80 percent of electricity supply in India comes from coal plants which are old, inefficient and are emitting harmful gases. In order to upgrade these coal power plants and reduce harmful gas emission, the World Bank will extend a $180-million (Rs.900-crore) loan to India. In addition, to improve power production,...

An excellent analysis of the alternative energy scenario and why India needs to speed up the use of renewable energy resources.

According to United Nation, about seven out of every 10 households in rural India have no access to electricity and they use harmful energy sources like kerosene to meet their energy needs. These household are the potential market for renewable energy such as solar power but many of these households...

Sulabh International is a social service organization, in New Dehli, working in the sanitation sector. The NGO’s founder Bindeshwar Pathak was honored by the Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization at the United Nations headquarters in New York for developing low cost toilet technology to produce energy out of human excreta.Pathak has...

14 Jun 2009Flexible power plants are said to have more advantages than setting up standard large scale power plants.The 10 flexible power plants of 200 MW capacity can be set up in one to two years, compared to six to seven years for 2,000 MW UMPP power plants. Since flexible...

A study on Network Power Downtime, an analysis of the impact of downtime in corporate India due to high occurrence of power outages, was conducted by the Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) and Emerson Network Power (India). The study revealed that India Inc lost Rs. 43,205 crores in 2008-09;...

Jun 18, 2009India's Ratan Tata, Mexico's Carlos Slim, other business tycoons and executives from nongovernmental organizations, form U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s advisory group on climate change. The group will advise the secretary-general in conference to be held in Copenhagen in December. The group will meet every two months and to...

17 June 2009 Investment, Innovation and Research Alliance(IIRA), a German technology based resource organization which facilitates and supports the education, research and innovation, under the cooperation project between the Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology (IWF) and The Institute of Joining and Welding Technique (IFS) will launch of a...

June 12, 2009Shriram EPC, the Chennai-based company involved in turnkey projects in the renewable energy, water & sewer treatment and metallurgy spaces, is looking at manufacturing nearly 250 wind turbine generators (WTGs) this fiscal through its joint venture with Italian firm Leitner Technologies. Shriram Leitwind is a 51:49 JV.Nearly Rs...

Indian Wind Power Association (IWPA) urged the Centre and Power Ministry to formulate a uniform long-term national wind energy policy to make sale of wind power from one state to another easily affordable by having a uniform intra-state and inter-state transfer policy.The association also wanted the government. to insist utilities...