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Blackout Remedy Plan to Get $1.6 Billion Boost: Corporate India

By : 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 ($...

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Illegal trash trade: E-waste smuggling contaminate developing countries

By : 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...

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ONGC in talks to set up solar grid in Karnataka

By : 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...

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BHEL to get into the development of solar power technology

By : 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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Subject Tags: Technology

Mysore to have India's first nutraceutical food park

By : 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...

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Subject Tags: food , Technology

Two solar energy firms in Madhya Pradesh out to cut carbon dioxide emissions

By : 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...

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Harish Hande charges solar industry at SolarCon 2013

By : 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...

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World Solar Power Topped 100000 Megawatts in 2012

By : 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...

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Subject Tags: Technology

5 yrs on, India-US set to firm up nuclear commerce

By : 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)...

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ONGC to start oil, gas production from KG basin by Sept

By : 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...

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