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SCHOTT supplied molten salt receivers for solar power plant in Italy

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 23, 2013

 The Italian power company Enel will install molten salt receivers with technology from SCHOTT when modernizing certain parts of the world's largest molten salt solar power plant. The international technology group supplied around 450 so-called “High Temperature Molten Salt...

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Quest for low cost solar jeopardising Indian market: Mercom

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 23, 2013

Anti-dumping cases, local content requirements and cost-dominated tendering processes are limiting India’s solar energy growth, according to the latest quarterly report by the Mercom Capital Group.

Many state...

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Subject Tags: Technology

Big 5 Construct India 2013 to kick off in less than a fortnight

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 23, 2013

 Media Release: The International building and construction event, The Big 5 Construct India 2013 to be held from 2nd to 4th September in Mumbai, will showcase new technologies and launches in product sectors like steel, concrete, plastics & composites, ceramics &...

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Subject Tags: India , Technology

First Solar, Sharp defend turf against China's global PV domination

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 22, 2013

While First Solar remains the leading PV module supplier in the U.S. and India and Sharp in Japan, Chinese rivals, benefitting from the wave of insolvencies in the West, have dominated the rest of the globe over the past year. 

Chinese photovoltaic manufacturers have...

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Subject Tags: Business , China , Technology

AP Govt to showcase rooftop solar policy

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 22, 2013

 You need to invest just Rs 50,000 to set up a solar rooftop system with a capacity to generate power of one KW in Andhra Pradesh.

The State Government has come out with an incentive scheme to encourage flat owners to install solar rooftop system to meet part of their...

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Subject Tags: Technology

New technology and better strategy could cut data centre emissions by 88%

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 22, 2013

With a population of 3,048, Yerington, Nevada, may not strike most people as very important: the town's foremost claim to fame is that several Japanese fire balloons landed there during the second world war. But that's about to change: Yerington is home to a vast new solar...

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Subject Tags: Technology

Maharashtra cracks the whip on renewable power obligations

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 22, 2013

 In a breakthrough decision for wind and solar power industry, the power regulator in Maharashtra has directed all distribution firms to meet their obligation for buying renewable energy in the past four years, and said they will have to pay a stiff penalty if the backlog of...

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Subject Tags: Technology

Neither small, nor green

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 22, 2013

Why would more than four gram panchayats, environmental activists from three States, the presiding swami of the Subramanya Temple, botanists, fisheries scientists, and institutions like the Indian Institute of Science oppose a small hydel project in a...

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Subject Tags: Technology

Infosys bags platinum LEED Ratings for 'green' buildings

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 21, 2013

Infosys has been awarded the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) India 'Platinum' rating by the Indian Green Building Council for its Software Development Block (SDB) 3 in Mangalore and SDB 6 in Mysore. With this, Infosys now has a total...

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Subject Tags: Infosys , Technology

States aggressively focus on solar energy production

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 21, 2013

 India’s solar sector is witnessing a fierce battle among states to set records in solar energy production.

Rajasthan on Wednesday laid the foundation stone of the world’s biggest solar farm with generation capacity of 3,000 MW, tipping its neighbour Gujarat which had...

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Subject Tags: energy , Technology