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Solar Energy
Tap the untapped sources
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2009
According to government estimates, 40-50 per cent of power generated in India goes waste. Government departments often have homilies about saving electricity. But transmission and distribution losses have not been set right. And the government is aiming to increase the countrys electricity generating capacity.
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Guidelines proposed for power credits
Issue Date: Dec 15, 2009
on november 10, the central electricity regulatory commission (cerc) issued the draft guidelines for sale/purchase of renewable energy certificates. The proposed guidelines, open for public comments, may be finalized by the year-end.
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High emission to zero emission
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2009
CLEAN energy generation in India received a fillip with the commissioning of the countrys first solar power plant in Jamuria near Asansol in West Bengal in August. It is currently working at half its installed capacity of 2 MW.
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Rewards for power from sun, wind
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2009
Renewable energy incentives will be based on generation
on september 16, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission issued the regulations for fixing tariff on electricity generated from renewable energy sources like solar power and wind.
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Science & Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2009
evolution
Learn to live with it
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Because the energy industry dictates our lives
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2009
Trade freely, free of liability
THE Indian government's efforts to limit the accident liability of nuclear power plants show a disregard to the principles it swears by (the principles themselves are questionable, but that's for another day). The apparent motive is to increase India's power production, though there can be no mistaking it is an effort to ease the entry into India of US nuclear power companies
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India's new solar system
Issue Date: Aug 31, 2009
Rs 91,684 crore national solar mission to generate 10 per cent of the country's power by 2030
In one of the biggest pushes for solar power in the world, the Prime Minister's council on climate change gave the green signal to the Indian National Solar Mission on August 3. It has two major components: solar power generation and manufacture of equipment to achieve it.
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Eco-friendly last ride
Issue Date: Apr 15, 2009
Death drives India's innovation appetite to its extreme
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Good job bringing this to light. People won't realise how huge the problem is and municipalities are woefully ill equipped to...
Agreed; mining can never be sustainable, but then how do you get the metals to make all the things you need in the course of...
Very good piece.