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LEH, Jan 9: Union Minister, for New and Renewal Energy Dr. Farooq Abdullah, today visited Leh to review the implementation of Ladakh Renewal Energy Project, a Central special assistance to Leh and Kargil districts of Ladakh region under Jawahar Lal Nehru Solar Mission besides taking stock of rehabilitation of the cloudbrust victims.

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The Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU) is set to be the first state-aided university to install solar-powered street lights on its campus.
It has come up with an environment park with a building specially dedicated to house solar panels and other equipment needed to run the solar-powered lights.

In a move that will boost clean energy in the country, the Cabinet on Thursday amended the Power Tariff Policy which now requires the State Electricity Regulators (SERC) to fix a percentage of energy purchase from solar power under the Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO).

Jammu: Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah has called for popularising non-conventional energy in a big way, saying hydro electric resources are fast depleting in the country and it is the need of the hour to adopt the alternate means of energy resources.

He was interacting with mediapersons after inaugurating two solar power plants at the Sub-District Hospital in RS Pu

Brushing aside criticism of nuclear power projects on environmental grounds, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said it was

INDIA paid at least . 46 crore in subsidies to help rural homes and villages install solar-powered lights in 2010.

Sanjay Chakrabarti

The year 2010 brought a lot of

An international conference on Clean Energy Technologies and Energy Efficiency on sustainable development will be held in between December 27 to 29 in Dehradun.
The conference will be jointly organised by Uttarakhand Technical University, Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur and Shivalik College of Engineering, Dehradun.

The railways are trying out several experiments to be environment friendly.
While Central Railway (CR) has begun the process of installation of solar-powered illumination at level crossings along its sections, Western Railway (WR) is one of the first railways to run a train on bio-diesel.

Both these railways have several lakhs of saplings of jathropa seeds along their rail tracks that yield oi