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A milestone initiative

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RECs (Renewable Energy Certificates) are expected to become the currency of renewable energy markets in a big way as they are flexible and not subject to geographic and physical limitations.

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Two technologies that shape our future

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A tremor ran through the cutting- edge electric car industry last month. Mathieu Tenenbaum, working with French automaker Renault, was just another faceless name till then. But one espionage story that hit the newsstands made him infamous in a single stroke.

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Jakeda: Lighting up remote villages

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One of the objectives of Jammu and Kashmir Energy Development Agency (JAKEDA) is to promote and implement projects aimed at
meeting the energy requirements of remote and unelectrified areas of the State by harnessing new and renewable sources of energy.

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Wind hydrogen based distributed energy system for rural India

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MNRE (Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Govt of India) has sponsored a R&D project to ERDA. As part of this project, a 2 x 5 kW wind turbine is installed and integrated with water electrolyser. Complete demonstration system is expected to be ready soon. This demonstration project is undertaken to validate the feasibility of this concept.

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New market options for wind generators

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Indian renewable energy market has come a long way from its initial era of sizable government subsidies, tax benefits, feed-in tariffs and various other support schemes being practiced since 1980s and creating localized markets for renewable energy. With the emergence of REC mechanism, a national level market platform would be available for RE generators even though they are selling electricity in their local region.

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Wind energy in Gujarat issues and challenges

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Moving from 20% to 50% of wind power calls for need for improved wind power forecast and optimal reserve capacities, strong price signal to wind energy generator against deviation from forecast and strong transmission grid. Therefore wind energy developers have to come forward with the developing infrastructure for forecasting wind energy and make power more grid friendly to accomodate more wind energy in the states.

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NVVN and the solar mission

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NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited (NVVN) was formed by the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) Limited, as a wholly owned subsidiary with a vision to be a catalyst in the development of the wholesale power market in India, enabling the trading of surplus power.

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Bird-friendly wind power

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A study commissioned by the German government aims to show how wind power will affect red kites, white-tailed eagles, and Montagu's harriers in the future. Even not mowing the grass around tower bases would help, ornithologists say.

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Empowered by the sun

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A small village in Haryana has exemplified that a small step can make it possible to be energy independent.

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Pavements can energise too!

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For a world plagued by an energy crisis, what better way to turn to an option that would harvest solar heat from the road to melt ice, heat buildings or even generate electricity. This isn't a utopian idea, says Prof K Wayne Lee, along with University of Rhode Island graduate student Andrew Correia, while explaining the concept.

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