IF THINGS move in the right direction, Rajasthan is set to bask in the sunshine. The desert state is likely to attract an investment of Rs 45,000 crore in the solar energy sector. Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation chairman and managing director Naresh Pal Gangwar told ET that 72 power companies have registered with the corporation for the generation of 2,500 MW in solar energy sector.

JAIPUR: Experts attending a zonal consultation on bio-fuel for semi-arid eastern plains of Rajasthan here over the week-end called for evolving a balance between the commercial production of bio-fuel bearing plants such as jatropha and the use of common land, crucial for the rural poor, for their cultivation.

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New Delhi, Oct. 13 After being held up for well over two years due to fuel shortages, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (NPCIL) expects to get the two new units of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS) up and running by January.

Three public sector companies are planning to set up 60-80 megawatt solar plants with an investment of Rs 1,000-1,200 crore. The projects will come up in Rajasthan, Punjab and the Leh region of Jammu and Kashmir.

JAIPUR: The three public sector power distribution companies in Rajasthan have decided to supply electricity for six to seven hours a day to farmers from October 1 for sowing of rabi crops. Besides, domestic power will be supplied to the rural areas throughout the night.

As implausible as it sounds, cattle poop can generate the electric power to light up thousands of households in Punjab, which has a livestock population of five and a half million buffalos and 1.2 million cows.

Mangala oil field in Barmer, Rajasthan, has begun production of oil five-and-a-half years after discovering it in 2004. "It is a proud moment for us," said Rahul Dhir, ceo, Cairn India, announcing the news. "By 2011, we would be contributing about 20 per cent of India's domestic crude production.

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JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Government is going to vigorously pursue the demand for setting up a well-head refinery at Barmer where Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this past weekend dedicated to the nation the Mangala oilfields.

NEW DELHI: All set to kick off formal crude oil production from its fields in Rajasthan, Cairn India on Wednesday announced that along with its partner Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), it will invest nearly $1.5-1.8 billion more in the prolific oil fields over the next two years.