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TN to rope in private sector for osmosis plants in tier-2 cities

The Tamil Nadu government plans to rope in the private sector to put up tertiary treated osmosis plants at Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchi and Tirunelveli, said K Phanindra Reddy, Principal Secretary, Municipal Administration and Water Supply Department.

“We are exploring possibilities of attracting investment from private sector in public-private-partnership mode to meet the needs of industry from both surface... Read more..

Date : Jun 20
Source: Business Line

Panchayat plans to set up solar power plants in Thiruvananthapuram

The district panchayat’s farms at Vithura and Chettachal will soon become a source of solar power generation with the Kerala State Electricity Board submitting a detailed project report to the State Planning Board for generating 30 kilo watt of electricity.

Sources said the KSEB had submitted a report to the State Planning Board for allocation of funds from the budgetary provision of Rs. 500 crore as... Read more..

Date : Jun 20
Source: The Hindu

Tata's Club Enerji initiative saves 17.25 million units of electricity

A bid to control energy wastage by organizing a sustained conservation awareness movement has saved 17.25 million units nationally. An initiative of Tata Power, the movement christened 'Club Enerji', has achieved a noteworthy milestone of saving 17.25 million units of electricity by sensitizing above 12.8 million citizens across 11 locations in the country including Jamshedpur and Ranchi.

The units saved are... Read more..

Date : Jun 20
Source: The Times of India

India Eyes 10 GW Geothermal Power Capacity By 2030

Geothermal, wave and tidal power technologies have been ignored by the Indian government’s ambitious plans for renewable energy capacity expansion. These technologies remain relatively less tested and expansive than others like solar and wind energy.

The Indian government may soon implement a policy to promote geothermal power technology. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has floated a draft policy... Read more..

Date : Jun 20
Source: Planet Save

BNP Paribas Securities Services launches ESG Risk Analytics

At a time of growing awareness of a broader range of investment risks, ESG Risk Analytics provides a detailed breakdown of how well clients’ investments and benchmarks rate against an extensive range of ESG factors. These include environmental factors, such as carbon emissions and energy usage; social factors, such as human rights and community relations; and corporate governance factors, such as board diversity and shareholder rights.

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Date : Jun 20
Source: BNP Paribas

India-EU technology helping use waste water to boost crop productivity

'Water4Crops', a joint project undertaken by the European Union (EU) and India, offers 'Constructed Wetland', a technology to reuse the wastewater in rural areas for irrigation which would also increase the productivity and quality of crops as compared to freshwater.

On Wednesday, EU Ambassador Tomasz Kozlowski, Minister of State for Science and Technology Y.S. Chowdary and other experts held a review... Read more..

Date : Jun 17
Source: The Times of India

CII aims to help 1000 companies go green by 2020

Competitiveness is encouraging companies to stay ahead of the environmental compliance curve and go green, Nitin Desai, Member, Prime Minister’s Council on Climate Change, said.

Speaking at the inaugural session of CII GreenCo Summit 2016, Nitin Desai highlighted companies that lead are those who anticipate the future instead of reacting to regulatory requirements.

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Date : Jun 17
Source: The Hindu Business Line

India Looking To Launch National Energy Storage Mission

India’s renewable energy targets will massive amounts of capacity added to the grid over a very short period of time. The Indian government is looking at ways to minimize its impact on the existing grid.

According to media reports, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is contemplating the launch of a National Energy Storage Mission. An official of the ministry stated the idea is being looked without... Read more..

Date : Jun 17
Source: Planet Save

My Eco Energy takes over Indian Fuel Industry with revolutionary new product- Indizel

Indizel is the unique cleanliest diesel fuel introduced in the Indian Market which meets European (EN 590 EURO 6), and BIS (IS 1460) Bharat stage VI strictest fuel quality parameters collating with World Wide Fuel Charter (WWFC - Worldwide Fuel Charter), category 4 requirements. My Eco Energy is all set to establish its foothold in the Indian Fuel Industry with the launch of their all-new revolutionary product INDIZEL. This new non-petroleum based fuel is a superior quality bio-fuel engineered to maximize... Read more..

Date : Jun 17
Source: IIFL

BioCrux Machine Can Crush 300 PET Bottles an Hour and Ensure They Get 100% Recycled

BioCrux, a compact, automatic and noiseless machine, can crush all polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles into chips and pellets first, and then into recyclable flakes.

This means all PET bottles can be recycled. Every time someone drops a bottle inside the refrigerator-sized machine, BioCrux senses it and starts working automatically. The flakes are stored in a bin that can accumulate up to 500 bottles or... Read more..

Date : Jun 17
Source: The Better India

India’s NTPC invites bids for 100MW local content solar in Karnataka

India’s largest utility NTPC has invited bids from developers to set up 100MW of solar PV projects in Pavagada Solar Park in Tumkur District of Karnataka under local content rules.

The Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) rules mandate solar equipment for the projects to be sourced from local companies.

The... Read more..

Date : Jun 17
Source: PV Tech

Wind energy developers in Rajasthan face losses as discoms curtail intake

Wind developers in Rajasthan have been facing losses for the last two months because the state discoms have been arbitrarily curtailing their intake of wind power, at times two or three times a day. These 'backdowns' by the state load dispatch centres (SLDCs) have cost the developers around Rs 100-150 crore in the months of April and May.

"Renewable energy projects work on watertight budgets to deliver,"... Read more..

Date : Jun 17
Source: The Economic Times

May stop funds to states for power scheme irregularities: Piyush Goyal

The Centre will stop funding states that are found indulging in irregularities in procurement of material for its flagship schemes for rural electrification and urban upgradation of power infrastructure, Power Minister Piyush Goyal warned today.

