Some sectors perform at the global best levels, others can reach there

Wanted, tariff revision

Biomass power plant owners say they cannot manage with power rates fixed when they began operations

Bush discards green

US President George Bush calls for a steep hike in the production of oil, gas, coal and nuclear energy and drilling for oil and gas in Alaska

Nature cure from India

Crank it up

Trapping the sun's energy

All our energy needs could be met if even a fraction of the solar energy received on the earth could be converted into electricity, and the means …

Renewable or not?

Centre’s regulations do not specify whether cogenerated power is renewable, leaving industrial units which recover waste heat in a fix

It's dark outside the TV grab

For a place in the sun

The just framework for climate

Some nets and sunshine

Fishers in a Tamil Nadu village save cost and improve catch with solar panel-fitted boats

Budget can't bring change

The finance minister pleased the growth brigade with three letters "PPP" but failed to bring change where it was most needed. Down …

Towers of pollution

60 per cent of telecom towers in India are powered by diesel

Dinosaur age ministers

Nuclear madness

Going off-grid to power solution

Green politics for green technologies

The endgame at Cancun

No cheap change is possible

The energy divide

Chronic power deprivation in some districts raises serious policy issues

The challenge of the chulha

Of stoves, kilns and a fine distinction between emissions

In the second week of March, activists, academics, policy-makers and experts in various fields came together in Delhi to throw light on the …

Not rebuilding for tomorrow

New business for new renewables

Germany in transition

From an economy addicted to coal and nuclear energy, Germany is fast transforming into one driven by renewables. Its aim is to demonstrate to the …