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EUR 150 MILLION LOAN TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE IN INDIA

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 8, 2013

The following information was released by the European Investment Bank (EIB):

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Exim Bank signed a EUR 150 million loan for financing investments that will contribute to the mitigation of climate change.

The EIB loan...

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Wind power association seeks support for small-scale investors

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 8, 2013

The Indian Wind Power Association has appealed to the Union Government to extend the investment allowance, announced in the Union Budget this year, to micro, small and medium-scale wind energy projects that are less than Rs. 100 crore.

Association president K....

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Subject Tags: energy , Technology

Save Power Show, Kerala’s first exhibition on renewable energy attracts huge response

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 7, 2013

Media Release 

Save Power Show, Kerala’s first exhibition on renewable energy

attracts huge response.

- Over 100 Renewable Energy Companies from all over India, under one roof

-...

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Over 50,000 jobs created by renewable energy sector in last three years

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 7, 2013

The new and renewable energy sector is estimated to have created over 50,000 direct jobs in the last three years. The job creation has taken place in off-grid and other applications of the sector, according to information made available by the ministry of new and...

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Subject Tags: energy , Technology

Coimbatore to go all out to tap solar energy

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 5, 2013

The rooftops of all establishments in Coimbatore Corporation limits will soon turn energy generation stations with the civic body planning to install solar panels. The civic body in a recent resolution said that based on a Government Order from the Municipal...

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Subject Tags: energy , Technology

Experts divided over benefits of GBI re-introduction for wind energy

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 4, 2013

Is the wind favourable or unfavourable? Experts are divided on the long-term benefits of re-introduction of generation-based incentive (GBI) for wind energy, announced in the Union budget, on the State’s wind sector.

New wind mills of 1,084 MW capacity were...

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Subject Tags: energy

Here comes the sun

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 3, 2013

Close on the heels of the Union finance minister ruing the burgeoning cost of energy imports while presenting the Budget in the LokSabha on Thursday, the Bhubaneswar Development Authority (BDA) is planning to make it mandatory for buildings beyond a particular size to...

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New initiatives in green energy on the anvil: Farooq

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 3, 2013

Promising new initiatives in the field of green energy, Union New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah today expressed hope that the Budget proposals will allow his ministry to ensure that electricity reaches people who do not have access to it till now.

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Subject Tags: energy

Budget 2013: Generation-based incentives for wind power may be reintroduced

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 1, 2013

Finance minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday proposed to reintroduce generation-based incentives for wind energy projects, expected to benefit companies such as Suzlon Energy Ltd, and provide Rs.800 crore to the ministry of new and renewable energy for the purpose....

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Budget 2013: Waste to energy to get a boost, benefiting companies such as Jindal SAW

By : Sustainability ..., Mar 1, 2013

 

Finance Minister, P Chidambaram promised to incentivise waste-to-energy projects that would come up through public private partnership mode with city municipalities and are neutral to different technologies.

"This is a much needed welcome step. India's...

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Subject Tags: energy , Technology