British wholesale prices rose on Wednesday morning, tracking crude oil which jumped to its highest since 2014 after the United States abandoned a nuclear deal with Iran and announced the "highest level" of sanctions against the OPEC member.
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The Telangana government’s pending dues to power generating companies and Discoms are a whopping Rs 5,913 crore (till the end of September).
ADANI Group’s power transmission arm Adani Transmission has agreed to sell a 25.1 per cent stake in its Mumbai unit to a subsidiary of the Qatar Investment Authority.
The Chennai Metro Rail is mulling taking up pending work on the 1.5-km stretch of Mass Rapid Transit System from Velachery to St Thomas Mount. Even with the talks to acquire MRTS underway, the CMRL has asked the Chennai Metropolitan Development Authority (CMDA)
US State Department officials are on a hush-hush visit to India in connection with the recent cyber attack on the Kudankulam nuclear plant, which has been traced to North Korea, it is learnt.
The Vigilance Wing of Telangana State Southern Power Distribution Company Limited (TSSPDCL) has come across 46,309 cases of electricity theft in six districts — Mahbubnagar, Nalgonda, Sangareddy, Siddipet, Rangareddy and Hyderabad.
After a long lull, the work on the city piped gas project undertaken by the Indian Oil-Adani Gas Pvt Ltd (IOAGPL) has restarted in the district, ending apprehensions about its fate. The project, which took off officially in 2016, had been limping since May due to heavy rain and flood.
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) has tied up with the State Trading Corporation of Bhutan Limited to set up 22 petrol pumps in Bhutan. As part of this move, eight local youths from Bhutan were imparted a two-week training in handling petrol pumps in the first phase at the HPCL-run skill development institute here.
The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), an agency under the Union Ministry of Power, has asked the State government to focus on creating charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, which will be promoted on a massive scale in the next 5 to 10 years.
The Energy department has claimed that State discoms saved about `500 crore in the last six months by purchasing only cost-effective power in open market. Officials expect that the savings will improve as they are exploring more options to procure power at lower rates.
