Shastry V. Mallady

It will function as a resource, research, training and production centre

MADURAI: To encourage use of solar energy, an institute under the name Loyola Institute of Solar Energy and Technology (LSET) was inaugurated here on Saturday.

NTPC, NHPC, PowerGrid and DVC to invest Rs 200 crore in the joint venture.
BS Reporter / New Delhi April 12, 2009, 0:14 IST

In an attempt to cut down the delays in power projects caused by the lack of a proper equipment testing facility in India, the power ministry has got four Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) to form a joint venture to set up a domestic testing facility.

There are certain technology challenges which have waited in vain over several decades for a satisfactory solution. The economical storage of electricity is one of them. But intensive work in the meantime is driving advances along various avenues.

The purpose of this study is to gain a more differentiated picture of the impact of the global financial crisis on the renewable energy sector by determining changes and trends in investment flows for renewable energy technologies and companies as the cost of capital rises and access to credit becomes more difficult.

The first Formula 1 cars to be fitted with a controversial energy recovery system are due to race in this season's opening Grand Prix in Melbourne, Australia, on Sunday. But questions over the safety of the system remain unresolved in the run-up to the race.

Power lines stretching across continents would allow us to ditch fossil fuels for good

Algae are quickly becoming the most attractive successor to traditional biofuels feedstocks like corn and soybeans, and even to next-generation feedstocks such as switchgrass and jatropha, Although algal biofuels are not yet being produced or consumed on a commercial scale, a number of companies are working their way toward doing exactly that, possibly as soon as 2010.

This publication is designed to help companies explore the various options for deploying and financing renewable energy technologies. In particular, it considers deployment strategies for solar photovoltaic, solar thermal, wind, and geothermal heat pump technologies and provides examples of successful deployments.

Offshore structures that generate electrical power from ocean waves have been deployed but engineering challenges remain.

A recent editorial in Science issued a call for a mission-oriented project, similar to the Manhattan project, for processing lignocellulose (plant biomass)

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