Can solar sector keep glowing?
Tariffs have given solar sector a much-needed boost in India, but the question is if they would help in bringing technological development.
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Ship costs - Divorced from reality
Small hydro power is witnessing a curious case of opposing perceptions. While the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) thinks there is no need to revise the price estimates set three years
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Ladakh shifting to clean energy
The land of rugged beauty has been suffering from the maladies of modern life accentuated by heavy use of fossil fuel especially diesel. However, in last two years, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy
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Tidal energy in Gujarat
Tidal energy was a sector that received little attention from developers and policy planners alike due to the perception that the technology has still a long way to go. However, Gujarat has decided to
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Renewables vital for India's future
Phil Marker heads the Climate Change and Energy Unit of the UK Department for International Development and British High Commission, India. This unit is responsible for promoting collaboration between
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"Till fossil fuels are subsidised, it will be difficult for RE to make it to market"
Yvo de Boer was the Executive Secretary of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) during the tumultuous Copenhagen Summit in 2009. In 2010 he joined KPMG as global adviser on climate
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Chinese curbs on blind expansion
Beijing will promote new energy sources but wants to control 'blind expansion' in the wind and solar industries, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao said in a speech in March 2012.
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Tower power in Thar
Being the first Concentrated Solar Power plant based on tower technology in Asia, the proposed 10-MW plant that is being constructed at Bikaner is well in line with the ambitious goals of Jawaharlal Nehru
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The rupee factor (solar power costs)
In a country which reels under voluminous and bountiful amount of sunshine, tapping solar power should ideally be an effortless task. Ironically though, the economics have come in the way of the solar
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The incredibles
Instead of fretting over the paucity of electricity, these 'solar grandmothers' from villages across Asia and Africa decided it would be better to act. As if to give vent to their ambition, the Barefoot
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Goodbye diesel
Scientists of the Joint BioEnergy Institute identify a new microbe-produced advanced biofuel as an alternative to diesel.