A failure in its crumbling electric grid forced Russia to shut down several nuclear reactors over the weekend, including those at a gargantuan top-secret fuel-reprocessing plant, officials said on

The European Commission has opened a four-month merger probe into the nuclear power joint venture between Germany's Siemens and France's Framatome, raising a question over their plans to create the

In Toliara, western Madagascar, the war against deforestation is waged from a little green hand cart. Nono, a fruit vendor at the local market, pulls the vehicle around town for 30 hours a week,

Will Cogentrix, which walked out of the 100 MW Mangalore power project along with its partners China LIght and Power, reconsider its ealier decision? This seems to be a possibility considering what

The Mizoram government has drawn up a couple of schemes to augment the state's hydel and thermal power

The Centre has identified three mega power projects, Hirma, Ennore and Pipavav for the new guarantee cover which its plans to provide to ensure regular payments for energy sold. As an alternative to

The Union minstry for non-conventional energy resources (MNES) has proposed to establish a 140 MW integrated solar combined cycle power (ISCC) project at village Mathania in Jodhpur district in

A team of Swedish researchers has revealed that solar power from certain cells could compete in price with electricity produced in conventional power stations in 10 years' time. A research team at

The German government has said that it will introduce an electricity trading system encouraging the use of combined heat and power (CHP), which will avoid 50 million tonnes of carbon dioxide

In a remote village in the Philippines' Laguna procinve, a small contraption, made by a local company and driven by the currents of a local stream, is being used to generate enough electricity to