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
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Will take gas at govt rate, despite HC suit with RIL. Government-owned power generator NTPC Ltd today said it was willing to buy gas for its Kawas and Gandhar expansion projects in Gujarat at a rate prescribed by the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM).
NTPC is ready to buy natural gas at any price fixed by the government for its Kawas and Gandhar expansion projects, but this will not dilute its position in its court battle with Reliance Industries for gas supply at a lower price for these plants, NTPC Chairman Arup Roy Chudhury said on Friday. NTPC took RIL to the Bombay High Court in 2005, complaining that RIL was not honouring a contrac
With no signs of a respite in oil prices and given India
Extremophile microbes in mud from a frozen Alaskan lake can be harnessed to make biogas.
Will enable advance commissioning of the project The project involves Rs.8,000 crore investment NEW DELHI: State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on Friday announced that it's power subsidiary, ONGC Tripura Power Company (OTPC) has inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bangladesh to open up a new transport corridor for transporting heavy equipment for its plant in Triupra.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a challenge from U.S. oil companies and refiners against the Environmental Protection Agency for retroactively imposing ethanol blending levels and volume requirements for gasoline sales. Federal law requires the EPA to set by November 30 each year the amount of ethanol that must make up U.S. gasoline sales for the following year.
The European Union's executive said on Wednesday it was looking at further measures to tackle the unwanted side-effects of biofuels production, which compromise the fuels' green credentials. After a two-year investigation, the European Commission said the complex issue of "indirect land use change" could lessen carbon savings from biofuels, but it stopped short of immediately recommending new b
It is official, the ambitious Assam Gas Cracker Project has slipped the deadline this year as well, achieving only 26.4 per cent of the targeted 50 per cent. The progress achieved so far in the project included the overall physical progress of the project, as on November 15 is 26.4 per cent, against the cumulative scheduled target of 50 per cent, it was officially stated. Despite the slippag
The railways are trying out several experiments to be environment friendly. While Central Railway (CR) has begun the process of installation of solar-powered illumination at level crossings along its sections, Western Railway (WR) is one of the first railways to run a train on bio-diesel. Both these railways have several lakhs of saplings of jathropa seeds along their rail tracks that yield oi
