AHMEDABAD: One of the main clinchers for Ahmedabad being rated as the numero uno city to have implemented environment-friendly measures in its operations was cutting down on energy consumption.

Shastry V. Mallady

It will give 5 per cent of its annual budget for research in key areas

MADURAI: The Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology has decided to allocate five per cent of its annual budget for promoting renewable energy.

In a fresh bid to strengthen the national power-grid with another 400 MWs, 159 licences have already been issued to prospective corporate stakeholders to carry on with renewable energy power generation, and interested parties are bound to complete their projects within a set timeframe of two years, a Ministry of Power and Energy press release said.

Participants of a multi-topic international symposium have overwhelmingly demanded reversal of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) privatisation, observing that the private management has failed to enhance the utility

The purpose of this study is to gain a more differentiated picture of the impact of the global financial crisis on the renewable energy sector by determining changes and trends in investment flows for renewable energy technologies and companies as the cost of capital rises and access to credit becomes more difficult.

Waste heat from industrial plants and electricity-generating stations represents a huge amount of lost energy. David Lindley finds out what engineers and regulators need to do to get it back.

Algae are quickly becoming the most attractive successor to traditional biofuels feedstocks like corn and soybeans, and even to next-generation feedstocks such as switchgrass and jatropha, Although algal biofuels are not yet being produced or consumed on a commercial scale, a number of companies are working their way toward doing exactly that, possibly as soon as 2010.

Demand market rate for power after agreeing to a lower rate SUGAR cooperatives of Maharashtra that have set up power plants that use sugarcane waste as fuel, are trying to wriggle out of their commitment to supply power at lower rates to the state-owned power distribution company, Mahara- shtra State Electricity Distribution Co Ltd (msedcl). Nagpur-based Purti Sugar Mills has moved an

Namakkal district, located in Tamil Nadu in southern India, is committed to be an

Dhanbad, Dec. 24: It

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