India joined the International Renewable Energy Agency last week, becoming the largest energy consumer in the recently launched organization.India is the 77th member of IRENA, a multinational agency that formed in January to help governments and private industries expand renewable energy installments worldwide.The inclusion of India, the world's fifth largest...

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is expected to begin production of natural gas from its Krishna-Godavari (KG) block D-6 soon.Industry analysts are, understandably, excited about the prospect. It has been argued that the discovery could herald significant savings in the oil import bill.It is expected that production, which petroleum secretary R.S....

Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) is expected to begin production of natural gas from its Krishna-Godavari (KG) block D-6 soon.Industry analysts are, understandably, excited about the prospect. It has been argued that the discovery could herald significant savings in the oil import bill.It is expected that production, which petroleum secretary R.S....

India is the second-highest foreign investor in Ghana, and biofuel producers are now looking to cultivate jatropha there.Ghana is drawing significant foreign investment in the alternative energy sector led by China and India.From 1994 to 2008, India registered 359 projects there, while China registered 368.India's investment in the African country...

Wasn't it Marie Antoinette who said "Let them eat cake"?Acc to Wikipedia, "The quote, as attributed to Antoinette, was claimed to have been uttered during one of the famines that occurred in France during the reign of her and her husband, Louis XVI. Upon being alerted that her people were...

More than 35% of the India's electricity demands can be met from renewable energy by 2030 and 50% of the projected energy requirements can be met simply from smart and efficient generation, distribution and use of energy, says a report released by Greenpeace in capital on Tuesday. The report titled...

The 1,350-MW ABWR technology is the world’s only commercially proven Generation III reactor design, with the first two of four units entering service in 1996 and 1997 and four additional units under construction todayGE Hitachi Nuclear Energy has signed two agreements with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) and...

Since Ratul Puri, the 35-year-old executive director of Moser Baer India returned to India from college in the United States in 1994, he's helped transform Moser Baer from a rinky-dink maker of floppy disks into a $400 million high-tech company that straddles business as diverse as the optical media, home...

Aston University and the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi have secured a £3m grant to build bio-energy power plants, which will tackle energy poverty in rural India and promote renewable energy in the United Kingdom. The Research Councils UK Science Bridges funding award will allow the creation of two...

Now, this IS odd..Saudi Arabia is to import fuel from India...no, I have not had made a mistake while typing!Saudi Aramco has secured a deal to buy 7.4 million barrels of gas oil from Reliance Industries for 2009, as strong demand for power and motor fuels forces it to import,...