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EU's move to charge Airlines for carbon emissions worries IndiaIndia wants a resolution on the use of trade actions by industrialised countries to curb global warming in the run-up to the year-end UN conference at Durban.
Along with other developing countries, India is concerned about the negative social and economic impact of unilateral trade measures. India's long standing fear of trade restrictions being applied in the name of fighting climate change is not unfounded.
Apprehension about unilateral trade actions has gained strength in light of the European Union's decision to bring international airlines under the... Read more.. Date : Jul 14 Source: Economic Times
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Orissa gets its first solar power plantIn a humble yet significant beginning for solar power generation in Orissa, the first solar power plant has been commissioned in the state.
Hyderabad-based Raajratna Energy Holdings Private Limited (REHPL), a company engaged in the development of renewable energy projects has announced the commissioning of its 1 MW solar power plant at Sadeipali in western Orissa's Bolangir district on last Monday.
Incidentally, this is the third grid connected solar power plant in the country. The plant was successfully synchronized with the grid on June 30 this... Read more.. Date : Jul 14 Source: Business Standard
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Suzlon Eyes Europe's Wind Power BoomIndian wind-turbine maker Suzlon Energy Ltd. plans to bid in a 10-billion euro ($14 billion) French wind farm tender and expects its German unit REpower Systems AG to benefit from a shift by developed economies towards renewable energy following Japan's nuclear disaster, the company's top executive said.
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Amit Dave/Reuters Power generating wind turbines at a Suzlon wind farm in India's state of Gujarat.
Europe's offshore wind-turbine market is expected to grow at more than 40% a year for the next five years, fuelling... Read more.. Date : Jul 14 Source: Wall Street Journal
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UN-backed report shows strong performance by renewable energy sector Print Email Share90 13 July 2011 – The renewable energy sector has continued to perform well despite the global economic slowdown, cuts in incentives, and low natural-gas prices, according to a United Nations-backed report unveiled today, which shows that the sector supplied an estimated 16 per cent of global energy last year. Date : Jul 14 Source: UN News Centre
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New technology improves quality of treated sewageCity residents now have something to cheer about. The water quality that is released by sewage treatment plants has shown to have lesser amount of pollutants, thereby decreasing the chances of groundwater getting polluted. Data collected by the Regional Pollution Control Board has revealed that levels of organic pollutants in water have gone down drastically with the introduction of a new technology at sewage treatment plants. The Sequential Batch Reactor (SBR) technology was introduced on a trial basis by the Noida Authority in its 27 MLD sewage treatment plant (STP) in sector 54... Read more.. Date : Jul 14 Source: Times of India
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Just theory can't boost food productionThe goal of food security of the country can be achieved only through improvement in agricultural education and research, feel agricultural scientists of Banaras Hindu University (BHU). They are not satisfied with the present set-up of agricultural education in the country. Presently the agricultural graduates are best assets in the banking industries and marketing of agricultural inputs and produce. Almost 90% of them are job seekers and competing with professionals of management and technical. "These graduates cannot contribute much to solve the contemporary challenges directly... Read more.. Date : Jul 14 Source: Times of India
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Carbon credits for Reliance Power coal plant stoke criticismEnvironmentalists criticised the United Nations on Tuesday after it ruled that a large Indian coal-fired power project is eligible to earn carbon credits worth $165 mn at current prices. Several green organisations said the U.N. rules, or methodology, applied to the 4,000 MW supercritical plant owned by Reliance Power were flawed and that the project was viable without the sweeteners of tradeable carbon credits called certified emissions reductions (CERs). The power station, Andhra Pradesh's Krishnapatnam, is the second Reliance Power project to be formally registered by the... Read more.. Date : Jul 14 Source: Economic Times
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Climate impact threatens biodiesel future in EUEurope's $13 billion biodiesel industry could be undermined by EU plans to tackle the unwanted side effects of biofuel production, after studies showed few climate benefits, four papers obtained by Reuters show. The EU has been arguing for two years over the extent of indirect damage to the environment caused by setting a target of increasing biofuel use to 10 percent of all road fuels by 2020, and it is coming close to deciding how to act. "The land use change effects make nearly half of the expected gains of shifting from fossil fuels to renewable biofuels disappear," said... Read more.. Date : Jul 14 Source: Times of India
