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It appears that not everyone has given up on biofuels (OK, at least biodiesel). I came across an interesting math in Altenergymag that showed how India could actually become an exporter of crude, yep, exporter. Here’s how the train of logic runs: “At present India imports around 800 million bbl...

Oh well, what was earlier a national suspicion has suddenly gone international. You might recall that banks have always been wary about investing in solar, even after the National Solar Mission was announced. Yeah, you theoretically had an IRR (equity) of 19%, but that did not do enough to convince...

China Himin Solar Co. Ltd., is forming up a Joint Venture manufacturing plant in India. Its chairman, Huang Ming, said at the Delhi International Renewable Energy Conference 2010, that his firm was in talks with the Indian side to build a 50:50 Joint Venture in Delhi area to produce solar...

I had a visitor fairly early this morning. Karthik, the person who had so diligently come to meet me, was an aspiring entrepreneur (currently a software programmer). His question whether it was a good idea to start a business for the rooftop solar PV installation for Chennai. To cut a...

For a moment, I thought TreeHugger had missed some zeros. And then I realized the site had simply fallen prey to marketing hype. Here’s what I am talking about. Levis is going to town about its new Water<Less jeans whose production process it claims saves about 10-20 liters of water....

Project finance is the long term financing  of infrastructure and industrial projects based upon the projected cash flows of the project rather than the balance sheets of the project sponsors. Usually, a project financing structure involves a number of equity investors, known as sponsors, as well as a syndicate of...

A 40-member from Wipro has developed a software+hardware combination that can improve the performance of solar PV power plants by picking up critical data from the PV panels and inverters and dynamically modelling it to improve generation. It guarantees an improvement in power generation to the tune of 8-20%, which...

Fact, as they say, is stranger than fiction. Make that much stranger. In a commercial scheme that is said to be an attempt to rectify some of the inequalities inflicted by the beginnings of climate change, water from a lake in Alaska will be sent to a new, yet-to-be-built water...

Quite a few people I meet these days ask me about the most prominent renewable energy and cleantech companies in India, so I thought I’d spend some time putting down my list: Already in the fray Asian Genco (thermal and hydro power plants) – site Astonfield (diversified renewables) – site...

When folks call India a developing country, I wonder. Developing? Very initial stages of developing, perhaps? Or, better still, just about think of starting to develop? You get the idea. With over 500 million people below utter poverty line, hey, it takes some imagination to call ourselves a developing country....