The world's largest windfarm, made up of 450 giant turbines, is to be be built on the Washington-Oregon border in the US. The state of the art technology used will produce 300 mw of power, which will

A British zoologist has been banned from Ghana's Bui National Park, which will soon be flooded as a result of the construction of a hydroelectric dam on the Black Volta river. "I was not allowed to

Japan will give a loan of us $138.45 million to Costa Rica to build a hydroelectric power plant. The foreign ministers of both the

The Maheshwar hydroelectric project on Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh has suffered another setback. The Portuguese government has refused to become a guarantor for a loan of Rs 200 crore being given

Six protesters are killed

The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has signed a

A microhydel project a day. Communities snatch the

Whether it is Asia or Europe, countries find a new mantra: decentralise and electrify

Nightmarish laws and an insensitive government keeps thousands in the dark

For the country where only 15 per cent of its population have access to electricity, Nepal has come a long way. It took 84 years to achieve power generation of 250 megawatt. And only five years to add a whopping 125 megawatt through microhydels, an incr

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