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JK targets to generate 7000 MW in 10 yrsMinister of State for Power, Shabir Ahmed Khan has said that J&K Government is looking forward to generate 7056.50 MW power in the next ten years by developing hydropower projects across the state under various modes. He said the government is keen to harness the available 20,000 MW hydro power potential in the state, adding that out of the identified 16,000 MW capacity as much as 2456 MW power has already been generated. The Minister was speaking here today at the 6th International Hydro Power Convention as the representative of J&K state, an official statement said. The... Read more.. Date : May 3 Source: Greater Kashmir
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Semiconductor research in India; Omkaram Nalamasu of AppliedIIT Bombay and Applied Materials have launched The CLEAN Lab - a state of the art materials synthesis facility, to focus on the research and development of new materials that will potentially be used in a variety of electronic and renewable energy-focused applications. Omkaram Nalamasu, Chief Technology Officer of Applied Materials explains below the importance of such research: Date : May 3 Source: EE Herald
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First-of-its-kind Sustainable Farming Program in Rural IndiaThe Ekal Vidyalaya Foundation, a non-profit service organization supporting education and village development in rural India, is proud to announce a pilot program engineered to introduce self-sustaining farming practices to impoverished villages in the Indian states of Orissa and Maharashtra. The two trial phases of the Vermi Compost Project are being financed with a $30,000 seed, donated by North Carolina-based financial firm, Shah Capital, with plans for expansion of the program in the works. Centered around a technique of organic fertilizer production known as vermi composting,... Read more.. Date : May 3 Source: Environmental Protection
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SunBorne and Suntech to Partner on 100MW of Solar Projects in IndiaSunBorne Energy, a leading specialist in utility scale solar solutions, and Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world's largest producer of solar panels, have entered into a framework agreement for the supply of 100MW of solar panels over the next two years for projects in India. Suntech will supply 280Wp polycrystalline silicon modules for projects that will be designed, installed and commissioned by SunBorne Energy. The agreement includes an initial order for 10MW of solar panels for a project in Gujarat, India. Through this partnership, SunBorne will deploy proven,... Read more.. Date : May 3 Source: Stockhouse
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Policy to promote solar power projects soonSolar energy initiatives may get a big boost in the State with the Government proposing to introduce a solar policy, a step described to go a long way in promoting solar power generation. With Karnataka having potential to harness solar energy to meet its energy requirement, Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited (KREDL) has drafted the solar policy to encourage solar power projects and invited suggestions/objections to the draft policy it has posted on its website. KREDL will be the nodal agency for facilitating and implementing the solar policy. According to... Read more.. Date : May 3 Source: Hindu
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IFC, PTC Financial Services Support Renewable-Energy Financing in IndiaIFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is partnering with India’s PTC Financial Services Limited, a nonbanking-finance company, to support smaller infrastructure local firms in developing sustainable and renewable sources in India. IFC will provide $50 million (2,250 million Indian rupees) to help PTC Financial Services extend its reach in financing renewable-energy projects and will help in building the company’s capacity to evaluate proposals for clean- and renewable-energy projects and its ability to manage risks better. Through the partnership, IFC will make financing... Read more.. Date : May 2 Source: PRLog
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E-waste management by corporatesWhile the policymakers are yet to finalise the laws to regulate e-waste management in the country, many multinational corporate houses have come forward voluntarily to help consumers dispose e-waste safely and thereby protect the environment. DELL India is one such company that had set the trend by taking back the products manufactured by them once they became obsolete since 2006. DELL offered the system of free recycling for their consumers where consumers could register online and the company would take back the obsolete products. “This system is very effective globally.... Read more.. Date : May 2 Source: Express Buzz
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NexPower enters Indian market; receives 36 MW orderNexPower Technology, a subsidiary of United Microelectronics Corporation, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Wipro EcoEnergy, the cleante ch business of Wipro Ltd. The agreement allows for a capacity allocation of 36 MW in thin film photovoltaic solar modules along with engineering expertise on system design, servicing and delivering joint solutions to the end customer. The shipment of the photovoltaic modules to India, for use on solar farms has already begun. The innovative NexPower modules have won the Taiwan Science Park Creative Product Award... Read more.. Date : May 2 Source: PV Magazine
