India could face an acute shortage of natural gas if the proposed pipeline from Iran and Turkmenistan are scrapped due to deteriorating relations with Pakistan, according to an Assocham study.If there is disruption in the gas pipeline talks the demand and supply gap widens at 5.7 per cent.India needs the...

Kazhaksthan is one of the leading producers of Uranium in the world. This year (2009) Kazhak's uranium production quota is set at 11,900 tons, and it plans to up its output to 18000 tons within the next two years. At this point, it would become the world's largest producer of...

Cairn Energy has announced that the government of India has approved a further declaration of commerciality for the Kameshwari West 2, 3 and 6 discoveries in the Rajasthan license RJ-ON-90/1 in northwest India, along with a new development area of 822sqkm which was part of the Northern Appraisal Area. The...

E.ON AG, Germany’s biggest utility, aims to increase generation capacity from renewable resources such as the wind and sun and may seek investments in India and China, a company official said today.“We are not constraining ourselves to our home market, which we consider Europe,” Frank Mastiaux, chief executive officer of...

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday on next-generation reactors for India as the Canadian government closes in on a cooperation deal with the long-time nuclear renegade nation.Canada's international trade minister Stockwell Day said India is interested in buying Canadian components, uranium and hazardous waste treatment...

Larsen & Toubro Ltd. said it will team up with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. to build reactors, the second international nuclear venture of India’s biggest engineering company in less than a week.The companies will build ACR1000 pressurized heavy water reactors in India, Larsen said in statement today, without giving...

Done by the Planning Commission in Aug 2006, this is an excellent document that lays the groundwork and supporting data and arguments for configuring India's Energy policy. A must-read for anyone wishing to know fully about the Indian government's perspectives on policy options available to ensure India's energy security in...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley have announced a joint research and development program in which researchers will work with the government and private sector of India to develop paths toward reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) while...

See the following graph for a cumulative installed wind power capacity by country (source: Earth Policy)The first thing that interests me is that India is pretty high up there; the second that is really impressive is the exponential growth rate that can be seen for most every country in the...

The five top countries that will attract highest investments in renewable energy in the future. This is based on an Ernst & Young report that offers insight into where future growth is likely to occur by examining a variety of indices including long-term wind, near-term wind, and all renewables.The top...