Patient capital can help provide reliable and green electricity to the rural poor

Maphou Dam site (Manipur), Feb 27

Plastics used in insulating power cables can be made to conduct electricity with the help of a thin metal film, opening the way to plastic electronics.

Applying this technique, University of New South Wales researchers can now make cheap, strong, flexible and conductive plastic films.

Ion beam techniques are widely used in the microelectronics industry to tailor the conductivity of semicondu

Chennai RRB Energy (RRBEL), one of the key players in wind power sector, is planning to develop and manufacture wind electric generators (WEGs) of 3 mw capacity.

It is likely to sign an agreement with a German company for technology and development support within the next two months.

"We have had discussions with the consultant for helping us with this exercise.

PATNA: With the Bihar legislature's budget session beginning on Tuesday, checking corruption and procuring power, along with increased spending on education, agriculture and health care are the prime focus of the State budget to be presented by Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi on February 25.

In his inaugural address to both Houses of the legislature, Governor Debanand Konwar said 394 ca

Arunachal Pradesh has asserted that it would become one of the leading states of the country both economically as well as socially by commissioning its various hydropower projects.

Sources told The Telegraph that in a memorandum submitted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently, Arunachal Pradesh chief minister Dorjee Khandu stated that his government has prioritised hydropower as the main go

PATHANAMTHITTA: Making Kerala the first totally electrified State in India is the mission of the Left Democratic Front government, A.K. Balan, Minister for Electricity, has said.

He was inaugurating the work on the 33-kV electrical substation at Poozhikkad near Pandalam on Monday.

The power ministry has asked Central Electricity Authority (CEA) to regularly monitor the implementation of ultra mega power projects (UMPPs), with generation capacity of about 4,000 Mw each.

In the league of Palakkad, Ernakulam and Thrissur
79 Assembly constituencies totally electrified
Efforts to improve public distribution system: Isaac

ALAPPUZHA: Alappuzha district was on Sunday declared totally electrified, taking the number of totally electrified districts in the State to four, including Palakkad, Thrissur and Ernakulam.

Making the declaration in the absence of Chief Mini