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Table of Contents

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  UN Climate Talks Start with Dire Warnings

• Global Honour for Barefoot Wonder – Bunker Roy

• News from States Apgenco Setting up 21 Power Plants

• Chhattisgarh Sings MOU with NTPC for 4,000-MW Projects

• Centre Allocates 100 MW more to Punjab, Haryana

• Power Play: M’rashtra Attracts Rs 75,000 cr for Power Projects

• Neyveli Lignite to Invest Rs 10,000 cr in Power Projects

• State Set for more Subsidy to PSEB

• Atul Saraya New BHEL Director

• Over 45,000 MW Capacity Addition behind Schedule

• Power Equipment Cost to Set up Base in India

• NHDC to Set up 1320 MW Thermal Plant

• PFC to Raise Rs 90,000 crore

• Centre Allocates more Power to State

• Govt. Approves Rs 40,000-cr Power Equipment Order

• Boom Time for Power Equipment Companies

• Himalayas Hotspot of Climate Change

• Govt may Sell 5% in NTPC by March

• Ministry Admits Power Capacity Addition Lagging Badly

• Power Equipment Imports – Have an Offset Policy in Place

• Power Capacity Addition

• NTPC, Sri Lanka to Ink Pact for Plant

• No New Projects in Coastal Areas, River Basins

• Energy Pricing Set for Overhaul, Likely after Polls

• Power-Hungry Country Close to 1 Lac MW Demand

• Record Power Generation by NJHPS

• NDPL, Tata BP Join Hands

• Essar Power to Raise Rs 15,000 cr for Four Projects

• Reliance Power to Raise Rs 20K cr to Fund Projects

• BHEL Bags IOC’s Power Plant Order

• BHEL’s Upgraded Unit Dedicated to Nation

• NTPC Hires CO to Assess Buyout

• BHEL May Get Rs 2K-cr NTPC Order for Barh-1

• BHEL Gets Rs 990 cr Order

• NTPC to Float Rs 21,000-crore Tender

• Jindal Power to Invest Rs 13,400 crore

• Jindal Plans Rs 4,000-cr IPO

• BHEL Bags Rs.1,300 crore Contract

• REC Negotiating $200-MM Aflac Loan

• NTPC in Talks to Buys African Coal Block

• GE Energy to Set up Wind Turbine Unit

• BHEL Turnover Exceeds Rs. 28,000 crore in 2008-09

• NTPC to Expand Capapcity

• RPG Plans Hydel Power Foray

• Power Grid Corp to Raise Rs 2,500 cr

• Biogas may end Power Woes

• NDPL Bags Safety Innovation Award

• NDPL goes for New outage Management

• Tata Power Plans Rs 21,600cr Expansion

• Tata Power Scouts for Coal Blocks Abroad

• NTPC Sets Rs 17,700-crore Capex

• L&T Eyes Rs 8Kcr Revenue from N-Power Biz

• Powergrid Corp Dividend

• HCC Joins UK Firm for N-Power

• NTPC Pays Dividend of Rs 2986.36 crore for 2008-09

• 93% Power Theft Cases Solved in 2 Days

• NDPL Gets New Tech to Tackle Outages

• Global Warning’s Technology Deficit Deficit

• Imported Uranium Boost for Dead Reactor

• Meet on Nuclear Energy

• Manmohan for Wise use of Atomic Power

• Big Scope for Rise in Nuclear Energy

• Nuclear Power Still Locked in

• NTPC to Diversify Into Renewables, Hydro

• Green Infra Ltd Buys Bp Energy’s Wind Power Assets

• ‘India has a Decisive Role in Climate Change’

• India can Lead the World in Renewable Energy: Irena Chief

• NDPL to Tap Solar Energy in Rajasthan for use in City

• Tariff norms for Renewable Energy Announced

• Wind, Solar Power to Get 19% Pre-Tax ROI

• Solar Energy Tapped in Space

• Solar Lighting System Installed at Gurez

• CERC Unlocks Transmission Links for Private Power Companies

• Direct Grid Access for small Power Plants

• Transmission Woes take Fuse out of Traded Power

• 3 Firms Submit Financial bids for PFC Project

• We’re Buying Gas at Competitive Prices : NTPC

• Petronet LNC to Power Ahead with Two 1200 MW Plants

• Power Stations may get more Gas from Kg Basin

• HPCL to Supply Lpg to Plug Power

• NTPC Signs Gas Pact with RIL

• Energy Leaders Face Coal Probe

• CERC Notifies Regulations for RLDCS Fee and Charges

• CERC Notifies Tariff Regulations for Green Power

• Power shortage may affect New Industries

• Prakash to Add 625 MW to Chhattisgarh Plant

• NTPC went Back on Gas Pact: RIL

• Power Connections for BPL Families

• Hydropower Fund Mooted

• Rajasthan to Spend Rs. 1,300 crore on Electrification of Rural Areas

• 4,000-MW Power Plant Plan for Bundelkhand

• Power Crisis: Govt has no short-term Solution

• More Power for Farmers

• Relaxation in Domestic Sector Power Cuts

• Gujarat to Add 28K MW Capacity

• Burning of Substation Power Board in Dock

• Father of Green Revolution Norman Borlaug Dies

• Water Discovered on Moon?: “A lot of it Actually”

• Ozone hole Shrinking, say OZ Scientists

• Ministry Releases Guidelines to Sustain Himalayan Ecology

• Chandrayaan-I Finds Traces of Water on Moon

• Pak to Approach World Bank over Water Dispute with India

• Rains Lift Reservoir Levels, Brighten Rabi Prospects

• Rainfed Authority Proposes Plan to use late Monsoon

• Drought-Proofing Agriculture

• Climate Change

• In Gloom, Punjab Paints a Pretty Paddy Picture

• Centre Extends help to Drought-hit States

• Do or Die Situation

• Water Activists want every State to Declare its River

• Eco-Friendly Empowering

• Marking a Watershed

• 30 yrs on, Saryu Project Meets 18 PC Irrigation Target

• Monsoon is Driest in more than 3 Decades

• Adelaide, Latest Victim of Global Water Shortages

• Water Level Bodes Powerless Winter

• Water Resources Mangement

• 24 yrs, Rs 916 cr Later Ganga has only got Filthier

• Dolphin is National Aquatic Animal

• 2020 Target for Clean Ganga Mission

• Water Quality

• Jairam Objects to River Interlinking

• Crops on 1,000 Acres Submerged

• No Respite from Flood Fury

• Loss due to Rain Will Exceed 20,000 Cr. : Yeddyurappa

• Declare A.P., Karnataka Floods National Calamity: CPI(M)

• Karnataka Seeks Rs. 16,500-crore Assistance from Centre

• Floods hit Sugarcane in 2 States

• Maharashtra allows Mils to delay crushing by a Month

• Centre Allocates more Power to State

• Pollution Cloud Looms over Yamuna

• Subsoil Water Dips Despite Early Paddy Sowing

• North India’s Groundwater use Raising Sea Levels by 5%

• Despite Fall in Acreage, Fertiliser Sales Soar in Kharif Season