The Department of Energy will announce the development of a "hybrid" fuel cell that could be the forerunner of a new generation of electric power plants that run at record levels of efficiency with

By purifying biogas produced from distillery wastes, scientists in Calcutta claimed to have generated huge quantities of compressed methane, a gas with immense potential as an alternative source of

To promote the use of source of non-conventional energy among people in the rural areas, the Punjab government has decided to give 500 solar tubewell connections to the farmers. Each connection costs

An experiment project to generate energy from flowers and panchamrat offerings to Lord Mahakal has been devised in Madhya Pradesh, with the blessings of the Union Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy

A senior leader of the Congress has blamed the previous governments for delaying the Yamunanagar super thermal power plant's construction.

German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder reaffirmed his government's intention to end the use of nuclear power in Germany even as the conservative opposition pledged new moves to block the phaseout.

The cost of cleaning up the America's Hanford nuclear reservation's highly radioactive nuclear waste storage tanks has jumped to $15.2 billion-more than twice the original estimate, the contractor

Anti-nuclear activists are reaching a village named Sanawada on Sunday, 50 km from India's nuclear site to formulate strategy against a likely dumping ground for nuclear waste. A meeting has been

Ministers fear more than half the British coal industry could disappear within two to three years despite the $159m aid scheme announced by Stephen Byers, chief trade and industry minister. The

The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association International Ltd (NRECAI) of the US has offered to help Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC) and Power Finance Corporation (PFC) in