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One of the three 20,000 litre per day bio-diesel plants the Indian Railways are planning to set up, is likely to be located at Yelahanka, near Bangalore, and may become functional by the middle of next year. Indian Railways and Emami Ltd, manufacturers of personnel care products, are looking at...

Despite the Indian Government’s official go-slow policy on Jatropha, several Indian states are now planting the crop in a big way. These are not the old style monoculture plantations that led to the central government’s recent Jatropha policy review. Rather, they are evidence that the initial findings of the review...

India’s power sector will require about $250 billion investments over the next eight-nine years if it wants to grow at a moderate 7.5-8 percent compound annual rate, according to a CII report. ‘The power markets will have to achieve consistent high growth rates to bring our per capita consumption to...

According to the Ministry of State for Power, India’s hydro-electricity generation was down by 15% for months Jul-Sep owing to poor monsoons. India received about 25% less rains this year than average, and there were drought-like situations in many districts. This resulted in the state-run NHPC losing 200 million KWh...

Suryachakra Power Venture has entered into a JV with MAN Solar Millennium of Germany for developing solar thermal power projects in India. The company plans to set up 5 MW solar thermal power plants in Chattisgarh and Maharashtra. This is good news, because I feel that solar thermal has been...

Surana Telecom plans to offload 20% of equity in Surana Ventures Limited – its solar power subsidiary – to FIIs. The money will be used to fund SVLs expansion plans. Surana Ventures has a focus on solar PV. It has a module manufacturing unit and a solar cell manufacturing unit...

I was reading a news article that mentioned that the renewable energy minister Farooq Abdullah had promised that he will bring electricity to all Rajasthan villages within five years. Now, that’s a tall statement. One doesn’t really give much weight to politicians’ statements anymore – most times they are even...

Maharishi Solar, a part of the Maharishi Group, has tied up with Abengoa to supply Indian industries with solar thermal technology for their heating purposes Abengoa Solar is a global leader in solar thermal tech. In India (as well as almost elsewhere in the world), the use of solar thermal...

According to reports, Suzlon has submitted a proposal to increase the wind farm capacity at Jakhau, in Kutch, Gujarat, from its present 750 MW to 1500 MW. The country’s largest wind farm thus will become even larger! The second and third largest wind farms in the country are at Dhule...

It was interesting for me to read an article about the woes that the state of TN was having with its power deficit; well, which state doesn’t? What however actually got my eyes open wide was the following statement “A few months ago, the wind power generation in Tamilnadu touched...