Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra) has received an approval from Competition Commission of India (CCI) for 100% stake sale of its Mumbai Power Business which includes integrated business of generation, transmission and distribution of power for Mumbai to Adani Transmission (ATL). Total consideration value is estimated at Rs 18,800 crore. Transaction is expected to be completed by … Read more
Alessandro Volta, in the year 1800, did not just invent batteries, he unfolded an evolution… Before the development of electric generators and electrical grids, batteries provided the main source of electricity. In the year 1800, Alessandro Volta, an Italian physicist and chemist stacked up plates of Zinc and Copper, separated by brine paper disks, which … Read more
Tata Power has launched a nationwide campaign ‘#PowerHerUp’ to empower underprivileged women and girl children across the country. So far more than 170 families across the nation have benefitted from the initiative. The objective of the campaign is to mobilize public at large to help women and girl children unleash their potential and sensitize them … Read more
Power Grid Corporation of India is reportedly planning to ink pact with Uttar Pradesh Power Transmission Corporation to form an equal joint venture company to strengthen the intra-state transmission network. The joint venture company will have to secure a transmission licence from the Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission. Moreover, the central ministry of power and … Read more
If we add the amount of solar energy that is absorbed by the Earth’s atmosphere, land and oceans every year, we end up with approximately 3,850,000 EJ (exajoules or 10^18 joules). To put it in more understandable terms, this amount of energy is equivalent to : 2.7 million earthquakes of the same size as the Tohoku earthquake in Japan (2011) – 40 000 times … Read more
Tata Power Delhi Distribution (TPDDL), a joint venture (JV) of Tata Power and the Government of Delhi, has been assigned Solar Power 1A (SP 1A) rating by ICRA, one of India’s leading rating agencies, for the second time in a row. The acknowledgement has been credited to TPDDL as the highest honour rating of SP1A … Read more
