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Rapid recent solar and wind price falls are likely to bring new markets and mass adoption a step closer over the next decade and raise the prospects of mergers.

The financial crisis coupled with a ramp-up in China, which now leads the world wind and solar manufacturing, have led to over-capacity and pressured prices in the past three years.

Natural gas is the main fossil fuel rival and still

Already under pressure for delayed blending, the domestic biodiesel industry is facing another challenge in the form of imports from the US.
Last July, a shipment of 20,000 tonnes biodiesel from the US reached India.

‘Most of the formalities for setting up the 750 MW Pragati-II plant completed' BHEL to set up the 750 MW project at price of Rs.2.20 crore per MW Raj Ghat plant to be closed; Indraprastha Gas Corporation to be restructured NEW DELHI: On the lines of the 750-MW Bawana power project that has already become partly functional, the Delhi Cabinet has now approved setting up of a 750-MW Pragati

The Delhi Cabinet has given an in-principal approval for setting up the 750-MW Pragati-II power plant at Bamnauli, a project that has been under discussion for a long time.

The Bamnauli project is integral to the Delhi

A United States-based company, Azure Power, has proposed to set up a solar plant in Meghalaya with one time investment of Rs 150 crore to generate 10 megawatt of solar energy.

The US-based solar power producer firm having its international headquarters at California and its headquarters in India at New Delhi, has already negotiated with the State Government for signing the solar power purchase

The costs of our lethargy in dealing with environmental issues are becoming increasingly higher.
No water, no future; no food, no future; no energy, no future; no environment, degraded future. Thus might one with a penchant for the pithy explain the nexus between these essentials and the gravity of the emergent global crisis. The world is indeed entering an era of scarcity.

With a view to promoting non-conventional energy sources in Madhya Pradesh, constant efforts are being made by Urja Vikas Nigam. Sour energy shops are being opened at all districts by Urja Vikas Nigam.

As environment minister in the Portuguese government, Humberto D Rosa has been a leading negotiator at important conferences including the UN Convention on Climate change in Bali in 2007, the Copenhagen conference in 2009 and the recent Cancun Summit. In the context of the Portuguese presidency of the council of the European Union, his role at Bali was quite significant.

KOCHI: As the waste menace is continuing to be a major headache for residents and authorities, the newly formed Thrikkakara Municipality is planning to initiate steps to tackle the issue.

Mule dung menace to become energy source
JAMMU, Feb 10: Though it remained a menace for decades together yet several tonnes of mule dung being littered every day on 13 kilometers track of holy cave shrine of Shri Mata Vaishnodevi, is shortly going to become a source of energy generation for the Shrine Board as Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy funded mule dung based bio-gas plant is comi