The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has released the draft guidelines for PM Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana which is aimed at installing rooftop solar (RTS) plants in one crore (10 million) households
After an exhaustive consultative process initiated in July 2008, the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) on 20 March 2009, announced a comprehensive order on wind energy tariff to be applicable from 19 September 2008.
Power would be generated from 'bhusa (paddy/wheat chipping)' and corn stems in Katni district of Madhya Pradesh. A private company is setting up a 7.5 MW biogas power plant at Gudar village in Badwara tahsil in Katni district. Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board has already entered into an agreement to purchase electricity with the company, according to official information.
Aug. 5: The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, on Wednesday said the KG basin gas would not provide solutions to all problems of power generation. He said the government will not allow gas-based power generation beyond 5,000 MW capacity.
150 research papers and over 40 posters presented 205 participants shared their expertise CHENNAI: An International Conference on Algal Biomass, Resources and Utilisation (ICABRU- 2009) was organised in the city recently by the Krishnamurthy Institute of Algology and the Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology of Stella Maris College. Foreign participation
Companies working with Ford Motor Co (F.N), Chrysler Group and General Motors Corp [GM.UL] received more than $600 million on Wednesday to further development of batteries for hybrids and electric cars. The awards were part of $2.4 billion in grants being announced by the Obama administration as part of its "green" economy vision and efforts to enhance U.S. energy independence.
Seeking to put the nation back in the lead on an important technology, the Obama administration awarded more than $2 billion in grants on Wednesday for manufacturing advanced batteries and other components for electric cars.
The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Wednesday that the agency wanted to impose new restrictions on so-called speculative traders, not to reduce price volatility but to prevent the energy markets from being dominated by a few huge investment funds.
The Centre on Thursday turned down the demand raised by MPs in Rajya Sabha that Mukesh Ambani-led RIL's gas fields be nationalised even as it assured members that it would do everything to protect the national interest.
Aug. 6: The petroleum minister, Mr Murli Deora, said on Thursday more natural gas from the Krishna Godavari basin would be allotted to Andhra Pradesh for its fertiliser companies and for domestic consumption.
Hyderabad: Realising that dependence on gas for power generation could prove detrimental in the long run, the Andhra Pradesh government has decided to bank only on coal to meet the future needs. Chief minister YS Rajasekhara Reddy on Wednesday pointed out that coal was the only
