Electrification of end-uses and the growth of solar and wind is changing how electricity systems operate on all time scales. This report analyses how seasonal variations in both demand and supply affect electricity system operations to 2050 – in Europe, India, Indonesia and Korea – and what sources will be …
Dibrugarh, Sept 14: The Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification scheme (RGRES) has turned into a fiasco in most of the rural areas as villagers remain deprived of power supply despite claims of its successful implementation by the authority. Work at Dhekeri village and its outskirts in Pub Banipur area are half …
How does artificial light affect insects? The strong illumination of artificial light attracts insects. We reviewed the epidemiological information on three insect-borne diseases, chagas, kala azar and malaria, and found artificial lighting changed the behaviour of insect vectors and thereby the modes of disease transmission. For example, the chagas parasite …
Manisha Pande / New Delhi September 13, 2010, 0:56 IST Having grown up in Baithania village of Bihar, Gyanesh Pandey knows how erratic electricity supply can be. Today, the 34-year-old, along with his friend Ratnesh Yadav, has found a way to generate electricity with rice husk. Husk Power Systems, founded …
Dibrugarh, Sept. 12: The Assam government has drawn up a comprehensive plan to rehabilitate 40 families who have been residing at Gorpara crematorium for 10 years now, government sources today said. Eleven other families who had lost their land will be also rehabilitated at Hatiali, 10km from Gorpara. Around two …
In Chargazaria, a remote village of Shibchar in Madaripur with no link to the electric grid, Amir Ali had stopped performing his prayers in the local mosque. He is a devout man, but in the heat and humidity of the summer, Ali struggled to pray in the mosque, so he …
In one of the first interventions of its kind in Bihar, Greenpeace, Bihar Times and Civil Society Groups of the state today asked political leadership to end the energy crisis by committing to a policy change for adoption of Decentralized Renewable Energy.
ANGAMALY: Onam celebrations became more meaningful for KSEB workers in Thuravoor here when they donated a portion of their wages to enable a poor family to get an electrical connection.Moolan Jose of West Kidangoor near here was fortunate to get the connection to celebrate Onam, thanks to the humanitarian efforts …
Ranchi, Aug. 20: More than 300 villages groping in the dark can hope for illuminated nights ahead. Jharkhand Renewable Energy Development Agency (JREDA) today decided to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) of 311 villages under the Centre
The role of new and renewable energy has been assuming increasing significance with the growing concern for the country’s energy security. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has a wide range of programmes on promotion of renewable energy for rural, urban, commercial and industrial applications through grid-interactive power generation …
Jayajit Dash / Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar July 05, 2010, 0:59 IST OREDA to electrify 1000 inaccessible villages this year Orissa may have the most number of un-electrified villages in the country after Jharkhand but the state is upbeat on meeting the target for electrification of all its villages by December 2011.
Armed with integrated action plans for 35 Naxalite-affected districts in nine states, the Planning Commission is all set to approach the Union Cabinet for a proposed outlay of Rs 13,742 crore to wean away the tribals from sympathising with the Maoists through comprehensive infrastructure and economic development as well as …
The benefits of the rural electrification programme have been lost by supplying the power for only a few hours a day and a weak system of providing new connections and collecting bills, says Ajay Shankar UPA-I launched the ambitious Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) with great fanfare in April …
The benefits of the rural electrification programme have been lost by supplying the power for only a few hours a day and a weak system of providing new connections and collecting bills, says Ajay Shankar UPA-I launched the ambitious Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGGVY) with great fanfare in April …
The Centre has vented its displeasure over the sluggish pace of implementation of Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana (RGVY), a Centrally sponsored scheme, in Orissa. Peeved over the slow pace of work executed by the contractors appointed by the Central PSUs responsible for implementing the flagship scheme in the state, …
