Karnataka and Gujarat continued to showcase their leadership in the progress toward the clean energy transition, a new joint report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)
Gosaba (Pathankhali island), 1 Feb: The villagers of Pathankhali island finally got electricity today. The Sunderban development minister Mr Kanti Ganguly inaugurated the programme. The estimated cost of the project of providing electricity to the village is Rs 22 crore. Work is underway to provide electricity to the 12 gram panchayats in Gosaba.
The government is responding to people
Forget about the highly questionable technology for the proposed 1,650 megawatt nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district from the French power major Areva, or even the objections of the Finnish environmental watchdog body STUK for the Olkiluoto plant, which is being replicated at Jaitapur. The fact is that nothing can prevent time overruns and, therefore, cost escalation.
THENI: With high potential for wind power generation and availability of large tracts of open land and an excellent climate, several new companies, including foreign wind power units, have been thronging the district for setting up of windmills. Such an overwhelming enthusiasm has resulted in sharp increase in the number of wind power units in the district. The total number of functioning wi
Jaipur: Chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Wednesday met Union minister for coal Sriprakash Jaiswal in Delhi and requested him to immediately allot coal linkage and coal blocks for power projects in the state. During the meeting, the chief minister demanded that the coal blocks allotted to Rajasthan in Chhattisgarh be set aside from
KOCHI: The Parliamentary Committee on Energy will recommend to the Union government to increase the support for research projects like application of nanotechnology in solar cells, P.C. Chacko, MP, has said. Mr.
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Indian Railways is poised to set up four bio-diesel plants at a cost of `120 crore, in potentially one of the biggest initiatives for the bio-fuel production in the country. While two bio-diesel esterification plants are going to be commissioned at Raipur and Chennai during the next two years, the other two units will be set up subsequently, a senior railway ministry official said. Each plan
CHENNAI: Scientists globally are a step closer to resolving the energy crisis after Italian scientists Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi recently developed a cold fusion device that is capable of producing 10 KW of power, said noted nuclear scientist M Srinivasan. Speaking at a tutorial school on the theme,
