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A NUCLEAR plant in Punjab could be on the cards if chief minister Beant Singh has his way. Singh has prevailed upon the managing director of pig the Nuclear Power Corp (NPC), S K Chatterjee,
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Solar thermal power plant may come up in Tirunelveli district
T. Ramakrishnan CHENNAI: Udangudi in Tuticorin district may be the site for a 100-megawatt solar thermal power plant. This was mooted during a meeting between Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah and Electricity Minister Arcot N. Veeraswami here on Saturday.
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BHEL bags solar biz from Indiabulls
State-run power equipment-maker BHEL on Thursday said it has bagged contracts worth `78 crore from Indiabulls for setting up three solar power projects.
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Dams in the north east will also ruin livelihoods
After neglecting the north east for years, Delhi now feels the need to initiate developmental activities in the region. There is good reason. Indo Chinese ties are improving. Moreover, a sub regional economic grouping comprising India, China, Myanmar
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Seven Ways To Be Green With Money
The 14 million households that have never changed their electricity tariff could save money -- and the planet. They could save more than 1.2 billion pounds between them and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 20 million tonnes by swapping to the cheapest green tariffs, according to price comparison site moneysupermarket.com. Website Greenhelpline.com allows people to search environmentally friendly energy tariffs, as well as source local food producers.
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Little respite from power woes and water scarcity
Hesco's unannounced loadshedding is costing people living in various pockets of the city dearly because they are not only experiencing acute water shortage but paying exorbitant rates to private water tanker owners for getting supply of water. Almost all water reservoirs of Wasa have been hit by non-supply of electricity while on account of non-availability of required number of water tankers the Wasa is unable to reach any locality hit by water shortage.
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The energy should always work twice
Waste heat from industrial plants and electricity-generating stations represents a huge amount of lost energy. David Lindley finds out what engineers and regulators need to do to get it back.
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Need for exploring alternative energy sources stressed
Participants of a multi-topic international symposium have overwhelmingly demanded reversal of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) privatisation, observing that the private management has failed to enhance the utility
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We must look at uranium mines overseas
Dr Anil Kakodkar Our Bureau Mumbai, April 17 India has enough uranium to produce 10,000 MW of electricity, said Dr Anil Kakodkar, Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission. On Friday, he was interacting with the media at a CII session on opportunities and challenges in developing nuclear power in the country.
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Bangladesh Plans Dual-Fuel Policy For Power Plants
Bangladesh, where natural gas reserves are falling while demand for power is rising fast, will not allow new power plants that cannot use both gas and coal, Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith said on Sunday.
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Big U.S. Offshore Wind Farm Wins Crucial Permit
A $1 billion proposal to build the first big U.S. offshore wind-power farm passed a key hurdle on Thursday by winning permit requirements in Massachusetts, where it faces opposition from some influential residents.
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Use environment-friendly technology to extract coal: Hasina
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday underscored the need for using environment-friendly state-of-the-art technology in extracting coal from Barapukuria coalmine so that local villagers do not suffer any kind of loss from soil subsidence.
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Fostering industrial symbiosis with agent-based simulation and participatory modeling
The sciences of industrial ecology, complex systems, and adaptive management are intimately related, since they deal with flows and dynamic interdependencies between system elements of various kinds. As such, the tool kit of complex systems science could enrich our understanding of how industrial ecosystems might evolve over time.
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Sears Tower to Be Revamped to Produce Most of Its Own Power
The Sears Tower, that bronze-black monument that forms the 110-story peak of the skyline here and stands as the tallest office building in the Western Hemisphere, will soon have another unique feature: wind turbines sprouting from its recessed rooftops high in the sky.
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Interior Dept Designates Solar Energy Zones
Hoping to speed up the development of renewable energy resources on federal lands, the U.S. Interior Department designated about 670,000 acres of land on Monday as potential areas for solar energy production. Demand for renewables has created a boom for land previously considered worthless in sunny deserts and wind-swept
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U.S. Green Jobs Seen Taking Years Of Planning
Alternative energy jobs can provide vocations across many sectors of the economy but policy to spark them can take years to develop, U.S. governors told a Senate committee on Tuesday.
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Sri Lankas first industrial biogas plant to be constructed
The German Cultural Centre in Colombo (Goethe- Institute), the Ruhuna University and Ambewela farms are joining together to construct an industrial level bio gas plant for the first time in Sri Lanka with the assistance of German scientists to generate electricity.
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Greek Hunters Take Dim View Of Solar Energy Scheme
Lignite power plants belch dust and smoke into the air above the southern Greek town of Megalopolis, but residents resistant to environmental arguments have blocked a scheme to build the country's biggest solar energy project on a nearby hillside.
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Arunachal enters into joint venture for hydel project
Arunachal Pradesh Government has entered into a joint venture with the Jindal group to develop the 4,500 mw Etalin multi-purpose hydro-electric project, the biggest in the country.
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First clean coal plant likely by November 2010
Pakistan will have its first clean coal power generation facility by the end of next year, said Hillard Herzog, the CEO of a US-based energy firm Bergamo E&A in an interview with BR Research of Business Recorder.