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TopicElectricity

Topic: electricity

Power Finance Corp. looks to offset risks by funding new sectors, like electric vehicles

Rajesh Kumar Singh -
India's distributors are saddled with huge debts from selling power below cost or from poor billing and collection.

Why demand for power is surging amid India’s growth slowdown

Rajesh Kumar Singh -
Overall jump in demand came mostly because of rise in demand from states that added large number of households to electricity network for the first time.

Delhi consumers using less than 200 units of power need not pay electricity bills: Kejriwal

PTI -
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal also said that Delhi govt will continue to give 50% subsidy to those consuming between 200-401 units of electricity.

Delhi power regulator slashes fixed charges, new tariffs to apply from 1 August

PTI -
As per the new rates, the fixed charges up to 2 kW has been reduced from Rs 125 to Rs 20, while charges above 2 kW but less than 5 kW has been slashed from Rs 140 to Rs 50.

Half of world’s electricity will come from the sun and the wind by 2050: Bloomberg research

Millicent Dent -
Coal will be the biggest loser in the power sector, with its share of global generation plunging from 37% today to 12% in 2050.

Modi govt electrified India with poles & wires, but challenge is to keep electrons flowing

Ashwini K. Swain -
A major barrier to electricity access in India remains the concurrence between economic poverty and energy poverty.

IISc team ‘confirms’ superconductivity at room temperature, backed by 8 more experts now

Sandhya Ramesh -
When it first came out, the IISc study created quite a stir because superconductivity at room temperature is seen as the holy grail of physics.

Adani expects India’s coal imports to break records this year as demand stays robust

Rajesh Kumar Singh -
Imports will climb almost 11% to 184 million metric tons in 2019-20, & rise further to average about 200 million annually through following decade.

Odisha death toll in Cyclone Fani rises to 37, govt seeks Centre’s help in relief works

PTI -
The state has been struggling to restore power, drinking water & telecom infrastructure to the cyclone-affected areas due to shortage of skilled manpower.

Modi’s power industry revival plan takes a hit as discom losses rise

Rajesh Kumar Singh -
The stalled recovery will sustain discoms as the weakest link in India’s electricity supply chain & impede efforts to serve low-paying consumers.
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Economy

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‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

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At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Bihar is where politics moves, and everything else stands still

Shekhar Gupta -
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.

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