Private power producer Tata Power is scouting for coal mines abroad, including Australia and Mozambique, to meet demand for upcoming projects.

The United States is still working toward an agreement with G20 partners to phase out subsidies for fossil fuels, a top White House adviser said ahead of this week's G20 summit.

Michael Froman, deputy national security adviser and top G20 aide to President Barack Obama, said the United States was hoping to reach an agreement about the issue at the Pittsburgh summit on Thursday and Friday.

The World Bank today approved four loans worth $4.3 billion (about Rs 20,631 crore) to help India finance its infrastructure programmes and further strengthen the capital base of state-run banks. The approved loan includes a a budgetary support of $2 billion for capital infusion in select public sector banks to help them maintain credit growth.

Poking out of the ground near the smokestacks of the Mountaineer power plant here are two wells that look much like those that draw natural gas to the surface. But these are about to do something new: inject a power plant

Kolkata, Sept. 20: The country

Sri Lanka is to sign a commercial agreement with India next week to build a 1000 MW coal power plant in Sampur, Trincomalee, a media release issued by the Ministry of Power and Energy said yesterday.

The coal power plant is a joint project of India and Sri Lanka. This will be the country's largest coal power plant and the total investment of the project is USD 500 million.

To Fund Rs 7k-Cr Project With Rs 5,000-Cr Loan & Rs 2,000-Cr Rights Issue

PETRONET LNG, the largest importer of chilled gas (imported as liquefied natural gas in tankers), is set to diversify downstream and set up two power plants. It is also planning a right issue to part fund the projects.

First it was Kazakhstan, then Namibia and now Mongolia. In its quest for obtaining fuel for its nuclear power plants, India has been reaching out to every possible country that has some uranium resources and is willing to sell it to New Delhi.

New Delhi: In an attempt to revive its closed units and convert the existing non-gas based units to gas-based, the fertiliser ministry has sought 43.37 million metric standard cubic meter per day (mmscmd) additional gas from RIL's KG-D6 basin.