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Street vendors in India can soon tap into solar energy

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 27, 2017

The National Association of Street Vendors of India estimates that there are around 30,000 street vendors in Bengaluru. Small businesses like these face innumerable challenges, given their make-shift existence. Availability of light in the evening...

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Tata Power Solar to install 2.67 MW solar carport at Cochin Airport

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 26, 2017

Tata Power Solar on Tuesday announced the commissioning of 2.67 MW solar carport at Cochin International Airport.

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Soon, Nagpur High Court building to shift to green energy

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 19, 2017

In a first of its kind move in the country, the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court, responding to the growing calls of reducing pollution and using green energy, has decided to shift to solar...

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Punjab aims to make farmers power producers

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 17, 2017

Punjab government is planning to exhort farmers to install solar power run tubewell and supplement their income by sale of power. Punjab power minister Rana Gurjeet Singh has urged power...

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Andhra Pradesh spending Rs.3,600 cr to modernise power sector

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 14, 2017

Andhra Pradesh is spending Rs. 3,600 crore, obtained from the World Bank as a loan, on modernisation of the power sector, according to Power Minister K Kala Venkata Rao.

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Half of 1,396-MW rooftop solar capacity added in FY17

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 14, 2017

India had a rooftop solar capacity of 1,396 MW at the end March 2017, of which almost half was added in the previous financial year, according to a research report. 

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Karnataka to buy 1,000 MW of power

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 14, 2017

The threat of yet another drought is looming large over the state after being reduced to its knees following regular drought for the last three-years. Poor progress of monsoon has resulted in...

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Hindustan Power to set up 15 solar power projects in Japan of 150 MW

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 14, 2017

Hindustan Power, the New Delhi-based power producer, today announced it has acquired 15 solar power generation projects in Japan with a capacity of 150 MW requiring an investment of $100 million...

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Warburg Pincus puts Rs 700 crore in CleanMax

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 13, 2017

 Global private equity fund Warburg Pincus has invested Rs 700 crore in CleanMax Solar, a rooftop solar developer for the corporate sector. The fund will have a significant minority stake in the...

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Bhopal airport to go all-solar by December

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 13, 2017

Raja Bhoj Airport is going solar. All the way. It’s going to be only the second airport in India, after Kochi, to become self-sufficient through green energy, airport director Akashdeep Mathur...

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