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EU, France grant 3.5m euros to curb emissions in India

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 12, 2017

Aiming to reduce emissions and promote sustainability to help India’s smart city programme, France and the European Union on Friday extended a grant of 3.5 million euros under the ‘Moblise Your...

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India approves new centre on clean coal technologies, solar photovoltaic, thermal storage and solar fuels

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 9, 2017

India announces mounting a National Mission on advanced ultra supercritical technologies for cleaner coal utilisation at a total cost of US $ 238 million and setting up of two Centres of...

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Ola joins WWF-India to support renewable energy project

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 9, 2017

Cab aggregator Ola and World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF-India) on Thursday joined hands to support 'Sahasra Jyoti', a renewable energy project in the Sundarbans.

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Government for non-conventional energy to reduce oil dependence: Dharmendra Pradhan

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 7, 2017

Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan today said the government is trying to harness non-conventional energy like solar power to cut down the country's dependence on other nations for crude oil....

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Go for bio-digesters, Hyderabad hotels told

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 7, 2017

In order to improve sanitation in the city, the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation has decided to set up bio-digester compost units which can generate manure and methane (cooking) gas from...

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Solar panels, batteries may power lights and fans on 250 trains

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 6, 2017

Indian Railways will install flexible solar panels and batteries to power fans and lights on 250 local trains, giving another boost to India’s rapidly growing renewable energy programme....

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Pune Metro to generate 17MW of solar power

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 6, 2017

The Pune metro rail, which is being developed by Maha Metro, aims to draw 65 per cent of its energy needs from solar panels which will be installed on the metro, officials of Maha-metro said at...

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Varanasi to be clean energy city before Munich: Piyush Goyal

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 5, 2017

Power Minister Piyush Goyal has taken up the challenge to rapidly make Varanasi a 100 per cent clean energy city to steal a march on Germany's Munich.

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North Western Railways turns innovative, plans energy from plastic

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 5, 2017

The authorities of North Western Railways (NWR) have drawn up an innovative plan to generate energy from plastic bottles and cups that are disposed of at the Jaipur junction every day....

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Chennai international and domestic airport to become 90 percent solar dependent next year

By : sustainabilityo..., Jun 5, 2017

The Chennai international and domestic airport is set to become 90 per cent dependent on solar power from the beginning of next financial year, said R Balasundaram, an engineer at the Airport...

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