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Table of Contents

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  US company to set up $2.75 billion power project in Madhya Pradesh

• Digital tools help users save energy, study finds

• ADAG power plans may have China links

• Japanese company to form high voltage power cable joint venture plant in India

• Another ‘solar system’ found

• Singapore power company gets three Indian bidders

• South Korea's KEPCO signs MOU with Bolivian government for Hydroelectric project

• AREVA in talks with Indian companies for nuclear power equipment set up

• Nigeria to produce power from waste

• Pakistan government plans to set up national energy model

• NDPL power plant at Rohini gets green signal

• Power supply in Delhi plunges

• NHPC signs MOU with ministry of power for the year 2008–09

• BHEL spends RS. 3200 crore on expansion

• New power scheme to have more levers

• Powergrid corporation lines up RS. 12K crore diversification

• CERC notifies open system access in interstate transmission rules

• 36 years to reduce T&D losses

• Power distribution companies can cancel contracts: Supreme court

• DISCOMS told to take steps to boost supply

• Government: Fix grim power situation

• PFC to focus on renewable energy

• Wind power project lure foreign investments

• Government may scale down tax sops for renewable energy

• New scheme for megawatt capacity grid interactive solar plants

• Energy congress to promote young ideas, designs

• Energy efficiency: It's smart to go green

• Centre to soon roll out ‘solar city’ scheme across the country with local municipal bodies

• Core sector to continue growth

• Captive, merchant units may not be powered by tax sops

• Reliance power IPO in late January, to raise RS. 11,000 crore

• Essar power may sell 10% to PE CO

• EPL eyes 6500 MW capacity by 2012

• Jaiprakash power plans $1 billion IPO

• Reliance power to also parent foreign projects

• Betting on power reforms

• A mega exercise in power

• Power exchange attracts 100 firms

• NHPC may revise draft IPO documents

• Power sector: The second coming

• NTPC may power BHEL's super critical plant foray

• Power IPOs and reasoning for investor behaviour

• Accelerating power development

• Powering development

• Power play: Delhi government spikes tariff hike demand

• Relief for power consumers

• NTPC lines up $3.3 billion to expand capacity

• Maharashtra gives more time for power producers

• Bhoruka power to set up 300 MW plant in the state

• Himachal invites bids for 1481 MW Hydel units

• Tamil Nadu blames Karna for delay in Hydel power project

• Jhajjar plant on horizon, city's power situation to get much better by 2010

• NTPC to lay transmission lines for Dadri plant

• City heading for power crunch

• Raje government announces load-shedding schedule

• Power outages as morning mist causes tripping

• Gurgaon power crisis may worsen

• Bengal government looks forward to 500 MW from renewables

• Maharashtra private power projects gain time

• US company to set up $2.75 billion power project in Madhya Pradesh

• NDPL power plant at Rohini gets green signal

• NDMC to ink power trading treaty

• Top science revelations of 2007

• Water and power crisis in Punjab

• Haryana power utilities seek security

• Supreme court tells delhi government to submit its plan on power in four weeks

• Power shortage: Delhi seeks help

• BSES Yamuna to offer cheaper, instant connection

• RIL to supply gas to NDPL 100 MW plant

• To earn more, Himachal introduces upfront fee for Hydel power projects

• Haryana fiat to units: Switch to CFLs

• MCX to launch coal, electricity futures

• Wait another week for relief from power cuts

• New technology for power DISCOM

• Delhi ready to meet power demand for Commonwealth games

• DERC seeks help to avoid tariff hike

• Power on demand by 11th plan: Government

• DISCOMS told to keep power-starved voters happy this summer

• Sops for mega power projects likely

• World ban should fund disaster prevention projects

• BHEL creating capacities to meet country's capacity addition targets

• Shyam sel inks MOA with WBIDC for steel, thermal plants in Bengal

• VAT may go up to 5% soon under CST phase out plan

• NTPC signs loan bond deal worth RS. 2000 crore with LIC

• NTPC plans joint venture for plant components

• Japan bank to fund Bihar power project

• NTPC equipment foray may get rolling in the next few weeks

• Nuclear power corporation investment

• PE investors may pick 8% in Bhilawara energy for RS. 600 crore

• Centre to chart fresh course with ultra mega hydel projects

• BHEL spends RS. 3200 crore on expansion

• NTPC, CIL to float SPV

• NTPC to foray into power equipment production

• Gaur new MD of IPGCL, PPC

• Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam signs $400 million pact with World bank

• JSW plans to invest RS. 7500 crore in the state

• ONGC plants to commission 740 MW project by 2011

• Coal India, IL&FS join hands to float joint venture for mining, power projects

• Kalyani to have RS. 6500 crore unit in Bengal

• Bajaj electricals launches new range of led lighting

• TATA owned NDPL to source natural gas from RIL for Rohini

• REL in ultra mega power project to be planned at Machilipatnam

• GE setting up wind power equipment facility to expand in India

• BHEL & NTPC heading for a negotiated truce over super critical Thermal power plants

• NTPC & CIL in joint venture to float a special purpose vehicle

• Larsen & Toubro limited secures major order of more than RS. 1300 crores from cairn India

• ISRO planning to launch satellite to study the sun

• MNRE issues guidelines for solar power generation

• Record performance by BHEL's Bhopal division

• REC to mobilize RS. 16,000 crore in 2008–09 for lending

• Government to pump RS. 8000 crore into flood relief in 11th plan

• India's water situation on shaky ground

• Central grant for Haryana to bost agriculture

• Rajasthan bags ICAR award

• Central team to assess flood damage in Delta

• RS. 19 crore for Punjab irrigation

• Trees absorbing less CO2

• A warming climate can support Glacial ice

• Climate change will wreak havoc on health

• Human costs of climate change

• As China heats up, its ice sculptures sweat

• 4309 Rajasthan villages declared drought-hit

• Antarctica ice loss accelerating by 75 per cent

• Work on Narmada water scheme after centre's nod

• Show of solidarity in Tamil Nadu over Hogenakkal water project

• Government sets up company to fund irrigation projects

• The 1998 story of Hogenakkal

• Vote bank politics over water drying up solutions