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 …
Minister of Labour Relations and Manpower, Athauda Seneviratne commissioned a rural electricity supply project at Ipilagala-Batahira Gonagala in the Ruwanwella electorate recently. The cost of the project is Rs. 7 million. Those living in Batahira Gonagala, Uthuru Gonagala, Ipilagala colony and Miyankoladeniya will benefit from the new scheme. Minister Athauda …
Under the Rural Electrification Scheme, the Power and Energy Ministry has supplied electricity to Mimaduma electorate where around 1000 families live. The people in this electorate have lived 30 years without electricity facilities, the Power and Energy Ministry said. Power and Energy Minister W.D.J.Seneviratne told The Island Financial Review that …
Rahul Gandhi might just have to rewrite his energy security script, with the protagonist of his story choosing to look the renewable way. News is that Kalavati Bandurkar, whose story the MP had so forcefully narrated in the parliament last July for drawing a connect between poverty and nuclear energy, …
JORHAT, April 1: At a time when the state government as well as the centre emphasized on the all round development of the state by standing their tall claims like Health for all by 2010, Education for all by 2010, Rajiv Gandhi rural electrification programme, but in reality these much …
This study analayzed rural farmers' involvement in the identification and prioritization of infrastructure needs in Oju Local Government Area of Benue State. Data were obtained from 70 rural farmers who were randomly selected.
Can solar power match nuclear energy? While solar energy may be nothing but nuclear energy produced by sun rays, the earthen reality is that it's too expensive yet to match coal-based or nuclear power . NGO Greenpeace however, feels solar power must get its due. As a step towards taking …
Nagpur: Greenpeace, an NGO, has set up solar panels at two schools to power 10 fans and two computers at Jalka village in Yavatmal district of Vidarbha, visited last year by Rahul Gandhi to meet Kalavati, the widow of a farmer who had committed suicide.
Expects to commission another 500 MW unit later this year. Easing demand-supply The project was executed in partnership with Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd This plant will add about 3,500 million units a year Hyderabad, March 31 Andhra Pradesh Genco (APGenco) is all set to commission a 500 MW plant of …
The MNRE had sanctioned the Saradi test project in January 2006. The project has been implemented by UBB (Uttarakhand Biofuel Board), Dehradun and coordinated and monitored by UREDA (Uttarakhand Renewable Energy Development Agency), Dehradun. Before providing electricity in Saradi, the villagers were using kerosene for lighting and other purposes. The …
This case study will describe an initiative jointly taken by Development Alternatives (DA) and SCATEC Solar-Norway to study the techno-social-financial viability of a clean and decentralised power plant. For this action research project, the team has identified 2 villages (Rampura and Gopalpura of Jhansi District, Uttar Pradesh) with different socio-economic …
A revolutionary change can be made in Sri Lanka by installing solar lighting in every house where there is no electricity, former Councillor, Sri Lanka Deputy High Commission in Chennai, Lakshman Jayawardena told Daily News Business. Having had work experience in India, he said that a large number of people …
The Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) has received a sum of Rs 80 million under the Prime Ministers package for NA-178 constituency. MNA Jamshed Ahmed Dasti told newsmen on Wednesday that Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani has released the amount for village electrification programme in his (MNAs) constituency. He said …
The programme to electrify 61 villages in Karachi has made little progress for the last four months due to the apathy of the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation, villagers complain. They point out that their villages were surveyed long ago but the officials have not prepared the estimated cost of the …
Solar panels installed atop houses. G Rajasekaran SALEM: Bureaucratic red tape in Karantaka has stymied all development activity in about 15 villages in the forests adjacent to Mettur taluk in Tamil Nadu. The villages, including Jamburuttu, Al
Change is not something that happens automatically. Our collective effort is what acts as a catalyst in the process of change, said Sharda Devi, President of Samagra Jal Vikas Samiti of Pipra. Earlier, women of this village had to walk 2 to 3 kilometers to collect water, spending most of …
In spite of the intention of governments to increase the use of renewable energy in electricity supply, particularly the use of solar photovoltaic (PV) for energy poverty reduction in rural and peri-urban areas of Africa, there is relatively little information on how solar PV electrification impacts on energy poverty reduction. …
The base document prepared by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy aimed at developing a framework for undertaking programmatic CDM projects in the renewable energy sector. Comments and feedbacks on the report are accepted till March 24, 2009. The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy commissioned a study to understand …
