...State Board Names State | Utility | Bihar | Bihar State Electricity Board | Chhattisgarh | http://www.cseb.gov.in | Gujarat | Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd. | Himachal Pradesh | Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board | Jharkhand | Jharkhand State Electricity Board | Kerala | Kerala State Electricity Board | Maharashtra | Maharashtra Vidyut Vitran Nigam Ltd. | Meghalaya | Meghalaya State Electricity Board | Punjab | Punjab State Electricity Board | Tamil Nadu | Tamil Nadu Electricity Board | Tripura | Tripura State Electricity Co-operation Ltd. | Uttaranchal | Uttaranchal Power Corporation Ltd. | West Bengal | West Bengal State Electricity Board | Haryana | http://www.hvpn.gov.in | Manipur | http://www.manipurpower.nic.in | Orissa | http://orissagov.nic.in | Rajasthan | http://www.rajenergy.com/transco.htm | Sikkim | http://sikkimpower.nic.in | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Distribution Companies Andhra Pradesh | Eastern Power Distribution Company of A.P. Ltd. Central Power Distribution Company of A.P. Ltd. Southern Power Distribution Company of A.P. Ltd. Northern Power Distribution Company of A.P. Ltd. | Assam | Upper Assam Distribution Company Ltd Central and Lower Assam Distribution Company Ltd. | Delhi | BSES...
Words: 1104 - Pages: 5
... 8 1. Introduction Eskom Holdings Limited is a household name which was established in 1923. This state-owned utility is responsible for generating, transmitting and distributing electricity to industrial, commercial, agricultural, mining and residential customers (Musana, et al., 2012). Modern industry is impossible without it and it is the most important new technology of the 20th Century (Kenny, 2015). Since electricity has been a driver of our country’s development over the past century, Eskom’s overall impact on South Africa is significant. The Eskom Factor Report of 2011 states that Eskom has a great responsibility towards our economy, society and environment. It will continue to be a key enabler for economic growth and job creation. Over the last few years South Africa has experienced substantial growth, facing a broad range of development issues, including Eskom’s reliable supply of electricity and environmental degradation (Eskom., 2011). South Africa’s electricity supply presents a national crisis, which Eskom is almost entirely responsible for (Kenny, 2015). This leaves us with the threat of load shedding and blackouts every month. 2. The Eskom crisis From 1923 until 1994 Eskom had one task; to make sure South Africa had enough electricity. At that time engineers were in charged and were appointed on merit and nothing else. Eskom was entirely self-financing (Kenny,...
Words: 2328 - Pages: 10
... Gunjan Modi (10078) Sarita G. Krishnan (10103) GROUP B2 : NAPOLEON | TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. HISTORY 3 1.1 Power Generation and Transmission in Karnataka State 3 1.2 Re-structuring of KEB into KPTCL 4 2. VISION AND MISSION 5 2.1 Vision 5 2.2 Mission 5 3. ENVIRONMENT ANALYSIS 6 3.1 Political situation in Karnataka 6 3.2 Economic situation in Karnataka 6 3.3 Social situation in Karnataka 7 3.4 Technological innovations in power sector 7 4. INDUSTRY ANALYSIS 9 4.1 Current Scenario 9 4.2 Challenges and Risks 9 5. SWOT ANALYSIS of KPTCL 11 5.1 Strengths 11 5.2 Weaknesses: 11 5.3 Opportunities 12 5.4 Threats 12 6. KPTCL’s CURRENT SITUATION 13 6.1 Demand-Supply Status 13 6.2 Present Karnataka State Power Scenario 14 6.3 Financial Position of ESCOMS 15 6.4 Energy Sufficiency – Capacity Addition 15 7. DELIVERABLES FOR THE FULL REPORT 16 KARNATAKA POWER TRANSMISSION CORPORATION LIMITED (KPTCL) 1. HISTORY 1.1 Power Generation and Transmission in Karnataka State The erstwhile Mysore State had the enviable and glorious position of establishing the first major hydro-electric generating station at Shivasamudram as early as 1902 for commercial operation. The art at that time was still in its infancy, even in the advanced countries. The longest transmission line, at the highest voltage in the world, was constructed to meet the power needs of mining operations at Kolar Gold Fields...
