Hydro Generation

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  Thermal Plants To Generate 76% Of India's Power Requirement In 2023: Centre

  Thermal power plants will generate 75.66 per cent of the country's electricity requirement of 1,750 billion units in the current fiscal, the government said today.

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  Centre's Auditor Red Flags Slow Development Of Kashmir Hydro Power Projects

  The Comptroller and Auditor General said out of 374 identified project sites with power generation capacity of 1,725.53 MegaWatts, only 10 projects with 79.75 MW capacity had been commissioned with time overrun ranging between 4 months and 7 years.

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  India's BPCL Halves Crude Runs At Mumbai Refinery; Plans Repairs At Other Plants

  The state-run refiner has shut a 120,000 bpd crude unit and some secondary units including diesel hydro desulfuriser and hydrogen generation units for 20 to 25 days, the spokesman said. Other units are functioning as normal, he said.

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  BHEL Starts Hydro Power Unit in West Bengal

  State-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has successfully commissioned a 40 MW hydro-electric generating unit in West Bengal.

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  CES 2016: Smart Showerhead Aims to Save Precious Water

  Electricity for the lights is generated by mini hydro power plant in the showerhead, so no batteries are used.

• NTPC's First Hydropower Project Starts in Himachal

  NTPC, India's largest power producer, on Monday forayed into hydroelectric generation by commissioning the 200 MW unit of its Koldam project in Himachal Pradesh.

• BHEL Commissions Hydro Power Plant in Rwanda

  With the commissioning of this plant, the installed generation capacity of Rwanda has gone up by 24 per cent from 119 MW to 147 MW.

• Alstom Commissions NHPC's Uri project in Jammu & Kashmir

  The four units were made operational in phases. Alstom was awarded the Uri-II project contract by NHPC in 2007. The scope of work included turnkey execution of the electro-mechanical package comprising hydro turbines, generators and auxiliaries, Alstom said in a statement.

• Hydro-power plants blamed for deadly floods in India: report

  The panel findings highlight the problem facing India, one of the world's lowest per-capita energy consumers, as it rushes to expand power generation to meet rising demand.

• Bhel wins Rs 125 crore order in Uttarakhand

  While the hydro generating sets will be supplied by Bhel's Bhopal unit, the transformers and Control & Monitoring system will be supplied by the Jhansi unit and Electronics Division, Bangalore respectively.

• Hydro power can help North East generate Rs 679 crore annually

  India's north-eastern region can generate revenue of Rs 650-670 crore every year by taping its hydro power potential, Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said on Monday.

• BHEL renovates, commissions hydro power plant in Tajikistan

  Strengthening its overseas footprint, state-run BHEL today said a renovated hydro project with enhanced generation capacity has been commissioned in Tajikistan.

• Delays in implementing 16 power projects cost Rs 14,000 cr: CAG

  Delay in implementing 16 hydro power projects by four state-run generators, including NHPC and SJVN, resulted in cost overruns of more than Rs 14,700 crore, CAG said today.

• Lanco may exit road segment, to focus on power generation

  The company had earlier this year announced that it plans to install nearly 4,000 MW additional thermal power generation capacity, entailing investments of about Rs 22,000 crore by March 2015.

• India's power generation up 9% in Sept 2011: BRICS

  All India generation was up 9 per cent in September 2011, partly helped by favorable base. Nuclear and hydro generation registered robust growth performance, coupled with moderate growth in coal generation, while generation across gas plants declined. PLF improved in hydro and nuclear plants but declined for gas and coal due to fuel supply c...