The Indian government is all set to launch a venture fund to encourage green technology research.The size of the fund and other specifics will be determined by the National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change (NMSKCC).The government has decided to link all academic institutions that work on climate change....

Cameco Corporation, the world’s second-largest producer of uranium after Rio Tinto, is setting up shop in India.The Canadian firm — the world’s largest publicly traded uranium company which accounted for 15 per cent of global production last year — plans to open a marketing office in Hyderabad on October 1.Both...

Representing a challenge for Indian industry as global warming threats rises, three Indian firms have figured in Global Cleantech 100 – the first ever list highlighting the most promising private firms around the world offering solutions to some of the planet's most pressing environmental challenges.Significantly, an overwhelming percentage – over...

Solar Semiconductor, a Hyderabad-based photovoltaic (PV) modules manufacturer, plans to raise $30 million by the end of this year. The company will preferably go for private equity and venture capital to raise the proposed amount, informed a top company executive. The money will be deployed mostly in acquiring firms in...

Days after being awarded a 10 MW PV solar plant in the State Of Gujarat, Zebasolar Private Limited India has obtained a approval from CREDA, the Chattisgarh Renewable Energy Agency, to build a 36 MW thin-film PV manufacturing plant in the capital city of Raipur. Zebasolar intends to build the...

India recently signed a civil nuclear agreement with Mongolia for the supply of uranium. The agreement for peaceful uses of radioactive minerals and nuclear energy with Mongolia makes that country the sixth nation after the U.S., Russia, France, Kazakhstan, and Namibia to sign the civil nuclear pact with India after...

The additional photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing facility of BHEL in Bangalore will enable BHEL to handle larger (156x156-mm) and thinner (200-mm) solar-grade mono / multi-crystalline silicon wafers.With this BHEL has enhanced the Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Module manufacturing facility at its Electronics Division, Bangalore, from 3 MW to 8 MW per annum.The...

The Indian wind power industry, having grown five fold in the last four years, may lose the wind behind its sails unless the government steps in with more creative forms of support, a report by consultant Ernst & Young said. ('Renewable energy in India - the evolving dynamics',)The report pointed...

20 Aug 2009 Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency signed a MoU with four companies in 2008 to set up solar power projects in Haryana, there have been little progress in these projects. Of the four companies that signed a MoU with HAREDA, Delhi based RS India Wind Energy has acquired...

14 August 2009Ghodawat Energy Limited (GEL) in partnership with AMSC-Windtec GmbH, Austria, have announced the launch of their prototype, state-of-the-art indigenously manufactured Wind Energy Converter (WEC) – Ghodawat 1650 (a power output of 1650 KW and state-of-the-art pitch system).Sanjay Ghodawat Group’s Ghodawat Energy Limited (GEL) forayed into the Wind Power...