‘KPDCL Is One of the Highest Loss-Booking Companies’
Yasin M Choudhary, the Managing Director of Kashmir Power Distribution Company Ltd (KPDCL) told Iqra Akhoon and Tazeem Nazir that smart metering is vital along with improving distribution...
Upper Sindh-I: Completely Indigenous
The indigenously built power station has never stopped working with returns of several times the investment made in constructing the project, making some to...
In Batalik Sector
After travelling through lifeless mountains for around three hours and covering and distance of about 100 kilometres from Kargil town, one reaches a small...
Elusive Power
Salal launched the NHPC, and J&K’s power ambitions in seventies. As successive governments in Srinagar sought its return, an inflexible New Delhi is unmoved...
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...
The Ganderbal Lights
Quite a few machines, having outdated and obsolete technology and no spares and knowledge support, have run for 57 years without interruption. That is...
Station downtown
Located at the centre of the town, Iqbal Mini Hydel Project is the main source of electricity in Kargil district. Prior to Iqbal the...
Kashmir fault line
Kashmir has no access to nuclear energy. It cannot even hope to have one in the given situation. But that does not lessen the...
Submerging A Culture
NHPC’s upcoming Kishanganga power project would displace hundreds, submerge homes and endanger the fragile ecology of Gurez Valley besides putting the culture and future...
Career in Energy Audit and Energy Management
Audit means a methodical examination and review. Energy audit therefore means an examination of a system or utility for best practices in energy utilization....
Kishanganga: Chronology Of A Case (1)
This is how the case was built by India and Pakistan in the International Court of Arbitration at the Hague, Netherlands
May 17, 2010
Pakistan moves...
NHPC In Focus
India’s hydropower giant NHPC is again under spotlight. While the International Court of Arbitration (ICA) at the Hague has barred it to raise any...
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...
Powerlessly Energetic Era
Rationing and frequent outages is order of the day in Kashmir valley but these do not define the energy futures J&K is limping towards,...
Lower Jhelum: Before It Roars
After traversing most of Kashmir, the Jhelum leaves the Vale generating the cheapest bulk energy at Gantamula, reports Sameer Yasir
The Lower Jhelum Hydel Power...
