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The central government will convert 10,000 villages which do not have electricity into solar-powered settlements 2012, Union minister Farooq Abdullah has said recently. This is in line with what the Indian government has been doing past few years, when over 6000 villages have benefitted from a similar activity. The minister...

Electrotherm Renewables, a division of Gujarat based Electrotherm (India) Limited has entered into the field of solar energy with the launch of its Electra solar water heaters. The company said that solar energy team of this division is presently working on solar process heating, solar air drying, solar air-conditioning systems...

After making it compulsory for new buildings to use solar water heaters, the Karnataka state government now plans to install solar panels in major state buildings and public utilities. Bangalore is the leading city in India for the use of solar water heaters, with usage of 60% of household and...

As part of energy conservation measures, Delhi Government is encouraging construction of green buildings, especially for Commonwealth Games slated next year. The Delhi CM also mentioned that the state had made the solar water heater system mandatory in industries, hotels, hospitals, nursing homes, hotels, canteens and residential buildings having an...

September 18, 2009 An interesting article on the potential and status of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) in India What I found interesting were the following sentences: “OTEC is not commercialized because of this reason that the size of the supporting vessel and the size of the cold water pipe...

Folks are now talking about Indian having 60 cities being solar powered in about 10 years from now, if we are able to generate the planned 20 GW of electricity from solar by then (As an aside, I did not know that we had 60 cities in the first place,...

Moser Baer and SunEnergy of Germany won the bid for one of the world’s largest thin-film amorphous-silicon solar power plants in the world. Mahagenco, the power generation company owned by the government of Maharashtra, said it has awarded Moser Baer India the engineering-procurement contract for a 1-MW solar power project...

The global venture capitalist Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is seeking broader investment opportunities with two of its family funds —DFJ Growth Capital and Element Partners — kicking off action in India. DFJ, a marque Silicon Valley venture capitalist associated with start-ups, such as Skype and Hotmail, is believed to be...

September 25, 2009 In a bid to exploit the available potential in the bio-mass sector, the Orissa government has approved two more bio-mass based power projects with a combined generating capacity of 39 MW of power, bringing the total envisaged generating capacity in the bio-mass sector to 129 MW. To...

Intersolar,the world’s largest trade show for solar technology, is expanding into India. Intersolar India will take place for the first time in 2009 in association with SOLARCON(R) India, being held in Hyderabad from November 9-11. Alongside the Intersolar events in Munich and San Francisco, trade show will now have a...