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US lawmakers will pass major energy legislation, possibly including measures to address climate change, by the end of this year, a top White House official said on Sunday.

"I do know this, at the end of this first year of Congress there will be an energy bill on the president's desk," White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos."

Shastry V. Mallady

It will give 5 per cent of its annual budget for research in key areas

MADURAI: The Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology has decided to allocate five per cent of its annual budget for promoting renewable energy.

NEW DELHI: Numeric Power Systems will be setting up a Rs. 25 crore 1-MW solar project in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, through its newly established subsidiary, Numeric Solar Energy Pvt. Ltd. The company is also planning to invest in LED lighting systems projects and make foray into the precision air-conditioning space with a strategic partner.

Saving energy: A member of Annai Charitable Trust demonstrating the use solar-powered appliances to children at the Nesakarangal Home in Salem.

SALEM: Annai Charitable Trust of India, a Salem-based non-governmental organisation, conducted an awareness programme on solar-powered appliances for children at Nesakkarangal, a home for the deserted.

Shastry V. Mallady

It will function as a resource, research, training and production centre

MADURAI: To encourage use of solar energy, an institute under the name Loyola Institute of Solar Energy and Technology (LSET) was inaugurated here on Saturday.

T. Ramakrishnan

On April 9 it accounted for about 3 MU and the next day, 4.8 MU

CHENNAI: Wind power generation has, suddenly, picked up in the last three-four days, providing some respite to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) that has been purchasing power on a temporary basis at high cost.

The government will get a $155 million loan from the Asian Development Bank to help improve and expand its electricity services.

The work will focus mainly on electric services to the poor and those in areas of conflict, the Asian Development Bank said.

In an ambitious proposal to counter global warming, an upstart power developer wants to build a coal-fired electric plant on the outskirts of New York City that would capture its emissions of carbon dioxide and pump the pollutant 70 miles offshore. The gas would be injected into sandstone a mile beneath the ocean floor in the hope that it would stay there for eons.

About 35 hoardings have been shifted from conventional electricity to solar energy in the city, Pakistan Electric Power Company (PEPCO) Energy Conservation General Manager (GM) Tahir Bisharat Cheema said on Friday.

Numeric Power Systems, a manufacturer of UPS systems, is planning a 1-MW solar energy farm in Coimbatore.