Australian company to light up villages on Elephanta Island
Solar-Gem, a Sydney-based company providing affordable solutions based on clean solar power systems, would now provide electricity to Elephanta Island near Mumbai.
Solar-Gem, a Sydney-based company providing affordable solutions based on clean solar power systems, would now provide electricity to Elephanta Island near Mumbai.
Meena Menon MADBAN (Ratnagiri district): Angry protests stalled a public hearing of the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP) at Madban village in Maharashtra on Sunday. Only after officials acknowledged their mistake of not providing copies of the environmental impact assessment (EIA) to the affected villages, it was allowed to go on under protest.
Firm Likely To Set Up Smaller Plants At Multiple Locations; In Talks With Maharashtra, Andhra & Gujarat Rajeev Jayaswal & Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI ANIL Dhirubhai Ambani group company Reliance Power (R-Power) may substantially scale down its 7,480 mw Dadri power project and instead set up two or more plants totalling 8,000 mw capacity at multiple locations.
Based on very encouraging experiences with SK-14 cookers, Prof. Ajay Chandak designed solar community cookers of 2.0 m and 2.3 m diametres. After removing few teething problems, a number of agencies were trained to manufacture these community solar cookers.
Mumbai: Mumbai airport has been a hub of construction activity for the last two years, and it has been a common occurrence that contract workers have unwittingly cut underground electric cables, thereby leading to blackouts on the taxiways. In spite of frequent power cuts, airport authorities have not thought of having the option of solar lights to guide aircrafts on-ground, so far.
Mumbai: Tata Power Company has chalked out a plan to add 150-200 mw of wind energy assets in fiscal 2010-11, a company release said.
Meena Menon MUMBAI: The government thrust to increase the use of renewable energy has put power utilities in a fix as there is just not enough installed capacity to meet the new six per cent norm mandated by the Maharashtra Energy Regulatory Commission(MERC).
THE central power regulator has made it mandatory for all power utilities to purchase 6% green power, but there is a slight hitch
Pune Minister for Water Resources Ajit Pawar on Thursday said the state government would soon declare a policy for promotion of solar energy in the state to meet the power demands of the state.
IN A body-blow to the Maharashtra government
Ajay Modi & Jyoti Mukul / New Delhi August 27, 2010, 1:35 IST Taking advantage of its vast pipeline network, GAIL (India) is planning to put up a gas-based power plant each in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
MUMBAI: A major component of a user's electricity bill will soon remain constant for a five-year lock-in period if a proposal put forth by the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) gets the go-ahead. The MERC has proposed to all power suppliers in the state that power bills be divided into two components: a variable component and a non-variable component.
NEW DELHI: Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) is understood to have finalised plans to set up a 9-million tonnes refinery in Maharashtra with an investment of around Rs.15,000 crore. Official sources said the Maharasthra Government had offered land places and the company was in the process of giving a final shape to the proposal.
Ajay Modi / New Delhi September 7, 2010, 1:23 IST First such tie-up between a sugar and a petroleum company. Shree Renuka Sugars is looking to set up an integrated sugar-cum-ethanol plant with oil marketing company Hindustan Petroleum Corporation (HPCL) in Maharashtra.
The Rashtriya Sattoti Haud Mandal Trust of Kasba Peth will showcase unconventional energy resources on Ganeshotsav this year.
Pune Manufacturers of solar devices had come together in the city last month to discuss ways to make solar electricity cheaper.
The Centre has sanctioned funds to 16 second-tier cities to aid their transition to
Godrej Industries is planning to commercially generate power from palm oil biomass in the next 2-3 years, a move expected to give boost to green energy production in the country.
NEW DELHI: The 10,000 MW nuclear power plant that the NPCIL proposes to set up at Jaitapur, Maharashtra, with reactors from French company Areva, was on the agenda of the Union Environment Ministry's Expert Appraisal Committee meeting on Monday. According to some members, the committee plans to recommend a conditional environmental clearance for the plant.