General Electric Co unveiled two investments in start-up clean technology companies on Wednesday as part of its strategy of focusing on ways for business to generate and use energy more efficiently.

To enhance capacity to 3,140 MW by April 2011
CHENNAI: JSW Energy, a part of Sajjan Jindal-led JSW group, is planning to set up power plants in different locations by 2015.

Mumbai Gangubai Patil, an Anganwadi teacher for over three decades in Pophran village, has no place to call home. A fortnight ago, she was served with a notice from the gram panchayat to evict her tin shed, classified as

Germany's conservatives and their Free Democrat allies will reform the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) but cuts for solar power rates will be modest to prevent harming the fast-growing industry, a coalition source said on Sunday.

State and private thermal power stations from West Bengal form the bulk of the 11 power plants that have received coal supplies much below the guaranteed level from Coal India Ltd (CIL) during the first half of this fiscal.

After deciding to set up ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) to improve power supply across the country, the government

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

The U.S. government on Tuesday awarded $550 million in grants to develop renewable energy projects to help double U.S. renewable energy production over the next few years, an Obama administration goal.

The grants will pay cash to companies in lieu of tax credits to support solar, wind, biomass and other renewable energy production facilities.

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

Solar power makers will get a boost in California, already their largest U.S. market, as it sharpens its focus on small-scale projects as part of efforts to get a third of its power from renewable energy.