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KOCHI: The Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology (RSET) is organising a twoday Indo-German dialogue on Accelerated Dissemination of Solar Energy Technologies ADSET 2010 on March 4 and 5 at the college campus in Kochi.

The government has finalised a scheme to provide financing for the establishment of power projects using renewable energy with a capacity of up to 10MW.

The project is aimed at promoting renewable energy in the country.

Zero transmission access charge for inter-State system mooted.

The CERC is also expected to come out with new tariff rates for electricity generation from solar thermal and solar photovoltaic energy systems.

Anil Sasi

Richa Mishra

P B Jayakumar / Mumbai March 01, 2010, 0:15 IST

Pune-based energy and environment solutions

Ever since the Copenhagen mess happened, India has been planning to independently launch a Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) trading programme to bring down carbon-intensive energy consumption. The New and Renewable Energy Ministry and the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) want to roll it out in April.

Inventor K.R. Sridhar describes it as "the plug-and-play future of electricity." The Indian American Silicon Valley entrepreneur and former NASA scientist on Wednesday unveiled his "Bloom Box," which can generate energy by combining air and a range of fuels without going through the dirty process of combustion

Washington: Some beach sand minted into floppy-sized ceramic tiles, a coating of secret ink, and just about any fuel

Green federalism has got embedded in the fiscal character of the country now. The government has accepted the 13th Finance Commission

THE newly-formed climate change department of the Gujarat government, the first such department in Asia and sixth in the world, has received its first budgetary allocation.

The state government has provided Rs 100 crore in Budget 2010-11 for the department, which was set up in 2009, to address the challenge posed by global warming.

Three new grants of Rs 5,000 crore each allocated.

The Thirteenth Finance Commission has allocated Rs 15,000 crore