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Noida’s water tariff hiked up to 75%On the heels of a power tariff hike at a time when the city is facing prolonged outages, residents got another blow as Noida Authority has decided to hike water tariffs from July 1. The Authority has introduced new tariffs in different slabs, with hikes ranging from 25 per cent for rural areas to 75 per cent for upscale localities comprising high-end villas. The tariff hike has been announced despite residents making frequent complaints about getting extremely hard water in their homes. The complaints have been made in the face of claims made by Noida Authority that Ganga water is... Read more.. Date : Jun 13 Source: Times of India
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India Wind-Farm Debt Crisis Lures Buyers Waving CashUshdev Power Holdings Pvt. plans to boost wind-power generation capacity in India sevenfold by acquiring farms from indebted companies selling assets built for tax breaks. Closely-held Ushdev Power bought 60 megawatts of projects from Suzlon Energy Ltd. (SUEL) at less than half the cost of building new wind farms a year ago as the turbine-maker struggled to raise cash to pay bondholders. That was the first of 400 megawatts of acquisitions Ushdev plans over the next 15 months, which would make it India’s second-biggest owner of wind assets based on current holdings, according to data... Read more.. Date : Jun 13 Source: Bloomberg
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Solairedirect Energy inaugrates 5.6 MW solar park in RajasthanMinister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah on Wedenesday inaugurated Solairedirect Energy’s first project in India — a 5.6 MW solar park under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM). Solairedirect Energy is a unit of Paris-based Solairedirect Group. The solar park, located near Phalodi in Rajasthan, was commissioned on February 24, 2013, in accordance with the schedules agreed with the Indian authorities and will generate 9,000 MWh (megawatt hours) per annum, enough to power 20,000 Indian households. "We are showing that solar power can make a... Read more.. Date : Jun 13 Source: The Hindu
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Civic bodies get highrise solar panel deadlineCalcutta high court on Tuesday directed all civic bodies in West Bengal, including the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), to ensure that all highrises install solar panels on their roofs within the next four months. The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission also recommended more dependence on renewable sources of energy. The court also directed the West Bengal Electricity Regulatory Commission (WBERC) to ensure that all power utilities in the state generate or purchase at least 10% of their capacity from green sources. The high court bench of Chief Justice Arun Mishra and... Read more.. Date : Jun 13 Source: Times of India
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Norway to work with india to mitigate climate changeNorway today said it was committed to a close cooperation with India to combat and mitigate climate change in the Arctic as also globally. It said understanding climate change in the Arctic will help understand changes also in India. External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, on an official visit to Norway, had yesterday visited the energy-rich Arctic and is the first cabinet minister from a new observer country to visit the Arctic since the club of observers was expanded last month. "The Arctic is the Norwegian government's number one foreign policy priority. Our... Read more.. Date : Jun 13 Source: Business Standard
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Solar Mission-II projects to have 75% local contentThe Government has decided that 75 per cent of 750 MW solar projects, to be offered under the second phase of Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, will be built with local content. This has put to rest all uncertainties pertaining to the use of local content in the Mission because of US pressure. “We want to encourage domestic industry also. The bidding would start in the coming month,” said Farooq Abdullah, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE). The US has dragged India to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over mandating of domestic sourcing in the first... Read more.. Date : Jun 13 Source: Hindu Business Line
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4th World Renewable Energy Technology Congress & Expo-2013World Renewable Energy Technology Congress, The India’s premier renewable energy annual event, WRETC-2013 where you will share ideas with global renewable energy industry leaders, experts, financers, network and do business with leading companies. It's a great opportunity to expand your business and keep up-to-date with developments in renewable energy technologies. The 4th World Renewable Energy Technology Congress and Expo-2013 is the most important renewable energy industry conference that will have 96 high profiled global speakers and industry leaders in Plenary sessions,... Read more.. Date : Jun 12 Source: Sustainability Outlook
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India, US science body launch space solar power initiativeIndia and a top US science body have forged an international organisation to develop space solar power, an initiative that has the potential of solving humanity's energy needs and greatly mitigating climate change. "Time has arrived for us to together attempt to give a direction and momentum to this movement to realise space solar power and its enabling technologies through international collaboration that can help rebuild our environmentally vulnerable planet," Abdul Kalam, eminent Indian scientist and ex-President, and Mark Hopkins, executive committee chairman of the National... Read more.. Date : Jun 12 Source: Economic Times
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India rejects linking emission reduction to financial resources India has made it clear that it will not support a global climate change regime that simply links commitment to reduce carbon emissions to a country's financial resources. At the latest round of UN-sponsored climate change negotiations underway in Bonn, India said linking emission reduction to a country's financial resources would in effect put the burden developing countries.
