Arunima Bharadwaj

As of May 31, 32 units with 43.36 GW capacity were under construction. Another 21.38 GW of capacity remained stranded, with work on hold or unlikely to be commissioned, data from Central Electricity Authority shows.

India added 1.6 gigawatt (GW) of thermal capacity till May 31, 22 percent of its targeted 7.3 GW for the fiscal year 2026-27, the latest data from the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) showed.

The Chandikhol project approved by the Cabinet in 2021 had been facing delays for over five years due to land acquisition hurdles. Officials said that land acquisition is now completed and contracts have been awarded for the boundary wall.

The government is accelerating work on its long-delayed 4 million tonne strategic crude oil reserve (SPR) at Chandikhol, Odisha, after resolving

India's electricity grid recorded a significant milestone on July 6 with clean energy sources accounting for more than 50 percent of the country's

The roll out of E25 (25% ethanol and 75% petrol) may be pushed back, as testing of higher blends is on, Grain Ethanol Manufacturers Association president CK Jain tells Moneycontrol

As per the official data, for the second consecutive year, clean energy sources, including renewables, hydropower and nuclear, met 50.02% of the country’s total demand of 221.5 GW at 11:46 am on July 6.

While BPCL has officially confirmed that it has initiated supply talks with Tehran, it has not disclosed any crude purchase so far. Sources,however, say the state-run fuel retailer did place orders for Iranian crude

Indian refiners are facing fresh uncertainty over plans to resume purchases of Iranian oil after the US on July 7 revoked sanctions relief that had

The government says that while countries like Brazil and the US have used ethanol blends for decades, India built on two decades of domestic policy reforms and global learning to compress the implementation timeline.