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Dec 2008 News Underlining 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...

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...

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...

Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday on next-generation reactors for India as the Canadian government closes in on a cooperation deal with the long-time nuclear renegade nation. Canada’s international trade minister Stockwell Day said India is interested in buying Canadian components, uranium and hazardous waste...

Larsen & Toubro Ltd. said it will team up with Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. to build reactors, the second international nuclear venture of India’s biggest engineering company in less than a week. The companies will build ACR1000 pressurized heavy water reactors in India, Larsen said in statement today, without...

Done by the Planning Commission in Aug 2006, this is an excellent document that lays the groundwork and supporting data and arguments for configuring India’s Energy policy. A must-read for anyone wishing to know fully about the Indian government’s perspectives on policy options available to ensure India’s energy security in...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley have announced a joint research and development program in which researchers will work with the government and private sector of India to develop paths toward reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) while...