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PAYERNE (Switzerland): When the Solar Impulse airplane took off on its pioneering round-the-clock flight on Wednesday, the solar panels spread over a wing similar in size to that of an Airbus generated a tiny fraction of an airliner's power.

Union Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh will visit Bhopal on July 9. Ramesh will meet Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on July 9.

Kalpana Pathak / Mumbai July 7, 2010, 0:42 IST

To set up solar and wind power panels across the country.

State-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) plans to set up solar power panels and power plants at its over 18,100 retail outlets across the country at a cost of Rs 500 crore.

SPUDS & SOCCER BALLS SET TO ELECTRIFY THE FUTURE

An electric battery based on boiled potatoes could provide a cheap source of electricity in the developing world, according to the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Farooq Abdullah

Himanshu Kaushik | TNN

Ahmedabad: The Centre has embarked on yet another ambitious project to build a green memorial at Dandi to immortalise the salt march by Gandhi in 1930.
With an aim to rejuvenating Gandhi principles, a Rs 25-crore green project will be launched at Dandi on Wednesday to transform the area into an eco-friendly tourist destination.

Byju Aryad

KOCHI: The proposal for setting up solar power projects in Kerala by the Agency for Non-conventional Energy and Rural Technology (Anert) under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), has received tremendous response from various quarters

THE central power regulator has made it mandatory for all power utilities to purchase 6% green power, but there is a slight hitch

KOHIMA, July 4

New Delhi: Flagship refiner-marketer IndianOil Corporation is setting up a gridlinked solar power plant worth about Rs 100 crore at Barmer in Rajasthan, even as the state-run firm sharpens focus on non-conventional energy sources in an attempt to supplement fossil fuels earnings with carbon credits and move towards a green future.