Electricity
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Technical flaw in smart meters make consumers‘powerless’ on Janmashtami
News | Aug 13, 2020, 08:51 AM ISTDue to the negligence of the electricity department, on Wednesday, about five lakh population of the capital suffered a severe power crisis for about eight hours. Due to technical flaws in the software of smart meter, electricity connection was cut in about one lakh houses and shops.
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Slum dwellers clash in Kolkata over electricity restoration
News | May 27, 2020, 01:00 PM ISTClash erupted between people from two slums in Metiabruz area after power was restored to one of the slum areas, following cyclone Amphan on May 26.
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Electricity consumption in India slowly returning back to pre-lockdown levels
Business | May 25, 2020, 10:34 AM ISTPower demand in India, which had gone down during the lockdown period due to several industries, businesses temporarily suspended operations, has got back to the pre-lockdown levels.
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Electricity workers, engineers to observe 'protest day' on June 1
India | May 23, 2020, 10:45 PM ISTElectricity employees and engineers will observe 'protest day' on June 1 to oppose proposed privatisation in the power sector.
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Atmanirbhar Bharat: Power departments in UTs, including Delhi, to be privatised
India | May 16, 2020, 07:14 PM ISTUnion Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on Saturday that power departments and utilities in all the centrally-administered territories would be privatised
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Electricity demand falls 24 per cent in April due to lockdown: Crisil
Business | May 13, 2020, 07:24 PM ISTWith almost no economic activity taking place in first 20 days of April due to lockdown, and very little operations after that, power demand declined sharply by 24 per cent in the month, Crisil Research said.
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West Bengal govt announces free electricity, conditions apply
India | Feb 10, 2020, 04:56 PM ISTThe West Bengal government on Monday announced free electricity in the state. Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress' decision on providing free electricity applies to only those consumers with quarterly consumption up to 75 units.
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Providing cheap electricity gets you vote: Arvind Kejriwal
Elections | Feb 10, 2020, 01:05 PM ISTAam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday expressed happiness that cheap electricity has become part of nationwide political discourse, adding that Delhi has shown that it also gets you votes.
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Delhi's winter power demand touched all-time high on new year's day: Discom
India | Jan 02, 2020, 05:48 PM 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 | Dec 26, 2019, 12:43 PM 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 | Nov 05, 2019, 11:42 AM 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 | Oct 29, 2019, 02:23 PM 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 | Oct 05, 2019, 11:18 AM 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 | Aug 23, 2019, 11:27 PM 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 | Jul 31, 2019, 04:47 PM 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 | Jul 06, 2019, 10:43 AM 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 | Jun 20, 2019, 04:03 PM 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 | Jun 13, 2019, 09:45 AM 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, 05:27 PM 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
Apr 17, 2019, 11:28 AM 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.