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  <p><span style="font-size:14px;"><strong>Solar Energy</strong></span></p> <p><img alt="Solar Energy" src="http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/country/bangladesh/solar_hl.jpg" style="width: 530px; height: 300px;" /></p> <p>In Bangladesh 60% of the population do not have access to the power grid. The country only produces 3500-4200 MW of electricity against a daily demand for 4000-5200 MW on average, according to official estimates. Solar energy is an ideal solution as it can provide gridless power and is totally clean in terms of pollution and health hazards. Since it saves money on constructing electricity transmission lines, it&rsquo;s economical as well.</p>

  • • Bangladesh
    • South Asia

• India's national solar mission: getting it right

  <p>India launched its National Solar Mission last year. The aim is ambitious &ndash; to build capacity of 22,000 mw by 2022. Clearly this is critical: if we can upscale our solar energy generation, we also build the &lsquo;learning&rsquo; needed for the world &ndash; prices will drop, technology will grow, new answers will be found. But the question is how is this programme working?

  • 02/07/2010

  • • Climate Change
    • Renewable Energy
    • Solar Energy
    • Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)

• A Dearth of Ideas

  Delhi needs to critically rethink its move to abandon roof top solar scheme In many countries it is now possible to feed electricity from solar roof top systems into the grid. What that means is you

  • • Climate Change
    • Energy
    • Renewable Energy
    • Solar Energy
    • Delhi
    • Diesel
    • Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)
    • South Africa

• Renewable Energy Newsletter

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  • • Renewable Energy
    • India
    • Solar Energy
    • Off-Grid
    • CSE
    • European Union (EU)
    • Energy

• CSE roundtable discussion with stakeholders on the draft policy document of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, Phase II

  <p><img alt="" src="http://cseindia.org/sites/default/files/images/rephoto.jpg" style="width: 510px; height: 278px;" /></p> <p>Centre for Science &amp; Environment organised a discussion on the recently

  • • Energy
    • Renewable Energy
    • CSE
    • Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM)
    • NGO
    • Solar Energy
    • On-Grid
    • Off-Grid

• Keralaites, get your rooftop solar and save a bundle!

  <p>Kerala&#39;s 10,000 Solar Rooftop Programme is already in full swing with almost half (4700) rooftops signed up by mid-January 2013. Any Keralaite with 15 square meters of unshaded rooftop area can

  • • Energy
    • Renewable Energy
    • Solar Energy
    • Kerala
    • Subsidies
    • Batteries
    • Electricity
    • Diesel

• For a place in the sun

  <p>How will solar energy be made to work in India? As I discussed in my previous article there are three key challenges. One, how will the country pay for solar energy in a situation where there is no

  • • Solar Energy
    • Energy
    • Electricity
    • Wind Energy
    • Renewable Energy
    • India
    • Energy Policy
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Chhattisgarh
    • Tamil Nadu
    • Off-Grid
    • Coal
    • Natural Gas
    • Rural Electrification
    • Power Industry

• Talking Energy - On a lighter note

  <p>Every niche has its own lingo and Energy might have one of the most complicated ones around. Just as an example energy can be measured in six different ways! - Joule, Calorie, Tonne Oil Equvalent,&nbsp;

  • • Energy
    • Thermal Power Plants
    • Coal
    • Rajasthan
    • Renewable Energy
    • Wind Energy
    • Solar Energy
    • Biomass
    • Hydroelectricity
    • Electricity

• Clouds over solar

  <p>India&rsquo;s solar power policy is now entering round two. And there is much that needs to be reviewed and reworked as the business of solar energy has seen massive turbulence in India as well as globally.

  • • Energy
    • Solar Energy
    • Renewable Energy
    • Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)
    • Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM)
    • Energy Policy
    • Power Industry
    • Thermal Power Plants
    • National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC)
    • Imports
    • India
    • China
    • Spain
    • Italy
    • United States Of America (US)
    • Europe
    • Developing Countries
    • Power Transmission

• Are Off-Grid Solutions Really More Expensive for the Rural Poor?

