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Visakhapatnam Port to be Most Energy-efficient in India

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 27, 2015

Visakhapatnam Port Trust(VPT), one of the fastest growing major ports in the country, would be the most energy- efficient port in the country.

The VPT management is planning to complete  LED lighting of the port area before the proposed visit of Prime Minister Narendra...

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Pune's Pimpri Chinchwad to get LED streetlights

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 20, 2015

Over 8,000 street lights in Pimpri Chinchwad, which have sodium vapour lamps, will be replaced with LED lights.

Pravin Tupe, joint city engineer, PCMC said that prices of LED street lights have gone down which is why the civic body is installing more of them. Of the...

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Delhi Metro to replace lamps with LED lights

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 12, 2015

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) is going to replace all the lamps at its stations, depots, and residential complexes with LED lights. The transition is expected to reduce the metro’s energy consumption by at least 40 per cent.

The Delhi Metro on Wednesday...

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Carbon-neutral Lighting in Kolkata Parks

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 12, 2015

Kolkata is poised to become India’s first city to have its public parks illuminated by an automated carbon-neutral solar lighting system, reducing the carbon footprint and electricity bills.

The new system, first installed at Deshapriya Park on a trial basis, would now...

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Energy Efficiency Improvements Avoided 870 Million Tonnes Of CO2 In 2014

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 12, 2015

A new report from the International Energy Agency has concluded that energy efficiency improvements since 1990 helped avoid 870 million tonnes of CO2 emissions in 2014.

IEA-12According to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Energy Efficiency Market Report 2015,...

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Rural Agri Ventures forays into LED lighting

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 7, 2015

Rural Agri Ventures India, a business incubation firm, announced the launch ‘My Way’, a light-emitting diode (LED) product which the company says is affordable and built with energy efficient and environmentally-friendly technology.

The initiative was undertaken to...

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Industrial energy management systems to grow to $35.6 bn in 2024

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 7, 2015

The market for global industrial energy management systems (IEMSs) is expected to grow from $13.5 billion in revenue in 2015 to $35.6 billion in 2024, says a report from Navigant Research.

The need for continuity in operations and production has made energy efficiency...

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Students Build Prototype of Energy-efficient Car

By : sustainabilityo..., Oct 6, 2015

Three students from Government Engineering college, Barton Hill, Thiruvananthapuram are on cloud nine. Bibin Sagaram, Vishnu Prasad S and Ronith Stanly, whose creation represented India in the Shell Echo competition held in Philipines have not only made the state but nation...

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Seven temples in AP to follow green initiatives

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 30, 2015

The government of the south Indian state Andhra Pradesh has planned to adopt seven major temples that will follow green initiatives.

Earlier this month, the government issued an order that covers Annavaram, Dwaraka Tirumala, Kanaka Durga (Vijayawada), Kanipakam,...

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AP Govt directs power sector to gear up for 2nd phase LED bulbs distribution

By : sustainabilityo..., Sep 28, 2015

Andhra Pradesh Government, which has been vigorously implementing energy efficiency activities for the benefit of the state and stake holders, have now decided to further take up public participation programmes in a big way to fully involve all sectors of the people to...

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