Leaders of a fledgling U.N.

The fate of billions of dollars of promised funding from rich countries to help the developing world adapt to climate change will be discussed on Thursday in Geneva, at the first meeting of the UN'

AUSTRALIANS put more household solar panel systems on their roofs than anyone else in the world last year, new data from the Clean Energy Regulator and the International Energy Agency show.

The government of Nepal, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) jointly launched the ‘Eco

Germany's plan to wean itself off nuclear power has suffered a submarine setback.

Going solar is no longer a bright idea for the four-decade-old photovoltaic manufacturing industry. This high-potential renewable energy sector has suffered a serious setback in India as much as across the globe. And the alarm bells are ringing loud.

In the 1970s, public sector companies Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited and the Central Electronics Limited were the first to make solar equipment in India. But these were primarily for research and development. In the 1990s, some more companies started small-scale manufacture of solar equipment. These were restricted to manufacturing for household applications.

New Delhi Adani refused power supply to GUVNL due to rising coal prices

The Supreme Court on Monday admitted Adani Power’s appeal against the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity’s order asking it to supply power to state utility Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd (GUVNL) at an agreed price of R2.35 per unit for 25 years. Adani Power had, in December 2009, terminated its 2007 power purchase agreement (PPA) with the state utility for supply of 1,000 mw power on the grounds that it would not be possible to supply electricity at the earlier agreed tariff of R2.35 per unit due to high coal prices.

Bhubaneswar: India and Germany on Thursday signed agreements for a Rs 365 crore loan to develop urban infrastructure in Odisha.

International donor agency KfW-Germany would extend financial assistance of 52.5 million euro (approximately Rs 365 crore) to Odisha for funding urban infrastructure projects. KfW has inked four agreements- two with the Government of India and two with the state government for offering the loan assistance.

While KfW signed loan and financing pacts with the Government of India, it entered into project agreement with Odisha government and a separate agreement with Odisha Urban Infrastructure Development Fund (OUIDF).