A Warm Business
With power load shedding a routine in water-abundant Kashmir, the people still require alternatives to keep their homes well-lit and warm. This is offering...
Earning Margins
The thumb rule in J&K is that intervention in the policy framework triggers pressures from vested interests within and outside the government. Sometimes, they...
A Crisis In The Making
Delhi’s has announced a new policy on distribution of LPG cylinders which was implemented by the J&K government without protest. With approaching winters in...
Kashmir’s First Private Power Producer
Muddasar Mir did his MBA from Fordham University in New York in 2003 and flew back to take over the Magpie Hydel Construction Operation...
Energy’s Newest Addresses
J&K state-owned profit-earning Power Development Corporation is awarding five projects to independent power producers, two of them state subjects, to add 131 MW to...
Procurement bias hits Valley units
With the PDD procurement wing stationed permanently in Jammu, Valley based electric equipment units have faced hurdles. Now before the wing could be shifted...
Shift The Mindset
Directly involved in power management in J&K since 2002, J&K’s Finance Minister Dr Haseeb A Drabu has restored dichotomy in state budgeting, separating power...
Roshni Rackets Darken Energy Futures
Conceived by Abdul Rahim Rather to light up the state and its resources, the Roshni Scheme had a darkened delivery by Ghulam Nabi Azad....
Energy Beyond Water
Mankind is drawing energy from various sources. J&K, though belatedly, is progressing on the thermal and geothermal energy fronts. A Kashmir Life report
Solar and...
Dwelling in darkness
Again, people used to loose-talk will rediscover ‘kickbacks’ to hound the government. But chief minister Omar Abdullah can accept the court verdict and allow...
For Eternal Sleep
As the network of low and high power transmission lines increased over the years, people cannot live under them. These parcels of land, however,...
The Big Brother
Takeover of Salal launched the NHPC. Three decades after, its four operational projects have a cumulative installed capacity of 1680 MW. Of the five...
Bloody Makeover
Three precious lives were lost to electrocution in Srinagar city, two of them while painting the electric poles, reports Syed Shadab Ali Gillani
The city...
Powerful Decisions
Last week, J&K government’s decision-making in power sector created lot of news. But one decision envisaging non entertaining lot of doles by Delhi in...
Trading Energy
J&K might live in energy misery for some more years but an emphasis over self-sufficiency and a sound potential has unlocked minds and opened...
