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Details will be announced in National Solar Mission

SOLAR POWER: Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, inaugurating WinWinD

Kirtika Suneja / New Delhi September 08, 2009, 0:46 IST

Will invest Rs 2k cr in photovoltaic biz after abandoning it earlier

The natural gas industry has enjoyed something of a winning streak in recent years. It found gigantic new reserves, low prices are encouraging utilities to substitute gas for coal, and cities are switching to buses fueled by natural gas.

Aubrey McClendon of Chesapeake Energy blamed

The Western Provincial Council (WPC) is planning to use wind power to illuminate Colombo city in association with Concurrent (India) Infrastructure Ltd an Indian based private company, while there is another plan in the pipeline to use wind power for the streetlamps islandwide.

Facing criticism for ugly traffic jams that brought many parts of the city to a standstill as the traffic lights stopped functioning due to recent heavy rains, the Traffic Police is in talks with Bharat Electronic Limited (BEL) to emulate Bangalore

The natural gas industry has enjoyed something of a winning streak in recent years. It found gigantic new reserves, low prices are encouraging utilities to substitute gas for coal, and cities are switching to buses fueled by natural gas.

Aubrey McClendon of Chesapeake Energy blamed

California solar company Solyndra Inc said on Friday that it started construction on its second solar panel manufacturing plant, putting into action the first loan guarantee awarded under a long-delayed U.S. program for advanced clean energy.

Lithium-ion batteries have a limited number of charge cycles in electric vehicles, but once a car's battery pack goes kaput, it can be recycled or find new life in less demanding applications - storing renewable energy generated during off-peak hours, for example. At least that's the theory.

USE of solar power-driven water pumps is a major alternate energy source for better crop yields in power-starved Bangladesh, according to experts. To ease the country's acute power crisis, solar power can be used as an alternative source of electricity for irrigation and it would at least help reduce 700 to 800 MW in every day's load.

BHUBANESWAR: The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) hospital has become the first municipal hospital in the country to adopt renewable energy and energy efficiency (RE & EE) options, which after a successful run, could also be replicated in other cities.