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With the proposed commissioning of a 50-Mw tidal power project off the coast of Gujarat in 2013, India is ready to place its first

Fossil fuel investments will continue to outstrip low-carbon alternatives this year, darkening a sector struggling to shake off the financial crisis and sagging political momentum on climate change.

Soaring fossil fuel prices, where the European oil benchmark is pushing $100 a barrel, favor oil and coal producers, while falling gas prices have undermined wind power generation especially in the

The Forest Department of Madhya Pradesh has chalked out a solar energy project for 1,025 forest villages of the State.

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Melbourne: Australian students claim to have designed the world's fastest solar car which has smashed a Guinness World Record by travelling at a speed of 88 kmph.

The car, designed by the University of New South Wales students,smashedtheworldsolar car speed record at the HMAS Albatross navy base airstrip in Nowra. The speed was faster than the previous record of 79 kmph.

The industry in Haryana is trying its bit to make solar energy popular. Industrial houses, including Omax and Hero Honda, are looking up to the sun to generate electricity. And to promote green power generation and woo more industries towards this, the state government has decided to offer Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) to the generators.

NEW DELHI: Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Tuesday called upon all MLAs to identify large buildings under their Assembly segments for setting up small solar energy plants and to suggest suitable sites for construction of parking lots.

Addressing the MLAs and senior officials at Delhi Secretariat on the second day of the interactive sessions organised to bring all legislators from given p

The work on 690 Mega Watts Ratle Hydroelectric Project in Kishtwar district will begin early next year as the M/s G V K Hydro Electric Project Pvt Ltd, which was allotted the project in tariff based bidding, has geared up the process of seeking clearances from different agencies.

Official sources said that M/s G V K Hydro Electric Project Pvt Ltd has engaged consultants for reviewing the Detail

Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Monday underscored the need for better utilization of non conventional resources of energy available in the State stressing on replacement of installations run on conventional energy by the new and renewable energy resources wherever possible.

"This would shift the pressure on hydro electric power supply and help to divert it for other important uses", he added.

The Indian corporate remains unconvinced about Clean Development mechanisms (CDM) with only seven per cent of PSUs convinced about its efficacy. ONGC, SAIL and IOC have emerged as the front-runners in using CDM but the majority of PSUs have stee-red clear of adopting these emission reduction techniques.