Rs. 1050 Crore on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change

Rs. 1050 Crore on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change

The Minister of State for Environment and Forests Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan said in Rajya Sabha that Rs. 1050 Crore have been allocated on Strategic Knowledge for Climate Change for the ...

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Union Minister for Urban Development, Shri Kamal Nath, while speaking at a workshop on “Making Water & Solid Waste Management ...

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Green Shift could save US$ 2 trillion in major economies

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A new World Economic Forum Report says up to US$ 2 trillion could be saved through resource-efficient measures across just ...

Reliance gets ADB support for 100 MW CSP plant

Reliance is getting US$ 103 million support from Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a 100MW concentrating solar power (CSP) project. Reliance ...

Green Buildings will help sustain rapid urbanization – Mauskar

Special secretary at the ministry of environment and forests Mr JM Mauskar said that India needs to design and construct ...

IDFC gets US $ 250 million for Indian Green Energy

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government’s development finance institution, today approved $250 million in financing to help ...

GSMA and Bharti Infratel Partner for Green Energy Initiatives

The GSMA and Bharti Infratel Limited today announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop and promote ...

Echelon Enables Micro Grids In India

Echelon Corporation announced two micro grid deployments in India that integrate distributed generation to compensate for disruptions in utility-supplied power. The ...

China overtakes U.S. as world leader in Wind Power

With 17.6 gigawatts (GW) of wind turbines installed in 2011, China is world's wind power leader in both newly and ...

Bachat Lamp Yojna in Jalandhar

The distribution of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) under the Bachat Lamp Yojna (BLY) has begun in the Jalandhar circle. Under ...

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Reliance gets ADB support for 100 MW CSP plant

By shashank on 04/24/12

Reliance is getting US$ 103 million support from Asian Development Bank (ADB) for a 100MW concentrating solar power (CSP) project. Reliance is building the facility in the Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan, 180km west of the city of Jodhpur. The CSP plant is due for completion in May 2013 at a total ...

Green Buildings will help sustain rapid urbanization – Mauskar

By shashank on 03/31/12

Special secretary at the ministry of environment and forests Mr JM Mauskar said that India needs to design and construct green buildings for bridging the growing gap between energy demand and supply while sustaining the steady migration of people from rural to urban areas. Mr Mauskar at a conference organized by ...

IDFC gets US $ 250 million for Indian Green Energy

By shashank on 03/29/12

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the U.S. Government’s development finance institution, today approved $250 million in financing to help India’s Infrastructure Development Finance Company (IDFC)  expand its lending to renewable energy and infrastructure projects, providing much-needed long-term capital to the country’s effort to keep pace with the sectors’ massive potential. IDFC will ...

GSMA and Bharti Infratel Partner for Green Energy Initiatives

By shashank on 03/28/12

The GSMA and Bharti Infratel Limited today announced that they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop and promote green technologies for telecom tower infrastructure in India. The collaboration will entail working together to convert 1,000 Infratel towers into green sites, which will reduce greenhouse gas carbon emissions by almost ...

Echelon Enables Micro Grids In India

By Minakshi on 03/28/12

Echelon Corporation announced two micro grid deployments in India that integrate distributed generation to compensate for disruptions in utility-supplied power. The deployments are built on Echelon's proven, open standard, multi-application energy control networking platform powered by its Control Operating System (COS) and incorporate application software and services from its local partners Grene Robotics ...

China overtakes U.S. as world leader in Wind Power

By rajeev on 03/23/12

With 17.6 gigawatts (GW) of wind turbines installed in 2011, China is world's wind power leader in both newly and cumulative installed capacities in 2011, and has overtaken U.S., according to official figures released by the China Wind Energy Association (CWEA). Though this was down 6.9 percent from the previous year, ...

Bachat Lamp Yojna in Jalandhar

By Minakshi on 03/16/12

The distribution of compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) under the Bachat Lamp Yojna (BLY) has begun in the Jalandhar circle. Under the scheme, each consumer can get maximum of four CLFs at a subsidised rate of Rs 15 each. The consumer has to give four incandescent lamps (ICLs) in working condition ...

L&T gets contracts worth Rs 1,306 cr

By swati on 03/2/12

L&T has got orders worth Rs 1,306 crore in February. The company's Power Transmission & Distribution division secured orders totalling Rs 514 crore, including contracts from Power Grid Corporation of India for the construction of a 765-kV double circuit transmission line from Varanasi to Kanpur and 400-kV double circuit lines from ...

Bharat Light single out stake in Rooftop project

By swati on 03/2/12

Bharat Light and Power has picked up stake in the 2.5-MW Gandhinagar rooftop project of SunEdison, it is reliably learnt. With neither company willing to talk about this, other details are not known as yet. Though small, the deal is of significance because of the uniqueness of the project. The Gandhinagar ...

Suzlon delivers 102% power curve for S95 turbines

By swati on 02/28/12

Suzlon has completed testing and certification of its S95 Standard Temperature Version (STV) 2.1 MW wind turbine in its 50 Hz and 60 Hz variants, achieving 102% of its estimated power curve. In the testing and validation phase, Suzlon says the S95 delivered 102% of its estimated power curve – an increase in ...

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