March 27, 2009 by Team EAI
The flagship of Hyderabad-based Lanco Group, Lanco Infratech Ltd has shelved its plan to set up wind turbine manufacturing facilities due to the current economic slowdown, said a person close to the matter who didn’t want to be identified.According to the information available on the company’s website, Lanco had undertaken...
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March 27, 2009 by Team EAI
India joined the International Renewable Energy Agency last week, becoming the largest energy consumer in the recently launched organization.India is the 77th member of IRENA, a multinational agency that formed in January to help governments and private industries expand renewable energy installments worldwide.The inclusion of India, the world's fifth largest...
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March 27, 2009 by Team EAI
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is expected to begin production of natural gas from its Krishna-Godavari (KG) block D-6 soon.Industry analysts are, understandably, excited about the prospect. It has been argued that the discovery could herald significant savings in the oil import bill.It is expected that production, which petroleum secretary R.S....
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March 27, 2009 by Team EAI
Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is expected to begin production of natural gas from its Krishna-Godavari (KG) block D-6 soon.Industry analysts are, understandably, excited about the prospect. It has been argued that the discovery could herald significant savings in the oil import bill.It is expected that production, which petroleum secretary R.S....
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March 27, 2009 by Team EAI
India is the second-highest foreign investor in Ghana, and biofuel producers are now looking to cultivate jatropha there.Ghana is drawing significant foreign investment in the alternative energy sector led by China and India.From 1994 to 2008, India registered 359 projects there, while China registered 368.India's investment in the African country...
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March 27, 2009 by Team EAI
Wasn't it Marie Antoinette who said "Let them eat cake"?Acc to Wikipedia, "The quote, as attributed to Antoinette, was claimed to have been uttered during one of the famines that occurred in France during the reign of her and her husband, Louis XVI. Upon being alerted that her people were...
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March 27, 2009 by Team EAI
More than 35% of the India's electricity demands can be met from renewable energy by 2030 and 50% of the projected energy requirements can be met simply from smart and efficient generation, distribution and use of energy, says a report released by Greenpeace in capital on Tuesday. The report titled...
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March 27, 2009 by Team EAI
The 1,350-MW ABWR technology is the world’s only commercially proven Generation III reactor design, with the first two of four units entering service in 1996 and 1997 and four additional units under construction todayGE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has signed two agreements with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) and...
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March 10, 2009 by Team EAI
Since Ratul Puri, the 35-year-old executive director of Moser Baer India returned to India from college in the United States in 1994, he's helped transform Moser Baer from a rinky-dink maker of floppy disks into a $400 million high-tech company that straddles business as diverse as the optical media, home...
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February 11, 2009 by Team EAI
Aston University and the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi have secured a £3m grant to build bio-energy power plants, which will tackle energy poverty in rural India and promote renewable energy in the United Kingdom. The Research Councils UK Science Bridges funding award will allow the creation of two...
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