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Solar energy
- Sun to power on-board services for Indian Railways
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Aug 06, 2013
The world’s biggest railway system is aiming for the stars by using the sun to power its on-board services and thereby reducing its dependence on fossil fuels.
[South Asia] [Indian Railways] [India] [Solar energy] - Indian state gets Asia's largest solar plant
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Aug 26, 2013
The plant will generate 90 million kilowatt hour of electricity a year, enough to power 250,000 homes.
[South Asia] [Solar power] [Solar energy] [India Renewable Energy] - Su-Kam's new Solar Home Lighting System: an eco-friendly lighting solution for homes
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Jan 22, 2013
Su-Kam Power Systems Limited announced the launch of Su-Kam 'Solar Home Lighting System' an eco-friendly solar lighting solution for houses.
[India] [Renewable Energy] [Su-Kam] [Solar energy] - Coming soon, use-as-you-pay solar energy for rural India
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Nov 27, 2012
The International Finance Corporation will assist Simpa Networks to reach a meter-based pre-paid energy service for rural customers. It will function almost like a pre-paid mobile phone.
[Solar energy] [South Asia] [India] [Electricity] - Greenpeace urges Delhi to ‘Switch on the Sun’
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Jul 23, 2013
Harnessing solar energy using rooftops can help Delhi in bridging the ever increasing gap between demand and supply of energy, says a new Greenpeace report.
[Clean energy] [Clean revolution, Green revolution,] [Solar Power] [India] [Solar energy] [Carbon Emissions] [South Asia] [Delhi] - Germany reiterates support for solar power in India
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Jan 21, 2014
A roundtable meet organised by German Development Bank in New Delhi highlighted the outstanding Indo-German partnership in renewable energy sector.
[Solar energy] [Renewable Energy] [Solar power] [Sustainable Development] [South Asia] - India’s environment ministry HQ to generate power
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Jul 22, 2013
The environment ministry building will meet its energy needs with an onsite 930-kilowatt solar power plant.
[South Asia] [Environment] [India] [Solar energy] [Renewable Energy] - Indian Govt plans to install one lakh solar pumps
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Jul 29, 2014
Solar water pumps are a natural substitute to diesel-run-pumps and can be used to pump water in areas.
[India] [Renewable Energy] [Solar energy] [Solar water pumps] - Tapping solar power, the Moser Baer way
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Oct 31, 2012
The Moser Baer solar power plant in Tamil Nadu generates just 5 MW of power but sparks high voltage hopes for the future of solar energy in the country. Find out why.
[South Asia] [Renewable Energy] [India] [Solar energy] - Indian Minister promotes low carbon initiatives
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Aug 05, 2014
“We need to pursue innovation as it is the sustainable way of development,” said
Prakash Javadekar, India’s Minister of State for Environment, Forests & Climate Change.
[Solar energy] [Climate Change] [India] [Carbon emission] [Environment] - Solar ATMs to take banking to rural India
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Jul 27, 2012
With 70 per cent of India's population living in the villages and small towns, solar ATMs may well be the solution to take banking to India's rural interiors.
[Banking] [India] [Solar energy] - India's largest solar plant becomes operational
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Jul 30, 2012
In Punjab, country’s largest ever industrial solar plant became operational in district Ludhiana today. This unit has been set up to perform twin functions of generating solar power besides offering permanent solution of disposing off large quantity of industrial effluent water by evaporating it.
[Development] [Solar energy] - Solar technologies tops list of investments
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Oct 11, 2012
Spurred by growing anxiety over sustainability and the environmental impact of fossil fuels, the world is reaching for clean power with renewed energy, according to a recent Worldwatch Institute report.
[Renewable energy] [Solar energy] [Clean energy] [Clean revolution, Green revolution,] - India-Japan team up to improve solar cell efficiency
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Aug 11, 2012
An Indo-Japanese research initiative has reported a boost in the conversion efficiency of dye sensitised solar cells (DSSC) to 11.4 per cent. To achieve this, they have developed a new material (a co-adsorbent). The work has been carried out at the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), Hyderabad, and Japanese researchers and reported in the journal Energy & Environmental Science of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
[Environment] [Solar energy] [Energy] [India] [Japan] - Union Budget 2012: Renewables get a leg up
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Mar 16, 2012
The Indian government has shown its commitment towards giving a push to renewable energy by proposing concessions to energy-saving devices, plant and equipment needed for solar thermal projects.
[Renewable energy] [India] [Solar energy] - India for incentivising use of clean energy: Montek Singh
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Apr 18, 2013
"We are interested in incentivising the use of clean energy,” said Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of India’s Planning Commission.
[Solar energy] [Clean energy] [India] [South Asia] [Renewable Energy] - India to install solar-based water systems in naxal districts
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Aug 27, 2012
The government has proposed to install 10,000 solar power based dual pump piped water supply systems in the Integrated Action Plan districts to supply safe drinking water to the people of these regions funded from the National Rural Drinking Water Programme and the National Clean Energy Fund.
[Solar energy] [India] [South Asia] - India’s fuel import bill makes sense for it to develop biofuel technology: Expert
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Nov 10, 2012
Himadri B Pakrasi, Director, International Center for Advanced Renewable Energy and Sustainability (I-CARES), is director of two prestigious large-scale, multi-institutional, Systems Biology projects in the Washington University. OneWorld’s Ashok Kumar spoke to him on the role of biofuels and how these make economic sense for developing countries like India.
[Washington University] [Biofuels] [South Asia] [Sustainable Development] [Biodiversity] [Solar energy] [India] [Sustainable technology] [Renewable Energy]
