capacity is 25 GW