Here's a nice article on the history of solar energy in India, which dates back to the mid-70s as a result of the 1973 oil shock. Good to know that we are not exactly new to this territory. Written by Ashok Parthasarathy, advisor to the late PM Indira Gandhi Just...

Two U.S.-based companies will manufacture and sell biomass-to-energy plants in India. California-based Alpha Renewable Energy has partnered with Nevada-based W2 Energy.W2 Energy has licensed its synthetic diesel and electricity from biomass technologies to Alpha Renewable Energy. The W2 Energy technology includes a plasma reactor, a gas-to-liquids reactor and a small...

The Tata Power Company Ltd today inked a memorandum of understanding(MoU) with the Gujarat government for exploring the possibilities of setting up a five MW-geothermal unit in the state.Informing this, a Tata Power communique said a similar agreement was also made with the state government for developing another five MW-solar...

As wireless network systems designers look to alternative energy sources, Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced a solar energy harvesting (SEH) development kit that converts ambient light into power for industrial, transportation, agricultural and commercial applications.The credit card-sized eZ430-RF2500-SEH kit combines Cymbet Corporation's EnerChip thin-film battery technology with TI's MSP430 microcontrollers...

Dec 2008 NewsUnderlining the importance of electricity regulator in implementation of a national action plan on climate change, Pramod Deo, chairman of the central electricity regulatory commission (Cerc), in December 2008 said that all power utilities in the country will have to buy at least five per cent of their...

Pune-based Praj Industries will work with a consortium of leading United Kingdom based companies to construct one of the largest bio-ethanol plants in Europe. The consortium formed by BP plc, Associated British Foods plc and Dupont will use the globally recognized technology developed by Praj Industries to convert feedstock, including...

India could face an acute shortage of natural gas if the proposed pipeline from Iran and Turkmenistan are scrapped due to deteriorating relations with Pakistan, according to an Assocham study.If there is disruption in the gas pipeline talks the demand and supply gap widens at 5.7 per cent.India needs the...

Kazhaksthan is one of the leading producers of Uranium in the world. This year (2009) Kazhak's uranium production quota is set at 11,900 tons, and it plans to up its output to 18000 tons within the next two years. At this point, it would become the world's largest producer of...

Cairn Energy has announced that the government of India has approved a further declaration of commerciality for the Kameshwari West 2, 3 and 6 discoveries in the Rajasthan license RJ-ON-90/1 in northwest India, along with a new development area of 822sqkm which was part of the Northern Appraisal Area. The...

E.ON AG, Germany’s biggest utility, aims to increase generation capacity from renewable resources such as the wind and sun and may seek investments in India and China, a company official said today.“We are not constraining ourselves to our home market, which we consider Europe,” Frank Mastiaux, chief executive officer of...