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With about 2.5 lakh towers powering mobile services to over 400 million subscribers, the telecom industry is now the second largest consumer of energy in the country. According to industry estimates, each tower consumes 3-5 kW to run the air-conditioner, generators and other equipment required to keep the base station...

7 Sep 2009 NRI industrialist C Sivasankaran promoted Siva Ventures acquired a controlling stake in Finnish wind power company WinWind in 2006. The JV which operates three manufacturing plants in Europe, catering to European demand, has established its first facility in the district about 50 km away from Chennai. The...

Seven different solar companies are currently courting solar opportunities in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Each company is hoping to set up solar PV equipment manufacturing plants in the state. Companies such as Moser Baer, Solar Semiconductors, Lanco Solar, as well as others have entered negotiations with local government...

India is likely to spend over Rs 1 lakh crore on setting up of power plants based on renewable energy sources by the end of 2011-12, according to Devasis Majumdar, chairman and managing director of Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA). “As per the target of the 11th Five Year...

Aug 30, 2009 India’s biggest oil find in decades is now on stream but the country, with its rapidly growing economy, will still be one of the hungriest consumers of foreign crude, analysts say. Cairn surprised the world in 2004 with the discovery of the Barmer field in an area...

The Gujarat government has approved 34 solar power projects at an investment of Rs.12,000 crore (Rs.120 billion/$2.4 billion) over the next few years, to rank it the top Indian state for this clean energy, a senior official has said. “The projects will add 716 MW to our state electricity grid....

14 Sep 2009 The Kolkata-based Tea Board has initiated methods to reduce manufacturing cost and thereby increase productivity to ensure that key segments of the business like processing remain profitable even in a down-turn. The need to focus on productivity improvement was stressed at the 116th annual conference of the...

ET SsLar, a Nanjing-based integrated manufacturer of photovoltaic (“PV”) products (ingot, wafer, modules and tracking systems) and system integrator announced a 1 MW high efficiency module supply transaction to a large system integrator for an Indian project. The project, developed by a commercial and utility solar project developer in India,...

The Indian government is all set to launch a venture fund to encourage green technology research.The size of the fund and other specifics will be determined by the National Mission on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change (NMSKCC). The government has decided to link all academic institutions that work on climate...

Cameco Corporation, the world’s second-largest producer of uranium after Rio Tinto, is setting up shop in India. The Canadian firm — the world’s largest publicly traded uranium company which accounted for 15 per cent of global production last year — plans to open a marketing office in Hyderabad on October...