A court rejected a lawsuit filed by residents demanding the permanent closure of Japan's only fast-breeder nuclear reactor, once seen as the cornerstone of the energy-hungry nation's future power

The government made it mandatory for state electricity boards (SEBs) to sign power purchase agreement (PPA) to avail power from all new Central sector projects in a bid to guard against payment

India and the US moved in a major way to collaborate in the power sector. While an accord on developing solar energy was signed between the two governments, a series of agreements was concluded

The Hydrocarbons Vision 2025, which was presented to the Prime Minister, Mr. A.B. Vajpayee, has proposed 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) in the oil refining sector which currently is

From simmering tanks of high-level nuclear waste in Washington State and plutonium laced with chemical poisons in Idaho to production of radioactive gases in South Carolina, the U.S. government's

The U.S. House yesterday passed legislation to store the nation's hazardous nuclear waste from commercial power plants in the Nevada desert by decade's end, but the measure faces an almost

Expert : In an attempt to please the US, the government has hurriedly cobbled up an environmental agreement which may cost India heavily, says director of Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI), Dr R

Ramar Pillai, who was arrested by the CBI on March 11 for allegedly cheating the public by selling herbal fuel, was refused bail by the CBI Special Court

Rural Energy Development Programme (REDP), under United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), has been awarded with the 'Energy Globe Award 2000' at Linz, Austria recently. The award was given to

Nearly 550,000 New Mexico customers lost electricity for up to three hours after a grass fire shut down two power plants, snarling traffic in Albuquerque, silencing radio and television station and