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'Sin' of polluting Ganga may soon be a crimeNEW DELHI: One year may not be enough for him to show results as far as his pet Ganga cleaning project is concerned, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi is determined to demonstrate substantial progress on the issue when his government goes to the polls at the end of its term. A timeline for this complex assignment, discussed in the Cabinet last week, indicates that the Centre wants to stop completely untreated water flowing into the river by March, 2019 and will possibly arm authorities with a law having provisions to penalize polluters by that time. The Union water resources... Read more.. Date : May 19 Source: The Times of India
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Unilever plan on track, but cutting emissions toughIt has been four years since consumer goods giant Unilever announced its ambitious ‘Sustainable Living Plan’ and the report card is out. While it has done well on social indicators like improving community well-being and farmer livelihoods, its efforts to reduce environmental impact remains “a mixed picture, with a lot of work to be done”, said Peter ter Kulve, Unilever president of Southeast Asia and Australasia. Speaking at a Unilever event on Thursday in Singapore’s Mapletree Business City, he shared that the company is “doing really well” on its plans to improve the... Read more.. Date : May 19 Source: Eco-Business
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Centre may use telecom technology for cleaning GangaNEW DELHI: The Union government may turn to technology for its ambitious project to clean and protect the Ganga by using sensors that can monitor the level of chemical components in the river and send SMS alerts in real time when quantities are excessive. Union Minister for Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation Uma Bharti is quite "enthused" about the idea of using technology and has asked industry to come up with proposals, according to a top executive of a state-owned company. The government is likely to rope in state-run Telecom Consultants of India, which has... Read more.. Date : May 19 Source: The Economic Times
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Merkel calls for global emissions trading systemGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Saturday for the European Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS), the bloc's flagship policy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, to become a global system. Thousands of power plants, factories and airlines in Europe have to surrender an allowance for every tonne of heat-trapping gas emitted. However, a surplus of allowances has depressed their price on the ETS and has made it cheaper to burn coal than to switch to greener fuels. "This instrument would of course be particularly effective if we could introduce it beyond Europe because then... Read more.. Date : May 18 Source: BusinessLine
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Delhi can learn from Germany’s solar experience to become power surplusCan Delhiites be paid for consuming power? May be, that is if the national capital is able to implement solar rooftops in homes as Germany has in the past 20 years and can move from being a power deficient to a power surplus state. Germany was one of the first countries to allow grid-connected solar rooftops by the way of feed in tariff, which meant that people got more money for the green power they generated than the power they consumed. Feed in tariff is the money from solar power generator gets credited into a resident’s electricity bill by the power distributor (discom) for... Read more.. Date : May 18 Source: Hindustan Times
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India to get $1.1 billion loan from KFW for RE developmentIndia stands to benefit from a $1.1 billion loan to develop rooftop solar projects from the German development bank KFW. The loan, Reuters reported recently quoting a senior bureaucrat at MNRE, is besides the $1.55 billion funding that KFW extended to the Asian country earlier to develop its “green corridor” of power lines passing through nine states. The Indian government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set a renewable energy expansion target of 175 gigawatts by 2022. It is about four times the existing capacity. According to Upendra Tripathy, secretary,... Read more.. Date : May 18 Source: Greentech Lead
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India, Mongolia look to strengthen RE tiesndia and Mongolia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at facilitating cooperation between the two countries in developing renewable energy capacity. It was one of the fourteen agreements signed between the two countries on Sunday as part of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the central Asian country. Both countries have signed similar agreements in the past, too, and the latest measure is apparently a continuation of the process. Mongolia, under its ‘National Renewable Energy Program’ had set the target of infusing 20–25 percent of clean... Read more.. Date : May 18 Source: Greentech Lead
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Dollar tariff for solar power on the anvilNEW DELHI, MAY 17: Aware that the cost of electricity is a critical component whichever source it is generated from, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for New & Renewable Energy, Power, and Coal, Piyush Goyal, told BusinessLine: “We are planning to approach the Cabinet to reset the... Read more.. Date : May 18 Source: BusinessLine
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Tamil Nadu Gets Power to Chase and Predict Wind EnergyCHENNAI: The nation’s first wind power forecasting micro pilot project was launched in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday. Speaking to reporters here, Prof K Kasturirangan, chairman of the Indian Wind Power Association, said that three billion units of wind energy worth `900 crore were lost due to change in the grid frequency, which was reduced after the northern grid tripped and blacked out 22 States in 2012. The Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation Limited (TRANSCO) was cautious about scheduling wind power due to fluctuations as nobody had an idea of how much wind power was available... Read more.. Date : May 18 Source: The New Indian Express
