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I have gone through the entire text of the Tamil Nadu Solar Energy Policy released earlier today and providing the policy document in detail. I have deliberately left out some of the sections as they are not specific to the policy but general information on technology, global installations etc. (Excerpts...

Moving in tandem with large wind turbines, the global small wind market is also taking a big leap and has recorded an increasing growth in the past few years. By the end of 2010, more than 650,000 small wind turbines had been installed globally, which generated 443 MW of cumulative...

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is looking for research and development partners – from academia or industry for a grant program which aims to develop new ways to process human waste for urban areas – “Reinvent the Toilet Challenge” –  Click here for more details. For information, contact Sindhuja Ramar...

PRESS RELEASE ITC, IndusInd Bank, Welspun, TCS, BPCL and Wipro among Parivartan Sustainability Leadership Award Winners Multi-business conglomerate ITC, Textile leader Welspun, Oil major BPCL, IT majors TCS and Wipro and banking leader IndusInd Bank were amongst 14 large and small Indian corporates that bagged the Parivartan Sustainability Leadership Awards...

This is an interesting conclave for those of you keen on knowing how seriously (or otherwise!) Indian corporates are taking the social and environmental responsibility aspects. ABRC 2012 – a pan Asia high quality conference will address: The Business Responsibility Charter and Rio + 20 summit Aligning of businesses for...

REaction 2012, organized by EAI, was India’s largest and most comprehensive renewable energy and cleantech conference training (Jul 26-28 2012). The video for the entire event, 20 conference sessions and 10 training/classroom sessions, is available for sale. (For the delegates of the conference, this is complimentary and has already been...

At EAI Club, I have posted some thoughts on whether we could indeed become a $ 1 trillion Green GDP country by 2020… Sure, it is just imagining stuff, but who knows…

The Technology and Information Forecasting Assessment Council (TIFAC) of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India is organizing Technology Vision 2035 for our country. This is the second such exercise of TIFAC and is a follow-up to the exercise carried out in the early nineties under Dr....

MOVEMENT FOR GREEN REVOLUTION (MGR) & ENERGY & FUEL USERS’ ASSOCIATION OF INDIA (ENFUSE) Jointly Organizing HOW TO IMPLEMENT SOLAR ENERGY A Hands on Training Programme with a Tour to Real time working Solar Sites. Ideal for Builders / Architects / Industrialists / Entrepreneurs / Professors / NGOs / Individuals...

EAI Director Narasimhan Santhanam spoke at an event organized by the global organization Engineers without Borders (more about them here & here). It was a small but focussed event with participation from about 100 students. Narasimhan spoke about the career opportunities available for the various engineering disciplines. He especially dwelt...