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  2009 09 The United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held in Copenhagen Denmark, from December 7 to 18 is expected to come out with a plan to replace the Kyoto Protocol (KP) that would expire in 2012. What is more important in this meet is that so far...

Jul 2009 With the Indian nuclear power market to touch $40 billion or Rs.20,000 crore by 2020, Atomic companies from the Sweden, US, Russia, France, Kazakhstan and Britain, are competing to get a share of the nuclear pie. A delegation of Swedish companies such as, Sandpit, Swenson, SKB International Consulting...

Here’s another article that questions the hype about Jatropha needing little inputs for growth. A comprehensive new analysis of water use in biofuel crop production finds that jatropha, an oil-rich plant championed for its ability to grow in arid regions where food crops cannot, is the biggest water hog of...

India has the second largest thorium reserves in the world. Now, that’s really something. But what exactly can we do about this? This article says India should quickly plan about how to use thorium in its nuclear future. India must introspect on which nuclear fuel it will choose to achieve...

A good list of mini-hydel projects in India here

80 percent of electricity supply in India comes from coal plants which are old, inefficient and are emitting harmful gases. In order to upgrade these coal power plants and reduce harmful gas emission, the World Bank will extend a $180-million (Rs.900-crore) loan to India. In addition, to improve power production,...

An excellent analysis of the alternative energy scenario and why India needs to speed up the use of renewable energy resources.

According to United Nation, about seven out of every 10 households in rural India have no access to electricity and they use harmful energy sources like kerosene to meet their energy needs. These household are the potential market for renewable energy such as solar power but many of these households...

Sulabh International is a social service organization, in New Dehli, working in the sanitation sector. The NGO’s founder Bindeshwar Pathak was honored by the Intergovernmental Renewable Energy Organization at the United Nations headquarters in New York for developing low cost toilet technology to produce energy out of human excreta.Pathak has...

A study on Network Power Downtime, an analysis of the impact of downtime in corporate India due to high occurrence of power outages, was conducted by the Manufacturers’ Association for Information Technology (MAIT) and Emerson Network Power (India). The study revealed that India Inc lost Rs. 43,205 crores in 2008-09;...