Goa to de-privatise power purchase
05 February 2001 15:00 ISTAfter getting its fingers burnt over privatisation of power supply, Goa has now worked out a system to de-privatise the power purchase, reducing the agreement to half of what it had agreed upon. In return, ... READ
Goa to open power bank
03 January 2001 15:01 ISTGoa is planning to experiment the power banking system, which only Tamil Nadu had earlier tried for one year, in order to streamline the private power generation in the state."We will begin the system from ... READ
Goa not for private & nuclear power
22 February 2000 15:02 ISTGoa has decided not to go for private power generation within as well as drawing nuclear power from across the border, both for one reason – the unaffordable price of it.The tiny coastal state is ... READ
HC partially lifts the power ban
08 December 1999 10:07 ISTThe 19-month long ban on new power connections in Goa has finally been lifted by the high court, but only partially, to clear pending applications for agricultural, commercial and industrial purpose.After going through the detailed ... READ
Govt urges high court to lift power ban
16 October 1999 10:07 ISTOver year-long deadlock in the industrial and commercial sector in the tourist state may be removed if the high court now listens positively to the request made by the state to release power, lifting the ... READ
Goa's first private power plant commissioned
05 July 1999 10:08 ISTThe first private power generation plant in Goa, and perhaps sixth in the country, is being commissioned by the Reliance Salgaoncar Power Company Ltd. The next target of the government is to also corporatise the ... READ
Goans favour Govt control over corporatisation
05 March 1999 10:09 ISTSaying no to total sell out of the transmission and distribution of power to the private sector, cross sections of Goa have now unanimously resolved to corporatise the electricity department with private participation but government ... READ
Despite RSPL, we are short of 50 MW
17 February 1999 10:09 ISTGoa expects lifting of the ban on new power connections, imposed by the high court for nearly ten months now, once the state's first mini private power project is commissioned by the month end.While development ... READ
Sixth power policy in four years
30 December 1998 10:10 ISTIt is the sixth power policy in last four years the one-month old Congress government has now planned for Goa, rejecting its own policy adopted while being in power till July this year.The tourist state ... READ
Power policy completes the circle
27 November 1998 10:10 ISTReversing the outgoing coalition government's decision of scrapping the power policies, made by the erstwhile Congress government, seems to be the prime task on the agenda set by newly sworn in Congress government led by ... READ
