This study assesses the potential for bioenergy production using various feedstocks such as sugarcane, oil palm, and municipal solid waste in six Caribbean small island developing states – Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana.
In exercise of power conferred by Clause 9.1 of "Renewable Energy Delivery Policy, 2013" approved by Financial and Infrastructure Committee of the Council of Ministers of Nepal dated 2069/10/14 (January 27, 2013), the Ministry has framed this mechanism. This mechanism shall come into effect from the date of approval from …
The budget of Alappuzha Municipality for 2013-14, presented by vice-chairman B. Ansari on Tuesday failed to address the region’s pressing drinking water problem. However, it provided some succour to fishermen who are facing various challenges. Mr. Ansari said the budget would provide Rs.10 lakh to fishermen, inland and sea, to …
Civil society representatives from South Asian countries here on Monday adopted a charter of demands, pressing the governments in the region to improve sanitation services for the entire population of their respective countries, especially for the marginalised and the women. Citizens from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka …
Biogas plants that generate gas by rotting animal wastes now have become popular among households in some rural areas as they can save biomass fuel, time and maintain carbon-free environment. Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research was helping households in nine districts to install biogas plants by providing logistic …
KATHMANDU, JAN 20 - Representatives from various alternative and renewable energy enterprises and concerned government authorities stressed the need to scale up the use of various forms of renewable energy technologies like solar, bio-gas, solar-thermal and micro-hydro projects, among others, to solve the problem of ongoing acute energy crisis in …
Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy Technologies (PCRET) has installed more biogas plants in rural areas, under the project “Development and promotion of biogas Technology for meeting domestic fuel needs of rural areas and production of Bio-fertilizer”. Biogas plant is a device used for converting fermentable organic matter, particularly cattle dung, …
More than 500 villages will be initially electrified though promotion of clean and renewable solar energy through photovoltaic process. Talking to APP here on Monday Director General Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy Technologies (PCRET) Khalid Islam said that social and political struggle for economic development cannot be fully realized without …
Kidagamparambu ward in Alappuzha municipality will be declared a ‘total Nirmal ward’ under a project for waste management with biogas generation under the slogan ‘Nirmal Bhavanam — Nirmal Nagaram,’ (Clean house, clean city) in the third week of January. This decision was taken in connection with a seminar on waste …
Cows are still considered holy to the people of the Hindu faith across the Indian subcontinent. In this paper, the authors discuss details of the religious, historical, economic, cultural and sociological significance of the sacred cow in Hinduism. The authors also suggest options to use the sacred cow for the …
The ‘Kidagamparambu model’ of waste management could be the answer to the growing garbage menace in the State. Over 100 biogas plants have been set up in Kidagamparambu ward comprising 850 houses. Nearly 300 houses are treating waste at the source, with each biogas plant capable of treating the waste …
Emulating the success story of the Sreekaryam market where a waste-to-energy plant set up six years ago continues to light up the entire market and the nearby street, the city Corporation is planning to set up biogas plants in the city’s markets. Such plants in addition to treating waste at …
Deputy Chief Minister R Ashoka laid the foundation stone for an integrated plant for garbage segregation and generating power from biogas, as part of efforts to address the garbage menace, in the City on Monday. The project will come up on the vacant site near the NMKRV College at a …
Top 50 corporate and industrial majors and most of the electricity generation and distribution companies in the country belonging to various state governments may face punitive action for not meeting the solar power generation targets mandated under the renewable purchase obligations (RPO). According to the RPOs, every company generating, consuming …
With half to five kg of waste, burn stove for more than two hours With a cap on the supply of LPG domestic cylinders at subsidised prices, kitchens can make use of alternative options. Some in Coimbatore have done so and also gone green with biogas plants. A simple system …
Subash Menon’s Kivar Environ bets big on municipal solid waste management and city sanitation After several ups and downs, Subash Menon transformed his company Subex from a systems integrator in telecom hardware to a leader in telecom software products with over $100 million in revenues. After two decades of being …
Distillery effluents represent a heavy source of environmental pollution owing to high concentration of readily decomposable organic matters. In this study, biogas potential of distillery wastewater treated in an anaerobic sequencing batch biofilm reactor (ASBBR) was investigated.
Pune, the second-largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai, offers a shining example of what a city can do to manage the growing menace of garbage as it urbanises at a rapid pace. Widely known as the cultural capital of Maharashtra, Pune is also called Oxford of the East because of …
The owner of the UK's largest power station, Drax, plans to sell £190m of shares in order to transform it into a predominantly biomass-fuelled power generator. Drax plans on converting three of its six units to biogas, turning the North Yorkshire coal-fired power station into one of the largest renewable …
The Sanitation Mission expects more local bodies in the district to come up with projects for decentralised waste treatment in the wake of enhanced subsidy component by the State government for compost units and biogas plants. The State government has hiked the subsidy component for various types of compost units …
New Delhi: Soon, Tihar Jail will produce its own electricity. In a memorandum of understanding signed between the jail authorities and the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (Barc), a Nisargruna biogas plant based on biodegradable waste will be set up in sub-jail number 2. This will convert biodegradable kitchen waste into …
