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Perfect on paper, suffering on ground

By : Anonymous, Apr 10, 2012

Despairing of air and groundwater pollution in six villages near the solid waste processing plant at Nakarvadi village, 10 km from Rajkot city, Shailendrasinh Jadeja filed an RTI query. Jadeja - a native of Pipaliya village - filed his application with the solid waste...

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Progetti lines up 300 mw solar expansion

By : Anonymous, Apr 5, 2012

Progetti Iberfin Holding (PIH), an Italy-headquartered renewable energy firm, is betting big on the solar energy sector in India, where demand is forecast to grow more than 100 gigawatt (gw) by 2020.

PIH Energy, its Spanish arm, is raising funds in the overseas markets...

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Training students in renewable energy tech

By : Anonymous, Apr 4, 2012

Training people in skills required at renewable energy plants seems to be the next wave in the Indian solar movement.

About six lakh jobs would be created in the next four years from projects coming under the solar mission alone. On an average, about 35 people are...

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Subject Tags: energy , Technology

Earth Care to fete South Asia's green heroes

By : Anonymous, Apr 3, 2012

The South Asian sub-continent faces the worst brunt of climate change in years to come, scientists of the UN's Inter-governmental panel on climate change have warned. The sub-continent faces a challenge that it can only surmount acting in cohesion.

While the countries...

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India to get Rs 700 cr German loan for renewable energy projects

By : Anonymous, Apr 3, 2012

Germany will help India in renewable energy projects by giving a low interest loan of about 100 million Euros(about Rs 700 crore).

An agreement for that has been signed by German Government owned development bank KfW with the Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd (REC...

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NRO lights up village with solar energy

By : Anonymous, Apr 3, 2012

The people of Jahangirabad village in Cuttack's Salepur block will no longer have to spend their summer evenings and nights in the dark. All for US-based non-resident Odia (NRO) Durga Prasad Kar, who installed solar panels in the village. Now people can go about their work,...

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Subject Tags: Business , energy , Technology

Chance for India to back LDCs in their submissions to UN on emission reduction

By : Anonymous, Apr 3, 2012

After the differences at Durban over carbon reduction, India has an opportunity to mend fences with the least developed countries.

New Delhi can lend support to the detailed plan for increased emission reduction by developed countries put forward by the Alliance of...

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Subject Tags: Environment , Technology

SBI Energy Finds Microgrids Could Be Key to Smart Grid Development

By : Anonymous, Apr 3, 2012

Microgrids could be the killer-app for Smart Grid development. Industrial and energy market research publisher SBI Energy reports that the boom in cheap and plentiful natural gas could lead to increased use of micro-turbines and the development of more microgrids. The U.S....

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Subject Tags: ShareThis , Technology

India Starts $15 Billion Program to Curb Fossil Fuel Use

By : Anonymous, Apr 2, 2012

India started a program that imposes energy-saving targets on companies including Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL), Tata Steel Ltd. (TATA) and Vedanta Resources Plc (VED), ordering them to reduce fossil-fuel consumption by 2015.

Starting yesterday, 563 facilities such as...

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Subject Tags: energy , Technology

Rio+20 suffers leadership void weeks ahead of summit

By : Anonymous, Apr 2, 2012

When a landmark UN conference on sustainable development kicks off in Brazil in mid-June, more than 120 world leaders are expected to participate in the much-ballyhooed talkfest on the future of the global environment.

“But yet we haven’t had a single leader who has...

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