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Centre working on project to tap solar energy for cellphone towers

PUDUCHERRY: The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy along with the Union Ministry of Telecommunications is working on converting almost all cellphone towers into

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24/03/2010
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NTPC wont be allowed to sell power in open market

Govt Feels NTPC Should Focus On Other Avenues Such As Wind & Solar Energy

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24/03/2010
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IFC to invest $10 million in Azure Power

New Delhi: In the first ever investment of its kind by World Bank

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23/03/2010
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Rs 400 crore for green drive

Chandigarh: The Finance Minister

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22/03/2010
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NDPL wants 1500kW solar power before 2010 Games

New Delhi: In line with its commitment to minimize greenhouse gases, discom NDPL has prepared an ambitious plan to tap renewable sources of energy. Apart from its several solar projects that already exist, the discom is working on various other plans with an aim to generate up to 1500kW power from solar energy before the Commonwealth Games.

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22/03/2010
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Centre offers incentives for domestic use of solar power

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Harnessing solar energy may address the energy problems in rural areas.

MADURAI: Solar power generation units no longer remain in the sole domain of industries as a new scheme of the Central Government offers generous incentives to promote its domestic use.

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22/03/2010
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'Electric' goes local

The year: 2004. The movie: Swades (Hindi for homeland). Shah Rukh Khan is playing the character of Mohan Bhargava, a non-resident Indian space scientist in the US. On a trip to meet his grandmother in India, Bhargava is appalled by the living conditions in her village, Charanpur, set in the plains near a river.

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21/03/2010
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Orissa set to harness tidal wave energy

If the things go the right way, Orissa's first attempt to harness tidal power for generating electricity would be in the form of a 1236 MW plant along the creeks in Mahakalpada in the Mahanadi deltaic region.

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20/03/2010
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PEDA gets project to solarise Rashtrapati Bhawan, Parliament

Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has been entrusted with the work of solarising important structures including the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament House and the Sri Harmandir Sahib.

All the gadgets of these buildings would be run through solar energy under the project and work on the first phase would be started in the coming four months.

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19/03/2010
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