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American Superconductor Corp. has formed AMSC India to serve India’s rapidly growing wind energy and power grid markets with AMSC’s power electronics and superconductor-based solutions. With its regional head office in Delhi and a service office in Pune, it will provide local applications engineering, sales, business development, and field service...

After having set up India’s largest wind farm a single location, wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon Energy has now planned to double the capacity of this wind farm at Jhakhau in Kutch. The present capacity of this wind farm is 750 Mw, which Suzlon proposes to increase to 1,500 Mw. Post...

The idea of producing electricity from ocean currents and waves has been talked about for several years. But now, the idea is becoming more serious as countries are joining forces to harness the great energy potential that is being produced continuously by the world’s seas and oceans. Two countries getting...

Since late 2008, global turbine prices have dropped by 18 per cent for deliveries in the first half of 2010. A report on the wind energy industry in India expects wind turbine prices to fall from Rs 5.35 crore a MW now to Rs 5 crore by 2010, and stabilise...

Maximum rate of traded power now fixed at Rs 8 per unit Providing a major relief to the power-starved state utilities, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has capped the rate of power traded in power exchanges and through bilateral agreements at Rs 8 per unit. This order is applicable...

Vestas recently received an order for 60 units of the V82-1.65 MW wind turbine for a wind power project located in Theni in the state of Tamil Nadu, South India. The order has been placed by CLP. Vestas will be executing this contract and all activities, including manufacturing, planning, execution...

S Jagadeesan, Principal Secretary, Energy and Petrochemicals Department, Government of Gujarat has said that the state aims to achieve 19,259 MW power production by 2012. He informed that there are many proposals in pipeline for the 12th plan. Calling Gujarat the Energy Hub of India, he said the capacity of...

The TVS group, a leading brand in the automotive industry, is set to create its brand in ‘green’ power energy through a new company. Group company Sundaram Clayton is planning to set up a 5 MW wind energy farm in Tamil Nadu through a new company, which is expected to...

Leitner Shriram Manufacturing’s new wind turbine plant, set up near here at an investment of Rs.200 crore, was formally commissioned Friday. Leitner Shriram, a 51:49 joint venture between Italian group Leitner and city-based Shriram EPC, makes 1.5 MW class wind turbines at the new facility, while its existing plant in...

KSK Surya Photovolatic Venture has signed a deal to buy factory equipment from Santa Clara, Calif.-based Applied Materials for making amorphous silicon solar panels. KSK is investing $500 million to buy land and build the factory in Hyderabad. The factory would have the capacity to produce 150 megawatts of solar...