The Government, in a bid to bring down the oil imports bill, is seriously considering use of ethanol as an alternative fuel. "We will launch a pilot project in January 2001 to study the viability of

Rajasthan government has decided against private sector participation in electricity transmission, said state energy minister Dr Chandrabhan. He told newsmen on Wednesday that the state government

The German government is threatening a possible showdown with European partners on energy policy by preparing to ban electricity imports from countries that have not made sufficient progress in

The US Energy Department tightened its rules for traders who want to bid on oil from the nation's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, requiring them to post a substantial bond for the oil they are

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) has practically closed the deal with CMS Energy Asia as its technological collaborator for the proposed 500 MW gas-based power plant at Vishakapatnam.

A suprapartisan group of politicians in Japan aims to submit to the current Diet session a proposal to subsidize energy generated by natural sources souch as wind and solar power. The proposal calls

Continuing on the path of power sector reforms, the Karnataka Government today reached a milestone when a multi-partite agreement was signed by the Governmnet, the Infrastructure Development Finance

The Rajasthan government has come up with a project to sell its garbage and generate electricity out of it. In Jaipur alone garbage accumulated is expected to generate 15 million units of electricity

Untile recently, the new power plant in Eastern Germany looked like a Taj Mahal of good intentions gone wrong. Built by VEAG AG, an Eastern power company owned by West German utilities, the

The government of Vanuatu has committed the archipelago to becoming a hydrogen based society and cease importing petroleum products by 2010, becoming the first nation on earth to solely use renewable