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The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) has been launched, but developers are still worried about non-recourse financing. This is because lenders think solar power projects are too risky. This perception will change if the Centre helps commercial banks gain expertise in assessing project viability.

CMC has elaborate plans to utilise the waste generated in the city for generating power. Plans have been chalked out to take up innovative steps towards generating electricity from solid waste.

Bestowed with Green Leaf Award for effective solid waste management measures, the CMC has already introduced systematic way of collection of wastes.

London: In what could give new meaning to fast food, scientists have discovered a way to extract oil from pasties, crisps and other food waste and turn that into an eco-friendly fuel.

British fuel supplier Greenergy International announced that it has developed a new technology to extract cooking oil from food waste and blend it with diesel to produce an environmentally-friendly fuel.

The pilot operation has shown reduction in energy consumption by one-fourth
Tirupur: High energy requirements have always been a big concern for the dyeing unit owners as rising costs of electricity and usage of large quantity of firewood in the dyeing process are infringing into the profits and threatening the environment considerably.

But here is some heartening news for the dyeing unit owne

Bhopal: With an objective to promote use of non-conventional energy, solar energy plants are being installed in the State. This year, the New and Renewable Energy Department has chalked out a programme to install 8,000 solar street lights in the State. The Urja Vikas Nigam has sent a number of proposals in this regard to the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

Empowered committee of Uttarakhand Renewable Energy Development Agency (UREDA), which is being led by the Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar, has cleared four projects of renewable energy in a meeting on Thursday.

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With an objective to promote use of non-conventional energy, solar energy plants are being installed in the state. This year, the New and Renewable Energy Department has chalked out a programme to install eight thousand solar street lights in the state. The Urja Vikas Nigam has sent a number of proposals in this regard to the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body of the world's leading climate scientists convened by the United Nations, said that if the full range of renewable technologies were deployed, the world could keep greenhouse gas concentrations to less than 450 parts per million, the level scientists have predicted will be the limit of safety beyond which climate change becomes catastrophic a

Officials in Chile have approved a huge hydroelectric project in the heart of Patagonia, setting off protests by environmentalists in several cities.

The National Solar Mission is gathering momentum as more number of projects move towards financial closure and achieve land acquisition, the review meeting of projects noted.

The appraised projects include smaller projects of 1 mw and 2 mw, 5 mw solar photovoltaic projects and large scale solar thermal projects.