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Energy Advantage sets up full-fledged India officeNorth American energy and sustainability management services provider Energy Advantage Inc. has set up a full-fledged India office with an eye on the energy management business opportunities in its move to ramp up power generation in the country by engaging private sector in a big way. The move is a key element of the company's global growth strategy, media communication said on Wednesday. Energy Advantage has had a presence in India since last year when it outsourced some of its back-room clerical functions and IT development work to India through Inforica (a Canadian... Read more.. Date : Jul 14 Source: Times of India
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Plans for efficient services in slow laneThe city's comprehensive mobility plan insists that public transport trips should be increased from the present 18 % to 80 %. However, the Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML) is short of funds and simply does not have adequate buses to increase the number of trips. The delay in purchase of buses sanctioned under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission, and lack of adequate number of depots for maintenance of buses have been hurdles in improving the PMPML's services. The PMPML lacks buses to cater to a population of over 50 lakh including Pune and... Read more.. Date : Jul 14 Source: Times of India
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Sanjiv Goenka launches new group (Lead)Sanjiv Goenka, vice chairman of the RP Goenka Group, one of India's largest industrial conglomerates, Wednesday launched a new group corporate identity RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group. The announcement was a follow-up of RPG Enterprises chairman emiritus Rama Prasad Goenka's declaration early last year, that the ownership of the Rs.18,000 crore turnover group would be divided between his two sons - Sanjiv and Harsh. "The new group corporate identity is to avoid any confusion in future between me and my brother," Sanjiv said. The new group will be active in five business... Read more.. Date : Jul 13 Source: Webindia 123
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Tecpro to buy water treatment company for Rs 10.30 crChennai-based Tecpro Systems Ltd has decided to buy water treatment company Ambika Projects (India) Pvt Ltd for Rs 10.3 crore. Ambika Projects is an engineering procurement & construction (EPC) company catering to and waste water treatment, and is headquartered in Chennai. It counts JSW , Vedanta, Essar and Tata as its top clients. "As the company was looking for its entry into this space for quite some time, it is expected that this acquisition would help the company in moving up the value chain," Tecpro said in a BSE announcement. The company would acquire 100%... Read more.. Date : Jul 13 Source: Economic Times
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India’s Karnataka State Seeks 350 Megawatts of Solar CapacityIndia’s Karnataka state announced its solar power policy outlining terms for 350 megawatts of capacity that it’s targeting to build by 2016. Under the program, Karnataka on India’s southwest coast plans to award permits to companies to build 200 megawatts of projects through bidding and the remaining 150 megawatts by application, according to a copy of the policy posted on the Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd. website. Solar photovoltaic projects, which use panels to convert sunlight directly into electricity, must be 3 megawatts to 10 megawatts in size, it said.... Read more.. Date : Jul 13 Source: Bloomberg
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HUL partners with Bharti to promote plastic recyclingHindustan Unilever Limited, India's largest consumer products company and Bharti Retail has partnered to promote plastic recycling among consumers in National Capital Region ( NCR .. This programme launched jointly by Hindustan Unilever Limited and Bharti Retail is called "Go Recycle " and will run for three months in all the 31 easyday stores across National Capital Region (NCR). This is a first-of-its kind initiative in India and is targeted to help reduce packaging waste and also inform and educate consumers to practice responsible consumption. The "Go Recycle" programme... Read more.. Date : Jul 13 Source: Economic Times
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Strengthening Regional Cooperation of ICIMODBackgrounder Date : Jul 13 Source: Public Information Bureau
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India’s $3 Billion Wind Market to Slump as Tax Break May EndEnding a federal tax break for wind farms in India, the largest market for turbines after China and the U.S., would cause a $540 million drop in demand just as suppliers including General Electric Co. (GE) expand local capacity. Wind park installations may fall 15 percent in the financial year starting April 2012 from the 2,600 megawatts projected for this year should the benefit be discontinued, said Ashish Sethia, lead analyst with Bloomberg New Energy Finance in New Delhi. The government wants to axe an accounting rule next year that encouraged companies to erect most of... Read more.. Date : Jul 13 Source: Bloomberg
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Sustainability Jobs Get Green Light at Large Firms .Though most employers aren't adding jobs at a quick pace, positions tied to sustainability and renewable energy might be a bright spot. A few large companies recently created positions for so-called chief sustainability officers, who report to the chief executive or chief operating officer, and are responsible for making sure their companies save energy and are environmentally responsible. Some of these CSOs have beefed up hiring for "green" jobs. .In May, Coca-Cola Co. appointed a new chief sustainability officer and created an office of sustainability, tasked with... Read more.. Date : Jul 13 Source: Wall Street Journal
