Chennai, Aug 22 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company (Tangedco) is to segregate Agricultural power lines across the state to reduce the power line losses. According to officials of Tangedco, its power line losses are currently pegged at 13.5%. There are at present 1686 feeders from which power is supplied to agricultural connections, […]
Chennai, Aug 20 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company(Tangedco), the electricity provider of the state will be floating a tender within a fortnight to mine coal from the Chandrabilla coal block, Angul district, Odisha. It may be noted that the Union government had allocated the Chandrabilla coal block to Tamil Nadu in 2016. However, […]
Chennai, Aug 9 (BPNS) The MSME units of Tamil Nadu and the Powerloom units have strongly objected to the proposed power tariff hike in the state. The Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission has already requested the public to vent their opinion regarding the proposal submitted by the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company (Tangedco). R. […]
Chennai, Aug 9 (BPNS) The dyeing units of Tiruppur have called for a fifty percent subsidy for power supply to Common Effluent Plants as the state power utility Tangedco has proposed a revision in power tariff charges. The district has 360 dyeing units with 60 large units having Individual Effluent Treatment Plants (IETP) and the […]
Chennai, Aug 7 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) will conduct a public hearing in Chennai on August 22, regarding the hike in power tariff proposed by the power utility, Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company (Tangedco). The TNERC in a statement on Sunday said that the hearing will be conducted at Coimbatore on […]
Chennai, Aug 4 (BPNS) The heavy southwest monsoon in the Western Ghats and constant inflow of water from reservoirs in Karnataka have led to dams in Tamil Nadu gaining full capacity. It is to be noted that in the first week of July an average of 18 million units of electricity were generated. However heavy […]
Chennai, Aug 2 (BPNS) The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company (Tangedco) will submit a report on the electrocution deaths of wild elephants and other wildlife to the Madras High Court before September 5. A high-level meeting of the Tangedco on Monday met for submitting details to the court after a division bench of the […]
Chennai, July 29 (BPNS) The Green power producers of Tamil Nadu are sore as the Tamil Nadu Distribution and Generation Company (Tangedco) has submitted a proposal to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission to raise the transmission charges. According to the proposal submitted by Tangedco, the charges per unit for transmission will be increased to […]
Chennai, July 25 (BPNS) Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Company (Tangedco) has recently cautioned public to be cautious about fraudulent messages stating that their connection would be disconnected and to contact certain numbers. However, in the past two months, two people have lost money to phishing in the name of Electricity bills. On June 7, a […]
Chennai, July 19 (BPNS) The power charges in Tamil Nadu are in for a hike with the state electricity board submitting the proposed rates to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) for clearing the proposal. The hike in power charges in the state is being implemented after 2011 for the first time. State power […]
