Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) will invest Rs 614 crore in the two sugar mills it had bought in Bihar to manufacture ethanol, which will be blended with petrol. HPCL had last year taken the two closed sugar mills from the Bihar government on a 60-year lease for Rs 95...

Recently, Southern Railway announced plans for a large scale biodiesel plant near the site of its present pilot facility at the famous Perambur Locomotive Works in Chennai (Madras), where India's biodiesel journey began.The new plant will be the first of many to be sited at rail hubs throughout the country....

The Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association (IWTMA) has shortlisted four foreign firms namely Garrad Hassan (UK), AWS Truewind, 3TIER (both US) and Denmark-based Risoe to run a pilot project on wind energy in Tamil Nadu (TN).According to the chairman of IWTMA, the focus of the project would be to demonstrate...

Maharashtra-based Sanjay Ghodawat group is planning to focus more on renewable energy and agriculture business this fiscal.The group has earmarked an investment of Rs 2,000 crore over the next five years, a major chunk of which will go into the group’s renewable, FMCG and agro business.The group is also looking...

Oriental Green Power (OGP), a renewable energy generation company promoted by Chennai-based Shriram EPC, has achieved Rs 400-crore financial closure for six bio-mass based power plants.The company was planning to invest around Rs 1,100 crore in eight projects, of which financial closure for six projects has been achieved.What's interesting about...

Lots of data and info here on current and possible future trends in Indian renewable energy

Interestingly, Mahindra and Mahindra is working hard to develop electric, hybrid and biofuel vehicles. It has already commercialized the micro-hybrid technology for lowering fuel consumption. The technology enables the engine to switch off automatically at a traffic light when idle and in neutral gear. The engine starts seamlessly once the...

Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is taking the lead to make Indian companies realize the consequences of failing to be with world communities with clean technologies. It has started Godrej Green Business Centre to help the smaller companies. Site link

Tata AutoComp through a joint venture with a Japanese company GS Yuasa International manufactures green batteries using a unique composition of calcium-calcium technology replacing traditionally used hazardous antimony with calcium alloy. The technology minimizes water loss and also reduces the battery water evaporation improving thereby the battery life as well...

Oilex Australia, the operator of the Cambay basin block, is leaving no stone unturned to optimize productivity in the Gujarat acreage. Oilex sources have revealed that a 30-year old well, the Cambay-57, was recently re-entered to evaluate the Miocene Basal Sands (MBS). Small amounts of oil, along with formation water,...