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Table of Contents

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  Rescue stranded Indians in Saudi: M.M. Hassan

• World Bank to fund modernisation of irrigation

• Global warming get hotter

• Worldwide climate-change poll finds 87% are worried

• Flood havoc in China

• China names official to discuss water disputes

• Don’t blame the sun

• Water found on a fiery planet

• GMR’s Nepal hydropower plan runs into trouble

• NTPC’s Lanka venture faces hurdles

• UK flooded, balkans sizzle

• Heavier rainfall linked to human activity

• Hot rocks offer hope for clean energy

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Tata power to raise rs. 14,000 crore to fund new plant in Mundra

• Planning Commission opposes NTPC’s equipment venture

• PTC inks deal to fast-track power projects

• Dabhol plant: NTPC to invest rs. 500 crore, LNG terminal to stay

• Reliance ready to settle NTPC row, puts rider

• Government to act on depleting water tables

• Madhya Pradesh Power Project threatens to submerge more villages

• Cauvery water row

• 11th plan power target: Experts say raising finance not a problem

• Nod to power plan likely in August

• Irrigation schemes move at a crawling pace

• Surjeet Singh appointed IWP chairperson of Northern zone

• Mullaperiyar: Use conservation laws to protect Dam, says panel

• Energy conservation code likely in Rajasthan

• MCX trades 26% stake for PTC power punch

• Power shortage? You must be joking

• Harness new technology to uplift people, says ISRO chief

• Indians most worried about climate change: Survey

• PGCIL gets five directors; way cleared for IPO

• Venture capital fund for climate research

• ‘Green India’ soon, says Manmohan

• Centre plans to nationalize some rivers

• NTPC to invest Rs. 1000 crore

• Renewable energy sector needs more competition

• New plants, rains boost power sector showing

• Campaign to create awareness about dead rivers

• Rs. 5000 crore river conservation plan to be revamped

• States get a good deal in reworked Hydro-Electric Power Policy

• PFC Q1 net up two-fold at Rs. 309 crore

• NTPC inks power pact for Barh project

• PFC may go for a private equity fund

• Government allocates coal blocks to NTPC, DVC

• BHEL becomes sole supplier of disc insulators and transmission lines

• Big Dams power growth story

• BHEL gets clean chit in power row

• RIL to set up 4000 MW capacity for Rs. 10,000 crore

• Power Ministry moots duty on standalone power SEZ sales

• Delhi’s power privatisation model worth emulating

• Are Indian nuclear power plants earthquake resistant?

• Power losses rise despite huge spends

• Climate change may hit wheat

• NTPC may land cheaper LNG from Nigeria, power its plants

• Investments in REC

• CESC net up 49% at Rs. 82 crore

• Protest against Hydel Projects in Sikkim

• Coming soon, country’s first power exchange

• Reliance power bags Sasan

• BHEL bottom line up 22%

• NTPC net rises 52%

• Kalpataru power pat rises 28%

• Torrent power net at Rs. 36 crore

• Vizag steel to enter power joint venture with NTPC

• PTC eyes coal firms abroad

• Navratna status will help PFC power ahead: CMD

• NTPC asked to transfer 10 projects to BHEL

• Himalayan glaciers face haze threat

• Bihar flood toll rises, food packets dropped

• Scale of destruction ‘unprecedented’

• Power plants short of buyers to get cerc incentive

• Gujarat aims to cut T&D losses to 17–18% in 2007

• Saving power, saving money

• NTPC’s grandiose plans for the south

• Palar river reservoir row: Supreme Court adjourns hearing by two weeks

• 12 Drown as flood wreaks havoc in Bihar

• Private power sector poised for growth

• Climate change may cause India loss of 125 million tones of cereals

• Biofuel – Meeting the needs of dryland farmers

• Monsoon weaves new spell

• Power Ministry submits draft Hydro Power Policy to cabinet

• Floods point to global warming

• Good monsoon will power your food bill

• Orissa to revaluate 32 power projects, gives them a week

• NTPC to infuse additional equity in Dabhol project

• Proposal to disqualify power bids if group breaks

• PFC mulls $1 billion private equity fund in tax haven

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  NTPC, Assam ink deal for Bongaigaon unit

