Biomass

Punjab Green Hydrogen Policy

The Punjab Energy Development Agency has released a draft green hydrogen policy aiming to achieve a green hydrogen and ammonia production capacity of 100 kilo tonnes per annum by 2030. The policy proposes extending incentives under the existing “Punjab Industrial and Business Development Policy 2022” to new green hydrogen and …

Bagasse power

Sugar mills need to invest only an additional Rs 2.3 crore to generate 1 MW of power, whereas conventional power generation from coal costs Rs 3 crore per MW, reports a task force constituted by the ministry of non-conventional energy sources (MNES). The study has found that India's 400 sugar …

Urban wildlife and disappearing commons

"What are we supposed to feel when a sarkari animal carries our children away? Are we still supposed to love the animal and the sarkar?" This plea by an activist working with poor people living in and around sanctuaries and national parks was countered by a conservationist who argued: "But …

Moving towards commercialisation

With the resource crunch persisting, won't you find it difficult to raise funds for the revised target of 2,000 mw for power generation from non-conventional energy in the Eighth Plan ? Funds will be mobilised through private sector investments, loans from financial institutions and assistance from international agencies in addition …

The four pillars of non conventional energy

Mini-micro hydel: Indian technologists developed mini-hydel systems more than 100 years ago, but in the post-Independence emphasis on the new "temples of modern India" -- huge dams and power stations -- mini-micro hydel systems were neglected. In 1989, however, hydro projects below 3 mw were transferred from the power ministry …

Spurt forecast in nonconventional energy

• A RS 4.5-crore, 100-kw solar photovoltaic power plant -- Asia's largest -- is to be commissioned by Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao in May 1993 at Kalyanpur village in Aligarh district. • A Rs 4,000-crore, 100-mw tidal wave power project in the Gulf of Kutch is being reviewed. …

Chipko`s triumphs extend beyond the forest

TWENTY years ago, the people of the remote Garhwal village of Mandal decided to resist commercial felling of the trees on which they depended for their basic needs. Their resistance soon spread to other parts of Garhwal and Kumaon, where local pressures on the area's limited grazing resources had reduced …

Energy management needs top priority

It does not matter whether the assumptions made by the Tata Energy Research Institute are accurate or whether they will hold true. What matters is that TERI"s predictions of the country"s energy situation are grim -- and require urgent attention. If energy use in India is not rationalised and made …

Carbon sinks in mangroves and their implications to carbon budget of tropical coastal ecosystems

Nearly 50% of terrigenous materials delivered to the world's oceans are delivered through just twenty-one major river systems. These river-dominated coastal margins (including estuarine and shelf ecosystems) are thus important both to the regional enhancement of productivity and to the global flux of C that is observed in land-margin ecosystems. …

Science and Environment - Briefs

BIOLOGY Yellow pigment clue to evolution Bilirubin, responsible for the yellowish tinge in the skin, eyes and nails of jaundice patients, has for the first time been identified in plants. The pigment was discovered in Strelitzia reginae Aiton, commonly know as the Bird of Paradise plant. It is indigenous to …

New business for new renewables

Karno GuhathakurtaIt was a trade exhibition abuzz with the restrained chatter of busy suited executives at company stalls making contacts and finalising deals. Nothing out of place except that this trade was about renewable energy technologies, which have unconventional reasons for growth. First, these technologies are seen as the most …

Talking Energy - On a lighter note

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, Watt hour, British Thermal Unit and Tonne Coal Equivalent. (For a good converter see: http://www.iea.org/stats/unit.asp …

International Symposium On Energy From Biomass And Waste, 17-20 November 2014, Italy

nternational Symposium On Energy From Biomass And Waste is a conference that will be held at San Servolo, Venice, Italy for four days. The main aim of this conference is to make advances in the field of technology to recover energy from biomass and waste. This conference will also hold …

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 energy along with Environmental Engineering related topics like Water Pollution, Drinking Water Quality Control, Wastewater Treatment, Air Pollution and Air Quality Control, Land …

How Did India's Cities Get This Polluted?

Delhi is the most polluted city in the world. That's common knowledge today. But did you know that 13 of the 20 most polluted cities in the world are right here in India? In the third episode of our special series on air pollution - Clean Air, My Right, we …

NETPRO Renewable Energy (India) Pvt Ltd

NETPRO Renewable Energy (India) Pvt Ltd., is a leading supplier of "Biomass Gasification Systems", both for 'Electrical Power Generation' and 'Thermal Applications'. Netpro has built 'Biomass Gasification Plants' of different capacities for Rural, Urban and Industrial projects, both in India and Overseas. NETPRO was established in the year 1994, promoted …

Centre for Renewable Energy (CRE)

Estd in 1992, the Center for Renewable Energy (CRE) is a non-governmental and non- profit making organisation (NGO) which brings together professionals and people who believe in the generation and optimum utilisation of renewable energy and appropriate technology. The Centre believes that harnessing renewable energy and utilising appropriate technology hold …

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