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Booster dose for alternative energy

Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) will soon place a new policy for the producers of non-conventional energy before the State Cabinet.

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21/02/2009
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Solar needs to be a political agenda

Experts have often advised a mix of energy technologies to solve India

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19/02/2009
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Iqbalpur is states first solar village

Iqbalpur village of Gurgaon district has become the first Haryana village covered 100 per cent by solar home-lighting systems.

Deputy Commissioner Deepti Umashankar handed over a solar home-lighting system to the 201st customer of the village at a programme organised here today.

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18/02/2009
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Sugar mills turn U

Demand market rate for power after agreeing to a lower rate SUGAR cooperatives of Maharashtra that have set up power plants that use sugarcane waste as fuel, are trying to wriggle out of their commitment to supply power at lower rates to the state-owned power distribution company, Mahara- shtra State Electricity Distribution Co Ltd (msedcl). Nagpur-based Purti Sugar Mills has moved an

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14/02/2009
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Tree-huggers v nerds

LAST December California approved a power line between San Diego and the Imperial Valley

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14/02/2009
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Threats to bio-diversity

USE of renewable energy sources is supposed to reduce emissions from burning fossil fuels. But this is not often true, points out the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

The Indonesian bio-fuel project, for instance, has already put 6 million hectares of land under oil palm cultivation, and is set for further expansion.

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13/02/2009
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Losing wind speed

The Global Wind Energy Council

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12/02/2009
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Congress Seen Backing Renewable Energy Standard

WASHINGTON - There is enough support in the U.S. Congress to pass legislation requiring utilities to generate a portion of their electricity supplies from wind, solar and other renewable energy sources, the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said on Tuesday.

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11/02/2009
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Obama Says Renewable Energy Key to Economic Future

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama on Monday pushed for more investment in solar and wind energy, saying the country that can make renewable energy sources price-competitive with traditional fossil fuels will become the economic superpower of the future.

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10/02/2009
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New Jersey Utility Plans Major Solar Project

Public Service Electric and Gas, New Jersey

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10/02/2009
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