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Target set for producing 1,000 MW of solar powerBy : Sustainability ..., Jun 25, 2014
Minister for Energy D.K. Shivakumar on Tuesday said that the government had set a target of producing 1,000 MW of solar power. Tenders had been invited to set up solar plants with total capacity of 500 MW. Replying to C.H. Vijayashankar and Kota Srinivas Poojari (both... Read more.. Subject Tags: Politics , Technology |
Kinetic announces a joint venture to enter the solar energy marketBy : Sustainability ..., Jun 25, 2014
The Kinetic Group has set up a new company, Kinetic Ikaros Solar, to tap into the rapidly growing solar energy market. This will be a joint venture with Ikaros, a Belgian photovoltaic company which set up operations in India last year. Kinetic will have a 25% stake in the... Read more.. Subject Tags: energy , Technology |
Mega solar project in Purulia, West BengalBy : Sustainability ..., Jun 25, 2014
The state government has placed a proposal to the Centre for setting up a 250MW solar power project near the Purulia Pumping Storage Project (PPSP) at Baghmundi for an estimated cost of Rs 1,700 crore. This will be the world's biggest solar power project if the state... Read more.. Subject Tags: Technology |
Rs 272 crore water project gets rollingBy : Sustainability ..., Jun 24, 2014
India is about to launch the largest bidding of solar power projects worth 1,500 MW under its flagship Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM). In what the government officials claim is the first success story of converging the three energy ministries vis-a-vis coal... Read more.. Subject Tags: energy , Technology |
Future shock: Whisper-quiet electric HarleysBy : Sustainability ..., Jun 24, 2014
Sales of electric motorcycles are just a tiny slice of a market that totals about 370,000 road-legal motorcycles a year in the United States, but Harley-Davidson, the proudly American maker of rumbling, brawny heavyweights, is hinting that it would like to change that. ... Read more.. |
Grim water situation: Lakes reach lowest drawable limitBy : Sustainability ..., Jun 24, 2014
With the monsoon delayed and humidity levels rising, lakes supplying water to the city have reached the lowest drawable limits. The civic body is now seriously thinking about experimenting cloud seeding to check the yield. Civic authorities have been constantly... Read more.. Subject Tags: Technology |
Green nod for GAIL’s power plant in MPBy : Sustainability ..., Jun 23, 2014
After giving green nods to some long pending defence projects, the government on Friday gave environment clearance to public sector undertaking GAIL for setting up a 380 mw gas-based power plant in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh. The project will be located within... Read more.. Subject Tags: Technology |
Novel radio enables low-power WiFi over 900MHzBy : Sustainability ..., Jun 23, 2014
A team of researchers at Imec is presently working on a number of radios for everything from wireless charging to millimetre-wave radar targeted for the Internet of Things. The emerging 802.11ah specification for running low-power WiFi over 900MHz at distances up to a... Read more.. Subject Tags: Imec , Technology |
UoP gets Rs 3-crore aid to set up solar labBy : Sustainability ..., Jun 23, 2014
The University of Pune's School of Energy Studies has got a central grant of Rs 3 crore to set up a new research, development and testing laboratory for concentrated solar energy. The lab, once operational, will be among two labs of its kind in the country. The Solar Energy... Read more.. Subject Tags: energy , Technology |
JA Solar Starts Mass Production of PERCIUM Solar Cell, Conversion Efficiency Reaches 20.4%By : Sustainability ..., Jun 23, 2014
JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: JASO) ("JA Solar" or the "Company"), one of the world's largest manufacturers of high-performance solar power products, launched mass production of its PERCIUM solar cell on June 20th. The PERCIUM solar cell, the first P-TYPE solar cell... Read more.. |