Glaring aberrations
Glow signs using diesel gensets at bus stops have increased in Delhi. So has the pollution
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'I don't think future generations will be very happy with our performance'
Michael Jefferson is vice president of the London based World Energy Council WEC , an international association covering all energy forms. Jefferson has co chaired 2 main commissions of the WEC, the latest one involving more than 500 people. Nine Regiona
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Uttarakhand hills with solar power don’t prefer ‘taar wali bijli’
<p>It was half past four in the evening when we reached <em>Garbadhar</em>. It took us about 4 hours and two flat tyres along the <em>Kali river</em> from <em>Dharachulha</em> to get there. The Border
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Fuel for warming the globe
A collapse in the price of fossil fuel means bad news for efforts to curb global warming
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'Bioenergy is being taken quite seriously'
Gerald Leach is a senior research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute SEI in London. He has written extensively on rural energy issues in developing countries at the SEI and earlier at the International Institute of Environment and Development
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Landing on the red planet
The world s powers celebrated Christmas 2003 in style: they sent robotic geologists to the red planet Mars, Earth s uninviting and hostile neighbour. Two major space faring powers, the European Union and the US, extended their race for space supremacy to
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Dream that's failed
The Mud Village Society was conceived as a "habitat in consonance with the total ecosystem". But the highly touted project may never be implemented.
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Network
Web grooves Over 14 years ago, more than a hundred companies agreed on a standard way for making music with computers - the Musical Instrument Digital
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Chief culprit
Study warns that in the future climate change could be primarily responsible for ozone depletion
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Solar home systems: an effort by Bangladesh
<p>Using the Bangladesh national household survey, this policy research working paper prepared by World Bank, quantifies the carbon and distributional benefits of solar home system (SHS) programs in Bangladesh.
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Transforming global markets for clean energy products
This paper looks at three clean energy product categories: equipment energy efficiency; low-carbon transport, including high-efficiency vehicles and electric/plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (EV/PHEVs); and solar photovoltaic (PV) power.
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Solar power to light up CM house
NDPL Has Received Clearance To Start Work On Installing 25KW Panel New Delhi: After a nature trail, Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit seems to be looking at other ways of going green. Dikshit has given the go-ahead to a proposal by power utility NDPL to set up a 25 kW solar panel at her official residence at 3 Motilal Nehru Place.
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Commercialising solar energy, German way
Sudha Nambudiri KOCHI: Germany has made policy decisions on alternative energy sources and has been concentrating on research in those areas long before the rest of the world began thinking of them, said Muller-Steinhagen, head of the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics (ITT) at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).
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Astonfield to set up 5 mw solar plant
JAIPUR: Astonfield Renewable Resources has joined hands with PV System integrator Belectric to set up a 5 mw solar power plant in Osiyan, Rajasthan. The plant, spread across 30 acres, would have the capacity to power more than 13,000 homes.
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Solar plane passes 24-hr test with flying colours
Next Step: Around The World Powered Only By Sunlight Payerne (Switzerland): An experimental solar-powered plane landed safely on Thursday after completing its first 24-hour test flight, proving that the aircraft can collect enough energy from the sun during the day to stay aloft all night.
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Karnataka renewable energy policy 2009-14
Building on its current strengths and a capacity of 2400MW Karnataka intends to establish a dynamic renewable sector with emphasis on different forms of generation-wind, mini hydro, biomass, cogeneration and solar. This renewable energy policy aims at systematic and faster development of Renewable Energy sources to achieve a capacity of 6600 MWs by 2014.
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Renewables 2010: global status report
<p>This report details trends in the renewable energy sector across the world. Finds that investment in renewable energy power capacity (excluding large hydro) in 2009 was comparable to that in fossil-fuel generation, at around $100 billion each. <br></p>
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R-Power to set up solar plants
New Delhi: Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group company Reliance Power is setting up the world's largest solar power plants in the country with an investment of Rs 9,000 crore. The group is planning to generate 600 MW. The company has already identified the sites in Rajasthan and Maharashtra to generate 600 MW.
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The future looks bright
A new era in renewables is clearly round the corner. Things seem to be moving on the right track, but there is a need to have clear-cut norms and proactive policy to coagulate funds and resources right along the board in the renewable energy space Jaideep Mishra Solar power remains the brightly promising spot in the field of renewable energy, and its prospects seem to be improving by the day.
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Renewables 2010: global status report
The Renewables 2010 Global Status Report provides an integrated perspective on the global renewable energy situation.