In a rare initiative, a farmer of Haryana, Ramehar Singh of Silani village in Jhajjar district, has installed a 50-KW capacity poultry litter-based biogas power plant at his poultry farm using poultry waste as feed material.

Showing the way to other farmers by his enterprise by running his 65 KVA (50-KW) biogas plant for 14 hours a day for the last three months, this self-reliant farmer now saves about `1 lakh per month. Confident of meeting his power needs, he has got his state electricity board connection disconnected.

Operating two 660-MW units at the newly commissioned China Light and Power Plant (CLPP) at Jhajjar has almost become impossible for Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL) as Coal India Limited (CIL) has refused to supply coal to plants commissioned after December 31, 2011.

Well-placed sources said CIL had reportedly refused to sign coal agreements with units commissioned after December 31, 2011. Though the first unit was synchronised on January 11 this year, the second was synchronised in the last week of March.

Producers say move shows CIL's attitude towards meeting fuel supply obligations

In a twist to the unending drama over coal supply, Coal India Ltd (CIL) has refused to supply to power plants commissioned since December 2011. The move is set to stall investment worth Rs 40,000 crore in new power capacity of 8,156 Mw. This includes a 300-Mw unit of Reliance Power’s Rosa power plant in UP and a 660-Mw plant of China Light & Power (CLP) at Jhajjar, Haryana.

Counters DoPT’s Stand Against Inquiry, Cites Violations By Haryana Govt. The Union environment and forests ministry (MoEF) has taken a position countering the Union government’s department of personnel and training (DoPT) and stuck to its demand for a CBI inquiry in the forestry scam cases in Haryana.

With the commissioning of a 660 MW unit of a power plant in Jhajjar, Haryana, the installed capacity in the country has crossed two lakh megawatt mark, according to the Power Ministry.

The project of CLP India -- Mahatma Gandhi Thermal Power Project, Jhajjar – was recently commissioned.

With this the total installed capacity has reached 2,00,287 MW, an official release said. The installed capacity includes 1,32,013 MW capacity in the thermal sector, 38,991 MW in hydro, 4,780 MW in nuclear and 24,503 MW in renewable energy.

About 44.5 lakh out of 2.43 crore consumers will benefit

Extending some relief to lower middle class power consumers aggrieved over the recent tariff hike, the government has announced an additional subsidy of Rs.175 crore to insulate them from any extra burden.

To tide over the power crisis, the Centre has allotted 50 MW of additional power to the state, Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said here on Sunday. Speaking after inaugurating the 400/220 KV substation of the Power Grid Corporation at Ellapully here, Shinde said that it was only three days ago that additional power was allotted to Kerala from the Jhajjar power project in Haryana.

Rohtak, March 28: The mystery disease among cattle continues to rattle cattle owners of Sundana village of the district. Though the fallout of the disease has been reported from a couple of other villages also and the neighboring Jhajjar district, the epicentre of the problem seems to be Sundana village where around 80 head of cattle have perished so far in the past about 10 weeks. As many as 11 animals died in the village on Tuesday.

There are two aspects of the widening gap between demand of coal for power plants and its supply. The first is the sharp increase in project commissioning in the past three years of the current Plan period. The second is the near stagnant coal production. “With the power sector growing at 8 per cent, and coal output at less than 3 per cent, a blackout was simply inevitable,” an executive with a private power firm, whose three projects are badly affected due to want of fuel, said.

The earthquake today that jolted the National Capital and the adjoining NCR region has brought the safety of buildings in and around the capital back into focus. Two other temblors had hit the area in the past six months.

Strong tremors that lasted almost 10 seconds at 1.11 pm today sparked panic among the denizens in Delhi and other parts of north India. No casualties have been reported from the region.