The Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has finalised the setting up of solar photovoltaic (PV) power projects by world-renowned companies and young entrepreneurs. These projects will generate 250 MW of electricity and contribute 375 million units of green energy to the State grid, at a combined investment of Rs. 2,000 crore. They are estimated to be completed and commissioned by the end of 2014.

Over the last few months, the ministry of petroleum and natural gas (MoPNG) has cleared around 200 pending management committee (MC) resolutions involving oil and gas blocks operated by both public

Alarmed by a sharp rise in power consumption in the state, Kerala government is seriously considering clean energy alternatives to overcome widening power deficit in the state.

The company is supposed to supply two reactors of 1,650 Mw each to the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) for Jaitapur

Areva, the Paris-based partner for the government in the Jaitapur nuclear power project in Maharashtra, has asked the French government and banks for help on cost-sharing.

The plant has been delivered ahead of the schedule and the entire output will be allotted to the Tamil Nadu state utilities at Rs 5.50 per kilowatt hour

OPG Power Ventures has commissioned a new 80 Mw thermal power plant in Chennai. The company in a statement said the Chennai III plant has been synchronised and has become fully operational and the commercial sales have now begun.

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has constituted a working group to review issues troubling biomass-based power producers in the country.

Punjab government will soon allocate solar photo-voltaic power projects of a total capacity of 250MW to private players with the move expected to bring in an investment of Rs 2,000 crore.

The world will have enough wind turbines to generate more than 300 gigawatts of power - the equivalent of 114 nuclear power plants - by the end of the year, industry figures show.

UK cities pay to send rubbish to Norwegian incinerators, but green campaigners warn of dangers

The construction work of 225-megawatt combined cycle power plant started here yesterday under the auspices of Ashuganj Power Station Company, one of the biggest state-run electricity producers, rep