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While world over, biofuels are always in the news, in India, the biofuels segment is a rather low-profile segment with little or no newsworthy events ever reported. Does this really mean that there is nothing innovative happening in the biofuel sector in India, or is it that the media is...

Last week, I had the opportunity to meet a wide range of youngsters from all over India (Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore and of course Chennai) who were keen on joining EAI - in industry research, marketing and finance. Many of them had some kind of acquaintance with renewable energy, and...

This was another post I picked up from the EAI Club (Thanks to Madhavan) Siemens and IBNLive.com are instituting a hunt for India’s Ecovatives – initiatives by Organizations who are combining protection to environment, reducing harmful effects to the environment with innovations to create leadership positions. These could range from...

Was browsing through the EAI Club when I came across the profile of an interesting company E-Windz . This company provides "Total solutions for buying or selling of used wind turbines". Its services are as follows: Identifying and selection of the prospective buyer/seller to get optimum value and conclude your...

"About one million green jobs will open up in India over next two years" read a recent news item from The Economic Times. A million is a lot of jobs, so I thought I'd dig up a bit on this domain, for two reasons: One, I am confident that unlike...

Well, I am not too much into corn (except when I dip my hands into the popping variety), but an article in The Economic Times on corn hybridsgiving much higher yields caught my attention, and for a reason: The biofuels industry is in the doldrums, and the main reason is...

Requests for selection (RfS) of solar projects under the National Solar Mission, coordinated by NVVN, has received an enthusiastic response from the prospective power developers. A senior official was quoted saying that as against a 150 MW of solar PV to be allocated (@ 5 MW per company), NVVN has...

I had the fortune to be present at the Solar 2010 Conference & Seminar held at Delhi Sep 21-22 @ Lalit Hotel. The event was organized by the Renewable Energy India Forum of IPFOnline. See here for the event homepage IPFonline, for many years, has been working closely with small...

Until a few years back, I was not much aware of the fact that there are a number of folks who were doing sterling work in India on the environment and ecology fronts. True, I had heard of the Medha Patkars and Vandana Shivas, but I naturally thought they were...

Read an article today in one of the business newspapers that the market for eco-friendly clothing in India is on the rise. From the current 1% of the total market of Rs. 32,000, it is expected to grow to 5% by 2015 - that's almost 40% CAGR for the next...