About 86 percent of India’s rural households still use dung cakes and firewood as fuel, a senior government official has said here. “More than 85 million households in India spend 30 billion hours gathering firewood. The country also consumes 131 tonnes of crude oil products in 2007-08,” Planning Commission member Kirit S. Parikh said at […]

The Tamil Nadu government’s announcement recently giving two options for industries viz., either opt for a two-day power holiday a week or choose a 30% reduction in power supply for HT units and 15% for LT units, has evoked mixed response from industry bodies in the state. While associations like the CII, FICCI, NASSCOM and […]

Suzlon Energy will soon commission 19 wind turbines worth $90 million in Nicaragua in Central America. The order, being executed through Suzlon Wind Energy, a European subsidiary of Suzlon, was for setting up a 40-MW capacity network of windmills. This is the first order for Suzlon in Nicaragua. The 19 turbines of 2.1 MW capacity […]

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