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.
The state-run thermal power major NTPC Ltd has been ranked the No.1 Independent Power Producer (IPP) in Asia and No. 10 in overall performance among the energy companies in Asia, by Platts, a division of the reputed McGrawHill companies. Globally, the PSU major has been adjudged number two Independent Power Producer and No 73 in overall performance. The award was received by Mr A.N.
India's largest power company NTPC plans to invest a massive Rs 2,25,000 crore in the next seven years in capacity expansion to become a 75,000-MW entity, company's chairman, Mr R. S. Sharma, said. NTPC, which has a production capacity of a little over 30,000 MW annually, constitutes 19 per cent of the country's total installed capacity of 1,55,000 MW.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Forty -three towns in the state will benefit from a Rs 288-crore Central scheme meant to strengthen the power distribution sector and reduce technical and commercial losses by 15 percent. KSEB has been allocated the scheme under the Restructured-Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme (RAPDRP).
THIRUVANATHAPURAM: Kerala has finally done it. Daily power consumption has, for the first time, crossed 55 million units (MU) in the State. Keralites gobbled up a whopping 55.03 MU on Thursday breaking the existing record of 54.94 MU.
<p>The electricity sectors of many developing countries underwent substantial reforms during the 1980s and 1990s, driven by global agendas of privatization and liberalization. However, rural electrification offered little by way of market incentives for profit-seeking private companies and was often neglected. As a consequence, delivery models for rural electrification need to change.
African countries are making some important strides toward a green energy sector. According to the Global Renewables Status 2009, Northern Africa boasts more than 500 MW of installed wind power, while Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania are all planning their first wind farms.
FRENCH industrial engineering major Alstom will formalise its tripartite joint venture agreement with state-owned Bhel and Nuclear Power Corporation over the next few months to help it tap about 45,000 mw of nuclear power, expected to come up in India over the next 10-15 years.
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.
MUMBAI: Kinetic chairman Arun Firodia, who saw an opportunity at the bottomof-the-pyramid long before the phrase became a catchword and launched the moped Luna, now plans to launch a project that would bring power to villages. The plan entails starting a two micro-electric plants at villages with a population of over 2,000.
The objective of this assignment is to develop an Area Based Energy Service Company (ESCO) Model for Solar Water Heating (SWH) and to assess the potential of Carbon Financing in order to achieve scale in SWH development in the country. In the recent years, India has witnessed considerable progress in SWH development. A total of 3.53 million sq. m.
The first 500 MW unit of Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project at Jhajjar, Haryana, has been commissioned after achieving full load on October 31, 2010. The unit has achieved full load in 39 months and 25 days from the date of investment approval, a new record for Greenfield projects. The 1,500 MW [3x500 MW] project is being set up by Aravali Power Company Private Limited, a joint ventur
The Renewables 2010 Global Status Report provides an integrated perspective on the global renewable energy situation.
At present, use of SWH is rather limited and scattered in Indian Himalayas. Most of the existing systems are in commercial and institutional buildings (hotels, resorts, hospitals, defense establishments, etc); in general the use of solar water heaters in the domestic sector is very scarce.
Bhel, NTPC & IGCAR Join Hands For Project A 800-MW coal-fired power project based on more efficient advanced ultra supercritical thermal power technology is being set up jointly by BHEL, NTPC and Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR). The .
Community Development Activities claimed by INDAL at Durgamanwadi
consumers in us have pledged to buy gasoline-electric hybrid cars if carmakers manufacture them. The pledge was made in an internet petition as a part of the Natural Resources Defence
a foreign army of 60 snout beetles was recently released into three marked plots of the Everglades in Florida. Their job is to arrest the expansion of melaleuca, a tree used for landscaping
FRIUILI VENEZA GIULIA or Friends of Earth (FOE) an Italian environmental group, is opposing the Tarvisio town, the venue for the 2006 Winter Olympics. They fear that the games would pose a threat to
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