India will seek loans of over $1 billion for central power projects from the World Bank, during talks with its president James D Wolfensohn next week. Power minister Suresh Prabhu will meet, Mr

LPG may become cheaper by Rs 10 & diesel by Re 1 : There will be a rollback in the price of petrogoods, after all. It's reliably learnt that the government will carry out a minor rollback in the

A winter draws in across Europe, scientists in Germany are squeezing more heat from sunshine with the design of a solar-powered house that they claim is more energy-efficient than previous models.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Economic Affairs Division of the government of Pakistan signed a project for the feasibility phase of Pakistan's first wind power

The Non-conventional Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh has approved 55 bio-mass projects aggregating a generating capacity of 309 mw with some more proposals nearing

As many as 60 sugar cooperatives, all politically controlled, are now moving towards generating 900-1000 MW of electricity using baggasse as fuel.Most of these expect to produce enough power to meet

Renewable energy should make up 12 percent of EU energy consumption by 2010, the European Commission's programme on meeting emissions reduction targets said. The switch to low-carbon fuels should

A crowd set fire to four U.S. owned oil wells in Indonesia's Riau province to protest the absence of land compensation, police said. The attacks are the latest in the series of disputes between the

The Maharashtra government, which has been rapped by the World Bank for the slow pace of power sector reforms, has prepared a "Power Sector Vision 2020" document with an emphasis on improvement in

In a high-wire act intended to take the heat off the fuel protestros without giving the impression of caving into threats, the British Government is reported to have decided to freeze the duty on