IIT Guwahati, HDFC Parivartan power sustainability push in Northeast IndiaIIT Guwahati, in collaboration with HDFC Parivartan, is implementing technology-driven interventions in Assam and Meghalaya to enhance food...
17 Apr, 2025, 09.50 PM IST
Bill Gates-backed startup to use old wood to remove carbon from the airThe idea for the carbon removal process, which Graphyte calls “carbon casting,” was first conceived by BEV partner Chris Rivest.
20 Nov, 2023, 09.47 AM IST
India can reduce pollution by 40 per cent by not using fossil fuels: GadkariIndia can reduce its pollution by 40% by not using fossil fuels like petrol and diesel, said Union Minister Nitin Gadkari. He emphasised th...
05 Jun, 2023, 01.52 PM IST
SAEL raises Rs. 740 crore through non-convertible debenture issueThe debentures have been issued by SAEL along with its group companies Canal Solar Energy Private Limited and Universal Biomass Energy Priv...
05 Dec, 2022, 04.52 PM IST
New low-cost method to turn plant waste into biofuelsThe approach features an ammonia-salt based solvent that rapidly turns plant fibres into sugars needed to make ethanol.
15 Jan, 2020, 05.44 PM IST
- Chicken poop could replace coal in electricity generation
New York, Nov 20 (IANS) Treated excrement from chickens, turkeys and other poultry, when converted to combustible solid biomass fuel, could...
20 Nov, 2017, 12.32 PM IST
CLAAS looks to tie up with Punjab govt to help curb stubble burningIn India, use of machines for dealing with crop residue has not picked up and farmers still resort to open burning.
25 Nov, 2016, 08.15 PM IST
- Brewery wastewater turned into energy storage cells
New York, Oct 8 (IANS) Researchers have developed a manufacturing process that uses a biological organism cultivated in brewery wastewater ...
08 Oct, 2016, 02.20 PM IST
100 GW solar capacity by 2017-end likely: Piyush GoyalPower Minister Piyush Goyal said the solar power generation has already crossed 19,000 MW in the just-concluded fiscal.
02 Apr, 2016, 07.16 PM IST
Tata Steel, Swansea University join hands for environment projectTata Steel today said it has joined hands with Swansea University for a project at its Port Talbot facility in UK to test how steelworks al...
05 Jun, 2015, 08.32 PM IST
Experts from UK & IITs working on new renewable energy model that combines solar, bio-gas and hydrogenThe installation work is expected to begin in October, this year and the entire model would be ready by 2016.
27 May, 2015, 11.29 AM IST
- New renewable energy model combines solar, bio-gas and H2
To provide 24x7 uninterrupted power from renewable energy sources, experts from the UK and IITs are now working together to create a new mo...
27 May, 2015, 11.10 AM IST
Clean energy push: Drop in solar power cost a game changer, says PM Narendra ModiThe PM described the thrust on renewable energy production as a game changer and an effort to ensure universal energy access for India's po...
16 Feb, 2015, 11.32 AM IST
Bacteria used to convert solar energy into liquid fuelAn enzyme takes the hydrogen back to protons and electrons, then combines them with carbon dioxide to replicate - making more cells.
11 Feb, 2015, 03.55 PM IST
Sugarcane Breeding Institute develops 'energy canes'Type II category energy canes were specifically bred for high biomass yield, high fibre, low sucrose, exclusively used for energy generatio...
23 Jun, 2014, 05.18 PM IST
Indian firm to set up power project in Pakistani PunjabPakistan has signed an agreement with an Indian firm for setting up a 15 MW biomass power plant in Punjab province.
29 Dec, 2013, 04.26 AM IST
Sukhbir Singh Badal offers help to Pak-Punjab to build biomass plantsSukhbir announced this during Sharif's visit to the 15-MW Universal Biomass Energy Private Limited plant here.
15 Dec, 2013, 07.38 PM IST