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India’s Solar Sisters
The Barefoot College, an Indian institution, embraces a novel and refreshing development ethos. Shunning the patriarchal mentality typical among organizations working with the rural poor, this place empowers rural people by teaching the technical skills to serve their own development needs. Set in a the small village of Tilonia in...
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Electric Scooters and Motorbikes – A Sweet Spot for India?
Earlier today, I read news analysis of electric scooters/motorbikes in India. The author had an interesting perspective, and I will share it here Those following the electric cars market would not missed the news item about Reva being bought by Mahindra earlier this month. That set a lot of speculation...
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Rare achievement by India’s Solar Module Industry
It was a rare first for the solar module industry of India, when the Indian company Hind High Vacuum Company Pvt. Ltd. (HHV) signed a deal to source solar panel manufacturing equipment and technology to Solar Source Corp (SSC), a Canadian renewable energy holding company. SSC has announced a Joint...
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Ascent Solar, Kirloskar enter Strategic Alliance for India’s CIGS thin-film market
Ascent Solar has signed a strategic alliance with Indian industrial and engineering conglomerate, Kirloskar Integrated Technologies. This accord results from the collaboration achieved thus far under a memorandum of understanding signed in September 2009 between the two companies. Terms of the multiphase deal call for the two companies to begin...
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Solar Energy for Cellphone Towers in India
The Government of India has deduced a unique business opportunity for the deployment of captive solar plants - for meeting the energy requirements of remote, stand-alone towers. “At the bottom of cell phone towers, there are generators running on diesel. We want to shift to solar energy. This will reduce...
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HHV Solar Makes New Thin Film Solar Cell Tech
It's not everyday that we read of Indian scientists making breakthroughs in solar PV, so it was interesting for me to read this article on an Indian company coming up with some innovative solar PV tech. For A.K. Barua, professor emeritus at the 130-year-old Indian Association for the Cultivation of...
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Smart Grid Conference/Exhibition: Transmission, Distribution & Metering India 2010
The 2010 edition of ‘Transmission, Distribution & Metering India’- a conference & exhibition series focussing on issues in the power transmission, distribution & metering industry, will be held @ November 10- 11, 2010, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, INDIA. The Conference will have special focus on enabling Smart Grid &...
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Solar Water Heater Partnership – Nuetech Solar Taps Francorp Expertise for Pan-India Sales
Nuetech Solar is India's largest solar water heater manufacturer, and it is interesting to know that it is geared up to spread out its presence across India through franchising route as a mode of expansion, with the expertise of Francorp. Francorp is a part of Franchise India Group, which is...
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NDPL for 1.5 MW solar PV before 2010 Commonwealth Games
Discom NDPL has prepared an ambitious plan to tap renewable sources of energy. Apart from its several solar projects that already exist, the discom is working on various other plans with an aim to generate up to 1500 kW power from solar energy before the Commonwealth Games. Well, while solar...
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Azure Power’s 12 MW solar plant in Karnataka
Read that Azure Power, a provider of solar energy to commercial, government and utility customers, is looking to set up two solar energy plants in Karnataka. The company plans to set up a 2 Mw solar power plant in Kolar and a 10 Mw plant in Bagalkot in north Karnataka...
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