"We reject any notion that ambition levels in the post-2015 period should be decided solely on whether a country has financial resources or not, inother words, it should not be decided... Read more.. Date : Jun 12 Source: Economic Times
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Tata Power registers wind energy plant in KarnatakaLeading integrated power utility Tata Power has registered its 50.4 megawatt (mw) wind energy plant at Gadag in north Karnataka, the company said Tuesday. "As the project has been set up under the clean development mechanism (CDM) programme of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), it allows us to trade certified emission reductions from the renewable energy project," Tata Power managing director Anil Sardana said in a statement here. Commissioned in July 2009, the plant at Gadag, about 460km from here, uses 63 turbines of 800 kilowatt (kw) each... Read more.. Date : Jun 12 Source: New York Daily News
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India in talks to buy 20 million tonnes of LNG: Veerappa MoilyEnergy-hungry India is in talks to buy as much as 20 million tonnes a year of liquefied natural gas or LNG but price of over $ 10 remains a challenge, Oil Minister M Veerappa Moily said today. "India has now become fifth largest importer of LNG after Japan, South Korea, UK and Spain and accounts for 5.5 per cent of the total trade," he said addressing third IEF NOC-IOC Forum. With LNG demand expected to grow at 5-6 per cent per year till 2020 and 2-3 per cent thereafter, India along with other Asian counterparts is driving this growth, he said. "A lot of capacities are... Read more.. Date : Jun 12 Source: Economic Times
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Mysore to get high-tech air-monitoring stationThe Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (KSPCB) has identified Mysore as one of the four cities where a high-tech ambient air-monitoring station will be established.
Sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, suspended particulate matter and respirable suspended particulate matter are the major pollutants that are being currently monitored by the KSPCB in Mysore; with the station in place, they will monitor toxic pollutants as well. A spurt in the number of vehicles here has necessitated such continuous monitoring of ambient air quality.
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NALCO commissions wind power project in RajasthanState-owned National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) Tuesday said it has commissioned its second wind power project in Rajasthan's Jaisalmer district. The Bhubaneswar headquartered aluminium producer, which has been foraying into other metals and energy sectors, had earlier commissioned its first wind power plant of 50.4 megawatts capacity at a cost of Rs.274 crore at Gandikota in Andhra Pradesh's Kadapa district last December. The wind power plant in Rajasthan is being executed through Gamesa Wind Turbines Private Ltd, which involves erection of 56 wind turbines. The Rs.... Read more.. Date : Jun 12 Source: New York Daily News
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P2 Solar acquires second renewable energy project in IndiaP2 Solar, Inc. (OTCBB: PTOS) announced it has acquired its second significant renewable energy project for development in India. The project is a 500 KW mini-hydro facility located immediately downstream from P2's previously announced Project Rajgarh, near Ludhiana, Punjab, India, on the Sidhwan irrigation canal, and is named Project Tibba. Project Tibba was acquired through P2's wholly owned Indian subsidiary, Jagat Energy Private Limited. Both Project Tibba and Project Rajgarh are owned outright by P2, fully permitted and ready for construction. The company considers these... Read more.. Date : Jun 11 Source: PennEnergy
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FISME seeks restoration of incentive for wind energy projectsThe Federation of Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (FISME) and the Indian Wind Power Association have demanded immediate restoration of Accelerated Depreciation (AD) for wind energy projects, which was withdrawn two years ago. Wind energy provided a dependable and clean alternate source in many states such as Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. The AD incentive had led a large number of private sector companies to commit investments in wind power. The AD, which allowed the investing company 80 per cent depreciation while computing taxable profits in the first year of... Read more.. Date : Jun 11 Source: Business Standard
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Engineers India sets up RO water treatment plant in KanchipuramEngineers India Ltd has put up a reverse osmosis water treatment plant in Kanchipuram to provide clean and filtered drinking water to people in the temple town. EIL, a public-sector undertaking under the Union Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, has invested Rs 1 crore in the plant, which will benefit 1,53,149 people, says a company press releases. The construction of the plant is part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility initiative. The plant was inaugurated on June 5 by T.K.M. Chinnaiah, Minister of Animal Husbandry, Tamil Nadu, in the presence of A.K... Read more.. Date : Jun 11 Source: Hindu Business Line
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Solar energy to power Himachal Pradesh UniversityTo move towards harnessing eco-friendly sources of energy and to reduce dependence on electricity from the state power corporation, the Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) is planning to set up a solar power plant on its campus. The 50 kilowatt (KW) solar power captive unit will be set up soon, said the HPU dean (planning) Professor PKAhluwalia, confirming the varsity's move. Prof Ahluwalia added, "This Rs 1.30 crore venture will help us to cope with the increasing power demand and enable the varsity be energy efficient. The varsity has managed to set aside Rs 15 lakh to be spent on... Read more.. Date : Jun 11 Source: Times of India
