Water and Energy International

Table of Contents

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Overview of Indian power sector

• Power sector achievements in 11th plan

• Highlights of the achievements of power sector during the 11th five year plan

• Improving the viability of off-grid solar power in India

  • Author: Tobias F. Engelmeier

• Application of modern technologies for speedier construction of hydro projects

  • Author: V. B. Patel

• A proposal for slope protection of subarnarekha main canal from RD 7950 M to RD 8720 M – An alternative approach

  • Author: Joygopal Jena, G.C. Sahu, G.N. Das

• Generate power from your footsteps - A new idea

• RESEARCH ARTICLE

  Groundwater recharge through wells in a basin

  • Author: J.P. Singh, S.K. Shakya

• RESEARCH NOTE

  Highlights of Power Sector

• Plan wise expenditure incurred on irrigation and flood control sectors

• NEWS AND VIEWS

  SNLC gets new director (Finance)

• Srivastava is coal secretary

• New director at IPGCL

• Power awards NTPC

• NHPC

• Powergrid

• Germany sets new solar power record

• New tariff order to mandate use of 2% green energy

• Power tariff hiked 11% in NDMC areas

• NPCIL to insure nuclear assets

• Shock treatment for power thieves

• Firms bet on solar power

• MNRE sets up advisory council for solar energy

• NHPC submits dprs for 2 myanmar projects

• NHPC to finalise jv for chamkhar-chhu project in Bhutan SOON

• Bajaj Hindusthan seeks shareholders nod for power project funds

• Jaypee thermal plant row takes new turn

• New policy to curb default on power bills – depts concerned to recover arrears from staff

• E-waste management rules kick in today

• Power thefts to affect officials’ appraisal

• Board to sell power to other states

• Delhi jal board gets its first woman CEO

• Consumer first, says new DJB chief

• Ganga-Yamuna clean-up

• No chenab water for Jammu till 2025

• China has not diverted brahmaputra water: India

• Bangkok flood prevention plan must include tunnel

• Mumbai’S first road tunnel set to open

• Neelum jhelum hydropower project

• Plan to build 11 tunnels on Pakistan-China border

• Yellow river ‘Throat’ tunnel completed

• $66B tunnel to connect

• ABSTRACTS OF DISSERTATIONS OR ARTICLES

  Design and Testing of Overhead Lines Supporting Structures in View of the Highest Demands Regarding Compaction, AC/DC upgrade and uprating

• Environmental Analysis of Different Technologies for a Swiss High-Voltage Substation

• FACTS for Enabling Wind Power Generation

• Protection Security Assessment, Going along with the development of today’s networks to Smart Grids

• Grid Asset Management Suite (GAMS) for Improved Control of Network Cost and Quality of Supply

• New TSO Coordination Initiative in Europe

• External Costs of Transmission : State of RTE’s Knowledge and Practical Experience

• Lightning Current Measurement on an Overhead Line Equipped with line Arresters

• Impact of a High Concentration of Wind Generation in the Australian Electricity Market - Experience to Date and Expected Future Performance

• Integration of Active Customers into SmartGrids: experimental test facility and results

• Condition Assessment of Transmission Power Cables

• Identifying Cyber Security Events in IEC 61850 Substations by Analysing Different Traffic Patterns

• Trade-off in Ecosystem Services of the Somerset Levels and Moors Wetlands

• Corrected Prediction Intervals for Change Detection in Paired Watershed Studies

• Groundwater Quality Monitoring in Collaboration with Rural Communities in Benin

• Construction of Master Recession Curve Using Genetic Algorithms

• Synergies and Trade-offs in the Management of Lowland Rural Floodplains: An Ecosystem Services Approach

• Identifying Hydrograph Parameters and their Relationships to Urbanization Variables

• Reliability of Interview Data for Monitoring and Mapping Groundwater

• Comparison between Active Learning Method And Support Vector Machine for Runoff Modeling

• Ecosystem Services Trade-offs in Wetland Management: Drainage and Rehabilitation of the Hula, Israel

• A Perturbation Solution for Head Fluctuations in a Coastal leaky Aquifer System Considering Water Table over-height

• Groundwater-surface Water Interaction and the Ecohydrology of Arid Regions: evidence from the Tafilalt Oasis of southern Morocco

• Linkage between In-Stream Total Phosphorus and Land Cover in Chugoku District, Japan: An Ann Approach

• Water Surface Profile Over Side Weir in a Trapezoidal Channel

• FROM THE DESK

  From editor's desk

  • Author: V.K. Kanjlia