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...
J&K is NHPC’s Power House
India’s hydropower major NHPC has initiated the process of harvesting wind energy near Salal power station-its profit-making 690-MW flagship project in J&K. The idea...
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...
Transparent metering
The PDD is replacing the electricity meters with new ones to stop power theft. Abdul Mohamin reports. The Power Development Department (PDD) is replacing...
No objections
The water disputes between India and Pakistan are becoming more frequent and fierce leading the two nations to international courts. The proposed artificial lake...
Precious water
Post militancy, one of the major issues that crept into public discourse was the exploitation of the water resources initially by the restrictions imposed...
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...
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...
The $ 3000000000 Gamble
India and Pakistan are racing to outdo each other in completing power projects on either side of the LoC on the same river. Finishing...
Lighting up Ladakh
Energy deficient Ladakh region is getting massive government investment in power sector, which will lower the ecologically fragile region’s reliance on polluting...
WATERED DOWN
The dispute over use of Kashmir waters is heating up Indo-Pak relations raking up threats of war and a lot of propaganda. Iftikhar Gilani...
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...
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....
Baglihar slips into NHPC hands
Water abundant but power deficit J&K commissioned its flagship Baglihar project after fighting many ‘wars’ against nature, Pakistan, and a discouraging system. As generation...
A BOOM failing is no good news
In power deficit J&K, successive governments have made good decisions and bad decisions leaving it to successors to make corrections. NC government initiated the...