  <p>A number you likely know: 400 million. That&rsquo;s how many people live without electricity in India. And not coincidentally, most of these people are poorest of the poor and live in rural villages

  • • Energy
    • Renewable Energy
    • Off-Grid
    • Solar Energy
    • Electricity
    • NGO
    • India
    • Subsidies
    • Poverty
    • Rural Electrification
    • LEDs
    • Bihar
    • Punjab
    • Madhya Pradesh
    • Rajasthan
    • Haryana

• On World Environment Day, a bike-a-thon calls on Delhi to “Switch on the Sun”

  <p>Hundreds of people on 25 stationary bicycles switched on the sun on World Environment Day on June 5 at Dilli Haat in Delhi. Delhites came together and pedalled away to claim their right to sustainable

  • • Delhi
    • Energy
    • Renewable Energy
    • Greenpeace
    • NGO
    • Electricity
    • Solar Energy
    • Coal
    • Thermal Power Plants
    • Wildlife
    • Environment

• Welspun Energy Awarded 32 MW Solar Project, Helps Punjab Move towards Zero Emission Energy

  <ul> <li> Annually IPP will supply 56 million units of clean &amp; efficient energy for next 25 years</li><br> <li> 53261 tones of carbon emissions will be mitigated by Welspun Energy&rsquo;s

  • • Energy
    • Renewable Energy
    • Solar Energy
    • Punjab
    • Power Industry

• Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

  The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is the nodal Ministry of the Government of India for all matters relating to new and renewable energy. The broad aim of the Ministry is to develop and deploy new and renewable energy for supplementing the energy requirements of the country.

  • 03/08/2008

  • • Energy Policy
    • Renewable Energy
    • Energy
    • Solar Energy
    • Wind Energy

• Big mini revolution

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  • • Energy
    • Renewable Energy
    • Chhattisgarh
    • Solar Energy
    • Rural Electrification
    • CFL
    • Bulbs
    • Subsidies
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  Solar Energy - Bangladesh

  Women at work in Barisal, at one of 46 Grameen Shakti technology centres. More than 1,500 women have been trained as certified solar technicians and entrepreneurs.

  • • Bangladesh
    • Energy
    • South Asia
    • Renewable Energy
    • Solar Energy

• Grameen Shakti

  Grameen Shakti (GS) has developed one of the most successful market based programs with a social objective for popularizing Solar Home Systems (SHSs) including other renewable energy technologies to millions

  • • Bangladesh
    • Solar Energy
    • Renewable Energy
    • Biogas
    • Rural Energy
    • South Asia

• Uttarakhand hills with solar power don’t prefer ‘taar wali bijli’

  <p>It was half past four in the evening when we reached <em>Garbadhar</em>. It took us about 4 hours and two flat tyres along the <em>Kali river</em> from <em>Dharachulha</em> to get there. The Border

  • • Solar Energy
    • Small Hydro Power
    • Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
    • Hydroelectricity
    • National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC)
    • Rural Electrification
    • On-Grid
    • Renewable Energy
    • Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE)

• Coal-based power industry expands rapidly while solar power trots behind

  Tuticorin, a coastal district in southern Tamil Nadu, is a large hub for coal-based thermal energy generation with many more such projects in the pipeline. Currently there are 2 power stations commissioned

  • • Renewable Energy
    • Solar Energy
    • Energy
    • Climate Change
    • Tuticorin
    • Tamil Nadu
    • Thermal Power Plants
    • Coal
    • Public Hearing

• Conference on Solar pv projects under public & private power Utilities- Issues Experiences and Challenges, 8 August 2014, New Delhi

  Solar Energy Society of India (SESI) is organizing one day conference on Solar PV Projects under Public & Private Power Utilities – Issues, Experience and Challenges on 8th August, 2014 at CBIP Building,

  • • Solar Energy
    • Renewable Energy

• International Conference on Renewable Energy and Environmental Engineering, 29-31 December 2014, Andhra Pradesh

  The International Conference on Renewable Energy and Environmental Engineering shall focus on sustainable and renewable sources of Energy including Biomass, Solar energy, Wind energy, Tidal energy, Geo-thermal

  • • Renewable Energy
    • Environmentalists
    • Biomass
    • Solar Energy
    • Wind Energy
    • Water Pollution
    • Air Pollution
    • Land Pollution
    • Noise Pollution
    • Wastewater Treatment Cost
    • Drinking Water Quality