Engineering company Shriram EPC Ltd plans to diversify into the business of converting coal to fuel gas and is exploring opportunities to expand its wind and biogas power generation business in South-East Asia.For coal gasification, the Chennai-based firm has an agreement with German company Envirotherm GmbH, which has technology to...

General Motors India has pumped nearly US$ 0.5 million to get biodiesel from Jatropha and test it on its vehicles at Central Salt & Marine Chemicals Research Institute's (CSMCRI), the organisation that conducts research in catalysts, chemicals, desalination, polymers (membranes and resins), non-conventional energy, economic plants and biosalinit and other...

Despite the weak global outlook, edible oilseeds and oils prices are likely to appreciate 20 per cent in 2009 on rising palm oil demand from the food sector constituting 15 per cent of global consumption.Demand from developing countries, including India and China is estimated to increase at a slower rate...

Shri Shakti Alternative Energy Ltd (SSAEL), is a leading Indian company marketing a range of energy efficient gas appliances. The International Finance Corporation, Washington, has 26% stake in the company under a special PVMTI programme of the Global Environment Facility. SSAEL has a distribution and service network in most parts...

With the world's richest countries making a beeline to India in order to secure billions worth of nuclear power projects, now that India has secured the NSG approval, the Nuclear Power Corp of India is suddenly in the limelight. So what's the background of this company?The Nuclear Power Corporation of...

12 Jan 2009It's a sign of the country's increasing eco-awareness. A recent voluntary carbon emissions disclosure programme had 51 companies participating, of which more than 40 per cent were from Maharashtra.In its second year in India, the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) has partnered with the Confideration of Indian Industries (CII)...

Jan 2009India has been invited to the ministerial meeting of the International Energy Agency (IEA) in October in Paris, the organisation's deputy executive director Richard Jones said here Wednesday.India is not a member of the 30-nation OECD or the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development that aims at helping governments...

Jan 2009Jean-David Levitte, French President Nicholas Sarkozy's diplomatic advisor, said that his country would sell 300 tonnes of uranium to India. Addressing reporters in New Delhi Levitte said India was receiving such a huge quantity of uranium after three decades. "We will sell to India 300 tonnes of uranium which...

Jan 2009The race among countries for getting nuclear business in India is hotting up with delegations rushing here to discuss opportunities in this field.While France has already walked away with a contract in the multi-billion dollar industry, high-level delegations from Britain and Canada will be here this week to interact...

Advanta India Ltd has informed that it has entered into an agreement with Arcadia Biosciences based in California to develop nitrogen-use efficient (NUE) Sorghum. Arcadia Biosciences, Inc. is an agricultural technology company focused on developing technologies and products that benefit the environment and human health.Under terms of the agreement, Advanta...