Solar lights at remote places
The Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation has decided to install 774 solar lights in the remote places falling in the Tribal Sub-Plan region by providing subsidies to the Scheduled Tribe families
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Solar power blueprint for schools
Australia's 10,000 schools would make the leap to solar power under an ambitious plan to slash greenhouse emissions and boost clean energy industries. In a detailed blueprint on climate change to be
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Solar electrification
Solar electrification in 115 houses of Chepuwa VDC, one of the remotest VDCs of Sankhuwasava District, (Nepal) concluded recently at a total amount of Rs 800,000 jointly made available by the local
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Solar lights on way to Hemkunt Sahib
The Union Government has sanctioned a project of installing solar lights along the path that leads to Hemkunt Sahib Gurdwara from Gurdwara Gobindghat in Uttaranchal. Five hundred such lights will be
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Solar water heating project picks up
The accelerated programme on solar heating has registered an encouraging response. So far, 19 banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) have decided to provide soft loans for implementation
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Army sets up world's first solar steam cooking system at Leh
The rocky mountains in Ladakh frontier region of Jammu and Kashmir has the world's first high-altitude Solar Steam Cooking System to prepare food for 500 armymen. "Army troops have set up world's
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Gurgaon adopts solar energy for streetlights, traffic signals
In an effort to save electricity and keep the roads and streets lighted at night, the district administration has started installing solar operated streetlights, road studs, blinkers, hoarding,
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Energy-hungry China warms to solar water heaters
Dusty Dezhou was relegated to the footnotes of Chinese history for centuries, known mainly as the place where a Filipino king died. His company has earned a fortune manufacturing solar heaters,
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Renewable energy effort gains steam in US congress
A group of mostly farm-state lawmakers in the US Congress want the federal government to require that 25 percent of the nation's energy come from renewable sources like ethanol and solar power by
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Duty free import of solar panel stressed for renewable energy in off-grid areas
A leading power sector NGO has called upon the government to wave taxes and duties on import of solar panels which could be used for localized generation and use of electricity in remote and off-grid
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Solar system discovered
Two US astronomers have discovered huge quantities of carbon gas mixed with a cloud of dust surrounding a young, yellow star that could resemble our own solar system at its inception, NASA said. The
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Solar power competes with diesel, dung in Himalayas
The only sign of modernity is a solar panel in Himalayas. Many of the monasteries, or gompas, lining Ladakh's Indus valley, in northwest India near China, boast a small blue rectangle of
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States power renewable-energy push
Twenty-two states have passed laws requiring that a growing percentage of electricity come from renewable-energy sources, such as wind and solar power. The effort has helped launch $475 million in
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Sanyo to invest US$350 million in solar over 5 years
Japanese electronics maker Sanyo Electric Co. said it would invest more than US$350 million in its solar cell business over five years, aiming to cash in on growing demand for renewable energy.
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Soon, all offices may need to have a solar power option
The Delhi Power Department has proposed making solar heating and lighting in all commercial buildings in the Capital mandatory. Rakesh Mehta, Principal Secretary (Power), says the proposal has
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Solar energy to e-literate rural students
In a first of its kind project, primary schools in rural areas of Uttar Pradesh would be provided with computers powered by solar energy. The move has been initiated to tide over the acute shortage
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More solar lights for Gurgaon
Haryana Government has mooted the idea of installing solar lights at various points in the city. RP Bhardwaj, deputy commissioner, Gurgaon, informed, "Government has taken such a decision after
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In Delhi: Solar lights, separate lines for water
Solar energy for streetlights, hoardings and lighting in public places and separate lines for potable and water used for other purposes are among the recommendations of the new Delhi Masterplan 2021.
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Haryana leads in solar lighting
Haryana has again taken a lead in the country in the installation of Solar LED Street Lighting Systems as the work of installing 74 such systems is underway in selected villages of Rohtak, Jhajjar,
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Govt mulls solar heaters for highrises
After having spread awareness about energy efficient compact fluoroscent lamps, the power department of Delhi government is now vouching for solar energy heating equipment to be installed in