Six years after the governments of India and Myanmar decided to develop two hydro power projects, of 2,080 Mw capacity in that nation, the latter has put the idea on hold. The 1,200-Mw Tamanthi and 880-Mw Shwezaye plants would have involved a spend of Rs 25,000 crore. “Implementation of (both) has been suspended temporarily by the ministry of electric power (MoEP) as the Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) by N ...

Researchers at a US lab have passed a crucial milestone on the way to their ultimate goal of achieving self-sustaining nuclear fusion. Harnessing fusion - the process that powers the Sun - could provide an unlimited and cheap source of energy. But to be viable, fusion power plants would have to produce more energy than they consume, which has proven elusive. Now, a breakthrough by scientists at the National ...

Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd (TPREL), a subsidiary of Tata Power, has signed a share purchase agreement with AES Corporation to acquire its subsidiary AES Saurashtra Windfarms Pvt Ltd (ASW) which owns 39.2 MW wind farm in Gujarat, for an undisclosed amount, as per a stock market disclosure. "TPREL was selected as the preferred bidder in a process conducted by AES Corporation for sale of its 100 per cent ...

Companies from Indonesia and the United States agreed on Tuesday to work on more than $240 million in green energy projects, advancing the two countries’ cooperation in environmentally friendly technology. “In my perspective, there’s no better way to close our very productive APEC meeting than with new partnerships between the two countries,” US Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker said on the sidelines of the ...

Vikram Solar, a manufacturer of solar photovoltaic modules with a 150 mega watt manufacturing capacity has commissioned a five mega watt power plant at Virudunagar, Tamil Nadu for JVS Exports under the REC (renewable energy certificate) mechanism on a turnkey basis. "This project would help in deriving substantial tax benefits and end user savings, while considerably lowering the carbon footprint," Gyanesh ...

An ‘ultra-mega’ green solar power project with a capacity of four gigawatts, making it the largest solar installation in the world, is being set up in Rajasthan, India. The project will be built on 23,000 acres of land with the phase of 1GW expected to be commissioned by the end of 2016. Once the full 4GW is fully commissioned, the government claims it will generate 6,000 million units of power per year. Th ...

Reliance Infrastructure today said that it will producing cement in its five million tonne-Madhya Pradesh plant, this month. The company also said that it expects this business to contribute as much as Rs 3,000 crore to their annual revenues. This is the second cement plant that the company commissiond after launching commercial operations in Amravati, in April this year. The plant has 0.5 million tonne cap ...

With the China factor looming large, India is belatedly trying to make up for lost time in setting up hydroelectric projects on the Brahmaputra's Siang Basin in Arunachal Pradesh. Of the 25 projects totalling over 11,000 MW allotted to developers in Arunachal Pradesh, most of them over the last decade, construction work has not begun on even a single project. On September 10, at a high-level hydro task forc ...

Technology major IBM said it has been selected by Tata Power Delhi Distribution, a joint venture between Tata Power and Delhi government, to design and deliver smart grid solutions to better manage energy output and cut down outages. "As a part of its smart grid initiative, Tata Power Delhi Distribution will collaborate with IBM to develop an advanced metering infrastructure and demand response pilot progra ...

After being forced to shut the Dabhol power plant in Maharashtra due to a natural gas shortage, GAIL India and NTPC are considering renting out the 1,967-Mw unit to private electricity generators. Ratnagiri Gas & Power Pvt Ltd (RGPPL), a joint venture between gas utility GAIL and the nation’s biggest electricity generator, NTPC, shut the Dabhol power plant in March after gas supplies from Reliance Indus ...