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Scientists at IIT Kanpur RLS plan to set up a 500 KW solar plant at the institute and focus on research aimed at reducing the price gap between solar power and energy from conventional sources. When complete, the Rs 18-crore project — launched recently on a small plot on the...

Steve Sawyer , secretary general, Global Wind Energy Council, was in Delhi recently to release a report on the Indian Wind Energy Outlook for 2009. He tells Narayani Ganesh that at least one quarter of India's energy requirements could be met with wind power by 2030, in this interview You...

Electrotherm to invest Rs 700 crore for solar plant in Guj To set up 40 MW thermal plant in 500 acres in BanaskanthaElectrotherm Renewables - a division of Electrotherm (India) Limited, is investing between Rs 700 crore and Rs 800 crore for setting up a 40 Mw solar thermal power...

With about 2.5 lakh towers powering mobile services to over 400 million subscribers, the telecom industry is now the second largest consumer of energy in the country.According to industry estimates, each tower consumes 3-5 kW to run the air-conditioner, generators and other equipment required to keep the base station in...

7 Sep 2009NRI industrialist C Sivasankaran promoted Siva Ventures acquired a controlling stake in Finnish wind power company WinWind in 2006. The JV which operates three manufacturing plants in Europe, catering to European demand, has established its first facility in the district about 50 km away from Chennai.The plant built...

Seven different solar companies are currently courting solar opportunities in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Each company is hoping to set up solar PV equipment manufacturing plants in the state. Companies such as Moser Baer, Solar Semiconductors, Lanco Solar, as well as others have entered negotiations with local government...

India is likely to spend over Rs 1 lakh crore on setting up of power plants based on renewable energy sources by the end of 2011-12, according to Devasis Majumdar, chairman and managing director of Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA).“As per the target of the 11th Five Year Plan,...

Aug 30, 2009India's biggest oil find in decades is now on stream but the country, with its rapidly growing economy, will still be one of the hungriest consumers of foreign crude, analysts say.Cairn surprised the world in 2004 with the discovery of the Barmer field in an area written off...

The Gujarat government has approved 34 solar power projects at an investment of Rs.12,000 crore (Rs.120 billion/$2.4 billion) over the next few years, to rank it the top Indian state for this clean energy, a senior official has said. "The projects will add 716 MW to our state electricity grid....

14 Sep 2009The Kolkata-based Tea Board has initiated methods to reduce manufacturing cost and thereby increase productivity to ensure that key segments of the business like processing remain profitable even in a down-turn.The need to focus on productivity improvement was stressed at the 116th annual conference of the United Planters’...