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AJYCP seeks PM's role in Subansiri projectThe Asom Jatiyatabadi Yuba Chatra Parishad (AJYCP) has sought Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's intervention in the 2000-MW Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Power Project coming up at Gerukamukh in Dhemaji district. The youth organization, in a memorandum to the Prime Minister on Tuesday, urged him to stall the work on the mega hydel project, citing possible adverse ecological impact on the region. "Since the state falls under Seismic Zone 5, which makes it one of the most earthquake-prone zones, having a big dam in such a location can be disastrous. The region had already witnessed big... Read more.. Date : Jul 13 Source: Times of India
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Jairam: Green activist, technocrat and no-nonsense politicianJairam Ramesh, who made headlines as a crusading green minister, is set to bring in his intellectual heft and training as an engineer to his new job as India's rural development minister. With the Manmohan Singh government desperate to salvage its image as pro-aam admi, the rural related stories Date : Jul 13 Source: Hindustan Times
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Global warming: Cities, too, are carbon 'sinks'Scientists on Tuesday offered a slender piece of good news about global warming , reporting that cities can be of surprising help in soaking up carbon dioxide (CO2), the principal greenhouse gas . Around four percent of the world's land surface is defined as urbanised, a figure expected to surge as the planet's human population rises from seven billion this year to as much as 9.5 billion by mid-century. But unlike forests, urban areas are absent in most calculations of "sinks" where vegetation soaks up CO2 naturally thanks to photosynthesis. A new study, though, says... Read more.. Date : Jul 13 Source: Economic Times
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Carbon credits for India coal power plant stoke criticismEnvironmentalists criticized the United Nations on Tuesday after it ruled that a large Indian coal-fired power project is eligible to earn carbon credits worth $165 million at current prices. Several green organizations said the U.N. rules, or methodology, applied to the 4,000 MW supercritical plant owned by Reliance Power were flawed and that the project was viable without the sweeteners of tradable carbon credits called certified emissions reductions (CERs). The power station, in Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, is the second Reliance Power project to be formally registered... Read more.. Date : Jul 13 Source: Reuters
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Tata BP Solar bags three solar projects in GujaratNEW DELHI: Tata BP Solar India Ltd , a joint venture of Tata Power and BP Solar, has three solar power projects totalling more than 30 megawatts in the state of Gujarat. It these projects under the first phase of the state solar power policy of the Gujarat government. The projects are located in the Patan, Kutch and Mithapur areas of the state. Each solar power project will comprise of an array of solar photovoltaic modules of 230 Watts and above, laid out in a modular combination to generate power from solar radiation. Each project will generate local employment and... Read more.. Date : Jul 12 Source: Economic Times
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RPower to earn R1.1k cr in carbon creditsReliance Power has become the largest supplier of certified emission reductions (CERs) in the Indian power generation sector, with its 3,960-mw Krishnapatnam ultra mega power project (UMPP) getting registered with the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCC) under the clean development mechanism. The company’s similarly-sized Sasan UMPP in Chhattisgarh is already registered with the UN agency for carbon credits. “Reliance Power has become the largest supplier of CERs among the Indian power generation companies with 3.48 million CERs,” the company said in a statement. ... Read more..Date : Jul 12 Source: Financial Express
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India Solar Power Projects to Submit Funding Proof by July 24Companies awarded permits in India’s first national auction of rights to build solar power plants have until July 24 to submit documentation to prove they’ve arranged funding, an official said. The companies must show they secured funding on or before July 9, said Anil Kumar Agrawal, chief executive officer of NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Ltd., or NVVN, the state-run power trader that’s overseeing the solar program. “Those deadlines are sacrosanct,” Agrawal said by telephone from New Delhi. “There will not be any extension.” The December auction granted licenses for 620... Read more.. Date : Jul 12 Source: Bloomberg
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Orient Green Power to Raise Capacity 38% on Wind-Energy DemandOrient Green Power Co., the first renewable-energy company to list in India, plans to increase capacity by 38 percent as demand for cleaner electricity grows. Operating capacity for wind-power and biomass projects will rise to 342 megawatts in the financial year through March 2012, the Chennai-based company said today in an e-mailed statement. That compares with 248.5 megawatts now, it said. India is seeking investment in renewables to counter the rising cost of oil imports. The country, the world’s third- largest market for wind parks behind China and the U.S., requires... Read more.. Date : Jul 12 Source: Bloomberg
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