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Nottingham researchers help bridge the urban and rural divide in the UK and IndiaAcademics at The University of Nottingham are to receive more than £5 million in UK funding for research that will aim to make rural living in both the UK and India more sustainable. The money will be used for projects investigating opportunities for small scale energy generation through renewable sources, developing a new autonomous green power system and promoting greater use of mobile technologies to grow wealth in rural communities. The projects are being supported by the Bridging the Urban and Rural Divide (BURD) initiative with more than £7 million from Research... Read more.. Date : May 2 Source: PhysOrg
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GE to introduce 660, 800 MW steam turbines in India this yearLooking to strengthen its presence in the fast-growing power sector, General Electric will introduce 660 and 800 MW supercritical steam turbines in India this year. With India targeting a capacity addition of 1,00,000 MW in the 12th five-year plan (2012-17), the demand for vario US power equipment including high-efficiency turbines is expected to be significant. "The recent focus on using higher efficiency thermal products in India, allows GE to introduce its latest generation 660 and 800MW supercritical steam turbine technology here (in India)," GE Energy India's President... Read more.. Date : May 2 Source: Economic Times
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WWF Marks 50 Years With Urgent Call for Global Green EconomyEnvironmental leaders and politicians from around the world today called for an urgent move towards a global green economy in order to achieve sustainable development and wildlife conservation over the next 50 years. Low-carbon technology, green infrastructures, investment in renewable energy and sustainable agriculture are essential in combating climate change, poverty and water shortages, said participants in the summit convened by WWF to mark the global conservation organization's 50th anniversary. EU Environment Commissioner Janez Potocnik told participants that unless... Read more.. Date : Apr 30 Source: Environment News Service
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NCEF to play critical role for solar power developmentThe National Clean Energy Fund would provide support for the development of indigenous technologies in India and for related research and development activities. The Union government is expecting that the research would ultimately help in reducing the final cost of producing electricity from solar energy. "In the next five years, India would need 28,000 Mega Watt of renewable power and wind energy would be a dominant source for it. Solar energy would also play a vital role in achieving the target," chairperson at Central Electricity Regulatory Commission Pramod Deo said in an event... Read more.. Date : Apr 30 Source: Webindia 123
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Aquatech to construct SWRO desalination plant for Coastal Energen in IndiaAquatech, a provider of water purification technology, has received a contract to design, engineer, fabricate and build a 13,000 cubic meters/day seawater reverse osmosis, or SWRO, based desalination plant for Coastal Energen Pvt. Ltd., or CEPL. Coastal Energen, the power generating flagship company of the Coal and Oil Group, is setting up a 1200 MW coal fired thermal power plant in Tamil Nadu, India. Coal and Oil Group is an integrated energy company involved in various aspects of energy supplies, including coal trading, mining, shipping, logistics and power generation. In... Read more.. Date : Apr 30 Source: TMCnet
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World inching towards ice age: ExpertAt a time when weather experts and environmentalists around the world are worried about the repercussions of climate change due to global warming, a young scientist from National Physical Laboratory (NPL), New Delhi, contrarily believes that the world is gearing to face ice age conditions, may be after 500 years. And, he has strong reasons to justify his stand as he believed that more than natural disasters including climate change, it is the man-made disaster that would bring such conditions sooner than later. "We are already witnessing one of the coldest April month in the last... Read more.. Date : Apr 30 Source: The Times of India
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Oil India signs biofuels R&D pact with Energy and Resources InstituteIn India, the country’s national oil company Oil India Limited (OIL) has signed a ten-year agreement with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) to broaden the scope of their joint research to include Petroleum Biotechnology and New & Renewable Energy Sources. The two organizations have previously collaborated on algae research but this agreement will broaden opportunities for joint R&D. “Though huge investments for R&D in the petroleum industry are ongoing, the area of biotechnology for sustainable energy production and environment restoration is incomplete and needs... Read more.. Date : Apr 29 Source: BioFuelsDigest
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IEEE launches smart grid interoperability standards projectA GLOBALLY recognised standards setting body of IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) within IEEE, today officially introduced its globally reputed project, the “IEEE P2030TM Draft Guide for Smart Grid Interoperability of Energy Technology and Information Technology Operation with the Electric Power System (EPS) and End-Use Applications and Loads”, in India. Date : Apr 29 Source: Meri News
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Water pumps for thermal power plant
Tuticorin: ITT Corporation, the Vadodara-based leader in transport and treatment of water and wastewater, has received its first major order to supply Flygt circulating water pumps from Coastal Energen thermal power plant near here. The $11.65 million (Rs. 51.78 crore) order comprises a complete electrical and a mechanical package for the circulating water system and the seawater intake systems at the plant and includes pumps, controls, engineering, computational fluid dynamics, sump model studies, start-up and the commissioning. Once installed, these pumps will be... Read more.. Date : Apr 29 Source: Hindu
