India's floating-solar plans face opposition from fishermen
But he fears his livelihood could evaporate if plans to install a huge floating solar farm on the Nathsagar reservoir go ahead. The government is considering a project to blanket about 7,500 hectares of the 350-sq km reservoir near the town of Paithan in Maharashtra state with floating photovoltaics, part of an…
India is considering easing export restrictions on non-basmati risotto as supplies improve
A senior government official announced on Wednesday that India was considering loosening restrictions on non-basmati exports. This comes as inventories of the world's largest exporter of rice have soared, and farmers prepare to harvest their new crop within the next few weeks. This move follows Prime Minister Narendra…
Adani Power wins 25-year power supply contract with Maharashtra after winning joint bid
Adani Power, Adani Green Energy and Adani Energy won a bid for a combined supply of 6,600 MW renewable and thermal energy to Maharashtra State over a 25-year period. Adani Green Energy’s wind-solar power plant in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, has been supplying green energy to Mumbai, Maharashtra's capital, since March 2023.
Sources: India will extend the sugar export ban in order to boost local supplies and ethanol production.
Sources in the Indian government said that India will extend its ban on sugar exports to the second consecutive year, as it struggles with the prospect of lower cane production. Sources with direct knowledge of this matter said that New Delhi plans to increase the price at which oil firms buy ethanol (biofuel) from sugar mills in order to boost the supply of biofuel.
Siemens Gamesa Bags Orders for 176.8MW Wind Projects in India
Siemens Gamesa (SGRE), a renewable energy project developer and an Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) provider, has won turnkey contract from renewable energy project developer ReNew Power for the development of two wind projects aggregating 176.8 MW in India.One order is for construction of a 100.8 MW wind…
Trelleborg Solutions to FSRU-Based LNG Terminal
Trelleborg’s marine systems operation has supplied a suite of products to H-Energy’s Floating Storage Re-gasification Unit (FSRU) based LNG terminal at JSW Infrastructure’s Jaigarh Port in Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra. Developed in accordance with industry leading engineering and safety standards and an annual capacity of 4 MMTPA…
Saudi Aramco: 2 mln bpd of Spare Capacity Exists
Oil giant Saudi Aramco has spare capacity of 2 million barrels per day (bpd) and can meet additional oil demand in case of any interruption in supplies, the company head said on Monday, days after OPEC agreed a modest increase in oil output from July. Aramco, the world's third-largest crude oil producer, is producing about 10 million bpd and has the capacity to produce 12 million bpd…
India's First FSRU Based LNG Terminal Launched
H-Energy Gateway, the energy venture of Hiranandani Group, launched India’s first Floating Storage Regasification Unit (FSRU) based LNG terminal at JSW Jaigarh Port in Ratnagiri District, Maharashtra. The Jaigarh Port is owned & operated by JSW Infrastructure (the maritime infrastructure development arm of $ 12 billion JSW Group). The LNG terminal was inaugurated today, by the Hon.
H-Energy to Start West Coast LNG Terminal in May 2018
India's H-Energy Pvt Ltd, a unit of real estate group Hiranandani, will start operations at its liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the western Maharashtra state by May 2018, its chief executive said on Wednesday. India plans to raise the share of natural gas in its energy mix to 15 percent in three years from the current 6.5 percent…
SCI’s Maritime Institute switches to Renewable Energy
On Monday, 23rd January 2017, Mr Rajive Kumar, IAS, Secretary, Ministry of Shipping inaugurated 353.5 KWP Grid connected Roof Top Solar Power Plant at Maritime Training Institute, Powai of The Shipping Corporation of India Limited in total Roof Top area of 5,650 Sq. Mtr. in the presence of Capt. Anoop Kumar Sharma, CMD SCI, Capt. B.B. Sinha, Director (P&A) SCI, Mrs. H.K.
India Plans First LNG Facility in Haldia
The Haldia Dock Complex under Kolkata Port Trust has recently earmarked about 10 acres of land in the vicinity of Haldia Oil Jetty No. 1 for a period of 30 years for setting up of LNG storage facilities, with permission to lay pipelines and install unloading arms through tender cum auction. The project will be undertaken…
Essar Oil's fuel exports to fall in 2018/19 as focus shifts to local sales
Indian refiner Essar Oil's fuel exports will sharply drop in 2018/19 as it ramps up local sales by doubling its retail network and turns some of its naphtha into profitable gasoline, its managing director said. Rising fuel demand, driven by India's thirst for gasoline, is expected to help push the growth rate in the country's fuel consumption ahead of China's.
LWP, Hallmark form Indian JV
Energy Technology company, LWP Technologies Limited (ASX: LWP) (“LWP” or “the Company”), has announced that following a four-day visit by Hallmark principals, LWP has finalised its joint venture (JV) arrangements with Hallmark for the operation of its Indian proppant plant in the city of Pune in the state of Maharashtra.
India's Mobility Drives Global Demand: Kemp
"India is taking over from China as the main growth market for oil," the International Energy Agency observed in its latest petroleum market update. India's oil consumption has grown at an average annual rate of 5 percent over the last decade and climbed over 4 million barrels per day for the first time in the year ending in March 2016.
Indian State Oil Refiners Plan Plant on West Coast
Three Indian state-run oil refiners will jointly build a 60 million tonnes a year, or 1.2 million barrels per day (bpd), refinery on the country's west coast, the federal oil minister said on Monday, adding the investment for the first phase of the refinery could exceed 1 trillion rupees ($14.8 billion). Indian Oil Corp. Ltd, Bharat Petroleum Corp. Ltd and Hindustan Petroleum Corp.
Indian Coal Stocks Lowest Since 2012 Blackouts
State-run Coal India unable to meet rising demand; Fall in hydro power adding to grid problems. Half of India's thermal power stations have less than a week's supply of coal on hand, according to weekly data, the lowest level since mid-2012 when hundreds of millions of people were cut off in one of the world's worst blackouts.
India Coal Power Plants Struggle to Meet Demand
Nearly half of India's coal-fired power stations only have enough stocks to last a week, the power minister said, as the country struggles to connect millions to the grid and wrestles with a growing coal import bill. Coal imports equate to about one percent of India's economy as state behemoth Coal India, the world's largest coal miner…
Political Meddling at root of India's Power Problems
For decades, India's power engineers had a dream: "One Nation. One Grid. At the start of this year, that vision was realised. India finally has a nationwide power system stretching from Tamil Nadu in the south to Kashmir in the north, Gujarat in the west to Nagaland in the east. On Dec. 31, India commissioned the last link…
