Researchers produce power from wet clothes

IIT Kharagpur researchers generated power in natural ambience using the intrinsic surface energy of the fabric

Africa’s energy poverty: Benin needs funds to ramp up green resources to electrify, meet NDCs

In recent years, nearly 200 rural localities have been electrified throughout the country with solar energy  

Resource wise: This panchayat head in Tamil Nadu uses tech to curtail water and power wastage

K Kanchana Kannaperumal installed sensors in eight villages of her panchayat; the move has benefitted 750-odd households

Supply 24x7 power to reduce diesel genset use: Draft electricity rules

The use of diesel gensets is increasing in India; new rules published by Centre now provide incentive to replace them with renewables

Lighting up a solution

Prem Shankar Jha makes a case for solar energy while tracing the history of global warming

Farmers against even modest power rate hike

State ministers are giving the agriculture sector a breather by ignoring the Prime Minister's call to stop subsidising power supply and agreeing …

The blacking out of Enron

How serious was the Maharashtra chief minister when he mentioned environment as a reason for scrapping the gas-based Enron project?

Pie in the sky

A towering structure, proposed for generating eco-friendly power in the Netherlands, has run into trouble with engineers and energy experts who …

Making power

Villagers in Pathanpara, Kerala, are no longer dependent on the state electricity board. Today, they have their own power generation system

"People can save on electricity bills"

N K Bansal, of Centre for Energy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi talks to TV Jayan on energy efficiency

Nagpur citizens oppose power tariff hike, load shedding

Hike proposed is fifth in a year; people blame power distributor for not recovering dues from the powerful

Money for the poor energises the rich

LAOS

Cabinet approves amendments to power tariff policy

Policy claims to ensure 24X7, affordable power for all

BANGLADESH

Electrifying vapours

Wind power

Bullock power

Shedding the load

The government proposes reductions in subsidies on power, irrigation and higher education

Power to hospitals

Power unlimited

Power guzzlers

NUCLEAR MADNESS

Energy intensive business

In reverse gear