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Honeywell starts renewable energy equipment manufacturing in India

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 12, 2014

 Honeywell today added its sixth manufacturing facility in India with the inauguration of a plant that will manufacture solar water heating systems for its Environmental and Combustion Controls (ECC) business, adding to other manufacturing facilities the business has in...

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India's anticipated import tariffs could dampen Modi's ambitious solar plans

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 12, 2014

 Anti-dumping tariffs would range from $0.11 to $0.81 per watt on PV imports and double the price of solar energy to $0.20 a kilowatt hour, according to the Solar Power Developers' Association.

New Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is eager to expand solar power...

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Subject Tags: energy , India , Technology

Solar energy to power street lights in slums

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 12, 2014

 The slums in the city will promote the use of unconventional energy if the civic body's plan to use solar energy to power lights is approved.

A proposal to fit solar street lights in the slums has been tabled before the standing committee. The Shivajinagar assembly...

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Green energy to power over 50% homes in big cities

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 11, 2014

 The Narendra Modi-led government has started work on a plan to ensure half of all homes in major cities receive some power from solar or wind energy sources by 2019.

The plan includes fresh incentives to encourage companies and individuals to invest in renewable...

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Subject Tags: energy

India's energy shortage likey to be 5.1%

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 11, 2014

 With the temperature hitting a 62-year high in Delhi on Monday, a dismal scenario exists across the country on the power front. As unprecedented outages have become the order of the day, the power sector warrants some quick thinking and out of the box solutions.

The...

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'Move to slap duty on solar panel imports to hit energy push'

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 11, 2014

 The new government should review the official recommendation to impose anti-dumping duty on imports of solar panels or cells from Malaysia, the US, Taiwan and China as it would affect the renewable energy push in India, a CII official said today. 

Sumant Sinha,...

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Subject Tags: energy , Politics

China way ahead of India in renewable energy space

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 10, 2014

Manufacturing and infrastructure aren't the only areas where China has beaten India hollow by establishing world-class capacities. The communist nation, the world's largest polluter, has stolen a march on India in the renewable energy space too,...

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Subject Tags: energy

India to implement code for energy saving, green buildings construction by 2017

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 10, 2014

It will be mandatory for all state governments to implement by 2017 the minimum requirements for energy efficient design and construction set by the central government to meet the challenges of depleting resources, increased urbanisation and rapid...

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Subject Tags: energy

India uses 12.95% of green energy

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 10, 2014

The installed capacity of renewable energy has touched 32,269.6 Mw or is 12.95 per cent of the potential available in the country as on March 31, 2014. With this, renewable energy, including large hydro electric projects, constitutes 28.8 per cent of the...

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Subject Tags: energy , India

MoE begins discussion to respond to India's energy cooperation proposal

By : Sustainability ..., Jun 9, 2014

Officials at the Ministry of Energy have started internal discussion to respond to the proposal on energy cooperation forwarded recently by the Indian government.

Though the officials denied divulging details of the...

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Subject Tags: energy