Words: 3057 - Pages: 13
...Introduction Fortis Inc., a company with interests in various North American electric utilities, is proposing to build the Chalillo dam on the Macal River in Belize, Central America. The dam would contribute to the economic development of the country by meeting the increasing demand from industry and consumers for electricity. The company believes that the dam is the most feasible, reliable, and cheap supply of electricity. Environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) oppose the project because of the destruction of wild animal and plant life and the adverse downstream impact, and allege that there are more viable and cost-effective sources. Through a strategic analysis of the issues surrounding the case, we will analyze each alternative to present the best possible recommendation to Fortis Inc. Issues The most prominent issue faced by Fortis Inc. with respect to the Chalillo project is the potential environmental effects. A number of groups are opposed to the project due to the location, on a river where a rare ecosystem exists. The project would build a dam on the river, regulating the flow of the river, preventing flooding and providing a more consistent source of water. While this certainly is a benefit to the individuals residing downstream of the proposed site, it does cause a disruption in the natural environmental cycle. The area that would be impacted was host to a rare and discrete floral floodplain habitat. The system relied on the seasonal flooding and...
Words: 3555 - Pages: 15
...general. The vision should be something that the management and the employees can identify with. Based on the existing vision statement, the company may have difficulty in drawing corporate strategies and work objectives. The revised MERALCO vision statement clearly identifies what the company wants to become and that is to be a world-class distribution utility company and total energy solution provider of choice. Although MERALCO is foremost a distribution utility, it does not negate the fact that it is also an energy solution provider that provides more services other than electricity distribution. MERALCO Mission statement To provide our customers the best value in energy, products and services. Revised MERALCO Mission statement “A total energy solution provider that continually improves the lives of more Filipinos by efficiently delivering safe, adequate and continuous electricity supply” The mission of the company should clearly identify the business of the organization. The MERALCO mission shall be analyzed based on the ten mission statement components....
Words: 1159 - Pages: 5
...Why retail electricity competition is bad for small consumers: British experience Presentation to the international conference Restoring Just and Reasonable Electricity Rates Washington DC: 28-29 September 2002 Steve Thomas Senior Research Fellow Public Service International Research Unit (PSIRU) School of Computing and Mathematics University of Greenwich 30 Park Row London SE10 9LS UK Tel: 44 208 331 9056 Fax: 44 208 331 8665 Email: Stephen.thomas@gre.ac.uk Why retail electricity competition is bad for small consumers: British experience 1. Introduction For most products, to suggest consumers would be better off served by a regulated monopoly than by a competitive market would be a heresy, but for electricity, experience in Britain suggests that this would indeed be the case. There are four main reasons for this: • Competition is not a ‘free good’. Introducing competition imposes a range of additional costs that must be paid by consumers. In the case of electricity, these costs are very high and it is far from clear that the benefits will outweigh them; • Retail electricity competition will result in a transfer of costs from large to small consumers because large consumers have the incentive, negotiating skill and resources to get the best deal from the market; • Within small consumers, it will be the poorest consumers that do worst because competing retail suppliers will target rich consumers...
Words: 4615 - Pages: 19
... Northern States Power Company of Minnesota is direct subsidiary of Xcel Energy Inc. It is an operating utility engaged in transmission, distribution, generation, and sale of electricity. This company is also engaged in the purchase, generation, and sale of natural gas to retail customers. Customers in this region include Minnesota and South Dakota and provide electric service to 1.4 million customers and gas utility to .5 million customers. Northern States Power Company of Wisconsin is also a direct subsidiary of Xcel Energy Inc. This operating company is engaged in transmission, distribution, generation, and the sale of electricity to more than 248,000 people in northwestern Wisconsin and a portion of the upper peninsula of Michigan. It provides natural gas to over 104,000 in that region. Public Service Company of Colorado is a direct subsidiary of Xcel Energy Inc. It is an operating utility and is engaged in transmission, distribution, generation and sale of electricity. It provides electricity to 1.4 million and natural gas to 1.3 million customers in Colorado. Southwestern Public Service Company is a direct subsidiary of Xcel Energy Inc. It is also an operating utility engaged in transmission, distribution, generation and sale of electricity. This company provides electricity to 393,000 customers in areas of Texas and New Mexico. Xcel Energy Services Inc. is a direct subsidiary of Xcel Energy Inc. It provides various administrative, managerial,...
