Japanese oil refiner Showa Shell Sekiyu KK said it will invest $1.1 billion to build a new thin-film solar cell plant, as it chases First Solar in a growing market. Showa Shell's 100 billion yen plant -- its third solar cell facility -- will boost its annual production capacity twelve-fold to 980 megawatts when it comes onstream in the second half of 2011.
Mumbai Come march, Mumbai will have solar-powered streetlights. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has proposed to install solar panels on nearly 50,000 out of 1.25 lakh lampposts across the city.
NTPC Is Refusing To Use Gas For Kawas, Gandhar Units
Energy-starved India, armed with permission to buy atomic fuel from around the world after the end of a three-decade ban, is courting new partners alongside old friends in its global hunt for uranium.
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Honda Motor Co will maintain the target for lease sales of its newest fuel-cell car after over a year since its launch despite the challenge of boosting productivity, the model's chief engineer said.
Hemas Power, a subsidiary of Hemas Holdings PLC, announced an Initial Public Offering for 31.3 million ordinary shares which will be listed in the Colombo Stock Exchange hoping to raise between Rs. 532 million and Rs. 626 million to fund projects in non-conventional renewable energy generation.
First Solar Inc said on Tuesday it plans to build the world's largest solar plant in China in the first major foray by a U.S. company into the Asian nation's fast growing alternative energy sector.
Lobbyist pressure will not weigh on a U.N. panel's decision whether to award carbon finance worth about 100 million euros ($144 million) to Chinese wind power projects, said the chair of the panel on Tuesday. "If you add it all up there are quite a number of projects, all from China," Lex de Jonge told the Reuters Global Climate and Alternative Energy Summit, on a ruling due this week.
Chinese government officials signed an agreement on Tuesday with First Solar, an American solar developer, for a 2,000-megawatt photovoltaic farm to be built in the Mongolian desert.
The use of clean fuels such as liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) instead of biomass-based fuels used for cooking in India would be beneficial in several ways. However, only about 33.6 million or 17.5% of all Indian homes use LPG as their primary cooking fuel, with 90% of rural homes still dependent on some form of biomass.
As many as 15 firms have shown interest in the 1,320 MW Rajpura thermal plant project after an appeal by its earlier lone bidder Lanco calling for acceptance of its negotiated bid by the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) was rejected by the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity.
A study was conducted to assess the oil content variation in Jatropha curcas seeds collected from seven sites varying in altitude and at different fruit maturity stages from wasteland and cultivable land.
Heavy rain today caused traffic jams and water logging in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar and Narsinghpur districts where rivers were in spate. Rain water entered several low-lying areas in Sagar and Narsinghpur towns. Affected people were shifted to schools and choultries. A large number of 'kutcha' houses reportedly collapsed in the two towns. Several trees were uprooted in rural areas.
Activated charcoals have been prepared from the weed like Argemone mexicana L. by using chemical activating agents like Zinc Chloride, Ortho Phosphoric Acid, etc.
A top Obama Administration official said the U.S. oil and gas industry will survive a proposed repeal of billions of dollars tax preferences and there will be an insignificant impact on worldwide prices.
Jammu: Minister for Industries and Commerce Surjit Singh Slathia has said that the Centre had approved a package of Rs 5500 crore for the development of three regions of the state.
The Union Ministry of Power has approved a loan of Rs 81.07 crore for upgradation of power infrastructure to help reduce energy losses of 14 major towns of the state under the restructured accelerated power development and reform programme.
NEW DELHI: The Petroleum and Natural Gas Ministry will launch the
