NEW DELHI: The S&P BSE Power index was trading higher with most of its components in the green in Thursday's afternoon session.

Shares of CG Power and Industrial Solutions (up 10.92 per cent), Suzlon Energy (up 4.45 per cent), Siemens (up 3.65 per cent) and Bharat Heavy Electricals (up 2.39 per cent) were the top performers in the index.

Thermax (up 1.99 per cent), KEC International (up 1.61 per cent), NHPC (up 1.04 per cent) and ABB India (up 0.89 per cent) too were trading higher.

The S&P BSE Power index was trading 0.28 per cent up at 1829.63 around 02:19 pm.

Benchmark NSE Nifty50 index was up 37.40 points at 11,099.85 while the BSE Sensex was up 132.97 points at 37,108.20.

Among the 50 stocks in the Nifty index, 35 were trading in the green, while 15 were in the red.

Shares of Reliance Power, Reliance Communications, Reliance Infra, Reliance Capital, Vodafone Idea, Suzlon Energy, YES Bank, JP Associates, Ashok Leyland, DHFL, Vakrangee, Adani Power, PC Jeweller, Dish TV India, PNB, SBI and South Indian Bank were among the most traded shares on the NSE.