Words: 1114 - Pages: 5
...Best Western enters Myanmar Best Western International (BWI), the U.S.-based global hotel chain, has opened its first hotel in Myanmar, the Best Western Green Hill Hotel in Yangon, company sources say. BWI becomes the first U.S. hotel company to establish a presence in Myanmar, following the recent political and economic reforms enacted by the Thein Sein administration that have drawn foreign investors’ interest. The hotel is situated in the heart of Yangon, just 15 minutes’ drive from the Shwedagon Pagoda. It has 189 air-conditioned rooms featuring 32-inch flat-screen televisions with international satellite channels, bathrooms with bathtubs and showers, and complimentary Wi-Fi. It also offers three meeting rooms offering more than 200 square metres of functioning space for business people. There is also a restaurant that serves a selection of Chinese, Asian and international cuisine. “The launch of Best Western International’s first hotel in Myanmar means the company now has a presence in nine ASEAN countries. Best Western International is planning to announce further developments in Myanmar in the near future,” BWI said in a statement. Next year the company will launch its first hotel in the country’s capital, Nay Pyi Taw, the statement said. “There is no doubt that Myanmar is one of the world’s hottest hotel markets at present, with a major increase in new hotel supply needed to cater for a huge influx of guests. So it is vital that hotel owners in the...
Words: 2373 - Pages: 10
...CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background to the Study Energy is crucial to any activity. It is difficult to imagine any activity that will not require some form of energy to execute. Energy, presents itself in diverse forms for the functioning of various machinery. Energy sources all around the world are crucial for production; a relation can thus be drawn between productivity levels and energy consumption. Renewable energy supply form solar, wind, geothermal, bio energy, hydropower, ocean, hydrogen and fuel Cells as well as green power are vital to our survival as a human race. These sources of energy are important because, they are clean and pose little danger to our environment than energy from fossil fuel. Additionally renewable energy...
Words: 7211 - Pages: 29
...The economic system that is best suited for handling a crisis of epic proportions, and tragic aftermaths would be I believe a Socialism system. The reasoning I have behind this system is that a socialist system has emergency management systems in place as quickly as the disaster happen. Take FEMA and The Red Cross for examples these companies have quickly taken charge and set up areas in disaster locations to distribute medical needs, food, water, and many other necessities as needed. These groups also establish areas of shelter and safety for many people who otherwise have no other place to be. If our system wasn’t a socialism system then would we have all of the resources available to us as needed? The emergency responders are all paid by the government, which I believe has a lot to do with how much help is truly available when needed. If we didn’t have the economic system in place that we have would these individuals be willing to risk everything to help in a disaster area? Would we have the resources available to offer the necessities that people in the disaster need? I don’t believe so, that is why I believe the socialism system is the best in this case. I think the socialist system would be the best for emergency circumstances much like the earthquake of Haiti in 2010. Here again we have the government that sends out the help of FEMA so that the individuals affected in Haiti have a way to gain access to the everyday necessities of food, water. Etc. There are multiple...
Words: 584 - Pages: 3
...This page will help you practise for the TOEFL reading test. This section has a reading passage about the development of language and grammar and 13 questions. Think carefully before you select an answer. Your answer is scored on the first click! This test is part 1 of a complete TOEFL test. Click here to do part 2. Questions 1-10 Read the passage. Then answer the questions below. After you have answered the first 10 questions you will answer a 'Summary Question'. The Creators of Grammar No student of a foreign language needs to be told that grammar is complex. By changing word sequences and by adding a range of auxiliary verbs and suffixes, we are able to communicate tiny variations in meaning. We can turn a statement into a question, state whether an action has taken place or is soon to take place, and perform many other word tricks to convey subtle differences in meaning. Nor is this complexity inherent to the English language. All languages, even those of so-called 'primitive' tribes have clever grammatical components. The Cherokee pronoun system, for example, can distinguish between 'you and I', 'several other people and I' and 'you, another person and I'. In English, all these meanings are summed up in the one, crude pronoun 'we'. Grammar is universal and plays a part in every language, no matter how widespread it is. So the question which has baffled many linguists is - who created grammar? At first, it would appear that this question is impossible to...
Words: 2318 - Pages: 10
...AES-Telasi: Power Trip or Power Play? (A) It would take too long to explain why there was very little electricity and no heat in Tbilisi in the winter months….The reasons were so intertwined with Georgian networks of “patronage,”, black hole, patchwork, and jerry-rig that it was impossible to separate sabotage (a strange and sudden fire at Gardabani, the country’s only thermal power station) from corruption (the bungling and greedy idiots as SakEnergo, the state energy concern) from non-payment (less than 30 percent of the population in Tbilisi paid their electricity bills; Georgia owed Russia millions in electricity back debts) from theft (part of the copper transmission line between Armenia and Georgia was nicked one winter), from black clan economics (someone had the kerosene trade sewn up; it was in someone’s interest to make sure there was no cheap clean alternative) from incompetence (the next winter the pride of Gardabani’s brand new gleaming Unit 10, repaired with sackfuls of German money, broke down because the engineer on duty didn’t know what to do when a red light on the computerized panel started to blink unexpectedly) from infrastructure deterioration (once the whole of eastern Georgia went black as the 500 kW line from the Enguri hydro plant collapsed under the weight of what one commentator described as “pre-election” abuse) from the oft-repeated worn excuse: “The Soviet Union collapsed; there was a civil war.” —Wendell Steavenson (2002), Stories...
