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Renewable energies such as wind or solar power are set to surge by 2050, and expected advances in technology will bring significant cost cuts, a draft United Nations report showed on Wednesday.

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Italy's environment and industry ministers reached an accord on plans to cut solar incentives, the environment minister said on Wednesday, after delays that had aroused complaints from international investors and solar firms.

The draft decree, which caps spending on Italy's generous solar power incentives, has been in the works over the last couple of months.

But differences of opinion betwe

Germany aims to cut bureaucratic red tape that can hold up the construction of offshore windparks by bundling and transferring all responsibility for their approval process to one state authority.

"This draft bill is a key first step toward a new energy concept by the federal government," transportation minister Peter Ramsauer said Wednesday.

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Renewable energies such as wind or solar power are set to surge by 2050, and expected advances in technology will bring significant cost cuts, a draft United Nations report showed on Wednesday.

The most comprehensive U.N.

COIMBATORE: The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation has proposed Rs.4,000-crore project to set up a special corridor for wind power transmission. Chairman of the corporation C.P. Singh told reporters here on Tuesday that it was proposed to connect Khaitar, Aralvaimozhi, Theni and Udumalpet through the special corridor.

MUMBAI: The Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay on Thursday launched a laboratory, set up in association with Applied Materials Inc, a global supplier for manufacturing solutions for semi-conductor and solar industries.

The scope of the Applied Materials Chemistry Laboratory for Energy and Nanoelectronics (CLEAN) will include developing materials that could be used for electronic and renewabl

National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has planned to set up several solar power plants in the country. One of these plants will be developed at the NTPC's Dadri plant. However, the project has been held up due to none execution of the power purchase agreement.

A no objection certificate for the power plant at Dadri was issued over three months ago.

Thiruvananthapuram: The Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) has awarded a Gold certificate under the LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) rating system for the Technopark Phase-III building under construction.

The Centre has asked the Rajasthan Government to speed up the implementation of solar power projects awarded to private companies in western parts of the State and make arrangements for training of engineers and technicians to add quality to the existing projects and serve the needs of the future.

Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Secretary Deepak Gupta said while reviewing the progres

Supreme Court has directed Ministry of Environment to take action against environmental polluters, but a pressure group within the industrial sector has been effective in blocking the actions over the last two years.