Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is taking the lead to make Indian companies realize the consequences of failing to be with world communities with clean technologies. It has started Godrej Green Business Centre to help the smaller companies. Site link

Tata AutoComp through a joint venture with a Japanese company GS Yuasa International manufactures green batteries using a unique composition of calcium-calcium technology replacing traditionally used hazardous antimony with calcium alloy. The technology minimizes water loss and also reduces the battery water evaporation improving thereby the battery life as well...

Oilex Australia, the operator of the Cambay basin block, is leaving no stone unturned to optimize productivity in the Gujarat acreage. Oilex sources have revealed that a 30-year old well, the Cambay-57, was recently re-entered to evaluate the Miocene Basal Sands (MBS). Small amounts of oil, along with formation water,...

And here's some good news on the solar energy front. An abandoned thermal power plant in Asansol, West Bengal has been converted into a mega solar power generating station. The 2-MW project marks the first time in India that a solar project has crossed the megawatt threshold and is poised...

So who says Indian government doesn't care about climate change? Oh well, we might have said development was more important to India than climate change, but that was a few days ago. Now the government thinks it should bat for climate change. Read this:"The government has completed a blueprint to...

TERI with the support from Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Government of India, has developed a bacterial product known as ‘Oilzapper’ to clean up oil spills and treats hazardous oily sludge generated unavoidably by Oil Industry.Oil India has taken a lead to clean up the oil spills in Assam and has...

India's first indigenously designed fast breeder reactor, which is expected to start functioning at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu by 2010 and generate 500 MW of electricity, is headed for another milestone. The prototype fast breeder reactor (PFBR) will see a major achievement when its main vessel is lowered into the...

After reaching a peak growth of 1742 MW during 2006-07, the annual capacity additions of wind power in India have been declining in the last two years, K Kastoorirangaian, newly elected Chairman of Indian Wind Power Association said.Interesting. This got to make us concerned, especially when the ambitious renewable energy...

An interesting comparison of China and India on consumption of the various energy sources. It's fairly obvious that China consumes a lot more energy per capita than India on virtually every energy source (oil 2.5 times, coal and electricity almost 5 times!). And why not? Their GDP per capita is...

It was an interesting meeting that I had yesterday with a young entrepreneur (or should I ay would-be entrepreneur) who was thinking of quitting his high-paying job and getting into the alternative energy field in India. He was thinking about algae fuels, hence his visit to meet me.I asked him...