Words: 9283 - Pages: 38
...AES-Telasi: Power Trip or Power Play? (A) It would take too long to explain why there was very little electricity and no heat in Tbilisi in the winter months….The reasons were so intertwined with Georgian networks of “patronage,”, black hole, patchwork, and jerry-rig that it was impossible to separate sabotage (a strange and sudden fire at Gardabani, the country’s only thermal power station) from corruption (the bungling and greedy idiots as SakEnergo, the state energy concern) from non-payment (less than 30 percent of the population in Tbilisi paid their electricity bills; Georgia owed Russia millions in electricity back debts) from theft (part of the copper transmission line between Armenia and Georgia was nicked one winter), from black clan economics (someone had the kerosene trade sewn up; it was in someone’s interest to make sure there was no cheap clean alternative) from incompetence (the next winter the pride of Gardabani’s brand new gleaming Unit 10, repaired with sackfuls of German money, broke down because the engineer on duty didn’t know what to do when a red light on the computerized panel started to blink unexpectedly) from infrastructure deterioration (once the whole of eastern Georgia went black as the 500 kW line from the Enguri hydro plant collapsed under the weight of what one commentator described as “pre-election” abuse) from the oft-repeated worn excuse: “The Soviet Union collapsed; there was a civil war.” —Wendell Steavenson (2002), Stories I Stole (Grove...
Words: 9256 - Pages: 38
...was not in the best interests if Germany society. This is reflected in legislation. However, if a significant proportion of Germany’s electricity supply is sourced from France – in particular, from nuclear power stations that are situated close to the German border – are there moral issues, or is this simply a cruel irony? Answer: By giving up nuclear power at this period of time would mean that Germany would have to rely heavily on non-renewable resources, such as coal, and on buying electricity from France. The electricity produced by France is mostly from their nuclear power stations, which are situated close to the German border. If we look back at the Chernobyl disaster, not only parts of Ukraine were affected but many parts of Belarus were affected too. So, if there happened to be a nuclear station accident in France, then, Germany would be affected too. Therefore, in my opinion, Germany has made the decision to quit from nuclear power too early as mentioned by the president of Germany, Ralf Gueldner, "A quick and rash exit from German nuclear power would raise costs for the whole economy, make us miss climate goals, raise our reliance on fossil fuels and make our power supply less secure, meaning more power imports and problems with network stability," (Pidd, 2011). The operating standards in French nuclear power stations are not necessarily those that would apply in Germany. Is there an issue here? Are there any other issues – eg, security of supply? Answer: Nuclear...
Words: 339 - Pages: 2
...ELECTRICITY IN NIGERIA The problem is not new. Nigeria's power supply has been stagnant for 30 years. During the tumultuous 1990s there was no investment despite surging demand. Since then, generation capacity has risen by half but distribution is so dysfunctional that actual supply has remained flat. One result is a laughably small manufacturing sector, about 4% of GDP. There have been reform attempts in the past. The Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN), the monopoly supplier, is known to consumers as Please Have Candle Nearby. Five years ago it replaced the National Electric Power Authority (NEPA), nicknamed Never Expect Power Again. Mischarging and other sins continued. “I just got a bill for the last four months but had no lights for three,” says a doctor 20 miles (32km) outside the capital, Abuja. To survive, many Nigerians have their own power plants, creating the world's highest concentration of small-scale generators. Two-thirds of all electricity is produced in basements and backyards, at a cost of $13 billion a year. Generator merchants say the government is their best client. Some have set up steel plants to keep up with demand. One has 3,000 workers assembling the grunting machines. All this could change if the privatisation scheme succeeds. It aims to raise $3.5 billion a year and boost the power supply 13-fold over a decade. The government is offering to guarantee some bank loans and may cap the interest at 7%. At a recent conference in Abuja Mr Jonathan wooed...
Words: 2177 - Pages: 9
