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Rashtrapati Bhavan celebrated the first anniversary of Roshini, an initiative undertaken by the President last year to make the President’s Estate green and energy-efficient. The initiative has also collaborated with several women’s self-help groups, allowing women to achieve financial independence, a subject close to President Pratibha Patil’s heart. The aim...

Lakshmi Energy and Foods, one of the largest private paddy processors in Punjab with a capacity of processing 1 million metric tonne of paddy per annum that diversified into biomass based power generation last year, plans to consolidate its energy business further. Another 15 MW was commissioned in February 2009....

GAC India has rolled out a series of green initiatives at its Kakinada offshore base with the objective of minimizing its environmental impact on the local area. The company has decided to convert all the heavy equipment at their offshore base to a superior biofuel, produced locally at the nearby...

Renewable energy player Astonfield will invest around $2 billion in India over the next five years to generate about 1,000 MW of power, most of it from solar sources. Astonfield Renewable Resources Limited is the Indian unit of the US-based infrastructure major Astonfield Management. “We are going to make an...

A nice article from Financial Times on how the idea for the Reva Electric car started and its journey from being a dream under an Australian desert sky to a commercial product that has sold over 3000 electric cars so far in India. Electric cars, by most accounts and opinions,...

Dow Corning announced the opening of an anganwadi (daycare center) in the Indian village of Karde (in Pune) that features a 28-panel solar power system. This system generates enough electricity for cooling fans and proper lighting for the anganwadi and an adjacent school that previously had no power. Tata BP...

The Barefoot Women Solar Engineers of Africa has been selected as a finalist in World Challenge 09, the worldwide competition seeking to identify and reward sustainability-related projects. The Barefoot Women Solar Engineers of Africa aims to improve the lives of people living away from any electricity supply in rural parts...

Prepared by – OPET-TERI Tata Energy Research Institute & HECOPET CRES – Centre for Renewable Energy Sources, Department for the Promotionof Energy Technologies and International Cooperation, Greece List of contents CHAPTER 1 THE INDIAN SCENARIO 11.1 Introduction 11.1.1 Solar Collectors1.1.1.1Flat Plate Collector 11.1.1.2Evacuated Tube Collector 21.2 Market 21.3 Policy And...

A white paper on technologies, opportunities and challenges Shirish Garud, Fellow and Ishan Purohit, Research Associate The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India Solar thermal power generation systems are emerging renewable energy technologies and can be developed as viable option for electricity generation in future. This paper discusses the technology...

The number of larger bulk carriers shipping sugar from Brazil to India is rising, as the country’s imports increase substantially after a crop failure in the last season, writes Liz McCarthy of Lloyd’s ListThe number of larger bulk carriers shipping sugar from Brazil to India is rising, as the country’s...