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Scientist Tim Flannery has accused Australia of taking an immoral position by exporting polluting coal to India but refusing to sell it uranium to help it establish a cleaner power-generation industry. The author of The Weather Makers said India’s plan to build a new generation of coalfired power stations in...

Suzlon, India’s wind power giant, has reported a quarterly loss after years of expansion and profit growth. It was hurt mainly by the ongoing global credit crunch, slowing wind turbine sales, and by rising costs and a provision to do repairs stemming from the widely reported quality problems at the...

Current scenario of development in renewable energy in India – an excellent white paper from REEEP (pdf)

Feb 2008 Wind power is becoming a mainstream energy source. Over 20,000 mw of wind turbines were installed in 2007 bringing world- wide capacity to 94,112 mw, up 27% from 2006. The top five countries in terms of installed capacity are Germany (22, 300 mw), the US (16,800 mw), Spain...

Sep 2008 news Around 150 companies, led by state-owned oil marketing companies and Reliance Industries (RIL), the country’s largest private company, have evinced interest in production of biodiesel. The move comes on the back of the government’s plan to introduce a 20 per cent blending of the non-fossil fuel with...

Oct 2008 news Certain biodiesel units have commenced production and are exporting the commodity to US and the EU nations. These units are using used non-edible oils and fatty acids from vegetable oils to produce biodiesel. Hyderabad-based Naturol Bioenergy Ltd is exporting biodiesel to these countries from its recently inaugurated...

This is wow! white paper / analysis paper. A must read. Summary: This monograph focuses on India’s need for oil and how this demand fits within its broader set of energy policies. The paper is divided into three sections. Part 1 surveys the country’s overall energy demand-supply situation, the “energy...

A brief analysis of the status of energy efficiency measures for the Indian ICT industry by the Climatico blog. It appears from the analysis that there is no specific program in the country for intersection of energy eff & ICT, but that’s just terminology. Some measures undertaken at different levels...

Was reading an old project entry (2006), but still thought it was relevant because it shows the kinds of stuff that can be done by industries to further energy efficiency. Name of Project “Energy efficiency project at SOTL, Aurangabad” MIDC, Waluj, Maharashtra by M/s Sterlite Optical technologies Limited. Location of...

“Already six percent of the country’s total energy basket was from wind energy, and the way ahead would see greater contribution of renewables such as solar and wind energy, wider use of biofuels and non-polluting energy sources such as nuclear energy, the minister said.” Kabil Sibal, in a Nov 2008...