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India Takes Unique Path To Lower Carbon Emissions

With four times the population of the United States, an economy growing 8-9 percent a year and surging energy demand, India's race to become an economic power has propelled it to No. 3 in the list of top carbon polluters.

India's greenhouse gas emissions will keep rising as it tries to lift millions out of poverty and connect nearly half a billion people to electricity grids.

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30/05/2011
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Need to shift from fossil fuel to renewable energy: Greenpeace

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30/05/2011

At a time when the central government is on a spree of hiking petrol and diesel prices, is the telecom sector in the country consuming too much diesel to run its mobile towers?

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Centre's Solar City' scheme gives urban local bodies a chance to tackle power crisis

MADURAI: The Central Government has come out with a renewable energy scheme that provides urban local bodies with the capacity to address the power shortage in their areas.

The entire cost of implementing this project, called

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30/05/2011
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UPPCL sets to go green this year

UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) is set to go green this year by ensuring per day supply of 200 Megawatt electricity, essentially generated through non-conventional sources, to consumers.

The power corporation, taking a step in this direction, in fact have already signed an agreement with National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) for supply of 85 Mw solar energy and for the rest amount tenders

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27/05/2011
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Lanco Solar bags EPC contract for 75-MW solar unit from MahaGenco

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27/05/2011

Lanco Solar, a fully-owned subsidiary of the diversified Lanco Infratech Ltd, has announced that it has secured an EPC contract worth Rs.

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Electricity from hot geothermal fluids

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26/05/2011

New Zealand scientists are planning to drill a geothermal borehole 4 km or more deep by 2014 to test the feasibility of extracting super hot geothermal fluids to generate electricity, said a statement released by GNS Science recently.

Researchers from the state-run geothermal and nuclear sciences institute, GNS Science, reckon the energy from the fluids below the Taupo volcanic zone in the cent

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Tilting at windmills

Governments, investors and individuals are pumping money into cleantech to stoke innovation and find solutions to issues such as the increasing demand for energy. According to one estimate, oil demand may peak as early as 2020 due to more stringent CO2 reduction policies, higher fossil fuel prices and declining clean energy investment costs.

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26/05/2011
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Renewable energy meet at Ooty

MADURAI: The Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA) is organising a two-day national conference on renewable energy at Udhagamandalam in The Nilgiris district on Saturday and Sunday (May 28 and 29) in association with the Tamil Nadu Tea Exporters' Association.

A delegation of 100 foreign scholars involved in solar thermal research were also likely to take part in the conference, S.E.S.

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26/05/2011
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Bonds Could Aid Shift To Green Economy: OECD

Green bonds could raise hundreds of billions of dollars a year to spur a shift to cleaner economic growth if governments set strong environmental goals such as for slowing climate change, the OECD said on Wednesday.

In a review of efforts to promote greener growth, it urged more innovation to favor investments in clean energies such as wind or solar power and a drive to place more value on ever

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26/05/2011
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Japan PM To Unveil Push For Renewable Energy: Media

Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan is expected to announce a drive toward renewable energy, including slashing the cost of solar power, when he meets fellow leaders of the G8 rich nations group later this week, media reports say.

One target will be to increase the use of solar power 15-fold by 2030, according to the Asahi newspaper, while the Nikkei business daily said every new building, includi

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