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This brief but interesting article from Fleet Street Invest tells us why it is worth looking at what the Indian and Chinese energy companies are up to, especially in the context of their acquisitions and take-overs of other energy firms world over.

Since late 2008, after the NSG approval, India’s nuclear energy sector has been seeing tremendous growth. With installed capacity of nuclear energy estimated to grow to about 10,000 MW by 2012 from the current 4120 MW, one can understand the magnitude of the opportunity (taking a conservative capex of $4...

A detailed article on how China and India are going out of their way to ensure that they ramp up power production from solar PV. China has a 2 GW goal and India a mammoth 20 GW goal by 2020. Naturally, neither of these countries is going to just leave...

5 Jul 2009 India has the potential to meet its energy needs through renewable sources. India remains the only nation with a full-fledged ministry for new and renewable energy (MNRE). Yet, renewable currently contribute only about 4% of power generation in the country. Although the country has set a target...

July 2009 As the countdown to the Budget 2009 begins, it is vital that the Government revisits the extant policies and the fiscal framework in order for it to boost long-term investments and energy security of the country, says Gokul Chaudhri, Partner and Leader of the Energy and Infrastructure Practice...

India has already started feeling the effects of climate change which we have neglected for quiet long. It’s no longer an international issue, it is a domestic, local issue related to water security, land productivity, agricultural yields and energy consumption. Massive investments will be required in afforestation, sustainable agriculture and...

July 2009 The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had decided to install waterless urinals at public toilets near Gateway of India. They do not require water to flush and prevent bad odour. These urinals will save approximately 10 thousand litres of water per day and 70 thousand kilograms of carbon a...

July 03, 2009To meet the need of the increasing demand for energy, energy efficiency is as important as energy generation from new sources. Mindteck (India), member of ZigBee Alliance, an association of companies working together to enable reliable, cost-effective, low-power, wirelessly networked, monitoring and control products based on an open...

The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) addressed that all power state utilities in the country will have to buy at minimum five percent of their grid purchase from renewable energy sources from 2009-10 onwards and 15 percent by 2020. There will be one per cent raise in the purchase of...

Tue Jun 23, 2009 In order to conserve energy and with an aim at certifying the energy efficiency claims of automobile makers, the government has planned to make energy efficiency labeling mandatory for automobiles by August. The government believes that this will help consumers in choosing the right quality of...