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In order to avail the benefits of generating power through renewable sources, many corporates have come forward to install rooftop solar photovoltaic (SPV) systems in Haryana. Rooftop SPV systems are covered under the central financial assistance scheme. Haryana has so far sent four proposals to the Centre for approval under...

Indowind Energy announced it has obtained a term loan sanction of Rs 760 million from IREDA, New Delhi, (Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency) out of which it has now availed Rs 360 million for completing the existing 18 MW operational projects. The balance term loan amount of Rs 400 million...

5400 MW from wind energy, 63 MW from small hydro, 10 MW from biomass power and 62 MW from waste to energy have been estimated for grid-interactive renewable power generation capacity in Rajasthan. Out of the installed capacity of around 15,538 MW from various renewable energy sources in the country...

In a bid to bring environmental concerns into mainstream growth accounting, the government plans to release green GDP data from 2015, environment minister Jairam Ramesh said on Friday. Green GDP is conventional gross domestic product figures adjusted for the environmental costs of economic activities. It’s a measure of how a...

Business experts from across the country will meet in the national capital to discuss green job opportunities available in India. The initiative ‘Rework India’ by NGO Youth Entrepreneurship and Sustainability (YES) and Drishtee is an effort to discuss how investors and the government can support green jobs for youth in...

About three or four times a week, Yogesh Verma takes government officials and farmers from various parts of India on a tour of the olive plantation he manages. The visitors travel to the plantation near Jaipur in the desert state of Rajasthan to see the 100,000 trees covering 520 acres...

Representatives of a South Korean firm that has developed high-performance coating for solar cells, will demonstrate the technology to Indian photovoltaic module manufacturers. The coating will enhance a solar panel’s power generation capacity by 5%. West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation (WBGEDC) managing director SP Gon Chaudhuri said representatives of...

At long last (about 10 days beyond the expected date), the National Solar Mission is out. Details are still sketchy, but here’s what we know. Targets of India’s solar mission:* To create an enabling policy framework for the deployment of 20,000 MW of solar power by 2022.* To ramp up...

The Haryana government has made it mandatory for all buildings coming up after April 2010 to be compliant with the green rating norms of GRIHA. GRIHA, or the Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA), is the national rating system for the green buildings in the country.

Even while Karnataka grapples to meet the energy demands of the state, there are some who have chosen to meet their energy needs from renewable sources, thus setting an example for others to emulate. One such role model is ‘Belaku’, a unique house at Chandra Layout which incorporates many ecofriendly...