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A white paper on technologies, opportunities and challenges Shirish Garud, Fellow and Ishan Purohit, Research Associate The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India Solar thermal power generation systems are emerging renewable energy technologies and can be developed as viable option for electricity generation in future. This paper discusses the technology...

The number of larger bulk carriers shipping sugar from Brazil to India is rising, as the country’s imports increase substantially after a crop failure in the last season, writes Liz McCarthy of Lloyd’s ListThe number of larger bulk carriers shipping sugar from Brazil to India is rising, as the country’s...

This paper presents an efficient lantern running on low grade ethanol fuel which also doubles up as a cooking stove thereby solving the twin problems of cooking and lighting for rural households. Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) is the first to propose and develop a dual purpose lantern (christened lanstove)...

Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) encourages Bio-fuels in India, Task Force on Bio-fuels, Karnataka Chairman Y B Ramakrishna said recently. He said IOCL officials in a meeting here recently said the Centre had agreed to increase the Ethanol blending in petrol to ten per cent from the existing five per...

The venture capital arm of engineering giant Siemens has announced it has bolstered its portfolio of green investments with the acquisition of a stake in India-based waste heat recovery specialist Transparent Energy Systems. Pune-based Transparent provides a range of industrial waste heat recovery and combined heat and power systems, as...

Indian Finance Minister plans to reduce customs duty on biodiesel imports, but leaders of domestic industry say the government still must increase the allowable blend past the current 5 percent. Advocates of biodiesel in India have been cheered with news that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said yesterday that the 2009-10...

The Indian Railways is planning to introduce compressed natural gas (CNG) and bio diesel as locomotive fuels, aiming to cut down on pollution, minister of state for railways K.H. Muniyappa said on Thursday. Currently, the railways uses diesel and electricity, which is an indirect pollutant as a bulk of the...

A useful and regularly updated site on the status and trends of ethanol fuel in India. Contains details on government policies, ethanol projects, technology details and business enquiries Site link

There are some useful inputs provided on the economics of ethanol production from sugarcane molasses for India, in this UN Conference on Trade & Development report. (page 17 in the report) This report also provides a good amount of useful data on the status and trends in ethanol and biodiesel...

This article is almost a year old, so some of the facts could have changed, but the theme of the article provides inputs on the types of infrastructural problems that the country faces currently. Indian companies which produce biodiesel from Jatropha are distributing the oil to other countries. This is...