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Suzlon Energy Ltd said on Monday it is two-thirds of the way through a program to replace its U.S.-installed wind power turbine blades that suffered cracking problems and hurt the company’s shares. The company has taken a $35 million charge for the program to replace all 1,200 blades in its...

Now, this is certainly not bad. India has about 10,000 MW installed capacity for wind energy. This is more than 5% of India’s total installed capacity of about 150000 MW (2006 data). Installed capacity apart, how much of India’s electricity is supplied by wind? Funnily, it appears that it is...

An excellent white paper on India’s energy outlook until 2020. A must-read paper (PDF), from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. See the PDF link below The report says that the goal of the project was to build a new generation global energy and CO2 emissions model that will be based on...

An excellent white paper on India’s energy outlook until 2020. A must-read paper (PDF), from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. See link at the end. Integrated economic models have been used to project both baseline and mitigation greenhouse gas emissions scenarios at the country and the global level. Results of these...

Cobol Technologies, a solar power firm owned by Moser Baer, has raised $30 million (Rs 151 crore) from Pangea Capital. Bermuda-based Pangea is a mid-sized fund house with total assets under management in excess of $100 million. Cobol Technologies operates in the area of electricity generation and distribution and is...

Chennai-based electric Kabirdass Motor is planning the first IPO in the auto industry in the last few years. Kabirdass was formed in 2006 to develop and commercialize zero-emission vehicles called XITE. Kabirdass is a portfolio company of Best Cast IT, a leading aluminum casting and machined automobile parts manufacturing company...

Auro Mira Energy (AME), a renewable energy company at Chennai in Tamil Nadu is looking to sell power generated from its 10 MW biomass plant at T. Kalupatty and a 7.5 MW biomass plant in Pudukottai. Apart from biomass plant, the company also has plans to invest $ 900 million...

Clean energy provider Auro Mira Energy (AME) announced that it is looking to sell power generated from its two plants in Tamil Nadu: a 10 MW biomass plant at T. Kalupatty and a 7.5 MW biomass plant in Pudukottai. Founded in 2005 in Chennai, the company is presently focusing on...

Some useful data on potential of non-conventional energy sources in India – from the Government of India http://pib.nic.in/archieve/factsheet/fs2000/noncenergy.html

In the last few years, at least 26 of these expert firms, called energy service companies (ESCO), have sprung up in India. G.C. Datta Roy of one ESCO, DSCL Energy Services, expects the Indian ESCO market to multiply 10-fold this year from Rs.86.4 crore ($17.7 million) in 2007. “India’s energy...