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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...

This paper presents an efficient lantern running on low grade ethanol fuel which also doubles up as a cooking stove thereby solving the twin problems of cooking and lighting for rural households. Nimbkar Agricultural Research Institute (NARI) is the first to propose and develop a dual purpose lantern (christened lanstove)...

Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) encourages Bio-fuels in India, Task Force on Bio-fuels, Karnataka Chairman Y B Ramakrishna said recently. He said IOCL officials in a meeting here recently said the Centre had agreed to increase the Ethanol blending in petrol to ten per cent from the existing five per...

The venture capital arm of engineering giant Siemens has announced it has bolstered its portfolio of green investments with the acquisition of a stake in India-based waste heat recovery specialist Transparent Energy Systems. Pune-based Transparent provides a range of industrial waste heat recovery and combined heat and power systems, as...

Indian Finance Minister plans to reduce customs duty on biodiesel imports, but leaders of domestic industry say the government still must increase the allowable blend past the current 5 percent. Advocates of biodiesel in India have been cheered with news that Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said yesterday that the 2009-10...

The Indian Railways is planning to introduce compressed natural gas (CNG) and bio diesel as locomotive fuels, aiming to cut down on pollution, minister of state for railways K.H. Muniyappa said on Thursday. Currently, the railways uses diesel and electricity, which is an indirect pollutant as a bulk of the...