Using electricity to draw out pollutants from soil

A cheap and environmentally benign technology has been developed to rid soils of contaminants

Not for a child's play

The bulky battle-tank is about to be replaced by a lightweight monster

Second 'Dark Age' ahead

Powerful option

Electric car

A "zero-emission" electric car will be commercially produced by the year 2000

Involuntarism

Dry dams bring darkness

24X7 electricity for all is an impossible target

With a projected population of 135.2 crore in 2022, the required electricity in India will be 4,759 billion units

Heading for a burnout

Increased incomes, innovative financing schemes, short-sighted policies and wasteful attitudes have led to an enormous amount of energy being …

Powerless firms

The crippling discom business needs fundamental restructuring for a future in renewable energy

Most villagers think power theft should stop: Study

Survey in 6 states reveal how electricity theft is still on

Pact criticised

Swift charge

A battery developed for electric cars can be recharged in minutes

LIGHTNING ARRESTERS

Power bait

Light record

How the state electricity boards have fared

Waging a war

Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2021: How it can play out

The Bill is a rehashed version of one the central government has been trying to pass in Parliament since 2014  

'Climate catastrophe' and not 'Climate change'

Even as a major British newspaper changes its terms for climate change, it is imperative that India, suffering the most from it, builds a …

Tiny hydropower plant lights up a remote hill village in Bangladesh

Cheaper than solar and easy to maintain, “pico” hydropower plants offer the only viable form of electricity for remote villages in …

Technology to generate electricity from water without any energy ready for takeoff

The innovation is now ready for next stage of development and awaiting government's support.

We propose, greens dispose

...thus decried Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, on the issue of power projects which may have let the power into but thrown the ecology in a state …

Pay before using electricity

Pilot project for prepaid power meters begins September  

Wave power

THE MONEY MAKERS