State-owned NTPC Limited Wednesday said it is setting up a 100 mw Floating Solar Photo Voltaic (PV) Solar Project at Ramagundam in Telangana. “We wish to inform that investment approval has been accorded for 100 MW Ramagundam Floating Solar PV Project, Phase-I in District Peddapelli, Telangana,” a regulatory filing by the PSU said. NTPC had […]
Telangana all charged up about giga-scale li-ion battery unit
Tells NITI Aayog it’s ideally placed Telangana Chief Secretary S K Joshi has reiterated the State Government’s commitment and readiness to establish a Giga-Scale Li-ion battery manufacturing plant in the State. During a Video Conference held today by Amitabh Kant, CEO of NITI Aayog, the Chief Secretary has stressed why Telangana is ideally suited for […]
With Rs 2,000 crore government dues, Telangana solar power firms in doldrums
Hyderabad: Although the state government has been claiming that Telangana is one of the top solar power generating states in the country, many solar power firms are in financial doldrums due to non-payment of bills of over Rs 2,000 crore by Telangana State Transmission Corporation (TS Transco) since July 2018. Nearly, 200 solar power generation […]
Why Telangana Has Spooked Solar Power Producers
At least 10 private solar power producers have urged the Telangana government to clear dues worth around Rs 1,000 crore pending for nearly eight months. Members of the Solar Power Developers Association—who have commissioned over 2,500 MW in capacity in the state since 2014-15 by investing around Rs 13,000 crore—discussed the situation with its chief […]
Tenure of C&MDs and directors of power utilities extended in Telangana
Apart from them, the government also enhanced the tenure of 20 other directors of the power utilities Hyderabad: The State government on Wednesday issued orders extending the tenure of the Chairmen and Managing Directors (C&MDs) and 20 directors of power utilities. Their tenure is due to end by the end of May. The extension of […]
Telangana: KCR demands 2,000 MW more power from Centre
The officials responded positively, and Rao sought for them to finalise the modalities. RAMAGUNDAM/HYDERABAD: Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday demanded that the Centre supply 2,000 MW of additional power from the NTPC to Telangana, to meet the growing demand. The chief minister, after inspecting the construction of the NTPC’s 1,600 MW power plant […]
Electric Vehicles This Week: Two-Wheelers Sales Fall Dramatically; Telangana To Get EV Policy
Mumbai-based Mahindra Electric has halted the production of its first electric car model e2oPlus Swiggy is piloting electric vehicle deliveries across 10 cities across India Xiaomi has launched an electric bicycle called Himo T1 in China While the FY2019 may not have been a good year for the Indian automotive industry, the nascent electric vehicle […]
‘Telangana pioneered distributed solar model’
Hyderabad: Telangana has adapted decentralised distributed solar plants constructed at the load point by which it saved the transmission losses and also helped in maintaining of Grid stability, said an expert. Speaking at RenewX 2019 conference and expo here, Ajay Mishra, Special Chief Secretary, Telangana said: The State government has saved more than Rs 500 […]
Telangana plans to produce 5 GW renewable energy by 2020: TSSPDCL CMD
Speaking at the inauguration of two-day RenewX, an industry event being organised by UBM India at Hitex, he said the State has also pioneered the distributed generation model to harness the benefits of renewable energy. Hyderabad: Telangana State and its discoms have been in the forefront of producing renewable energy (RE) . The RE capacity […]
Telangana readies for an electric future with EV policy, flags off 50 vehicles
Mahindra & Mahindra deploys 50 electric vehicles with Uber on a pilot basis in Hyderabad amid Telangana’s push to create an environment that encourages the adoption of EVs and installation of related infrastructure. Electric mobility is here to stay, and has now reached Telangana. The state is among those to have launched its own electric […]
