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Retailers like Wal-Mart, Tesco & others ship food waste to power plants for electricity generation

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 7, 2012

Fish heads and chicken fat are being turned into electricity by the UK's largest retailers including Wal-Mart Stores that ship food waste to power plants to reduce garbage-removal fees.

Tesco, Britain's biggest supermarket chain, along with Marks & Spencer Group,...

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Subject Tags: electricity

Power Exchanges commence trading of Solar Renewable Energy Certificates

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 5, 2012

The two power trading exchanges Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) and Power Exchange India Ltd. (PXIL) commenced trading of solar Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) on Monday amidst keen interest within the power sector.

The trading of RECs makes it easy for several...

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Renewable power: Developing markets are a ray of sunshine

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 3, 2012

If the dominant global theme of the 21st century has been the shift in dynamism and capability towards emerging economies, then 2012 has been the year in which that trend has hit the renewable energy industry.

While many developed economies that led the way in...

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MEMC unit seeks to electrify parts of rural India

By : Sustainability ..., May 31, 2012

MEMC's solar energy development unit SunEdison on Tuesday announced an initiative aimed at providing a source of clean power to thousands of people in rural India who lack access to electricity.

The St. Peters, Mo.-based company's Eradication of Darkness program began...

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Britain's climate change policy is going up in smoke

By : Sustainability ..., May 30, 2012

Energy policy in the United Kingdom looks like a jam factory hit by a meteorite: a multicoloured pool of gloop studded with broken glass. Consider these two press releases, issued by the Department of Energy and Climate Change last week

Tuesday: the government's new...

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Subject Tags: electricity , energy , Politics

Policy uncertainty threatens capacity addition in wind sector

By : Sustainability ..., May 23, 2012

The wind power industry fears that capacity addition will suffer due to policy uncertainty. Specifically, the generation-based incentive scheme that offered 50 paise a unit of electricity has not been extended. The industry is hoping that the Ministry for New and Renewable...

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Biomass-based power producers seek regulators' help to resolve issues

By : Sustainability ..., May 23, 2012

Amid growing regulatory and administrative uncertainties the biomass-based power producers have sought the intervention of Forum of Regulators (FoR) for early resolution of issues relating to open access, cross subsidy, CDM sharing, penalty clause imposed by certain...

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Subject Tags: electricity , Technology

New York's Largest On-Farm Biogas Power Project Generates Renewable Energy for Nearly 1,000 Homes

By : Anonymous, May 1, 2012

U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) joined state and local officials today at the grand opening of New York state's largest on-farm, 'co-digestion' biogas power project, marking an important boost to the state's renewable energy production and sustainability efforts. The...

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Bihar proposes to set up 25 hydel power projects

By : Anonymous, May 1, 2012

Heavily dependent on the Centre for supply of electricity and facing acute power shortage, Bihar has taken steps for setting up 25 hydel power projects for generating about 800 MW with the proposals at various stages of approval, official sources said.

Bihar State...

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American Indian communities look to tap renewable energy potential with federal seed money

By : Anonymous, Apr 27, 2012

TO'HAJIILEE, N.M. - This flat, dusty stretch of prairie in central New Mexico is where the leaders of a remote, sparsely populated American Indian community envision a sea of solar panels capable of producing enough electricity for more than 10,000 homes miles away...

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