Acme Group has announced that it's on track to get the first half of it's first 10 MW solar thermal power plant online (in Rajasthan) at the beginning of 2010. The plant uses the same technology as in eSolar's newly commissioned plant in California. Acme has active plans for a...

23 Sep 2009Part of India’s growing power demands will soon be met with smart grid technologies that improve efficiency and reliability for businesses and consumers. North Delhi Power Limited (NDPL) on September 22 announced it would become the first major utility in India to realize the performance advantages of an...

Press releaseSeptember 24, 2009 - New Delhi, India - According to our new research report, “Emerging Biofuel Market in India”, growing energy security concerns and booming automobile industry will drive the biofuel demand in India. The country’s ethanol consumption is expected to cross 700 Million gallon mark by 2018.India’s primary...

National Solar Mission – India set to announce the details by November 14th, 2009. The Union government is supposed to launch the National Solar Mission on November 14, 2009 and here are the guidelines from The final draft * Make India a global leader in solar energy and the mission...

September 24, 2009The CLP Group announced recently that it will develop its sixth Indian wind farm, located in Theni in Tamil Nadu.With the 99 MW Theni project, CLP India’s portfolio of committed wind energy investments will grow to approximately 450MW, making CLP one of the largest wind energy developers in...

Arun Majumdar became the first Director of the US Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), an agency tasked with reducing America's reliance on foreign energy supplies, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and improving energy efficiency.Ever since he joined the University of California (UC), Berkeley faculty in 1997, where he...

The renewable energy sector in India attracted investments worth $4.1 billion in 2008, up by 12% over the previous year, according to UNEP’s Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment in 2009. The global investment was $155 billion.To realise the full investment potential in renewables, the government must provide an enabling...

Power demand in the country touched an all-time high of 99,027 MW recently and is poised to top 100,000 MW shortly. The new peak demand marks a year-on-year growth of over 16% in electricity demand. Last year, the peak demand that was met in the country around this time stood...

23 September 2009The Banaras Hindu University (BHU), one of the prestigious educational institutions of the country, is setting set a line of action for environment conservation and sustainable development.The university is going to establish an institute of environment and sustainable development (IESD) with a mission to carry out teaching, research...

24 Sep 2009Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), India’s largest energy explorer, will begin oil production from a cluster of fields in the east coast by the middle of 2010, according to the company. The company has integrated several discoveries in the eastern coast in a hub having about 300...