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Read that Azure Power, a provider of solar energy to commercial, government and utility customers, is looking to set up two solar energy plants in Karnataka. The company plans to set up a 2 Mw solar power plant in Kolar and a 10 Mw plant in Bagalkot in north Karnataka...

GSNA Worldwide will launch the first edition of Green Energy World Expo’2010 in October from the 14-16th at the Chennai Trade Centre in Chennai. There will also be a parallel seminar with the exposition. The theme for the seminar and the exposition is sustainable environment and energy, and the objective...

Thought I'd drop in a note about CleanTick ( ), the cleantech online networking forum launched by my Clixoo. This site EAI is also run by Clixoo. The objective is to form a productive online network and forum for folks connected with various cleantech domains - renewable energy, sustainability....CleanTick...

As a renewable energy enthusiast in India, you would have surely felt the need for an online platform where you can meet and interact with hundreds of others like you. Welcome to the EAI Club. It's been over a year and half since we started the new EAI web site...

It requires no repetition that renewable energy is already a sizable business opportunity in India, and will be an even larger opportunity in future. I was hence curious to know how the Tatas, who already have a wide range of interests in the traditional power sector, were approaching the opportunities...

Ethanol manufacturers have welcomed the recent Empowered Group of Ministers’ (EGoM’s) decision to fix a price of Rs 27 per litre for ethanol that will be blended with petrol. The price has been fixed for only six months as against the manufacturers’ demand for three years; even if this was...

In the past two days alone, four entrepreneurs called from different parts of the country enquiring what types of opportunities were available to them in the fast unfolding solar energy industry in India. I need to mention that none of these folks was looking at putting up solar power plants...

Read an interesting article today in The Financial Express, written by Noor Mohammad, on why the government should keep its hands off hydro PSUs such as NHPC while they try to make deals with states for hydro resources. The matter is as follows: Hydro resources technically belong to the states,...

There's no free lunch. This was what played in my mind when I read that India's three state-run oil marketing companies (IOC, BPCL and HPCL) are running up huge and unbearable deficits owing to their under-recoveries, and this might start straining the government's fiscal budget soon. Let's look at what's...

While I was at Singapore last week at the Renewable Energy Finance meet, Rex Reksniss of RECharge asked me about trends in offshore wind exploitation in India. I told him I did not expect anything to happen in offshore wind in India over the next few years, but he said...