For Uninterrupted Supply, Air Compressed Into Special Caverns Will Run Turbines Even When It

The Assam Power Generation Corporation Ltd (APGCL) has taken initiatives to replace the aged gas and steam turbines of the Namrup Thermal Power Station (NTPS) with the most sophisticated turbines. The initiatives are aimed at enhancing the generation capacity of the power plant to over 140 MW with lesser gas consumption. The six NTPS turbines were installed between 1965 and 1985.

Date: 18-Feb-09
Country: ISRAEL
Author: Ari Rabinovitch

KIBBUTZ SAMAR - Israeli energy company AORA wants to prove it doesn't have to be sunny for a solar power plant to make electricity. Like weaning a car from total dependence on fuel, the answer, it says, is to go hybrid.

Kate Galbraith

WIND AND solar power have been growing at a blistering pace in recent years, and that growth seemed likely to accelerate under the green-minded Obama administration. But because of the credit crisis and the broader economic downturn, the opposite is happening: installation of wind and solar power is plummeting.

Suzlon Energy, one of the leading turbine manufacturers in the world, is entering the State in a big way. The company got a green signal from the Government on Wednesday, to set up an integrated steel project in Bijapur at the cost of Rs 49,720 crore.