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Governance

Solar sees some success in Bengaluru, even as BESCOM fails to meet solar rooftop targets

November 20, 2019 Revathi Siva Kumar

Organisations like BIAL and Bangalore University are now meeting a large part of their energy needs from solar power. But not enough citizens have applied for rooftop solar installation under BESCOM schemes

Civic

Faulty streetlights in your neighbourhood? Here’s how to do a ‘streetlight survey’ and get BBMP to act

August 25, 2019 Rajkumar Dugar

Recently, the residents of Vasanth Nagar surveyed all 439 streetlights in their neighbourhood, and identified faulty lights. Once they presented their data, BBMP was forced to start repair works. Here’s how you too can do a streetlight survey, and get BBMP to act

Governance

Study explores best practices to save electricity in Bengaluru’s apartments

January 24, 2019 Sumedha Malaviya

Electricity alone contributes up to a quarter of the maintenance charges in apartments. Ten apartments participated in a study which came up with the list of interventions to reduce electricity usage.

Civic

Bengaluru Buzz: Trader licences revoked, SPV project pushed and 1000 transformers uprooted

July 28, 2018 News Desk

Your chance to catch up on news that matters: Here’s a quick wrap of some important headlines from your city over the week gone by.

Governance

Have STP and fire hydrant in your apartment? This is what BESCOM can charge

July 25, 2018 Seema Prasad

The recent case where BESCOM sought to penalise an apartment complex for paying domestic tariff charges despite use of STPs and fire hydrants has finally been resolved. Here’s all that you should know about the controversy and its resolution, so that you are not wrongly charged in future.

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Infrastructure

How to save electricity intelligently and smartly

July 11, 2016 Sunil Sood

Looking to reduce your BESCOM bills? Do it smartly. This guide is for you.

Commute

Dear city leaders: something is rotting in the city of Bengaluru

November 16, 2015 Meera K

Potholed roads, miserable traffic, stinking garbage all around, scares of epidemics, lakes spewing toxic foam. What more do we need? Request to all politicians: work with us or go hibernate.

Infrastructure

Power holidays for industries under BESCOM limits: Good or bad?

November 6, 2015 Akshatha M

Power crisis in the state has forced BESCOM to declare power holidays for industrial areas. While industries lying in industrial areas seem to be functioning well, this seems to be a death stroke for the small and medium industries that operate out of non-industrial, residential areas.

Infrastructure

Here’s how Bengaluru’s electricity crisis can be averted

February 22, 2015 Raman Muthuswamy

Price hike is not the only solution to recover losses of power-producing agencies in Bengaluru and Karnataka. Why not produce more electricity to meet demand?

Infrastructure

If you want to install rooftop solar power station, this is for you!

November 21, 2014 News Desk

This workshop will help you identify right system suited to your use. Queries will be answered by the experts. This is a must-go workshop if you want to make best use of solar energy!

Infrastructure

CM avare, Let’s change the game of power distribution in Bangalore!

October 8, 2014 Muralidhar Rao

Delhi follows a public-private partnership power supply model, with 49% stake for the government. And it is efficient. Can Bangalore go this way?

Infrastructure

Bangalore’s electricity spend – how can we make it judicious?

June 3, 2013 News Desk

BESCOM Managing director Manivannan explains what is power, what causes power cuts and how everyone can contribute so that there is less power cut.

Governance

Better Water, Power Management for Bangalore: JD(S)

April 14, 2013 Navya P K

Citizen Matters, in an effort to feel the pulse of the Janata Dal (Secular), spoke to M S Narayan Rao, who is currently the Bangalore city President of JD(S). He also heads the Bangalore manifesto drafting committee of the JD(S).

Infrastructure

Children ideate to regenerate electricity

February 25, 2013 Reshma Arvind

The “Let’s Save a Billion Watts” campaign is educating children throughout India to save energy. Here’s how members of civic clubs in various city schools are actively pursuing this initiative in their homes and outside.

Civic

In the offing: Plans to produce solar power in Bangalore homes

January 7, 2013 Sanjay Vijayaraghavan

Homes fitted with solar panels can sell excess energy to Bescom. Interested citizens and Bescom are discussing how to go about it.

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