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Indian Company Launches Solar-Powered Self-Cleaning Toilets

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 27, 2014

An Indian company has announced a potentially revolutionary leap in sanitation and hygiene with the launch of a solar-powered toilet to coincide with the launch of the Clean India Mission.
 
India's Eram Scientific has launched a solar-powered self-cleaning...

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SolarArise raises over Rs200 crore from Kotak’s infra fund and GEEREF

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 10, 2014

Solar energy firm SolarArise India Projects Pvt. Ltd has raised over Rs.200 crore from Core Infrastructure India Fund Pte Ltd (CIIF), managed by Kotak Mahindra Group and Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF), a fund of funds advised by European...

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SunSwitch eyes `10 cr revenue from solar biz

By : Sustainability ..., Oct 10, 2014

SunSwitch India Private, a Delhi-based full-service provider of solar energy solutions and an arm of Ambica Steels, is expecting its solar business to contribute nearly Rs 10 crore in its overall revenue basket by financial year 2015, riding on the new range of solar products...

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India’s Tamil Nadu Sets Solar Tariff as Program Stalls

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 16, 2014

The electricity regulator for India’s Tamil Nadu set a price for solar-power producers after failing for the past two years to attract investments to a state that gets about 300 days of sun a year.
 
Tamil Nadu’s state-run distribution utility will pay 7.01 rupees...

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India To Install 2,200 Solar-Powered Mobile Communication Towers

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 8, 2014

The Indian government is set to start work on a large project to install several renewable energy-powered mobile communication towers across nine states in the central belt of the country as it pushes for development in economically underdeveloped regions.
Last month,...

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Indian States Move Forward With Solar Net Metering & Solar Leasing

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 8, 2014

Indian states are making noticeable progress in implementing rooftop solar net metering with an attempt to expand distributed solar power infrastructure.
The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission recently issued draft guidelines for solar net metering after years of...

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Subject Tags: electricity , India , solar

Tata solar Power wins order from JNNSM

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 2, 2014

Tata Power Solar (TPS) has won one of the largest orders of JNNSM phase-2 batch-1. The company will supply the entire module requirement for the 20 MW (AC) project to be built by ACME Solar, a leading solar power developer in India. The 1,00,000 modules, constituting 60,00,...

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Net-metering policy for solar projects approved

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 1, 2014

Punjab government today approved a net-metering policy for installation of solar photovoltaic power plants. 
Disclosing this here today, Punjab Revenue and Renewable Energy Minister Bikram Singh Majithia said the net metering policy will be applicable to all domestic,...

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Land-rich Suzlon Energy looking at EPC contracts in solar power segment

By : Sustainability ..., Sep 1, 2014

Suzlon Energy is eyeing engineering, procurement and construction business in the solar power segment. It’s a plan the company had evolved six years ago, but shelved later due to various reasons. Speaking at the India Economic Summit in New Delhi in November 2008, Suzlon’s...

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Subject Tags: India , solar , Suzlon , wind

Green energy to be used to run 2,200 mobile towers

By : Sustainability ..., Aug 26, 2014

For the first time in India, solar power will be extensively used to run 2,200 mobile towers to be set up in nine Naxal-affected areas.

The mobile towers, to be set up at a cost of Rs 3,216 crore, will be operated without any support from electricity or generators....

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