Bathinda, a district in Punjab is home for two thermal power plants. Recently, the district groundwater has been contaminated with high concentration of uranium. Even after reverse osmosis process, to make the water clean, the water is not potable. Nearly 107 people are found to be affected by cancer and...

Johnson Controls India which offers products and services that optimize energy use and improve comfort and security for automobiles, buildings etc, recently conducted a survey on energy efficiency in India and North America. About 94% of Indian and 93 % of North Americans considered making energy efficiency a priority for...

20 Jun, 2009Indian government is planning to open up coal mining to private sectors without restriction of captive use and expected to invest Rs 118,000 crore for increasing production to 1,061 million tonnes a year by 2025. An estimated Rs 95,000 crore investment in opencast mining and Rs 23,000 crore...

The event, India Energy Exhibition to be held from 13 to 15 November, 2009 Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregaon, Mumbai, India will provide an ideal platform for the players in the Energy industry to showcase the latest cutting edge technology. The event will act as a common platform in bringing technology...

June 2, 2009India opens its first DBT-ICT Center for Bioscience Energy to develop technologies that will increase biomass yield per hectare and produce both gas and liquid biofuels from non-fodder agricultural residue. The institute is partnering with other universities and international industries to lessen India’s dependence on petroleum fuels and...

Jan 18, 2009Delhi College of Engineering organized an international conference with an aim assimilate researchers experience and to gain a better understanding of the metrological needs with respect to technical and socio- economic issues, to support consistent quality production and to identify challenges to be met in the near future.Source

In order supply fuel to the exploding automotive industry in Asia, Inergy Automotive Systems, world leader in fuel systems is building two new fuel systems plant: one in the Beijing region, China, and one in the Chennai region, India. . The Beijing factory will serve a production plant operated by...

May 28, 2009American Superconductor (AMSC), a leading energy technologies company has licensed its proprietary 2 MW wind turbine design to Inox Wind Limited, part of India’s Inox Group of Companies. This is the 2nd licensing deal for AMSC in India who forged a 1.65MW deal with Ghodawat Industries last yearInox...

June 21, 2009Neyveli Lignite Corp (NLC) is planning to increase its power generation capacity to 10,000 MW by the end of 12th plan period at an investment of Rs.40,000 crore by entering into hydro, wind and nuclear power sectors. It has planned to set up a 1,000-MW hydel power project...

March 2009 news itemReliance Life Sciences (RLS) announced plans to build crushing and extraction facilities to produce more than one lakh metric tons (100,000 metric tons, or 110,231 tons) of biofuels a year.RLS currently produces 6,500 MT of biodiesel per year at a pilot project at Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh...