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India will continue to face both energy and peak shortages in 2009-10. The country will face energy shortage of 9.3% and peak shortage of 12.6%. The eastern region would be surplus in energy to the extent of 2.4%. According to Load Generation Balance Report for 2009-10 released by Central Electricity...

The UK government announced a £1 million grant to launch a joint UK-India project to develop pest-resistant crops by June 2013. The money is expected to fund the research of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Leeds University, and the Indian Agriculture Research Institute. The aim is to develop sustainable,...

India rejected any cap on its development in the name of ‘climate change’, as it asserted that climate-change negotiations should consider overriding developmental objectives of Third World nations. “We cannot accept a cap on our development,” Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Climate Change Issues Shyam Saran said in Washington, while...

Orissa government plans massive project to use jatropha plantations to guarantee rural jobs. The government is preparing a master plan to use jatropha plantations to secure jobs for its rural areas. The proposal has gained renewed backing in recent months as refiners have begun to extract oil from the seeds...

State-owned Engineers India Ltd (EIL), which provides engineering and related technical services for industrial projects, plans to enter the nuclear business by constructing underground caverns to store nuclear waste and may use the services of Swedish consultants SWECO and SKB International Consulting AB. SWECO is already a consultant to EIL...

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...