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Electricity
Electricity grid to get smart
Issue Date: Nov 15, 2010
To reduce electricity losses due to outdated technology and theft, the power ministry has sanctioned more than Rs 10,000 crore to modernise grids.
Realising low carbon infrastructure dream
@ Issue Date: Oct 26, 2010
India would need major policy and regulatory changes including standards, taxation of pollution and tailored incentives to ensure infrastructure development follows a low carbon route.
Save power the smart way
Issue Date: Oct 15, 2010
Till September 6, Gujarat’s Secretariat campus in Gandhinagar boasted the largest installation of solar panels in India. Now it has another distinction— the campus has become home to the country’s first smart grid. A smart grid transmits and distributes electricity using information and communication technology. It helps control electricity use by making consumption patterns more visible.
Science & Technology - Briefs
Issue Date: Sep 30, 2010
HORTICULTURE
Apple genome cracked
Edison’s estranged apprentice
Issue Date: Sep 15, 2010
It was a cold morning in Colorado Springs in the US. Robert Angierre, a magician, walked towards the workshop of a scientist regarded as a disgrace to the scientists’ community. Entering an area cordoned off by an electric fence, he noticed bulbs lit all around in the snow. The bulbs were drawing electricity without any wires.
Turn it off
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2010
A study by non-profit Prayas Energy Group, which estimated the total standby energy-saving potential in India, found:
South Asia
Issue Date: Jul 15, 2010
IRANIAN RELIEF:
Iran has signed a deal to export one million cubic metres of natural gas per day to Pakistan.
Pay before using electricity
Issue Date: Jun 15, 2010
Shops and homes in select areas of Mumbai, Thane, Pune and Nashik would soon have to pay in advance for the electricity they use. This follows the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission’s (merc) approval for introducing prepaid electricity meters on a pilot basis. The state’s electricity distribution company will install 25,000 prepaid meters to begin with.
