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Micro grids poised to take off

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 27, 2014

The Centre’s plans to supply electricity 24/7 to all parts of India in five years has opened up vast opportunities for power and automation companies such as ABB, GE, Schneider Electric and few others. These companies have expertise in setting up micro grids that have emerged...

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Climate Change: India's Carbon Emissions From Improving Electricity Access in 30 Years Was Marginal

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 21, 2014

Improving household electricity access in India over the last 30 years contributed very marginally to the nation's total carbon emissions growth during that time, says a study published in Nature Climate Change.
 
From 1981 to 2011, household electricity access in...

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Power ministry to sell LEDs at Rs10 against the market price of Rs 400

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 9, 2014

A day after the Nobel Prize in physics was won by the scientists who invented blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), the power ministry Wednesday launched a business model enabling the sale of LEDs to households at Rs.10 against the market price of Rs.400.
 
"The...

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For more efficient power transmission

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 9, 2014

India is experiencing a revolution in the field of Power Sector. The new Government with a vision of 'POWER TO ALL' is investing more in infrastructure and establishing Smart Grid & Smart Cities.
 
Precise knowledge of usage and requirement is a very important...

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One reason solar power is growing so fast? Creative new lending schemes.

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 9, 2014

The fast recent growth of rooftop solar power in the United States has been utterly stunning. The number of homes with rooftop panels has roughly tripled since 2010. By one count, a new solar system is now installed every four minutes.
 
So what's driving this? It...

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India’s Tamil Nadu Sets Solar Tariff as Program Stalls

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 16, 2014

The electricity regulator for India’s Tamil Nadu set a price for solar-power producers after failing for the past two years to attract investments to a state that gets about 300 days of sun a year.
 
Tamil Nadu’s state-run distribution utility will pay 7.01 rupees...

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Indian States Move Forward With Solar Net Metering & Solar Leasing

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 8, 2014

Indian states are making noticeable progress in implementing rooftop solar net metering with an attempt to expand distributed solar power infrastructure.
The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission recently issued draft guidelines for solar net metering after years of...

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Subject Tags: electricity , India , solar

Working towards 24x7 power supply to all in 5 years: Piyush Goyal

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 8, 2014

Government is committed to assure 24x7 electricity supply to every house hold by bringing in transformative reforms in the sector, Power and Coal Minister Piyush Goyal said on Sunday. 
He said the government is working towards providing power to the last man standing in...

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Germany’s great green gamble

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 8, 2014

The Germans gave the word kindergarten to the world of education. They gave the term wirtschaftswunder to development economics to describe their country’s remarkable economic transformation immediately following World War II. Now, in the area of sustainable growth, another...

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Supreme Court verdict on Coal block allocation may plunge future of power firms into darkness

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 26, 2014

In 1996, the promoter of a steel and power company walked into the coal ministry seeking supply from Coal India. He met a joint secretary who told him to consider getting a coal block allocation instead. At the end of three hours of a very convincing pitch by the joint...

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