"I would request states which are not willing to join the common procurement pool to study its benefits, do an apple to apple comparison, compare the specifications... Read more..

Date : Jun 17
Source: The Economic Times

Hyderabad students design wind powered car

City-based mechanical engineering students Vasavi, Shruti, Bindu, Divya and Sankar designed a wind powered car by using a wind turbine, batteries, charger and an ebike motor recently. 

Students who worked as a team first discussed their ideas and decided to work on this project. Speaking to The Hans India, Vasavi said, “For propulsion, the wind powered car needs a good stiff... Read more..
Date : Jun 17
Source: The Hans India

India-UK strike new solar, nano tech pacts

India and the UK today clinched two new key agreements on solar energy and nano technology as part of their wider science and technology cooperation.

Dr Harsh Vardhan, Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences, met his UK counterpart, Jo Johnson, here for the fifth Indo-UK Science and Innovation Council meeting today to establish the India-UK Networked Centre on Solar Energy.

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Date : Jun 16
Source: India Today

Smart City projects to be launched on June 25 in Visakhapatnam

Marking one year of announcement of Smart Cities Mission by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, GVMC will launch a few projects on June 25.

Besides, the city will also set up a construction and debris waste processing plant.

Announcing this at a press conference on Wednesday, Municipal Commissioner Pravin Kumar... Read more..

Date : Jun 16
Source: The Hindu

IEA to house new Clean Energy Ministerial Secretariat

The International Energy Agency today announced that a new, multi-lateral Secretariat for the Clean Energy Ministerial will be established at IEA later this year. The Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) is a high-level forum of many of the worlds economies working together to accelerate the global transition to clean energy, IEA said in a statement. "The choice of IEA as the home of the new CEM Secretariat is a win-win for everyone involved," IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said. "In November 2015, IEA... Read more..

Date : Jun 16
Source: India Today

India’s SECI tendering another 50MW domestic content in Maharashtra

The Solar Energy Corporation of India has issued a request for selection (RfS) for 50MW of solar PV capacity in the state of Maharashtra in the Domestic Content Requirement  (DCR) category.

The DCR means solar equipment must be sourced from local suppliers, although the policy has been under fire during a controversial World Trade Organisation (WTO) trade case with the US, which India recently lost. Analysts... Read more..

Date : Jun 16
Source: PV-Tech

Average costs for solar and wind electricity could fall 59% by 2025: IRENA

Average costs for electricity generated by solar and wind technologies could decrease anything between 26 per cent and 59 per cent by 2025, a report released by International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) indicated.

It estimates that by 2025, average electricity costs could decrease 59 per cent for solar photovoltaics (PV), 35 per cent for offshore wind, and 26 per cent for onshore wind compared to 2015.... Read more..

Date : Jun 16
Source: ET Energy World

Kerala start-up listed in the global league of six firms for clean energy campaign

Kerala's start-up on clean energy, Avant Garde Innovations emerges as the first start-up in the world to join the new international ISO 50001 Energy Management Coalition. The US White House in its official release has listed the start-up's involvement in the new ISO 50001 campaign which was launched by the international energy leaders at the recently concluded seventh clean energy Ministerial (CEM7) at San Francisco in the US.

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Date : Jun 16
Source: The Times of India

ZSW achieves world record CIGS lab cell efficiency of 22.6%

The Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research Baden-Württemberg (ZSW) has set a new world record conversion efficiency for a copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) lab-sized solar cell, verified by Fraunhofer ISE of 22.6%.

ZSW previously held the European record of 22%, just short of the previous world record set by Solar Frontier at 22.3%.

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Date : Jun 16
Source: PV-Tech

Gujarat distributes 30 lakh LED bulbs in 19 days

Gujarat becomes the fastest state to distribute over 30 lakh LED bulbs under the Government of India's Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) scheme. This scheme was launched in Gujarat on May 26, 2016 and the milestone of distributing 30-Lakh LED bulbs has been achieved within a short span of only 19 days. With this, the state achieves the highest offtake in a very short period of time, setting a new benchmark altogether. On June 13, Gujarat logged an offtake of 3.36 lakh LED bulbs in one single day... Read more..

Date : Jun 16
Source: The Times of India

India’s utilities seen holding up $360 million for renewables

Some of India’s clean-energy companies say they haven’t received payment for the electricity they generate for as many as 10 months, racking up deficits of $360 million that may put the country’s green power ambitions at risk.

Companies that say they’re impacted include ReNew Power Ventures Pvt, back by Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley’s Continuum Wind Energy, Orange Renewable Power Private Ltd and... Read more..

Date : Jun 16
Source: Livemint

PWD to use plastic waste in road works

The state's public works department (PWD) has decided to use mis plastic waste in asphalt for road works. The move is as per directives of prime minister Narendra Modi to all states and policy framed by ministry of road transport and highways (Morth). Mixing of plastic waste with bitumen is said to improve road quality of asphalt even as it solves the problem of disposal of plastic waste.

Union minister for... Read more..

Date : Jun 16
Source: The Times of India

Govt bats for hybrid solar-wind power projects in draft policy

The government has sought to boost hybrid solar and wind power projects in the country with incentives and a financing system to increase renewable energy sources while better using existing transmission infrastructure and land.

In its draft policy guidelines released on Tuesday, the Ministry of New & Renewable Resources has set a target of achieving 10 giga watt (GW) generating capacity by 2022 through... Read more..

Date : Jun 15
Source: Vccircle
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