Kishanganga: United In Loss
They fought over “reasonable hospitality”, confidentiality issues and could not write a joint report to a joint inspection of the two controversial power projects...
Consolidating The Empire
As Kashmir is witnessing unprecedented load shedding, the NHPC is consolidating its empire in the state. With the Uri-II in operation, the hydropower giant’s...
Stephen Schwebel
Last time when a non-Asian used the Jehlum Valley Road was at the peak of so called first Kashmir War. It was Sydney Smith,...
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...
The Mohra Marvel
Horse-carts drove the American turbines as the Afghan, Balti, and Punjabi labour force working under British engineers fought intermittent cholera attacks to create India’s...
Powerless Linemen
The PDD has for long been hiring men on daily wages for the risky maintenance work on electricity transmission lines. Not provided with the...
‘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...
Transformers
Come winter and the power transformers will be in huge demand. Owing to the voltage fluctuations and massive load for lighting and heating, the...
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...
Rattling Ratle
At a time when the return of two NHPC-owned power projects is being debated at the highest level, water-abundant, energy-deficit J&K is offering a...
Innovative bid
Its first impact on ground was chief minister Omar Abdullah filing a defamation suit against PDP leaders Nizamuddin Bhat and spokesman Naem Akhter for...
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...
Intervention in Energy Sector
Decentralized renewable energy systems hold tremendous scope of employment generation and entrepreneurship. A large scale dissemination of renewable energy is critically dependent on public...
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...
Engineering Enigma
The narrow gorge that houses J&K’s most modern dam continuously surprised the people tasked to tame the ferocious Chenab in one of the most...
