India set to sign TAPI pipeline pact
India is all set to give its consent for an inter-governmental agreement on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline, which will be signed in Turkmenistan at a summit meet next week.
India is all set to give its consent for an inter-governmental agreement on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline, which will be signed in Turkmenistan at a summit meet next week.
Ishita Ayan Dutt / Dhaka December 04, 2010, 0:14 IST It
The Haryana government has formulated a plan for mass production of bio-fuels from all kinds of biomass and organic waste. A spokesman of the Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency said by converting biomass, animal waste, hospital waste, hotel waste, industries waste into bio-fuels, the emission of extremely lethal methane gas into environment could be prevented.
Marking a significant shift, India for the first time voted today in favour of a proposal at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board to create a fuel bank that has an eligibility condition so far associated only with signatories of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
The State Government introduces the Solar Power Policy
India has a flourishing and largely indigenous nuclear power program and expects to have 20,000 MWe nuclear capacity on line by 2020 and 63,000 MWe by 2032. It aims to supply 25% of electricity from nuclear power by 2050.
Presently India is facing the twin challenge of energy universalization as well as emission reduction. Nearly 0.4 billion people in India
KARIMGANJ, Dec 5
CHARANAKA, a village nestled in a remote corner of Patan district in north Gujarat is destined to become the state
Sanjay Jog / Mumbai December 6, 2010, 0:18 IST State-run Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) and French nuclear power major Areva would sign two crucial agreements tomorrow for developing a 10,000-Mw nuclear power project at Jaitapur in Maharashtra. The agreements
Iran claimed Sunday it could now use domestically mined uranium to produce nuclear fuel, giving the country complete control over a process the West suspects is geared toward producing weapons. Tehran made the claim a day before a new round of nuclear talks with world powers that want to rein in Iran
Despite no budget allocation for the Bamnauli power project in the current financial year 2010-2011, the Delhi Government is all set to appoint NTPC as Project Management Consultant for the Pragati Power Project phase II (750 mw-800 mw) at Bamnauli.
Delhi Cabinet on Monday gave its nod for setting up of a 750 MW gasbased power plant at Bamnauli.
Sandeep Dikshit NEW DELHI:
Due to increase in revenue of Madhya Pradesh Electricity Companies and decrease in expenses along with reduction in commercial and distribution losses, the financial condition of the State Electricity Board has bettered. Comparing to October 2009-2010 the revenue in October 2010-11 was 25 per cent more. In October 2009-10 the revenue receipt was Rs 4 thousand 110 crore 93 lakh.
Price hike to improve financial health of state-run oil marketing firms, but heat up inflation OIL companies plan to raise petrol and diesel prices by 2 a litre after a week as crude touched a two-year high of $90 a barrel on Tuesday, a move that will boost the finances of state-run firms but stoke inflation.
Gireesh Chandra Prasad India is likely to phase out oil subsidies in the next three to four years, in line with the commitment it has made to the world at the Seoul G-20 Summit last month and complete one of the most politically difficult reform processes it started in June this year. In Seoul, heads of the 20 developed and developing nations stated that they would rationalise and phase out
Price hike to improve financial health of state-run oil marketing firms, but heat up inflation Rajeev Jayaswal NEW DELHI OIL companies plan to raise petrol and diesel prices by 2 a litre after a week as crude touched a two-year high of $90 a barrel on Tuesday, a move that will boost the finances of state-run firms but stoke inflation.
<p>The role of new and renewable energy has been assuming increasing significance with the growing concern for the country’s energy security.
Raising serious concern over the proposal for another power tariff hike by the Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB), aggrieved organisations and individuals have decided to move the Gauhati High Court with a PIL against the earlier tariff hike of 13 paise per unit in June 2010. Engineer JN Khataniar, Consumers