Orient Green Power to Increase Biomass Capacity
INDIA - Orient Green Power Company is to add 60MW of biomass based power generation capacity in the current financial year.

India to Add 100MW Solar Power
INDIA - The Indian New and Renewable Energy Ministry has signed power purchase agreements for 100MW solar energy as part of the national plan to develop renewable energy.

Biomass Plants for Punjab
INDIA - The Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) is expected to build up to 36 biomass plants across Punjab over the next two years.

Waste to Biogas Plant Opens
INDIA - A new waste to biofuel plant has been opened in Delhi, India.

ABB Opens Wind Power Generator Factory
INDIA - Power and automation technology group, ABB, has opened its fourth global wind power generator factory in Vadodara, India.

TNAU to Establish Biofuel Plantations
INDIA - The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University has put forward plans for biofuel plantations backed by the Indian government.

India Ties Up with Japan for Biomass Power Project
TAMIL NADU, INDIA - Orient Green Power Company Ltd (OGPL), a part of the Chennai-based Shriram Group, has tied up with Nishi-Nippon Environmental Energy Co of Japan to set up a 7.5-MW biomass...

Decision to Allow Ethanol-Petrol Blending Hailed
PUNE, INDIA - The decision of the cabinet committee on economic affairs (CCEA) to approve the proposal for implementation of ethanol blended petrol (EBP) programme in the country is welcomed...

Turnkey Solar Power Projects for Punj Loyd
INDIA - Punj Lloyd Group, the global engineering, procurement and construction conglomerate, on Friday, 12 August, announced winning of five prestigious solar power contracts from Punjab Energy...

New Price Set for Ethanol to Promote Biofuel
INDIA - India's cabinet on Monday raised the price at which oil firms buy ethanol from sugar mills as part of efforts to promote mixing of the biofuel with petrol, a government statement sai...

Biofuel Use Gets Major Push in Shimoga
KARNATAKA, INDIA - Shimoga Zilla Panchayat has drawn up a special plan to give top priority for developing biofuel plants in the region by creating awareness and providing training to farme...

India to Go Green with Solar Panels, Biomass Plant
INDIA - The Indian Parliament building, Sansad Bhavan, will soon be installed with solar PV systems, solar heaters and a biomass plant in an attempt to promote renewable energy technologies.

Magor Promoting Jatropha Plantations in NE
ASSAM, INDIA - The D1 Williamson Magor Bio Fuel Ltd has developed jatropha plantation over 51,000 hectares of land and the plantation carried out by the company in 2007 has started yielding sub-commercial...

Centre May Permit Ethanol Production
INDIA - The Centre is contemplating giving permission to Bihar to for production of ethanol in sugar factories even without producing sugar.

Azure Power and Suntech Drive Solar Industry in India
INDIA - Suntech Power Holdings is to supply Indian solar power producer, Azure Power, with several megawatts of solar panels to develop utility-scale solar projects across several states in India....

India to Generate 1,000MW of Solar Power by 2013
INDIA - India is all set to generate 1,000 Megawatts (MW) of solar power by 2013, in the first phase of the new solar power projects under Indian governments Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission,...

Biodiesel Park at Bijapur
INDIA - A biodiesel park set up at the the Karnataka State Women's University campus in Bijapur by the Karnataka State Bio-Diesel Task Force and forest department was officially opened this week...

Stone India Moves into Solar Power Projects
INDIA - Multi-product engineering company, Stone India Limited, has approved a proposal to move into Solar Power Projects through its recently created SPV, Stone Solar Private Limited.

Tata Power to Increase PV Capacity
INDIA - Tata Power, India’s largest integrated private power utility, is developing a 3MW, Photo Voltaic(PV) based, grid connected Solar plant at Mulshi, in the Western Ghats which will be the...

Indian Railways Turn to Wind Power
INDIA - The Indian Railways company is turning to wind power to cut power costs and emissions.

Biogas Plant Programme Yet to Take Off
TAMIL NADU, INDIA - Family type biogas plant programme introduced by the State Government is yet to take off in Krishnagiri district.

Demand for Higher Ethanol Price Renewed
NEW DELHI, INDIA - The latest hike in petrol prices has emboldened sugar millers to renew their demand for a Rs 27-a-litre rate on the ethanol supplied to oil marketing companies under the 5...

Biogas Scheme Not Making Much Wave
TAMIL NADU, INDIA - Family type biogas plant programme introduced by the State Government is yet to take off in Krishnagiri district.

National Fertilizers Limited Plans Wind Farm
INDIA - National Fertilizers Limited is to establish a 14.7MW wind farm in Jaisalmair District of Rajasthan.

Clenergen to Establish Biomass Plant in India
INDIA - US renewable energy company, Clenergen Corporation, is to build a $100 million biomass plant in southern India.