A study on Network Power Downtime, an analysis of the impact of downtime in corporate India due to high occurrence of power outages, was conducted by the Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) and Emerson Network Power (India). The study revealed that India Inc lost Rs. 43,205 crores in 2008-09;...

Jun 18, 2009India's Ratan Tata, Mexico's Carlos Slim, other business tycoons and executives from nongovernmental organizations, form U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s advisory group on climate change. The group will advise the secretary-general in conference to be held in Copenhagen in December. The group will meet every two months and to...

17 June 2009 Investment, Innovation and Research Alliance(IIRA), a German technology based resource organization which facilitates and supports the education, research and innovation, under the cooperation project between the Institute of Machine Tools and Production Technology (IWF) and The Institute of Joining and Welding Technique (IFS) will launch of a...

June 12, 2009Shriram EPC, the Chennai-based company involved in turnkey projects in the renewable energy, water & sewer treatment and metallurgy spaces, is looking at manufacturing nearly 250 wind turbine generators (WTGs) this fiscal through its joint venture with Italian firm Leitner Technologies. Shriram Leitwind is a 51:49 JV.Nearly Rs...

Indian Wind Power Association (IWPA) urged the Centre and Power Ministry to formulate a uniform long-term national wind energy policy to make sale of wind power from one state to another easily affordable by having a uniform intra-state and inter-state transfer policy.The association also wanted the government. to insist utilities...

Bathinda, a district in Punjab is home for two thermal power plants. Recently, the district groundwater has been contaminated with high concentration of uranium. Even after reverse osmosis process, to make the water clean, the water is not potable. Nearly 107 people are found to be affected by cancer and...

Johnson Controls India which offers products and services that optimize energy use and improve comfort and security for automobiles, buildings etc, recently conducted a survey on energy efficiency in India and North America. About 94% of Indian and 93 % of North Americans considered making energy efficiency a priority for...

20 Jun, 2009Indian government is planning to open up coal mining to private sectors without restriction of captive use and expected to invest Rs 118,000 crore for increasing production to 1,061 million tonnes a year by 2025. An estimated Rs 95,000 crore investment in opencast mining and Rs 23,000 crore...

The event, India Energy Exhibition to be held from 13 to 15 November, 2009 Bombay Exhibition Centre, Goregaon, Mumbai, India will provide an ideal platform for the players in the Energy industry to showcase the latest cutting edge technology. The event will act as a common platform in bringing technology...

June 2, 2009India opens its first DBT-ICT Center for Bioscience Energy to develop technologies that will increase biomass yield per hectare and produce both gas and liquid biofuels from non-fodder agricultural residue. The institute is partnering with other universities and international industries to lessen India’s dependence on petroleum fuels and...