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Fortum launches solar power production in India by acquiring a 5-MW photo-voltaic solar power plantFortum has acquired a solar power plant in the state of Rajasthan, north-western India. The company's short term ambition is to build a small photo-voltaic (PV) solar portfolio in order to gain experiences in different solar technologies and operating in the Indian power market. "Solar power fits well with Fortum's other CO2-free production and we believe it will play an important role in tomorrow's low carbon energy system," says Matti Kaarnakari, Managing Director, Fortum India Pvt. Ltd. "Solar power is a strong growth segment that will account for an increasing part of power ... Read more.. Date : Jun 11 Source: The Wall Street Journal
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Climate change policy slipping on Govts’ agendas, says IEAIndia, like major economies such as China, the US, European Union, Japan, will need to strengthen its energy efficiency policy, push for clean coal technologies, and reduce subsidies on fossil fuels, in order to help meet the target of limiting the long-term rise in the global temperatures. Worried that the issue of climate change has slipped down Governments’ policy agendas, the International Energy Agency (IEA) says intensive action is required to keep the target for sustaining the global average temperatures at not more than 2 degree Celsius by 2020 alive. Fatih Birol,... Read more.. Date : Jun 11 Source: Hindu Business Line
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Not many takers for solar power projectsThe state government's ambitious solar power project, which aims to generate 1,000 MW, received a major setback with the majority of private generators rejecting the price fixed by the government. The group of ministers after a series of meetings had decided at Rs 6.49 per unit as the purchase price for solar power from private generators. While 184 bidders were technically qualified to set up solar power plants, only seven bidders agreed to set up plants with a meager capacity of 53 MW at the rate fixed by the government. Taken aback by the lackluster response, the state... Read more.. Date : Jun 10 Source: Times of India
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Corporation moots methane plants to power streetlightsWith Chennai Corporation’s plan to set up compost yards near residential localities and in parks facing stiff resistance from residents, the civic body proposes to install small bio-methanation plants that will power lights. “The idea is to get residents to see how the garbage from their homes lights up streetlights in the area. This will encourage them to segregate garbage at home. We will also utilise waste from local hotels,” said an official in Chennai Corporation. As a pilot project, two plants would be installed at the Villivakkam slaughterhouse and the garbage transfer... Read more.. Date : Jun 10 Source: The Hindu
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Noida for green zones along riversThe Noida Authority has decided to appoint a technical consultant by the end of this month to begin its ambitious Riverfront Development Project. Through this project, the Authority will develop green corridors along the riverbanks of Yamuna and Hindon by massive plantation drives and building recreation zones, among other things. Green corridors will also be developed at the three entry points of Greater Noida adjoining the riverbanks. The green buffers developed along the riverfronts will help prevent colonization of floodplains, besides improving the environment. The Noida and... Read more.. Date : Jun 10 Source: Times of India
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25% budgetary funds for water crises: Prithviraj ChavanThe state government will allot 25% of its budget every year for the next three years for projects to solve water scarcity in Maharashtra, said chief minister Prithviraj Chavan in Satara on Sunday. About Rs 30,000 crore will be earmarked in the budget and the state will seek a matching amount from the Centre. "So, Rs 60,000 crore will be spent on projects and schemes meant for improving drinking water supply and irrigation," said Chavan at the inauguration of check dams (cement bandhare). Check dams are small structures built in river basins and canals to stop rainwater and... Read more.. Date : Jun 10 Source: Times of India
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India to take carbon tax issue to UN panelTaking a tough stance against the European Union (EU)'s emission norms for airlines, the environment ministry has indicated that it would approach the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to resolve the issue.
Environment minister Jayanthi Natarajan has already written a letter to the EU Commissioner for Climate Change demanding a reversal of the carbon tax.
Under the Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), the EU has threatened to fine Air India and Jet Airways (India) for not... Read more.. Date : Jun 10 Source: Business Standard
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KTDC hotels to have waste treatment plantsKerala Tourism Development Corporation has said it would install waste treatment plants in all their hotels. Biogas plants have already been set up in all major hotels owned by KTDC, while works were being completed at the Mascot and Chitram Hotels in the capital and Bolgatty palace in Kochi, a KTDC release here said. The initiative was part of the State government’s Green Kerala Initiative. The ‘Tamarind’ KTDC hotels in Alappuzha and Kayamkulam already have waste treatment facility. Besides KTDC hotels, the corporation has also installed a biogas plant at... Read more.. Date : Jun 9 Source: Hindu Business Line
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