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Arun Majumdar became the first Director of the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), an agency tasked with reducing America’s reliance on foreign energy supplies, cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and improving energy efficiency. Ever since he joined the University of California (UC), Berkeley faculty in 1997, where...

The renewable energy sector in India attracted investments worth $4.1 billion in 2008, up by 12% over the previous year, according to UNEP’s Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment in 2009. The global investment was $155 billion.To realise the full investment potential in renewables, the government must provide an enabling...

Power demand in the country touched an all-time high of 99,027 MW recently and is poised to top 100,000 MW shortly. The new peak demand marks a year-on-year growth of over 16% in electricity demand. Last year, the peak demand that was met in the country around this time stood...

23 September 2009 The Banaras Hindu University (BHU), one of the prestigious educational institutions of the country, is setting set a line of action for environment conservation and sustainable development. The university is going to establish an institute of environment and sustainable development (IESD) with a mission to carry out...

24 Sep 2009 Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), India’s largest energy explorer, will begin oil production from a cluster of fields in the east coast by the middle of 2010, according to the company. The company has integrated several discoveries in the eastern coast in a hub having about...

Kyocera has opened a new Indian branch company named KYOCERA Asia Pacific India Private Limited at Gurgaon to handle the growing Indian semiconductors and components market. All these past years, Kyocera, just like any other Japanese semiconductor company has assigned India’s sales responsibility to its Singapore office. But now Kyocera...

Seeking to diversify into solar energy space, India’s 2nd largest manufacturer of CDRs and DVDRs Euro Multivision Ltd will enter the capital market with its IPO of 8.8 million equity shares of Rs 10 each, with a price band of Rs 70-75, on September 22, 2009. The main purpose of...

Scientists at IIT Kanpur RLS plan to set up a 500 KW solar plant at the institute and focus on research aimed at reducing the price gap between solar power and energy from conventional sources. When complete, the Rs 18-crore project — launched recently on a small plot on the...

Steve Sawyer , secretary general, Global Wind Energy Council, was in Delhi recently to release a report on the Indian Wind Energy Outlook for 2009. He tells Narayani Ganesh that at least one quarter of India’s energy requirements could be met with wind power by 2030, in this interview You...

Electrotherm to invest Rs 700 crore for solar plant in Guj To set up 40 MW thermal plant in 500 acres in Banaskantha Electrotherm Renewables – a division of Electrotherm (India) Limited, is investing between Rs 700 crore and Rs 800 crore for setting up a 40 Mw solar thermal...