Give Bharat its share of electricity
The benefits of the rural electrification programme have been lost by supplying the power for only a few hours a day and a weak system of providing new connections and collecting bills, says Ajay Shankar
The benefits of the rural electrification programme have been lost by supplying the power for only a few hours a day and a weak system of providing new connections and collecting bills, says Ajay Shankar
Kohima: Nagaland Advisor to New and Renewable Energy and MLA Deo Nukhu has informed that the collection of data has already been completed and a Master Plan is being prepared to make Kohima the first Solar City of Nagaland.
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<p>KOLKATA, 30 JUNE: The state government is planning to shift from thermal power to gas-based power plants and in the process has already entered into MoUs with GAIL and Reliance, said Mr Nirupam Sen, power minister, in the Assembly lobby today.<br />
CERC's order stakeholders comments for setting of the benchmark capital cost of solar-PV for financial years 2010-11, 2011-2012 and solar-thermal projects for the years 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-13. The order also includes comments and calculations presented by stakeholders in a public hearing in February 2010.
NEW DELH: Predicting a severe impact on food security following the hike in fuel prices and expressing concern over the all-round slide in India's agriculture and rural economy, a national convention on Thursday demanded a series of measures to counter it.
P B Jayakumar / Mumbai July 2, 2010, 1:14 IST From micro wind turbines to rice husk, low-cost solutions are being tested to drive the huge market hunger for energy First they came up with the Tata Nano. Then Swach, a water purifier. Followed by a low-cost housing programme. Now the Tata group is planning to repeat the success in the power sector.
In September 2009, at the Pittsburgh Summit, G-20 leaders recognized that "inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies encourage wasteful consumption, distort markets, impede investment in clean energy sources and undermine efforts to deal with climate change", and committed to phase out and rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that lead to wasteful consumption.
OIL and gas minister Murli Deora on Friday dashed hopes of total freedom to oil and gas companies in fixing prices of petrol, saying that the government will intervene to protect consumers from high volatility.
A pipeline commissioned on Friday at the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) terminal in Devanagonthi near Hosakote to bring petroleum products from Chennai to Bangalore might help meet the City
<p>Over the past decade, biofuels production in the EU and US has boomed – much of this due to government mandates and subsidies. The US has now surpassed Brazil as the world’s leading<br /> producer of ethanol. The economic and environmental impact of these biofuel programs has become an important question of public policy. Due to the complex intersectoral linkages
Agartala: Tripura is facing a serious crisis of petrol, diesel and LPG due to non-loading of tankers from Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) outlets in Assam, state Civil Supplies Minister Manik Dey said on Sunday.
Govt Yet To Clarify Status Of Captive Coal Block Bundled With The 4000 MW Project POWER Finance Corp (PFC), the nodal agency for ultra mega mega power projects (UMPP), has extended by two months the deadline for submitting initial requests for participation in bidding for the Chhattisgarh project, delaying the project further.
Meena Menon MUMBAI: The government thrust to increase the use of renewable energy has put power utilities in a fix as there is just not enough installed capacity to meet the new six per cent norm mandated by the Maharashtra Energy Regulatory Commission(MERC).
After CNG, the Indian Railways now wants to tap bio-diesel potential to cut down on its operational cost. The Ministry has decided to set up an integrated bio-diesel plant at Chennai. The plant will have a production capacity of 30 tonnes per day.
Hydrogen Fuel Cells Power Hybrid Cars, Homes In A Trial Project In Japan For Yosuke Ito, having a Toyota Prius on the driveway is not green enough. His house, as well as his car, is a hybrid.
Jayajit Dash / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar July 05, 2010, 0:59 IST OREDA to electrify 1000 inaccessible villages this year Orissa may have the most number of un-electrified villages in the country after Jharkhand but the state is upbeat on meeting the target for electrification of all its villages by December 2011.
T.S. Subramanian Chennai: As the bus winds past the beautiful countryside in Tennessee and Alabama States in the U.S. and we enter a huge coal-fired electricity generating plant, a board announces,
Shoumojit Banerjee Patna: Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad on Sunday said petroleum products in neighbouring countries were far cheaper and accused the Congress of
Centre All Set To Fix Price At Rs 27/Litre; Industry Says Move To Spell Loss For OMCs THE Centre is all set to fix the price of ethanol at Rs 27 per litre this week under intense pressure from the powerful sugar lobby. This will ensure fat bottom lines for the entire sugar industry even while it does not guarantee higher cane price for the producer.