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Deep Industries Ltd., which along with partners won seven coalbed methane blocks in India through an auction Monday, plans to raise “substantial funds” to meet its capital expenditure needs, according to its chairman. Deep Industries needs funds for exploration activities at the coalbed methane blocks it won at Monday’s auction....

Background: Cooking and lighting constitute around 75% of the total energy requirement in rural areas. Most of the cooking is done on traditional three stone wood stoves. These stoves are highly inefficient and the smoke emanating from them is very hazardous to the health of the rural population. According to...

Bihar’s Husk Power Systems (HPS), a award winning rural electrification company, has got second round of financial support from Shell Foundation to further scale up operations of their unique biomass gasification technology which converts rice husks into electricity. HPS, currently owns and operates 35-100 kW “mini power-plants” that deliver electricity...

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Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd has joined hands with a German development bank, KfW, so that the generation of power from biomass can be promoted. The agreement will enable IREDA to receive 19.971 million euros from KfW as financial assistance for the same. The innovative biomass projects of combustion,...

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed at the Vibrant Gujarat summit earlier this year with the Maharashtra-based Indian subsidiary of SDE Enterprises to set up a tidal energy plant in the state. But till date, not a single official from the company has turned up for carrying out the...

ABB press release 2008-04-10 – India’s sugar mills are investing in bagasse cogeneration plants and turning to ABB for complete automation and electrical balance of plant (eBOP) solutions that help generate new revenues and provide reliable carbon-neutral power and process steam at near-zero fuel cost. India, the world’s second largest...

Punjab officials have approved a plan to have nine ailing sugar mills in the state produce green energy via cogeneration facilities. The co-operative-owned mills, which will still produce sugar, are expected to collectively generate 150MW of electricity when the plants are completed by September 2010. The energy produced would be...

Biogas plants will be set up on the demand of families in three thousand tribal-dominated villages in Madhya Pradesh. So far, 2000 bio gas plants have been set up. Encouraged by the use and benefits of bio gas plants, the poor tribal families have started thinking of thinking of making...

A biogas plant with a capacity to process nearly 2,000 kg of garbage daily was inaugurated at the Central market by Mayor M. Bhaskaran on Saturday. The plant can produce 75 metre cube of biogas daily. The commissioning of the “Ecosan” biogas plant was yet another significant step towards Kozhikode...