Te state-owned Tamilnadu Industrial Development Corporaion Ltd (Tidco) plans to add 1,000 mw power generating capacity in Tamilnadu using orimulsion as the fuel. Orimulsion is a natural bitumen

Shoinghar village in Kulu district has been declared 'akshya urja gram' (renewable energy village) by the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources, Government of

Nepal will ask US power firm Enron Corp to reconsider its decision to withdraw its application to build a hydropower plant in the Himalayan kingdom, finance minister Ram Sharan Mahat

The Tanzanian government has succumbed to donor pressure and challenged the terms of a controversial Malaysian power contract which jeopardised the country's $350m Songo gas project and threatened to

The chief scientist of Indian tobacco company (ITC) has devised a "Solar barn" which uses solar energy for curing Virginia tobacco in technical collaboration with a Russia-based "NPO

Though Assam has been producing crude oil and natural gas for more than a hundred years now, the State's hydrocarbon reserves will last at least another 40 years at the present extraction rate, says

The Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) is planning to set up a fuel management company in collaboration with MC Bitor Ltd., a joint venture between Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan

To give a major fillip to hydro power generation in the country, the Power Ministry is working on a six point strategy to attract hydro-players in this sector in a big way. Under the proposed

Overlooking protests from its political opponenets the Bangladesh government has commissioned a study of the technical and economic aspects of importing electricity from India. The excercise funded

There is potential danger of land sinking in the Krishna-Godavari basin that is being extensively exploited for oil and gas, a geologist has