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India setting up cell for attracting investments in new energy

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 13, 2012

India is setting up an Investment Promotion Cell for the energy sector to provide a single point of contact for investors, Minister of New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah has said.

In the next five years, the country plans to invest $ 50 billion in renewable...

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Subject Tags: energy , India

Wind energy comes into its own

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 13, 2012

The Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association is set to mark the Global Wind Day on Friday with a series of programmes to increase public awareness of the importance of wind energy.

This year, year even more than ever, wind energy has demonstrated its power by...

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Subject Tags: energy

Needed Now: $36 Trillion for a Clean Energy Future

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 13, 2012

The world needs to invest an extra $36 trillion in clean-energy technologies between now and 2050 in order to have a shot at limiting long-term global temperature rise to 2 degrees C, the International Energy Agency said on Monday.

In its annual Energy Technology...

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Bharti Infratel keen on solar energy solutions from global companies

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 13, 2012

Tower company Bharti Infratel will soon invite bids for buying solar energy solutions worth $300 million from international suppliers for powering about 8,000 sites in its bid to cut diesel costs, executives aware of the development said.

Sweden's Flexenclosure AB,...

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India to Seek 15% of $50 Billion for Renewables From Overseas

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 13, 2012

India may seek at least $7.5 billion of the $50 billion it’s planning to invest in clean energy in five years from foreign direct investment, a government official said.

“We’d like a bare minimum of 15 percent of that coming as FDI over the next five years,” Gireesh...

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Infosys cuts energy use by a third

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 12, 2012

Infosys, the Indian outsourcing giant, has cut its per employee electricity use by about a third and introduced energy...

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Developers accuse CWC, CEA & forest ministry for delaying energy projects

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 12, 2012

At an international hydropower conference, Union water Secretary had a difficult time in defending various central government institutions as the companies associated with the sector accused them for delaying the projects....

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Subject Tags: energy

U.S. still lags behind other nations in share of renewable energy

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 12, 2012

The U.S. still lagged behind other nations in 2011 in the share of energy it gets from renewable sources, in spite of a more than 300% increase in funding for green power projects over the last decade.

That's the finding of a report released Monday by the Natural...

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Subject Tags: energy

New data encoding method cuts energy needs for next-gen memory

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 11, 2012

A new data-encoding scheme that slashes more than 30 percent of the energy needed to write data onto new memory cards that use "phase-change memory" (PCM) - a competitor to flash memory that has big backing from industry heavyweights - has been unveiled this week.

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Electric energy storage is key to smart grid

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 11, 2012

Electric energy storage systems are crucial for the further development and transformation of a range of sectors including renewable energy, automotive, grid stabilization, smart grid, back-up power and portable devices. Big scale, reliable and durable electric energy storage...

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Subject Tags: energy , Technology