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Nagpur Metro Rail may use solar powerNAGPUR: The Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (NMRCL) may use solar power in a big way to run the service and wants to tie-up with German government for technological and financial support, a senior official said. The NMRCL plans to install a 30 MW capacity solar plant which can be used for the Metro railway stations. The solar system, once installed, will meet 40 per cent of the energy requirement, including traction power, he said. The corporation will not spend any money for generating this power. The project will be executed by an operator, said NMRCL Managing Director... Read more.. Date : May 18 Source: The Economic Times
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Ludhiana unit to manufacture solar charkhasLUDHIANA: An industrial unit in the city is working towards the production of solar charkhas for the Prime Minister's project, aimed at reviving the use of charkha and making it a source of livelihood for women in rural areas of the country. These solar charkhas are being manufactured by the GSL company in Focal Point. Whereas the owner of the company, Ghan Shyam Lote, refrained from giving out details, one of the sources informed that the minister of state for MSME (micro, small and medium enterprises) Giriraj Singh would be making an official announcement of the project on... Read more.. Date : May 18 Source: The Times of India
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Waste-to-energy Plants in all Districts in Andhra Pradesh, says CMA waste-to-energy plant in each of the 13 districts in the State would be established in the next one-and-a-half years, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Sunday. During a review meeting on Swachha Bharath, he said the State should be a role model in waste management and environment protection. He said waste-to-energy plants would be set up in the State on the lines of the one he had visited in Delhi recently. Representatives from Tata, ILFS and AECOM (an energy company) made presentations on different technologies at the meeting. He said 9,000 tonnes of solid and liquid waste... Read more.. Date : May 18 Source: The Hindu
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Australia Could Reach 100% Renewables By 2040Australia could reach 100 per cent renewables as early as 2040 by adding 1.9 GW of solar PV and 1.9 GW of wind power capacity a year, according to one of Australia’s top renewable energy experts. Andrew Blakers, who is the director for Sustainable Energy Systems at the Australian National University, told the Australian Solar and Energy Storage conference in Melbourne that his conservative prediction was that Australia would reach 90 per cent renewables by 2040 – just through natural attrition. But, he added, at the rate Australia was adding, and could add, solar and wind –... Read more.. Date : May 18 Source: Clean Technica
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US mission in India bags award for energy, water savingsWASHINGTON: The US diplomatic mission in India has bagged People's Choice Greening Diplomacy Initiative award, in recognition of its effort to reduce energy and water consumption across its facilities. "The (US) Mission (in India) is reducing its energy and water consumption across its facilities - despite having some older buildings, including a 128-year-old building in Hyderabad," the State Department said yesterday. "These efforts are supported by several green teams and the Resource Conservation Unit, a team of engineers who work full-time on identifying water and... Read more.. Date : May 15 Source: The Economic Times
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NTPC to buy 15,000MW of solar power through reverse auctionNew Delhi: As part of the National Democratic Alliance government’s green energy push, state-owned NTPC Ltd will call for bids from solar project developers for buying 15,000 megawatts (MW) on behalf of the ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE). This is in addition to NTPC’s plans to set up 10,000 MW of solar power capacity on its own. NTPC will run a reverse bidding process for procuring solar-powered electricity in dollar-denominated tariff to reduce risk. It will provide a purchase guarantee, making such projects bankable and help solar power eventually cost... Read more.. Date : May 15 Source: live mint
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India plans 10GW solar allocation this yearThe Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has met to discuss revised plans to tender 10GW of solar capacity on a state-by-state basis over the next year. According to consultancy firm Bridge to India, these projects will be split between 3GW of tariff-based bidding and 7GW of Viability Gap Funding (VGF)-based bidding. India’s central government is understood to have approved the 7GW block of VGF projects. MNRE expects to complete allocation of these projects by the end of the current financial year, said Bridge to India. The VGF projects... Read more.. Date : May 15 Source: PVTECH
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Fertility of world's soil reaching peak that will threaten food supplies, scientists warnThe fertility of the world's soil is reaching a peak that will threaten global food supplies this century unless more is done to preserve the long-term viability of existing farmland, according to a group of leading scientists. Soil erosion and degradation, combined with the loss of agricultural land to urban sprawl and a booming global population, is one of the most pressing issues facing human security in the 21st century, they said. The "green revolution" of the past half century, where intensive farming based on agro-chemicals managed to boost food production... Read more.. Date : May 15 Source: The Times of India
