This study assesses the impact of the existing energy efficiency initiatives on household awareness levels, preferences and behaviour concerning efficiency in electricity use. It examines the level of awareness of Indian households about Bureau of Energy Efficiency’s (BEE) star labelling program, the benefits they associate with it, and the key …
New policy hopes to expand their reach and spread When the lights went on in Birgaon for the first time on a chilly winter evening late last December, it allowed the government to announce in April this year that every village in India now had electricity. Every home in Birgaon …
The initiative has been hailed as a major step towards promoting renewable energy and a significant contribution to environment protection. IDUKKI: With the installation of a micro-grid solar power station at Puravayal tribal colony in Marayur, a first of its kind in a tribal settlement, the decades-old dream of tribals …
GHAZIABAD: The GDA has constituted an environmental management cell to implement measures suggested by State Environmental Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) at the time of giving green nod to Hindon elevated road project. “We have invited expression of interest for an environmental expert company which will be the part of environmental …
Every evening, the beauty of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) World Heritage building gets amplified when it's illuminated with colourful lights. To add a feather to its cap, the electricity supplied will be from 'green energy'. Electricity generated from wind energy will be used for the lighting system. The thematic …
However, the LED streetlights have only 75 per cent illumination or brightness. Hyderabad: The upgradation of streetlights from conventional sodium vapour to LED has got into troubled waters with EESL failing to complete the entrusted work. According to highly placed sources in GHMC, Energy Efficiency Services Limited, a Central government …
11,988 villages provided electricity in nearly four years since BJP came to power At a time when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s declaration on total electrification has kicked up a storm, a survey has shown over eight lakh households continue to live in dark in rural Maharashtra. The study carried out …
GURUGRAM: Come June 15, all dark roads, which have for long been a bane for the city, will have LED street lights as part of a long-awaited project. If MCG officials are to be believed, already 10,000 LED street lights have been installed in wards 1, 5, 33, 34 and …
Stanford scientists have developed a water-based battery that could provide a cheap way to store wind or solar energy, which can be fed back into the electric grid and redistributed on high demand. The prototype manganese-hydrogen battery, described in the journal Nature Energy, stands just three inches tall and generates …
In March, Apple’s latest Supplier Responsibility progress report for 2018 had highlighted how India supplier Wistron had achieved a Zero Waste to Landfill certification in record time. Apple has announced that its global facilities are now powered with fully by clean energy, this includes retail stores, offices, data centers as …
Pune: The airport authorities here are now targeting April 30 for the switch-over to solar power from conventional energy. Airpor officials on Monday saud the 300 Kwp (kilowattpeak) solar project was still being installed and that the “scheduled date” of completion was April 30. In February, the authorities had said …
Urjasvi campaign now continuing in full swing to provide the villagers with LED bulbs by Society of Pollution and Environment Conservation Scientists (SPECS), the Secy of the organisation, Brij Mohan Sharma said in a media meet here on Saturday that the campaign has saturated 28 villages and replaced 100-watt bulbs …
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) B ward has installed 40 torch-like solar powered bulbs imported from Taiwan in Sitaram Shenoy Garden near Sandhurst Road. The bulb is covered with a net with solar plate and battery. "There is no running cost of this bulb and whatever is invested now will …
DEHRADUN: Assi Ganga in Uttarkashi has become the first energy efficient valley in the country with all the eight gram sabhas (1,550 households) having only LED bulbs, said Society of Pollution and Environment Conservation Scientists (SPECS). The 100 watt bulbs in the houses were replaced with the LED bulbs that …
Meenangadi, nestled in the undulating hills of the Western Ghats is looking to become ‘carbon neutral’ — a state of zero carbon footprint achieved when carbon emissions in the atmosphere are cancelled out by an equal amount of sequestration. WITHIN minutes on a Monday morning, the over hundred banana saplings, …
Bareilly: Under its ‘Green Initiatives’ drive, the North Eastern Railway is all set to switch from traditional source of power to alternative energy by setting up solar power units on the roofs of divisional railway manager office, railway workshop and Bareilly city station. Officials said with the installation of solar …
Pune: With Pune station generating more than 2lakh kilowatt (KW) of solar power, senior officials have said that equipment capable of generating 1.2 MWp (megawatt peak) of power will be installed at different spots under Pune division. "The Pune division has been concentrating on power from solar energy and many …
The introduction of LED streetlights by AMC has helped it save 26 million units of electricity helping it reduce its power bill by Rs15.50 crore a year. With this measure, the civic body says the carbon dioxide emmission would be reduced by 2,900 tonne anually. Not only this, the wind …
JAIPUR: Rajasthan, which has retrofitted 8 lakh smart LED street lights under the Ujala scheme, has saved energy worth Rs 144 crore, said Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) managing director Saurabh Kumar here on Monday. The company under the ministry of power has retrofitted 40 lakh LED street lights and …
Scurrying for solutions to fight the toxic air pollution, the government has said it plans to transport coal in covered rail wagons and trucks across the country. Ferrying of coal in uncovered vehicles and rail wagons is said to be one of the key reasons behind high pollution levels along …
BENGALURU: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday gave a call to start-ups run by the city youth to initiate a clean cooking movement by tapping the huge market potential of solar energy, saying they would get blessings of women from the poor sections of society. Modi said in the last …
