Global wind report 2024
The global wind industry installed a record 117GW of new capacity in 2023, making it the best year ever for new wind energy, finds this year’s Global Wind Report from the Global Wind Energy Council. The
Renewable Energy
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KPTCL to set up two sub-stations to harness wind energy
Faced with demands for better evacuation of wind energy, the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) has agreed to set up two 400 KV sub-stations in the State.
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Large-scale promotion of animal-dung based domestic biogas digesters through public private partnership: A successful case of Nepal
<p>Large-scale promotion of small scale decentralized renewable energy technologies to achieve a part of millennium development goal remained a great challenge until recently.
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PFC to set up subsidiary for renewable energy sector
Power Finance Corporation, a Navratna public sector lender, is in the process of creating a wholly-owned subsidiary for the renewable energy sector, in a couple of weeks, to be called PFC Green Energy Ltd. M K GoelM K Goel, director (commercial), PFC, told reporters here today that this sector required relatively smaller amounts and had not been getting adequate priority.
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Hybrid dreams and renewable nightmares BY
So we learn from the Budget presentation of the finance minister that India is planning to launch a National Mission for Hybrid and Electric Vehicles
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MTNL plans to set up wind power plant in Maharashtra
As part of its diversification, state-run telecom player Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd (MTNL) plans to set up a wind power plant in Maharashtra. The company will soon appoint a consultant for carrying out a feasibility report over its proposed power plant. A senior official from MTNL confirmed the development and said the consultant would work out all the details with regard to setting up of
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Bird-friendly wind power
<p>A study commissioned by the German government aims to show how wind power will affect red kites, white-tailed eagles, and Montagu's harriers in the future. Even not mowing the grass around tower bases would help, ornithologists say.</p>
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Solar warriors
<p>The German solar industry once held the front, but must now defend itself globally. To survive, it will have to prevail over the competition. Germany's Solar Industry Association (BSW-Solar) is leading the way with its PV Roadmap 2020, proposing a battle plan to keep the German solar sector competitive-and make photovoltaics a central pillar of the country's energy supply. </p>
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Italy plan to build N-plants on hold
Italy will put on hold its plan to build nuclear power plants, casting doubt on one of the key platforms for PM Silvio Berlusconi
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Tata Power mulls wind energy foray abroad
MumbaiTwo years after it dropped plans to set up wind power capacities in the US and Europe, the R18,854-crore (FY 2010 revenues) Tata Power is again eyeing the US, Spain, Portugal and Germany for a wind energy foray, its first outside India.
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Foreign Companies Eye Clean Technology Projects in India
Western companies are in the race for slice of the lucrative market for clean technologies such as renewable energy and water or soil treatment projects in India and China, which corporate leaders say will be worth trillions of dollars in a few years as the Asian giants grapple with rising oil prices and pollution.