Windmill operators are in dire straits. The Indian Renewable Energy Development Authority (IREDA) will have to reduce the rate of interest, including that on outstanding loans, to 12 per cent from

The Japanese government had not conducted on-site inspections at the uranium processing plant where a large radiation leak occurred since 1992, an official said on Saturday. "Between 1985 and 1992,

Japan reversed direction on Friday and said it would accept an offer from the International Atomic Energy Agency to help investigate the cause of the nation's worst nuclear accident. The head of the

The fate of the BEST-promoted, Rs 1,400 crore, 320 mw naphtha-fired power project hangs in balance as the Maharashtra government and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have failed to take a

One of the world's leading promoters of solar energy and founder president of the European Association for Solar Energy (Eurosolar) Dr Hermann Scheer has been named as one of the four recipients of

Powertech India'99, an international exhibition and conference on the power sector, will open in Mumbai between October

Will news of an accident at the Kaiga atomic power plant reach local citizens in time for them to react? Will they be swiftly evacuated like the people of Tokaimura? No, insist the opponents of the

The announcement this week of a "significant" oil discovery off the mainland coast of Equatorial Guinea is likely to boost international oil company interest in the small West African

Miniature gas-fuelled power stations producing heat and electricity could start replacing household boilers within a few years, with wide-ranging implications for mature energy markets. Some

The Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board (UPSEB) has raised a communique vacating a Union government clause for Aditya Birla Group's Rs 2,600 crore Rosa Thermal Power Plant project of 567 MW in