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In the era where farming no longer remains profitable and the number of farmer suicides is increasing, it is hard to imagine urban youth take agriculture as a profession.

Indian Energy Exchange (IEX) has announced the launch of trading in Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) on its platform. A total buy bid of 125 non-solar REC and 11 solar REC was received in the first trading session, the country's leading electricity exchange said here in a statement.

India has to make the most of its renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, ocean and bio-energy owing to its advantageous location in the tropical region, speakers emphasised on the first of the two-day national conference on

With a view to ensuring adequate electricity in Academy of Administration, a solar energy plant of Rs 52 lakh is being set up. The plant of 25 kw will save 100 unit electricity every day. Besides, works for official facilities and hostel facilities will also be done.

It will focus on using rooftops for tapping solar energy
Delhi, which is busy preparing its solar power policy, will soon become a city of rooftop solar energy appliances.

This was announced on Monday at the two-day international conference on

Urging the Centre to ''stop giving in to the petroleum lobby'', Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National President Nitin Gadkari on Monday demanded that farmers producing ethanol should be given support in their projects.

GUWAHATI, Feb 21

The renewable-energy industry is heading for GlasgowMAKING all the towers, turbines and other kit needed for an anticipated boom in wind, wave and tidal electricity has become one of the big hopes for British manufacturing. Rundown ports on the east coast are wooing foreign engineering firms in the hope of becoming suppliers to the burgeoning offshore renewable industry in the North Sea.

Political rhetoric has shifted away from the need to respond to the

Greenpeace said activists climbed a cooling tower at a Spanish nuclear power station on Tuesday, and the environmental group called on the regulator to reject the plant's bid to renew its operating permit next month.

The Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) said the 1,000 megawatt Cofrentes plant had declared an emergency alert but was working normally after 14 activists broke through the perimeter fen