This report summarizes the findings of a review aimed at understanding emerging approaches to energy subsidy reform, discerning trends, and identifying major strands of thinking and research in the field,
To cut down on pollution in Calcutta, the West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency is planning to produce bio-diesel from jetropha plants. The plant is locally known as verenda. The agency is
The government plans to do away with its earlier proposal of asking entities bidding for gas transmission pipelines to mandatorily build 25% excess capacity. Senior government officials said that
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy on Thursday said farmers who did not install capacitors on their pumpsets by March 31, 2006, and conserve water by avoiding paddy cultivation
When Finns switch on the bulk of their 1.5m saunas, power demand surges in the country of 5.2m people. The country's northern location, with a power-hungry paper and pulp industry and a predilection
Oil and Natural Gas Corp, India's largest oil and gas producer, on Thursday signed an agreement with world's largest coal producer Coal India Ltd for gasification of unminable coal reserves in the
Royal Dutch Shell is coming under growing pressure from the Russian government over the rising cost of Sakhalin 2, one of the world's largest offshore oil projects in which the Anglo-Dutch company
Indonesia, the world's second-largest palm oil producer, is preparing a biofuel scheme for the next five years, a minister said. The Indonesian Agriculture Ministry has been studying a biofuel
The Centre Government has approved Rs 91-crore schemes for Bhiwani, Hisar, Sirsa, Rohtak, Sonepat, Karnal and Panipat districts to strengthen the power distribution system in rural areas, provide
A bio-methane plant, which is a simple, clean and cost-effective method of generating energy from waste is essential for a growing city like Bangalore, speakers at a seminar on "Solid Waste
US Interior Secretary Gale Norton urged Congress to allow oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, arguing the amount of crude that could eventually come from the area is enough to
