Biogas for road vehicles
Switching to biogas as vehicle fuel can reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the transport sector between 60% and 80% compared to fossil-based fuels like gasoline and diesel. This brief highlights the technologies
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Draft Rajasthan Solar Energy Policy, 2014
The State of Rajasthan receives maximum solar radiation intensity in India with very low average rainfall. It also has unutilized low cost desert land available in abundance. Therefore, Rajasthan is likely
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Joint Statement on 18th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change
The 18th BASIC Ministerial Meeting on Climate Change was held in New Delhi, India on 7-8 August 2014. The meeting was attended by H.E Mr. Prakash Javadekar, Minister of State (IC) of Environment, Forests
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Green Private Equity Firm To Focus On Wind, Solar
Credit Suisse-backed private equity firm Hudson Clean Energy Partners will focus on investments in wind, solar and biofuels, with deal sizes averaging about $100 million, its managing partners said Wednesday. John Cavalier, former head of Credit Suisse's renewable energy investment banking practice, and Neil Auerbach, Hudson's founder, said in an interview that the firm was focused on companies with commercialized technology, or those that are on the verge of commercialization.
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Is Time Running Out To Seal Post-Kyoto Climate Pact?
Negotiators face a mammoth task to try to agree by the end of the year on the outlines of broader climate pact to replace the U.N.'s Kyoto Protocol. Key issues such as financing climate change adaptation programs in developing nations, transfer of clean-energy technology and disagreements over rich nations' targets to cut planet-warming emissions still need to be resolved.
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Load Generation and Balance Report (LGBR) 2016-17
The Load Generation Balance Report (LGBR) is brought out annually by Central Electricity Authority towards fulfillment of its obligations under section 73(a) of the Electricity Act, 2003. The annual Load
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U.S. sets steep final duties on Chinese solar panels
The United States on Wednesday slapped steep final duties on billions of dollars of solar energy products from China, but turned down a request from lawmakers and U.S. manufacturers to expand the scope
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175 villages covered under RVE programme: Ruhullah
Jammu: Nearly 17,000 households have been covered under Remote Electrification Programme (RVE) against the target of 25000 households so far in the State, revealed Minister for Science and Information
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NTPC to set up 50MW solar power plant in Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal : National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Limited will set up its biggest solar (green) power station of 50 megawatts in the electricity-starved Madhya Pradesh. “We are setting up our biggest
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Question raised in Lok Sabha on Pollution by Power Plants, 21/07/2016
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Pollution by Power Plants, 21/07/2016. Carbon di-oxide (CO2) emissions from thermal power plants, State-wise and Year –wise are Annexed. The steps taken for reducing CO2
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Slumping solar prices rub the shine off silver
Singapore/Hong Kong The solar industry’s rapidly growing demand for silver could hit a wall next year, as the rising price of the precious metal forces solar cell makers to cut use of the metal in their
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NTPC to set up 50-Mw solar plant in Madhya Pradesh
State-owned power major NTPC is going to set up its biggest solar (green) power station of 50 megawatts next year at an estimated cost of around Rs 700 crore in the electricity-starved state of Madhya Pradesh. "We are setting up our biggest solar power project at an estimated cost of around Rs 700 crore in Rajgarh district next year. NTPC will sell the entire power generated from this project to Madhya Pradesh," NTPC official said today.
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Bring on the solar revolution
We have heard all about Al Gore's inconvenient truths on climate change. Now comes an extremely convenient truth from his German counterpart. Social Democrat MP Hermann Scheer, who has been dubbed more revolutionary than Greenpeace, says the great unspoken truth is how painless it will be to convert the world to renewable energy, especially solar power. So much so that the Kyoto protocol is a waste of time that makes what is easy and cheap seem hard and expensive.
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Go green go solar' drive a hit
The Delhi government's "go green go solar' campaign is fast catching up with educational institutions switching to renewable energy to meet their water needs in the power-starved national Capital. Around 50 schools and colleges including Miranda House, Sri Ram College of Commerce, St Stephans, Modern School, Delhi Public School at RK Puram and Air Force Bal Bharati school have installed solar water system at their hostels.
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China mulls new energy ‘super ministry’: sources
China is considering a proposal to create an energy “super-ministry” as part of a sweeping cabinet reshuffle in 2013, two independent sources said, a step that would help Beijing impose its will on an
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Power of the sun (editorial)
The Sun is believed to be 4.6 billion years old and it has never ever failed to show up. No one owns the sun and yet everyone owns it. It supplies its energy free to all who wish to take it.
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Belo Monte dam construction halted by Brazilian court
Opponents of the world's biggest new hydroelectric project - the Belo Monte dam in Brazil - notched up a rare victory this week, when a federal appeals court ordered construction to be suspended until
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The leap towards sustainable power in eastern India
This CII-PwC report discusses options for the Indian electricity sector to establish clean, reliable and affordable modes of electricity sourcing and supply for stakeholders of the Indian power sector.
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Setting efficiency standards in India - An interview with Ajay Mathur, Director General of BEE
<p>With estimations predicting a doubling of demand for energy in India in the next 20 years, it is time the Indian government helps its industry adopt energy-efficient technologies. Ajay Mathur, Director Generol of India's Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) in an interview, explains in detail various initiatives taken by the government to support the industry in this matter.</p>
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China rejects US trade panel ruling on solar imports
China said a preliminary ruling by a US trade panel that imports of Chinese solar panels are harming the domestic industry shows the country’s “inclination to trade protectionism.” The US International