CleanTech Special 2015

Updated : Aug 5, 2015

How the world is riding on a wave of big data to save resources

Welcome to the world of big data, which is helping governments, global corporations and municipal bodies address resource challenges and drive the use of clean technologies.

Indira Paryavaran Bhawan (Photograph by Vivan Mehra)

Updated : Aug 2, 2015

Indira Paryavaran Bhawan: India's first zero-energy building

Indira Paryavaran Bhawan in New Delhi is India's first zero-energy building. A zero-energy building uses much less energy than conventional buildings.

Baroruchi Mishra (left), VP-Engineering (East), Shell Projects and Technology, and Laxmi Narasimhan, GM, Centre for Novel Catalytic Materials at Shell's Bangalore R&D Centre. (Photo: Nilotpal Baruah)

Updated : Jul 31, 2015

Fuel from Garbage

A catalyst being developed by Shell Technology Centre Bangalore (STCB), one of the three tech hubs of Shell besides the ones in Houston and Amsterdam, holds out the promise of converting agricultural and municipal waste into liquid transport fuel.

Updated : Jul 31, 2015

Driving into the Future

Automakers are also working to reduce the size of engines and weight of the car's body to lower fuel usage. Compact engines mean lesser displacement, lower friction and so lesser loss of energy.

The world's tallest hybrid wind tower that Suzlon Energy has set up in Kutch, Gujarat

Updated : Jul 29, 2015

Companies are adopting cutting-edge tech to improve the storage of solar energy

Hundreds of companies across the world are spending a lot of time and money to make production of renewable energy more efficient to close the price gap with energy from conventional sources such as coal.

Updated : Jul 29, 2015

Marching Towards Sustainable Agriculture

The development and application of environmentally benign clean technologies is an area where business houses can help through their CSR programmes

Founding Members of Proklean: (L to R) B. Chandrashekhar, Technical Director; S.S. Pillai, CEO; and Vishwadeep Kuila, Marketing Director

Updated : Jul 29, 2015

Firms bank on innovative tech to save water

While the Netherlands-based Dutch Rainmaker is capturing fresh water droplets through wind turbines, Proklean Technologies, which operates out of Chennai, is bringing about a revolution by replacing water-polluting toxins with biodegradable solutions.

CleanTech Special 2015

How the world is riding on a wave of big data to save resources

Indira Paryavaran Bhawan: India's first zero-energy building

Fuel from Garbage

Driving into the Future

Companies are adopting cutting-edge tech to improve the storage of solar energy

Marching Towards Sustainable Agriculture

Firms bank on innovative tech to save water

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