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Demand for rural solar home lighting systems in India to reach 3,000 MW by 2018

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 12, 2014

 Hundreds of thousands of Indian villages are either not connected to the country's power grid, or lack uninterrupted power supply. It is estimated that more than half of the country's 1.2 billion people do not have access to electricity.

Solar home lighting systems...

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U.S.-India Energy Dialogue 2014

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 12, 2014

 The U.S.-India Energy Dialogue met in New Delhi on March 5-11. Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia hosted the government-to-government portion of the Dialogue meeting on March 11 with United States Department of Energy Secretary Dr. Ernest Moniz.  The...

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India and Sudan Agree to Promote Cooperation in Wind, Solar

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 12, 2014

 Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy, Dr. Farooq Abdullah held a bilateral meeting for promoting cooperation in renewable energy with a delegation from Sudan. The Sudanese delegaton was led by Mr Al Simah Al Siddiq Al Nour, Minister of Industry. He along with other...

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Blackout Risk Increases With Surging Populism: Corporate India

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 12, 2014

 In India, sporadic power outages have hobbled Asia’s third-largest economy for years.

The government’s solution was a $31 billion bailout of utilities, whose debts were so big and cash flow so small that they can’t provide a steady flow of electricity to homes and...

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High-speed trains to drive India's growth story

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 12, 2014

 Linking India's growth to high-speed trains, chief of a Japanese rail company today said quicker movement will help the country in realising its ambition of pushing development and progress. 

Yoshiyuki Kasai, Chairman of the Central Japan Railway Company which runs...

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Yokogawa Wins Monitoring System Order from Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board in India

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 12, 2014

 Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that its subsidiary, Yokogawa India Ltd., has received an order from the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB)*1 to supply a SCADA*2 system for its Centralized SCADA Monitoring Centre, which will monitor the city’s water...

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Trina Solar guides over 1GW of PV module shipment increase in 2014

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 10, 2014

 Trina Solar reached PV module shipments in 2013 of approximately 2.58GW, over 1GW above shipment levels achieved in 2012. Due to expected strong demand in 2014, the company guided shipments to increase a further 1GW to between 3.6GW to 3.8GW.

Trina Solar reported full...

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Rays Power Infra launches solar park in MP

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 10, 2014

 In a bid to revolutionize the solar power sector, Rays Power Infra, the largest private solar park owner in the country, has announced the launch of solar park in the state of Madhya Pradesh.The announcement was made at the recently held Solar Development Summit in Bhopal in...

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Gujarat losing its place in the Sun

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 7, 2014

 Gujarat may be the pioneer Indian state to harvest solar energy, but it is losing its pre-eminence due to a mix of policy indifference, rising land costs and the state driving a hard bargain on the price it pays for power.

Even before the Jawaharlal Nehru National...

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Ecotech strikes Indian distribution deal

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 7, 2014

Victorian technology firm Ecotech has struck a deal to distribute its clean technologies in India.

The agreement will see Tesscorn provide complete sales and servicing in India of Ecotech’s aerosol monitoring...

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Subject Tags: Business , Technology