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Olympus Capital raising $250 million Asia Fund
Olympus Capital Holdings Asia is close to raising a $250 million investment fund to focus on environment-related sectors in China and India, two sources with direct knowledge of the plan said.Hong Kong-based Olympus Capital, which has about $1 billion under management, expects to officially launch the fund in the next...
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India’s NHPC to set up 100-MW wind project in MP
India's largest hydro-electric power producer, NHPC, is foraying into wind power generation by setting up a 100-MW power project in Madhya Pradesh. "The company is setting up a 100-MW wind energy project at Kukroo in Madhya Pradesh," NHPC CMD S K Garg told PTI. It also plans to enter into...
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India Moves Away from Oil, Towards Fuel Cells and Natural Gas
Indian Officials are laying the framework for an economy based on natural gas and fuel cells. They say they're laying pipelines that could lead to the emergence of an economy based on natural gas, instead of oil.India imports over 65% of its oil consumption. But Indian officials are enacting a...
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Biomass Gasification in India to Generate Lakhs of Jobs
Emerging green economy in the country may see creation of nine lakh jobs in India by 2025, a top government official said."India could generate nine lakh jobs by 2025 in biomass gasification, of which three lakh would be in manufacturing of stoves and six lakh in areas such as processing...
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Energy Efficiency Could Save India 183.5 Billion kWh
With an investment of US $10 billion dollars in energy efficiency improvements, India's economy would benefit from its potentially vast annual energy savings of 183.5 billion kilowatt hours, according to a new report from the World Resources Institute (WRI), says this news item from Renewable Energy World. A key element...
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Energy Savings Possibilities in India are Enormous
I can fully appreciate and agree with the following opinion from this post "How about investing 12,000 dollars a year, a payback time of nine months and annual savings of 17,000 dollars? Unrealistic? No, this is the result of energy saving measures in the large and energy-intensive Lilavati Hospital in...
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India’s National Solar Mission
The Union Government has finalized the draft for the National Solar Mission. It aims to make India a global leader in solar energy and envisages an installed solar generation capacity of 20,000 MW by 2020, 1,00,000 MW by 2030 and of 2,00,000 MW by 2050. The total expected funding from...
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Russia JV may be the answer to India’s energy crisis: CII
Collaboration with Russia in exploration of oil and gas might be the answer to India's energy crisis instead importing fossil fuel from there, a CII report said.India has proposed many joint ventures between the two countries to strengthen the energy ties, as it plans to double its annual import of...
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Wind Power with Nepal-India JV
An Indian company and a Nepali firm have recently formed a joint venture company -- USP Wind and Power System-- in Kathmandu to tap wind energy.Executive director of the joint-venture, Surendra Bahadur Singh, said on Friday, “This company aims to tap wind to generate electricity in the Kathmandu Valley and...
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Tulsi Tanti of Suzlon to receive Global India award
Tulsi Tanti, popularly known as "Wind man of India", has been selected for Chanchlani Global India award 2009 for his outstanding contributions to promote non-conventional sources of energy. The award, instituted by Canada India Foundation, carries doller 50,000 and a trophy.Tanti, who hails from Gujrat in India and presently based...
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