T. Ramakrishnan

CHENNAI: Udangudi in Tuticorin district may be the site for a 100-megawatt solar thermal power plant. This was mooted during a meeting between Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah and Electricity Minister Arcot N. Veeraswami here on Saturday.

Amutha Kannan

POWER-SAVING INNOVATION: The team from Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham with its innovation (seen right) - a solar-powered vapour absorption ice maker.

To increase renewable energy share from 2.5 per cent to 15 per cent by 2020

Nalini Ravichandran | ENS

TAMIL Nadu ranks first in wind energy generation with an output of 45 per cent of the power generated throughout the country

Rally and a street play by schoolchildren organised
AIDING AWARENESS: Students participating in a rally organised as part of Global Wind Day celebrations at the Marina beach on Monday.

The first unit expected to go on stream by October 2010

A GREAT EFFORT: A boiler drum that was erected at Vallur Thermal power project in Chennai on Tuesday.

CHENNAI: The lifting and erection of a 216-tonne boiler drum at a height of 72 metres by BHEL marked the crossing of the first milestone for the 1,500-MW Vallur Thermal Power project on Tuesday.

Gunjan Pradhan Sinha Posted: Wednesday, Jun 03, 2009 at 0006 hrs IST

M. Ramesh

Chennai, June 1 The bumper May generation from windmills and biomass plants in the State could not contain Tamil Nadu Electricity Board

NTPC, the country

M.Soundariya Preetha
COIMBATORE: Steep rise in availability of wind energy has enabled the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) to relax its demand-side regulations.

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