A continuous inferno raging for more than a decade, possibly triggered by a coal bed methane gas reserve, has posed a major threat to pipelines of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) in the Asansol-Durgapur

Can the European Union meet in international treaty obligations to reduce global warming gases without the use of nuclear energy? The European commissioner for transport and energy policy, Loyola de

A viable option for villagers : Started for the next time in Nepal by Professor Father BR Subre at Godawari School some 45 years ago on a experimental basis, biogas technology has become popular in

The world's first commercial wave power station on the Hebridean island of Islay has successfully begun to feed electricity into the UK's national grid. The station, known as LIMPET (Land Installed

South Africa has been deprived of a large part of its oil reserves for a year and could lose more than $30m (21 m pound) after a secret deal between the state oil trading company and a Dutch/South

A bill calling for a public referendum on whether Finland should build a fifth nuclear power reactor has been presented to parliament, Finnish television channels reported late yesterday. The motion,

The decision at the at the general meeting of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to set the price of oil at $28.35 per barrel served to calm the worldwide alarm on the

Nine months after Japan deregulated its electricity market, all but one of the 10 electric power companies posted record half year pre-tax profits. Their share prices are higher than they were in

The world's first commercial wave power station has started operations on the small Scottish island of Islay, operators Wavegen said yesterday. Wavegen said the launch of the 500 kilowatt wave power

an effort to clean up Guwahati city : The Assam Chief Minister Mr Prafulla Kumar Mahanta formally laid the foundation of a 10 MW thermal power plant "Waste to Energy Project" at Sarusajai in Lokhra