• NHPC gets IIIE excellence award

• Work on Renuka Dam project may finally get started

• Shocking truth: Funds flowing but six-hour power cuts in Gurgaon

• Achuthanandan ready for talks

• Impact of Dam failure catastrophic: Report

• Power sector in east to attract Rs. 90,000 crore investment

• Power demand goes up to a new high

• Power demand at all-time high

• Mercury still rising, power woes wreck the capital

• Nod for Thermal Power Project

• Villagers construct Dam without government help

• Haryana gets power from Delhi

• Power demand at all-time high of 4030 MW

• Gas pipeline for Dabhol delayed till month-end

• Distcoms want their own plants

• Rain brings Kolkata to a halt

• SJVNL bids for Arunachal project

• Rajasthan nod to Jhalwar power unit

• Weather warning system planned

• Uttar Pradesh government presents plan to boost power production

• Power consumption in capital on the rise

• NDPL plans to install chinese plant in city

• Power reforms: Government faces tough questions

• Government promotes energy conservation methods

• Floods recede in Orissa, Rajasthan

• Haryana makes power theft a criminal offence

• First natural resources data centre in Kolkata

• DISCOM’s move for a green Delhi

• Situation improves in flood-hit Rajasthan

• Focus on saving power: Hooda

• NDMC turns to Kushak Nalla for rainwater harvesting project

• L-G reviews Delhi’s disaster management preparation

• Explain procedure for distress sharing of water, centre asks Cauvery tribunal

• Raje assures sufficient power for Rabi season

• Pulichintala Dam submerged

• Gurgaon to get compact GIS power substations in two years

• Centre urged to resolve Cauvery dispute

• Renovation of flood-hit assets to be speeded up

• City may get 100 MW plant in 8 months

• Rain, flood wreak havoc in Bihar

• Quake hits Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi

• Transco may make others go green

• A different set of rules for VIP areas

• Work on power unit to begin by year-end

• Long-pending power plants to be speeded up

• Agriculture needs heavy investment, says official

• Operational efficiencies bolster Tata power Q1

• No private power for Lutyen’s Delhi

• Bid to modernize NDMC’s power system

• Climate: Expert group to plug ‘knowledge gaps’

• Bihar floods: 3 Districts cut off from Patna

• Industry may have to pay more for groundwater

• Litany of woes against DISCOMS, but no case filed with derc so far

• SRCC gives ‘save energy’ lessons

• BHEL bags Rs. 431 crore deal from Indian oil

• Rajasthan government to establish new grid-sub-stations

• A new kind of power-broking

• 45 Schoolgirls trapped in Bihar

• Thousands flee floods

• Prepare to pay for government’s bad power deal

• PFC appoints goel as director

• Chinese firm bags Chhattisgarh power projects

• BILT plans to set up Rs. 6000 crore IPP in Orissa

• Maharashtra offers to revive Dabhol’s LNG terminal

• Jharkhand seb gets Rs. 525 crore from state departments

• Water to reach state border by August 8

• 35 Projects to be completed by 2009: YSR

• DISCOMS seek hike in power charges

• Get your own power, government tells DISTCOMS

• Flood abates, battle for food begins

• Bihar flood victims, Chief Minister expect help from Sonia

• Power reforms: Why distribution franchising doesn’t gather pace

• Krishnapatnam to become energy hub

• DERC asked to draft policy mandating DISCOMS to generate power

• DERC should be made a publicoriented body

• Flood situation improves in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar

• Power cuts bring back unhappy days

• Nathpa Jhakri plays spoilsport

• Government playing into the hands of DISCOMS, alleges BJP

• RESEARCH NOTE

  A fusion solution to the energy problem

• Uttar Pradesh primary schools bask in solar power

• Climate change: Ethics, science, economics-ii

• Climate change: End for great apes?

• Homoeopathy for healthy farm produce

• Kerala seeks Rs. 250 crore as flood relief