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India Energy Outlook – End Use Demand in India Until 2020
An excellent white paper on India's energy outlook until 2020. A must-read paper (PDF), from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. See link at the end.Integrated economic models have been used to project both baseline and mitigation greenhouse gas emissions scenarios at the country and the global level. Results of these scenarios...
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Solar Power Firm Cobol Technologies Raises $30 million from Pangea Capital
Cobol Technologies, a solar power firm owned by Moser Baer, has raised $30 million (Rs 151 crore) from Pangea Capital. Bermuda-based Pangea is a mid-sized fund house with total assets under management in excess of $100 million. Cobol Technologies operates in the area of electricity generation and distribution and is...
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Kabirdass Motor Planning IPO for Zero-Emission Vehicles?
Chennai-based electric Kabirdass Motor is planning the first IPO in the auto industry in the last few years. Kabirdass was formed in 2006 to develop and commercialize zero-emission vehicles called XITE. Kabirdass is a portfolio company of Best Cast IT, a leading aluminum casting and machined automobile parts manufacturing company...
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Auro Mira Energy Selling Biomass Power and Raising Cash for Wind, Small Hydro, Solar and Biodiesel.
Auro Mira Energy (AME), a renewable energy company at Chennai in Tamil Nadu is looking to sell power generated from its 10 MW biomass plant at T. Kalupatty and a 7.5 MW biomass plant in Pudukottai. Apart from biomass plant, the company also has plans to invest $ 900 million...
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Auro Mira Energy (AME) Selling Wind Power, Raising More Cash
Clean energy provider Auro Mira Energy (AME) announced that it is looking to sell power generated from its two plants in Tamil Nadu: a 10 MW biomass plant at T. Kalupatty and a 7.5 MW biomass plant in Pudukottai. Founded in 2005 in Chennai, the company is presently focusing on...
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Non-conventional Enegry Potential in India
Some useful data on potential of non-conventional energy sources in India - from the Government of Indiahttp://pib.nic.in/archieve/factsheet/fs2000/noncenergy.html
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Indian Energy Service Companies (ESCO) on the Rise
In the last few years, at least 26 of these expert firms, called energy service companies (ESCO), have sprung up in India. G.C. Datta Roy of one ESCO, DSCL Energy Services, expects the Indian ESCO market to multiply 10-fold this year from Rs.86.4 crore ($17.7 million) in 2007.“India’s energy demand...
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Tata BP Solar, Eurostar in Tie-up for Solar Water Heaters
Solar water heaters is one area where companies could have excellent business opportunities in India, given that large parts of the country have excellent sunshine. Tata BP Solar India (TBS) has tied up with Dubai-based Eurostar Solar Energy (ESE) to meet the rising demand for solar thermal water heating systems...
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Thousands of Green Jobs Outsourced to India
This article says 22000 green jobs were outsourced to India by the US. "US corporations, focusing on survival strategies during the long-lasting recession, have offshored more than 22,000 new green-collar jobs to India alone. Firms seeking stabilized energy and labor costs while trying to convince consumers of their eco-friendly practices...
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A Unique Man Called Lourde Epinal
Lourde Epinal is the Environmental Education Coordinator at the Pitchandikulum Bio Resource Centre (PBRC) in Tamil Nadu. Lourde’s ideas and environmental expertise have made a real difference to the local community of Nadukuppam where he works. He has implemented “eco-clubs” that involve children in caring for and learning about their...
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