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Blackout Remedy Plan to Get $1.6 Billion Boost: Corporate IndiaBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 6, 2013
Power Grid Corp. of India Ltd., blamed for a network collapse that left more than half the nation’s population without electricity a year ago, will boost a $16.5 billion investment plan by 10 percent as it seeks to prevent a recurrence. A further 100 billion rupees ($... Read more.. |
Illegal trash trade: E-waste smuggling contaminate developing countriesBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 6, 2013
Disposing of electronic waste these days somehow resembles dumping radioactive waste in a third-world country: it’s illegal, but profitable. Millions of tons of used electronics end up in Asia and Africa, where recycling is a big yet dangerous business. New models of... Read more.. |
ONGC in talks to set up solar grid in KarnatakaBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 5, 2013
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation is firming up plans to foray into the solar energy sector by setting up a 1,000-MW solar grid in Karnataka. ONGC is expected to invest up to Rs 5,000 crore in this project, Tarun Kapoor, Joint Secretary, Union Ministry of New and... Read more.. Subject Tags: Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited , Technology |
BHEL to get into the development of solar power technologyBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 5, 2013
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday said the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission's success has the potential to enhance India's energy security and urged power equipment major BHEL to get into developing solar power technology apart from its generation.
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Mysore to have India's first nutraceutical food parkBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 4, 2013
The educational hub will have India's first nutraceutical park where many of the locally available food sources will be subjected for scientific validation, which is crucial to promote India origin food sources. A joint venture of the Karnataka government and the... Read more.. Subject Tags: food , Technology |
Two solar energy firms in Madhya Pradesh out to cut carbon dioxide emissionsBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 2, 2013
Solar power generating firms in Madhya Pradesh are on a mission to reduce poisonous carbon dioxide through their ongoing projects. The 25 MW grid connected solar photovoltaic (PV) power project by Welspun Energy Ltd (WEL), which is under implementation in Neemuch district of... Read more.. Subject Tags: Technology , Welspun Energy Ltd. |
Harish Hande charges solar industry at SolarCon 2013By : Sustainability ..., Aug 1, 2013
Cross subsidy of green power usage should be used as risk guarantee to banks to finance solar programmes in rural areas, enmasse, said Dr HarishHande, Ramon Magsassay award winner in a conclave of solar industry—SolarCon 2013 in Bangalore on Thursday. He stressed that the... Read more.. Subject Tags: Technology , Times of India |
World Solar Power Topped 100000 Megawatts in 2012By : Sustainability ..., Aug 1, 2013
Eco-Economy Indicators are twelve trends that the Earth Policy Institute tracks to measure progress in building a sustainable economy. Using energy from the sun is a key component of the Plan B renewable energy economy. The world installed 31,100 megawatts of solar... Read more.. Subject Tags: Technology |
5 yrs on, India-US set to firm up nuclear commerceBy : Sustainability ..., Aug 1, 2013
Almost five years after signing of the India-US nuclear deal, the two countries are set to take a definite step in nuclear commerce during Manmohan Singh’s visit to the US in September. US-based firm Westinghouse and Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL)... Read more.. |
ONGC to start oil, gas production from KG basin by SeptBy : Sustainability ..., Jul 31, 2013
State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp ( ONGC ) is likely to start oil and gas production from its first deepsea field in Krishna-Godavari basin off Andhra coast by September. ONGC plans to use temporary facilities to begin production from G-1 marginal field in the KG basin... Read more.. |