Sun to light up city streets, BMC calls bids from Aug 1
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Public Service Enterprise Group Inc unit PSE&G can spend $515 million of ratepayer money for 80 megawatts of solar power projects, New Jersey utility regulators ruled on Wednesday. Regulators reduced PSE&G's original proposal of $773 million for 120 megawatts of solar power. The state utility regulating board killed plans for solar panels on government buildings.
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Pune Gadhia Solar, a global player in thermal energy systems has manufactured and commissioned possibly the worlds largest solar parabolic concentrated technology systems at Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, Shirdi. The newly upgraded system now installed at Saibaba Sansthan would cook 50,000 meals per day.
U.S. start-up Joule Biotechnologies hopes to make commercial amounts of motor fuel by feeding engineered organisms high concentrations of carbon dioxide and sunlight, its top executive said.
The World Bank on Friday approved a $130 million credit for Bangladesh to finance a project which was designed to support installation of affordable solar home systems in rural areas to increase the people
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: With the worldwide focus on climate change and exploring renewable energy sources to meet the emerging power needs, the Central Government is all set to unveil a mega solar power capacity addition plan to make India the global leader in solar energy.
MUKESH RANJAN The government on Monday approved the country's "solar mission", which envisages augmentation of 20,000 MW power by 2020. The decision to this effect was taken at the meeting of the PM's Council on Climate Change headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday evening.
Leslie D'Monte / Mumbai August 04, 2009, 0:30 IST Vijaya Kumari, a widow from Nagapattinam, earned her living by doing other people
A new study by the Energy Watch Group has predicted complete phasing out of conventional power within the first half of the 21st century. Titled, 'Wind Power in Context: A Clean Revolution in the Energy Sector', the report predicts that global non-renewable power generation would 'peak' in 2018 and could be phased out completely by 2037!
The Environment Protection Department (EPD) is initiating a solar energy project in southern Punjab, an official told Dawn. The project cost is about Rs84 million and Rs34.505 million has been earmarked for the current year, says EPD Director General Shagufta Shahjahan.
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Prachi Raturi Misra : Today, 10 CEOs will brainstorm on environmental issues in the capital. The CEO roundtable is being organised as a part of the 3rd Renewable Energy India 2009 Expo.
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Solar power can be the basis for energy security and competitive strength in a carbon-conscious world Nitin Desai / New Delhi August 20, 2009, 0:53 IST The government has unveiled an ambitious programme for solar energy development with the goal of 20,000 MW of solar power capacity by 2020. The plan aims at ensuring that by 2020 solar power is cost-competitive. How realistic is this?
The Government is mulling over a proposal for mandatory implementation of solar water heaters or solar photo voltaic systems in the state and the legislation might come into effect in the next four months, said Energy Minister K S Eshwarappa.
The solar energy plan seems too ambitious to be realistic
VELLORE: The installation of a solar energy tapping system should be made compulsory and a condition by the local bodies for issuing building plan approvals for houses in order to encourage the harnessing of the abundant solar energy available in places like Vellore and reduce the use of electricity in the context of the power scarcity faced by the country, C.
Chemical maker DuPont said on Thursday that it would invest $120 million to boost production of a popular solar cell product. The move is part of a broader push by the chemical industry to supply solar cell producers with technologies to make the renewable energy source more efficient. DuPont hopes sales of all its solar products will exceed $1 billion by 2012, it said on Thursday.