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Mizuho Leads Japanese Group to Build Solar-Power Plant in India

By : Sustainability ..., Feb 6, 2013

Mizuho Financial Group Inc. (8411) will lead a group of Japanese companies to build a solar plant in Gujarat as India targets an eightfold expansion in sun-powered capacity.

The facility will be able to generate as much as 200 megawatts and may cost as much as...

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Tata Seeks Investors for Clean-Energy Expansion: Corporate India

By : Sustainability ..., Feb 5, 2013

Tata Power Co. (TPWR), India’s second- largest generator, is seeking investors to help its renewables unit more than double capacity in five years and acquire projects at home and overseas.

The unit of India’s largest business group, which plans to spend about...

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Subject Tags: India , Tata Power Co.

India, EU sign pact to recycle waste water

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 30, 2013

India and the European Union have signed a Rs 80-crore (about €12-million) agreement to recycle industrial and domestic waste water to provide water for irrigation purposes.

Besides, the two sides would work on other products that come out of waste water and...

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Subject Tags: European Union , India

Singapore firm BrightLite Systems enters Sonipat to make Light Emitting Diodes

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 26, 2013

In a bid to enter the Light Emitting Diode (LED) Modules business in India, BrightLite Systems - a Singapore-based company has joined hands with Fiem Industries Ltd - a Sonipat-based auto company.

The move is expected to create business of around Rs 300 crore...

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Engaging the Private Sector in Forest Carbon Management in India

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 16, 2013

This article by Dr Promode Kant and Dr Wu Shuirong reflects on pathways, building on the Chinese model, for creative involvement of private business in CO2 sequestration through forest vegetation.

At the recently concluded UNFCCC convention...

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Sandview receives $50 million equity commitment for India projects from Folium Energy

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 9, 2013

Sandview Development corporation, a California based solar energy developer today announced that it has received a funding commitment for $50 million in new equity financing for its India projects from Folium Energy, LLC, a Texas based energy finance and development...

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Subject Tags: India

The Water Agenda: Technology as a bridge between the EU and India

By : Anonymous, Jan 7, 2013

This article takes a look at challenges of a water stressed India and the need for establishing knowledge transfer and collaborative frameworks to enhance water management practices in India. 

Water is an increasingly contested resource across India, with the...

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Wind energy will play a major part in shaping India's future: Tulsi Tanti

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 4, 2013

For those in the renewable energy sector, the end of every year is marked by the conclusion of the UN COP (Conference of Parties) discussions. We prepare, we hope and yet, each year, we watch a repeat performance of the previous years; a lastminute marathon of debates which...

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Subject Tags: Business , energy , India

Sinovel gets approval to sell wind turbine machines in India

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 2, 2013

Chinese company Sinovel which is one of the largest wind turbine manufacturers in the world, has received the ‘type approval’ from the Centre for Wind Energy Technology to sell its (specified) machines in India.

This approval effectively paves the way for Sinovel’s...

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Subject Tags: India , Sinovel

Renewable Energy Corporation ASA : REC supplies 10 MW for two solar power plant installations in India

By : Sustainability ..., Jan 1, 2013

REC, the largest European supplier of solar panels, announced that it was the exclusive supplier of high-performance solar panels for two five MW solar power plants in the region of Gujarat, India, known as the 'solar energy hub'.

"The historic blackout in India...

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Subject Tags: India