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India's First Green Building Features SunPower High Efficiency Solar Solution

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 12, 2013

A global solar technology and energy solutions company, today announced that Swadeshi Civil Infrastructure has completed the installation of a 930-kilowatt (kW) SunPower solar system on the rooftop of the Indira Paryavaran Bhavan building in New Delhi....

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Japanese electric company NEC to expand research work in India

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 11, 2013

Japanese electrical giant NEC is looking to expand its research on Indian energy market through collaboration with two Indian institutes.

NEC is seeking tie-ups with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, and...

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"Water ATMs" to provide clean water for India's villagers

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 10, 2013

A lack of clean drinking water is one of the biggest problems facing urban India. However, help is on the way in the form of "water ATMs".

The "water ATMs" are slot machines that dispense 10 litres of clean drinking water for the equivalent of one India rupee.

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Subject Tags: Disaster , India

Wood Group wins multiple contracts in India valued at more than $10 million

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 10, 2013

 Wood Group has won multiple new contracts in India during the last 12 months, worth a combined total of more than $10 million. Wood Group GTS has secured two contracts to supply its patented EcoValueTM gas turbine compressor water wash systems. The first order is for the...

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Subject Tags: India , Wood Group

Japan and India to push for better LNG pricing

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 10, 2013

Japan and India said they were planning a liquefied natural gas importers' group as a way to reduce the Asian price and diversify their import sources.

LNG prices in Asia are higher than those in Europe and North America because the cost in Asia is linked to crude oil...

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Subject Tags: India , Japan

India plans to extend cost-plus tariff regime

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 10, 2013

To hasten the growth of hydropower generation capacity, India plans to extend the so-called cost-plus tariff regime for setting up such capital-intensive projects till 2022.

This means the utilities will get to charge a price that factors in their cost and a certain...

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Subject Tags: India , Technology

Climate change dries up India tea production

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 9, 2013

"As global temperatures inch upward, all tea-producing belts are being affected", says RM Bhagat, deputy director of the Tea Research Association, based in Tocklai. "But the degree of impact varies regionally, depending on distance from...

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Subject Tags: India

India plays down diversion of Brahmaputra water by China

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 9, 2013

 India seems to be playing down China’s diversion of waters from the Brahmaputra, although an analyst criticized this approach.

The opinion in New Delhi is that precipitation in China contributes only 7% to the flow of three tributaries of Brahmaputra—Subansiri, Siang...

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Subject Tags: China , India , Law , War

Synthesis Energy Systems to Participate in India Trade Mission

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 9, 2013

Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SYMX) ("SES"), a clean energy technology company, will be joining other U.S. gasification and clean energy companies on a trade mission to India starting today sponsored by the U.S. India Business Council and the...

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Indiska, KappAhl, Lindex, SIWI and Sida expand cooperation on sustainable water management in production processes in India

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 6, 2013

Swedish fashion retail companies Indiska, KappAhl and Lindex announced today that they are expanding their cooperation with the Stockholm...

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