Electricity
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Delhi's winter power demand touched all-time high on new year's day: Discom
India | January 02, 2020 17:48 ISTThe peak winter power demand in the national capital touched an all-time high of 5,343 MW on new year's day, a discom spokesperson said. According to State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDC), Delhi, the peak power demand reached 5,343 MW at 11.11 AM on January 1 when the minimum temperature was 2.4 degrees Celsius, the lowest in the last six years.
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Electrification in Indian households benefits men more than women: Study
India | December 26, 2019 12:43 ISTAs new areas gain access to basic levels of electricity, men in these households tend to dominate its use, according to a study conducted in India which suggests that men benefit more than women from such access. The study, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, highlights intra-household power dynamics as an important factor to consider for enabling more equitable energy access in developing countries.
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Power from non-coal sources on rise in India
India | November 05, 2019 11:42 ISTCollectively, power from all non-coal sources grew by about 24,000 gigawatt hour or 8.4 per cent to the end of October 2019 with hydro, solar and nuclear energies adding substantially to their generation levels and continuing upwards.
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Prepaid power meters at UP ministers' residences as dues cross ₹10k cr
India | October 29, 2019 14:23 ISTMinisters, legislators and officials are known to be major defaulters when it comes to paying electricity dues. Government offices also rank high on the list of defaulters.
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These remote villages in J&K get electricity for the first time
India | October 05, 2019 11:18 ISTAt least 20,000 homes have got the electricity connection. The area, especially near the border, was deprived of power supply since independence.
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Power tariff will not increase in Delhi for 5 years: Minister
India | August 23, 2019 23:27 ISTParticipating in a discussion in the assembly, Jain also claimed that the Arvind Kejriwal government would have provided free electricity for all if it got Rs 40,000 crore from the Centre as its share in central taxes as per the amount of income tax paid by Delhiites every year.
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Electricity bills in Delhi to go down as government reduces fixed charges
India | July 31, 2019 16:47 ISTNow, the consumers have to pay Rs 105 less per kilowatt per month for a sanctioned load of up to 2 kilowatts.
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Jharkhand CM directs officials to ensure uninterrupted power supply
India | July 06, 2019 10:43 ISTAccording to an official release on Friday, the Jharkhand Chief Minister Raghubar Das said, work relating to electricity production, transmission line and sub-station is in progress so that the people of the state could get uninterrupted electricity in the coming days.
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Unscheduled power cuts haunting Congress Govt in MP, Kamal Nath govt blames bats
News | June 20, 2019 16:03 ISTKamal Nath government's energy minister met power department officials to learn that reason behind frequent power cuts in Madhya Pradesh are bats.
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Even after 72 years of independence, electricity has not reached Chhattisgarh's Trishuli village
India | June 13, 2019 9:45 ISTThere are around 100 houses in Chhattisgarh's Trishuli village. Locals have written to the collector and requested him for electricity supply.
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'Because it's my wicked way of life': 79-year-old Pune woman lived her whole life without electricity
India | May 08, 2019 17:27 ISTThis unheard story of a 79-year-old former professor surprises us all. Dr. Hema Sane has been living in a house without electricity in Budhwar Peth, Pune all her life. Her reason for choosing this way of living her life is not due to any kind of constraint but her love for nature.
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New device generates electricity from snowfall
Science | April 17, 2019 11:28 ISTThe device, called as snow-based triboelectric nanogenerator or snow TENG, is an inexpensive, small, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic which generates charge through static electricity, produces energy from the exchange of electrons.
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Novel ‘bionic mushrooms’ can produce electricity
Science | November 10, 2018 8:25 ISTWith 3D printing, it was possible to assemble them so as to boost their electricity-producing activity eight-fold more than the casted cyanobacteria using a laboratory pipette.
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New material harvests Sun's heat for cheaper electricity
India | October 21, 2018 13:21 ISTThe innovation is an important step for putting solar heat-to-electricity generation in direct cost competition with fossil fuels, researchers said.
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Sweltering heat pushes peak electricity demand in Delhi to all time high of 6,934 MW
India | June 08, 2018 19:21 ISTThe steep hike in power demand was mainly on account of the sweltering heat that is sweeping through the national capital.
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24-hour electricity to all by March 2019: Power Minister RK Singh
Politics | December 28, 2017 13:22 ISTBy March 2019, all homes in the country will be provided uninterrupted 24-hour power supply throughout the year, Power Minister R K Singh said today.
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Chicken poop could replace coal in electricity generation, says a study
Trending | November 21, 2017 10:33 IST''Converting poultry waste to solid fuel, a less resource-intensive, renewable energy source is an environmentally superior alternative.''
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PM Modi launches 'Saubhagya' scheme to provide electricity to all by December 2018
Politics | October 03, 2017 19:42 ISTPradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana 'Saubhagya' launched on the birth anniversary of Hindutv icon Deendayal Upadhyaya will entail free electricity connections to poor households, PM Modi said.
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Gurgaon: Angry over power cuts, ex-judge opens fire at electricity board workers
India | June 08, 2017 16:41 ISTIrked over frequent power cuts, a former judge allegedly opened fire at Haryana electricity board workers while they were fixing the transmission line outside his house here, police said today
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In Basti people are receiving electricity bill without any power supply
News | May 22, 2017 18:32 IST
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