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India to Accelerate Smart Grid with OpenADR Alliance

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 25, 2014

The OpenADR Alliance today announced a strategic relationship with the India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF), a public private partnership initiative India's Ministry of Power (MoP) created to accelerate the development of smart grid technologies in the Indian power sector. The two...

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Ujaas Energy Ltd commissions first grid connected roof top solar PV power plant in UP

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 25, 2014

After successfully commissioning the first grid connected roof top solar PV power plant with the facility of bi-directional and net-metering in the Hyderabad and then in Odisha, Ujaas Energy Limited(Formerly known as M And B Switchgears Ltd.) is happy to declare commissioning...

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Surge in Investment Recharges India’s Sputtering Power Sector

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 25, 2014

Investors are ploughing money into India’s energy sector again, betting that there are brighter days ahead as the country’s new government clears the path for power producers and distributors.

India’s utilities and energy companies—which have struggled for years with...

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Subject Tags: Energy , India , investment

Old tech gear piling up? Dump it in Corporation's 'e-waste kiosks'

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 25, 2014

People in Chennai can now drop broken keyboards, used batteries and other damaged electronic equipment in Corporation of Chennai's 'e-waste kiosks'. 

The civic body has opened one in each of its 200 ward offices in the city. A corporation official said people can leave...

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'Goa's open-cast mines can generate hydel power'

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 25, 2014

Goa's 90 odd open-cast iron ore mines, currently closed for nearly two years following a mining ban, could be tapped for generating hydel power, says wildlife conservationist Bittu Sahgal. 

Speaking during the inauguration of an environment film festival in Panaji...

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Private finance will help solve green energy problem: Edward Davey

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 25, 2014

Private finance, rather than public funds, will solve the issue of technology transfers from developed to developing countries such as India, UK’s secretary of state for climate change and energy Edward Davey said. “In the UK, we are attracting billions of pounds into...

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India's reservoir water level drops to two-thirds of capacity

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 25, 2014

In this year of deficient rainfall, less than two-thirds of the country's major reservoir-storage capacity of water is currently available -- some 85 percent of the available storage in the corresponding period of last year, the water resources ministry said Friday. 

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Global energy price trend positive for India: Crisil

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 22, 2014

Crisil Research, a unit of India’s largest credit rating agency Crisil Ltd, expects global energy prices to either ease or rise at a much slower pace in the next five years as supplies increase and consumers increasingly move towards alternative fuels.As a result, India’s...

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Subject Tags: Crisil , energy , India , oil

Solar products maker Boond raises Series A round from OPES Impact Fund, others

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 22, 2014

Delhi-based clean energy access company Boond Engineering and Development has raised an undisclosed amount in Series A equity investment led by OPES Impact Fund with participation of two other members of investment network Ennovent Circle – Rianta Capital and Sumantra Roy....

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Tata Power Solar to supply one lakh solar panels to ACME's 20 MW project in Rajasthan

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 22, 2014

Tata Power Solar, a manufacturer of solar modules, has won an order to supply 20 megawatt (MW) of solar modules for a project by ACME Solar in Rajasthan. 

The project is under the DCR (domestic content requirement) segment of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission...

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Subject Tags: India , solar , Tata Power