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Bhel, NTPC setting up 100 mw power plant in Hardwar
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel) is teaming up with National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) to set up the country's first 100 mw thermal power plant based on coal-based integrated gasification
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ONGC won't pay royalty for a slice of Cairn discovery
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will not acquire 30% stake in Cairn Energy's recent Rajasthan oil find if the government did not exempt if from paying royalty on the British firm's share
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No HPCL refinery in Rajasthan : Aiyar
Giving a setback to the state government's attempt to moot an MoU with the HPCL for setting u a refinery in Rajsthan, petroleum minister Mani Shankar Aiyar has expressed his reservations on setting
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Oil and gas production up by 20 percent
The domestic oil, gas and LPG production during the first quarter ended September 30, 2004, rose 20 percent because of commencement of new gas fields during the period. During July-September FY05
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Installing solar panels could save thousands of dollars
Contrasting public beliefs that solar panels are far too expensive for the average homeowner to install, a report released this week quantifies the great economic benefits of doing so. Published by
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Tamil Nadu on a new high
Tamil Nadu is maintaining its lead in wind energy, accounting for over 50 percent of the total capacity in the country. As of the year, it had a cumulative capacity of 1,361 mega watts against 2,483
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Dhanbad MP's ire is burning coal worth Rs 10,000 crore
High grade coking coal worth Rs 10,000 crore is burning into ashes beneath the abandoned Dhanbad-Patherdih railway track in the Jharia coalbelt near Dhanbad, as a Congress MP Chandra Sekhar Dubey and
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Sugar co-operatives get UK aid for harnessing renewable energy
The global opportunities fund (GOF) of the UK foreign and Commonwealth office (FCO) is funding a project aimed at harnessing renewable energy potential in the Indian sugar co-operative sector. The
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Free power scheme to hurt agriculture: World Bank
A World Bank report has said that the debt-ridden Maharashstra government's pre-poll promise to provide free power to farmers would harm the entire agriculture sector. "Populist measures like free
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Opic to meet government panels on settling Dabhol project claims
The US government-promoted Overseas Private Investment Corporation (Opic) will attend a crucial meeting next month in New York with the two committees formed by the Government of India (GoI) to
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Police stations to go solar
No more dark nights in police stations. With solar power systems to be installed in stations, policemen will not have to shell out cash from their pockets to buy candles. As part of its modernisation
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Dhaka seeks 3-way meet on Myanmar pipeline
Oil minister Mani Shankar Aiyar's energy diplomacy has cracked the deadlock over laying a pipeline through Bangladesh for wheeling gas from Myanmar, with Dhaka asking for a trilateral meet in Yangon
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97.43 percent villages electrified in state
As many as 50,474 out of 51,806 populated villages have been electrified by October end this year in Madhya Pradesh . Thus electricity has been provided . thus electricity has been provided in 97.43
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ADB approves $400-m loan to upgrade power transmission grid
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will finance the upgrading of the national power transmission grid through a loan of $400 million approved. The project will strengthen and expand the capacity of the
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India seeks partnership with Malaysia for Iran gas field
India sought to forge closer partnership with Malaysia, inviting its national oil firm Petronas to join Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) in developing one of the phases of gigantic South Pars gas field
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Electricity Act, 2003: the issues clogging progress on implementation
Notwithstanding power reforms in the last decade and significant improvements, success continues to elude us. The competitiveness of Indian industry relies significantly on reducing the high cost and
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Maharashtra seeks Dabhol tariff details
Close on the heels of the central government's move to acquire the assets of the Dabhol power project through a debt recovery tribunal, the Maharashtra government has sought several clarifications
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Country needs $5 billion for power projects: Prime Minister
Pakistan Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Pakistan was looking for an investment of over dollars five billion in the power generation projects, largely from private sector during next three to five
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Oil and gas discovered in Mirpurkhas
The Orient Petroleum Inc (OPI) has made seventh successful discovery of oil and natural gas in the Khipro Block of Mirpurkhas district (Pakistan) which will go into commercial production in three