KARTIKAY MEHROTRA

Despite revising its capacity targets for the second consecutive fiscal to aspire to more realistic goals in 2008-2009, the power ministry has fallen short of the cumulative benchmarks by more than 4,000 Megawatts owing to lack of supplies, manpower and commissioning of projects.

Oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens's step back from his plan to build the world's largest wind farm in Texas shows how a brutal recession could change the way the United States invests in renewable energy.

COIMBATORE: Coastal Energen Private Limited, which is setting up a 1,200 MW power plant in Tuticorin, plans to offer under the open access system about 500 MW to be generated there.

The Milan trade fair said on Tuesday it is commissioning the world's biggest rooftop photovoltaic power installation covering some 270,000 square meters.

Inder Malhotra

The Pakistan Electric Power Company is putting co-ordinated efforts to extend electricity distribution infrastructure to remote areas of the country. Multiple system augmentation and infrastructure improvement programmes are also being executed and enormous human endeavour, technical expertise and financial investments have been concentrated on various developmental projects.

- A project linking solar power from the Sahara to energy users in Europe and North Africa could create 240,000 German jobs and generate 2 trillion euros ($2,822 billion) worth of power by 2050, a study published on Thursday found.

July 2: The state government is flummoxed by the huqe quantity of electricity needed to power the 29 lift irrigation projects that will come into operation. In all, the projects will need 8,254 megawatts once they come into operation over the next eight years. This is more than the total state consumption of power of 8,200 MW.

The dramatic growth in wind turbines around the British Isles may lead to huge spikes in power prices by 2030 and threaten the viability of backup plants needed for calm periods, according to Poyry Energy Consulting.

In recent years the legion of supporters of renewable energy has expanded to include labor unions concerned about jobs, as well as national security and energy independence experts such as George Schultz and James Woolsey.