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Govt to approve policy on 100 GW solar power in few days: MinisterAccording to reports, the government is likely to approve in few days a final policy on adding 100 GW of solar power, as it targets energy generation of 175 GW from renewable sources by 2022. “Government has already approved 19 solar power parks, which would generate 12-13 GW. Policy approvals have been done. One final policy (on solar power) of (adding) 1,00,000 MW will be confirmed (approved) by the Cabinet in few days,” Power, New & Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal told reporters here. The minister was here to inaugurate the New Solar Passive Building of the... Read more.. Date : May 15 Source: Panchabuta
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Azure Power Commissions 100 MW Solar Power PlantAzure Power, has announced the commissioning of its largest (100 MW) solar plant under India’s National Solar Mission (NSM) policy in Jodhpur, Rajasthan. Azure Power had won this project under the NSM Phase-2 Batch I to supply power to Solar Energy Corporation of India, for 25 years. With the commissioning of this project, Azure Power is now the single largest owner and operator of solar PV projects under the NSM with a cumulative operational capacity of 142MWs under this policy. The Government of India announced the JNNSM in 2010 and has allocated solar PV projects totaling 1250MW... Read more.. Date : May 15 Source: Panchabuta
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India & Korea sign MoU on cooperation in Electric Power Development&New Energy IndustriesThe Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister, Mr. Narendra Modi, has given its approval for signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and the Republic of Korea on cooperation in the field of electric power development and new energy industries. The MoU will provide an enabling framework for establishing contact between governmental entities and public authorities of both countries in the field of electric power development and new energy industries. It would also facilitate exchange of knowledge and experience aiming to create opportunities for investment in... Read more.. Date : May 15 Source: Energetica-India
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Mr. Piyush Goyal inaugrates Surya Bhawan at NISEMr. Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy, inaugurated “Surya Bhawan” the New Solar Passive Building of the National Institute of Solar Energy situated in Gurgaon, Haryana on 14thMay, 2015. On the occasion, Mr. Goyal also launched a Biomass knowledge portal which aims to disseminate information about effective use of Biomass for Power generation. The Portal would provide information about Biomass resource potential, latest technologies and technical inputs to setup grid connected as well as off-grid projects. Following the... Read more.. Date : May 15 Source: Energetica-India
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Rs 7,000 cr to be spent on payment of dues of previous clean Ganga projectsNEW DELHI: A day after government gave a Rs 20,000 crore boost to its flagship 'Namami Gange' programme, the Union water resource minister Uma Bharti on Thursday said around Rs 7,000 crore would be spent on payment of dues of previous clean Ganga projects, which have escalated due to time and cost overruns. "Only Rs 4,000 crore was spent in past 29 years for cleaning of Ganga. Now, we will have to pay the liabilities (of previous projects) due to cost escalation which will be around Rs 7,000 to Rs 8,000 crore," said Bharti. She said various options would be explored for... Read more.. Date : May 15 Source: The Economic Times
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State’s action plan on climate change gets central approvalGANDHINAGAR: The Gujarat State Climate Change Action Plan 2015-2020 has finally got the Centre's nod. The plan had been submitted in August 2014. Gujarat which had set up a much-hyped Asia's first climate change department is among the last states to get approval from the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF). Modi as the Gujarat CM had set up a the department which is now almost defunct. In the action plan, the state government proposes to invest more than Rs 21,000 crore to create environment-friendly water resource management, public health projects, forest and... Read more.. Date : May 15 Source: The Economic Times
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India’s NTPC Awards 250 MW For Ultra Mega Solar Power Project TenderA tender issued late last year by India’s largest power generators for allocation of project development rights has seen fruition. NTPC Limited has issued a tender for the development of 250 MW solar PV power capacity late last year. The tender represents the first phase of the 1 GW solar power park planned for Anantapur in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. The tender was open only for India companies. NTPC has allocated this 250 MW capacity among 4 project developers; One of India’s leading solar equipment manufacturers and project developers Tata Power Solar has been... Read more.. Date : May 15 Source: Clean Technica
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Draft Plastics Waste Management Rules: Too little, too lateThe government recently released the “Draft Plastics Waste Management Rules, 2015”. It is once again a case of not just too little too late, but also it does not present a solution to tackle the growing menace of waste with increasing urbanisation and economic upliftment of people. No developed country in the world has banned plastics bags. They are very often encouraged. Way back in 1995, California used to charge for paper bags and give plastics bags (thinner than 50 microns – perhaps not more than 20 microns) free. It perhaps still does. Why? The wise men realised that paper is a... Read more.. Date : May 14 Source: Business Standard
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