India's power producers have set a record for electricity generation as swaths of the world's most populous nation swelters in an intense heat wave, the Ministry of Power said.

By Sethuraman N R NEW DELHI May 26 (Reuters) - State-run Coal India has asked its subsidiaries to ramp up coal supplies to power plants to avoid shortages as the country's power demand hits a record ...

India's power ministry urged careful use of electricity on Friday (May 22), a day after breaking records for power generation ...

India, the world's third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide, is burning more coal as demand for power rises, most of which is coal-fired.

By Sethuraman N R and Praveen Paramasivam NEW DELHI/BENGALURU, May 22 (Reuters) - Some parts of India are grappling with ...

According to the Ministry of Power, the country's daytime peak electricity demand touched a record 270.82 gigawatts (GW) on ...

India faces a dual threat from dangerously hot summers and increasingly sweltering nights, exacerbated by global warming and ...

India has begun commercial operation of its first domestically designed 700-MWe pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) at the Kakrapar nuclear power plant in Gujarat, state-owned Nuclear Power Corp.

India’s record power demand shows how extreme heat is testing the grid while coal remains central despite rapid renewable ...

India’s rise poses a challenge for articulating best practices in the global energy transition, however, as those best practices are different than in other domains, such as global trade. That is, ...

As India embarked on its commercial nuclear power production in 1969, its nuclear power program was conceived to be a closed fuel cycle, to be achieved in three sequential stages. These stages feed ...

‘No power is as costly as no power’ - Homi Jehangir Bhabha, the father of India’s nuclear programme, had once famously said. Several decades later, India’s nuclear energy ambitions have entered a ...