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Suzlon’s founder-chairman, Tulsi Tanti, took a steep cut of Rs1.46 crore in compensation, as the company incurred losses last financial year. Tanti saw his yearly pay packet shrink by 73 per cent, or Rs1.46 crore, last year and took home just Rs53.76 lakh, according to Suzlon’s annual report. He was...

Greenobin, a Gurgaon-based start-up has created a sustainable business opportunity in the space of organised waste paper management. For decades waste paper collection has been the job of the unorganised sector present at every single society or office area. However, there lies a huge gap between total paper wasted and...

Does China ever think small? South China’s Guangdong province will construct a 198 MW offshore wind farm this year and connect it to the grid in 2014, according to Guangdong Electric Power Development Co. Ltd. 198 MW might not sound large, but for offshore wind farms, it is fairly large…if...

Scotland again underlined its position as the UK’s leading renewable energy market as the government approved plans for two giant wind farms, while utility SSE revealed it now boasts more than 1GW of onshore wind capacity. The Scottish government announced last week that it has approved plans for the 177MW...

This is some excellent stuff. Sree Moola Vilasom (SMV) Government Model Higher Secondary School is one of the oldest schools in Thiruvananthapuram city. Established by Swathi Thirunal Maharaja of the Travancore Kingdom in 1836, today this school is imparting education to more than 3000 children. The children of this school...

British industries from boat-building to concrete, and electric cabling to gearbox manufacturing are in the line-up to benefit from the construction of thousands of offshore wind turbines, if new plans go ahead. A group representing the UK’s offshore wind industry on Monday adopted a target of ensuring that more than...

I was reading a news article on Gamesa from Feb 2012 in which its CMD had said that the wind turbine maker was shifting its attention to moderate and low wind sites. This shouldn’t exactly be a surprise, given that we are running out of sites with high wind speeds,...

Researchers have designed a new solar power module that uses a curved mirror to focus sunlight onto a 5-inch glass ball that then spreads the light evenly across a solar panel, leading to twice the power output of traditional solar panels when combined with high-efficiency solar cells. The design was...

According to reports, California now gets about 5 percent of its electricity from wind power. The majority of California’s electricity – 42 percent – comes from natural gas, followed by nuclear power and hydropower. According to 2010 figures from the California Energy Commission, wind made up 4.7 percent of the...

Read recently that Scotland’s First Minister, Alex Salmond has welcomed a blueprint to streamline the scoping, planning and consenting of offshore wind, wave and tidal developments. The task force recommendations include: Creating a national database of survey data, with information from DECC, The Crown Estate and, at the appropriate time,...