Power

Govt clears nuclear liability bill, removes offending addition

20 Aug 2010

Decks were cleared for passage of the civil nuclear liability bill when an attempted sleight-of-hand manoeuvre by the government, to subvert agreed upon content in the bill, backfired.

Blackstone Group invests Rs1,350 crore in Moser Baer's energy business

18 Aug 2010

MBPPL plans to commission 5000 MW of generating capacity comprising 4,000 MW of thermal, 500 MW of solar and 500 MW of hydro capacity by 2016.

BJP backs nuclear liability bill as concerns taken onboard

18 Aug 2010

Parleys with the Bharatiya Janata Party on the issue of the civil nuclear liability bill has yielded results with the party indicating it would support a substantially reworked version of the bill.

Tokyo set to arm twist Delhi over n-deal

17 Aug 2010

Tokyo may ask Delhi to go beyond the non-proliferation commitments made under the Indo-US 123 agreement for it to resume nuclear trade with India.

UK farmers to get guaranteed returns for green power generation

17 Aug 2010

UK's farmers will get guaranteed cash for the next 25 years on every unit of electricity generated by a solar panel, wind turbine or biomass technology

Paraffin and surfactant oleic acid improve synthesis of lithium manganese phosphate electrodes

16 Aug 2010

Private power producers protest import duty move

16 Aug 2010

Corus to set up wind farm components plant at Teesside

14 Aug 2010

Centrica acquires Suncor’s gas assets for $360 million

14 Aug 2010

Photovoltaic solar power gains momentum with power utilities: Survey

13 Aug 2010

AGL Energy, Meridian to build $895 million wind farm in Australia

13 Aug 2010

Significant changes envisaged in N-liability Bill

12 Aug 2010

A newly drafted version of the Nuclear Liability Bill may look much changed from its earlier avatar when finally presented for approval before members of the two houses of the Parliament.

BJP makes clear stance on N-liability bill

12 Aug 2010

The BJP has agreed to support passage of N-liability legislation provided it was re-drafted to make it “India-specific” and disallows private sector participation as plant operators.

UPA to redraft dodgy N-liability bill

12 Aug 2010

The Congress Party has held parleys with the BJP on the most controversial aspects of the controversial Nuclear Liability Bill and has apparently agreed to rewrite them.

BHEL bags Rs 2,525 cr power project at Jharkhand

10 Aug 2010

Constellation Energy to buy Boston Generating power plants for $1.1 billion

09 Aug 2010

Areva to deliver eastern grid sub-station to Power Grid in Bihar

09 Aug 2010

GDF and UK’s International Power close to merge

09 Aug 2010

Australia’s Linc Energy to seek JV partner for $918 million clean coal plant

09 Aug 2010

BGR Energy, Hitachi partners for Rs4,400 crore power equipment units

07 Aug 2010

Coal India denies takeover talks with Australia’s Whitehaven Coal

06 Aug 2010

Drax plans to stop burning coal in 10 years

04 Aug 2010

Australian solar panel retailers pulled up for false marketing claims

03 Aug 2010

Siemens makes India’s first single phase 500MVA HVDC transformer

02 Aug 2010

L&T to set up Rs6,500-crore power plant for Jaiprakash group

02 Aug 2010