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Mumbai About 2,000 people from 25 agricultural and fishing villages gathered at Poynad Village on Alibaug-Dharamtar Road, about 113 km from Mumbai, on Thursday to protest against a proposed coal-fired thermal power plant.

Climate change and adaptive agriculture given a miss finance minister Pranab Mukherjee

kolkata: West Bengal may lose another project, this one worth Rs 600 crore, due to procedural problems and delays in clearing a project.

Pune Gadhia Solar, a global player in thermal energy systems has manufactured and commissioned possibly the worlds largest solar parabolic concentrated technology systems at Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, Shirdi. The newly upgraded system now installed at Saibaba Sansthan would cook 50,000 meals per day.

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The United States could save about $600 billion in energy costs by 2020 if it hiked annual efficiency spending about five-fold, business consultants McKinsey and Co said in a report on Wednesday.

British Columbia is still committed to promoting clean energy projects despite taking a blow on Tuesday from its own power utility regulator, the Canadian province's energy minister said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday.

Public Service Enterprise Group Inc unit PSE&G can spend $515 million of ratepayer money for 80 megawatts of solar power projects, New Jersey utility regulators ruled on Wednesday.

Regulators reduced PSE&G's original proposal of $773 million for 120 megawatts of solar power. The state utility regulating board killed plans for solar panels on government buildings.

STATES may have to use a prescribed level of green energy in their total electricity consumption as per a proposed legislation by the ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE). The government is working on a legislation to boost the growth of renewable energy in the country, MNRE secretary Deepak Gupta said.