The State government is taking various steps to strengthen the nine-hour free power supply to the farm sector in order to make agriculture a profitable activity and empower farmers. The most significant of these steps is the tie-up with Solar Energy Corporation of India for supply of solar power, which will start with 3,000 Megawatts from September 2024 in the …
Consumers should brace up to pay more for the electricity they are consuming during the ongoing period of power crisis as increased use of expensive imported coal in generation is expected to elevate the cost of supply by up to 5% in the current fiscal year 2022-23. The higher share of imports for thermal generation under a pass-through arrangement as …