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One power grid for Saarc nationsIndia has called for integrating the entire Saarc region by a robust power grid system to address power deficit in South Asian countries. A Saarc power grid linking Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka has the estimated potential to install at least 1,00,000 megawatts in the region for common use, Indian Minister of State for Power KC Venugopal said. Venugopal was speaking at a roundtable on “Promoting Investment Opportunity in Power Sector in South Asia: Leveraging Cross Border Power Trading” in New Delhi yesterday. The Confederation of Indian Industry (... Read more.. Date : Apr 28 Source: The Daily Star
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Lancor committed to green initiativesLancor Holdings, a well known name in property development, has asserted that henceforth all its upcoming residential projects will be green rated. Mallika Ravi, Group Chief Executive Officer of Lancor, reiterated that Lancor was committed to green initiatives. “Going forward, Lancor will comply with green standards in all its project developments, including residential ones,” she added. She was addressing a function got up here to award Platinum rating to ‘Menon Eternity', an IT (information technology)-cum-commercial project of Lancor in Alwarpet in the city. Menon Eternity... Read more.. Date : Apr 28 Source: Hindu
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Quicker shift to organic farming possible: MinisterAgriculture Minister Mullakkara Ratnakaran said on Wednesday that Kerala could meet its target of a total switch-over to organic farming sooner than expected. The Minister was inaugurating a seminar on “Endosulfan: Issues and Safe Alternatives to Chemical Pesticides” organised by the Farm Information Bureau here. Target set Mr. Ratnakaran said that Kerala had drawn up an organic farming policy and had set a ten-year target for the change. It would be possible to speed up the process. In places such as Onattukara, farmers had returned to traditional farming practices... Read more.. Date : Apr 28 Source: Hindu
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High Carbon Emissions Could Sink Firm ValuesHigh levels of greenhouse gas emissions can have a negative impact on a firm value, according to a recent study (PDF) that examined companies on Standard and Poor's 500 Index. A company's value declines on average by $202,000 for every additional thousand metric tons of emissions it produces, according to "Voluntary Disclosures and the Firm-Value Effects of Carbon Emissions." "This translates into a firm-value penalty of $1.28 billion for firms in the third quartile (in terms of carbon emissions) relative to firms in the first quartile," the report's authors wrote said. "The... Read more.. Date : Apr 28 Source: Reuters India
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Global warming: Plea for mixed cropping, climate resilient farmingFaced with global warming, farmers should adopt mixed cropping and climate resilient farming, according to Dr M S Swaminanthan, Father of India's Green Revolution. Delivering a lecture on 'Shaping our agricultural future in an era of climate change' at a seminar here yesterday, the Rajya Sabha Member said, ''Biodiversity is the feedstock for climate resilient farming.'' Traditional knowledge had to be blended with the modern technology for sustainable agriculture, he added. ''The biggest challenge for the agriculture community is dealing with natural calamities such as the... Read more.. Date : Apr 28 Source: New Kerala
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Controversial Okhla plant proponent asked to get CPCB clearanceExperts have expressed severe reservations about the technology proposed to be used in the controversial 'waste-to-energy' incinerator being built by Jindal Ecopolis at Okhla in the Capital. They voiced their apprehension at a meeting called by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). The meeting was attended by technical experts from the CPCB led by its chairman Prof S P Gautam, Jindal Ecopolis CEO Allard Nooyi, experts from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, the German consultant GTZ and people's representatives. The meeting concluded with a request to Jindal... Read more.. Date : Apr 27 Source: New Kerala
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Tata Power to Boost Renewable Energy CapacityTata Power Co. India's largest private power utility by generation capacity, plans to add more than 150 megawatts of wind-based electricity capacity and raise its solar power production tenfold by the end of March 2012. The company Wednesday announced the commissioning of a 3.0 megawatt solar project at Mulshi in the western state of Maharashtra. This takes its solar power capacity to about 4 MW. It plans to have a capacity to produce about 40 MW of solar power by the end of March, S. Ramakrishnan, Tata Power's executive director of finance, told reporters. Mr.... Read more.. Date : Apr 27 Source: Wall Street Journal
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'World's first' carbon credit insurance launchedUnderwriter Parhelion has launched what is says is the first insurance policy protecting the value of carbon credits should the projects generating them be deemed ineligible by regulatory bodies. Parhelion said that the product was created in response to its clients increasing worries over regulatory risk in the carbon market, and is the latest in a flurry of green insurance policies following offerings from Munich Re and Aviva. These credits are generated by emission reduction or renewable energy schemes approved by the CDM executive board under the Kyoto Protocol. ... Read more.. Date : Apr 27 Source: Business Green
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