Bangalore : The State Government on Monday announced two hours of scheduled load-shedding in urban areas, including Bangalore and Mysore and 6 hours in rural pockets with immediate effect. Addressing the media here yesterday, Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar said the move is on account of the shortfall in power generation by various companies to the […]

Bangalore: Reservoirs in the State may have enough water to meet the power requirements for the next six months but electricity supply companies (Escoms) have resorted to unscheduled load-shedding. Reason? The Congress government wants to ensure there is not much power disruption during the summer when Lok Sabha elections will be held. There have been […]

Mangalore : Claiming that there was no problem with power supply in the district, Mangalore Electric Supply Company (Mescom) Managing Director S. Sumanth said the current supply to the company was sufficient to meet the demands in the coming months. During the “meet the press” in Mangalore on Tuesday, Mr. Sumanth said: “Barring minor problems […]

Bangalore: The 220 MW electric power flow from Koodumkulam plant in Tamil Nadu has not reached over borders, said Shobha Karandlaje, Minister for Power, while telling media people on Saturday that there was an acute shortage of electricity in the state. She accused the Centre of (the well known adage) step-motherly treatment towards Karnataka, by […]