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UW-Madison team develops wind turbine for cell towers in rural India

By : sustainabilityo..., May 26, 2016

With the aim of helping make electricity more available in rural parts of India, a team of students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has designed a wind turbine that could provide power to...

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Government electrifies 108 villages last week, total now at 7,874

By : sustainabilityo..., May 24, 2016

A total number of 7,874 villages out of those without power have been electrified till last week with an addition of 108 to the network, the Power Ministry said today.

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112 more villages electrified, taking number of electrified villages to more than 7000

By : sustainabilityo..., May 17, 2016

As many as 112 villages were electrified across the country last week, taking the total tally to 7,766, the government said today.

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Solar power lights up Sambalpur village in Odisha

By : sustainabilityo..., May 5, 2016

The remote village of Rairakhol under Chasabardi district was lit up with solar lights on Sunday.

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REC sanctions Rs. 6,000 cr for power infra in Amaravati

By : sustainabilityo..., Apr 8, 2016

In a major boost to the power sector in the emerging capital city Amaravati, the Rural Electrification Corporation Limited (RECL) has sanctioned Rs. 6,000 crore for augmenting the electricity...

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Government does its math to fast-track rural electrification

By : sustainabilityo..., Apr 4, 2016

The government is exploring ways to fast-track rural electrificationBSE -0.78 % in Odisha, Bihar, Arunachal Pradesh, Jharkhand and Assam, which are home to most un-electrified villages....

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Subject Tags: Rural Electrification

Henkel India to provide solar power to villages in Maharashtra

By : sustainabilityo..., Apr 4, 2016

In line with Henkel’s global Sustainability Strategy for 2030, the German adhesives maker’s Indian arm, Henkel Adhesive Technologies India Private Limited, has embarked upon its CSR project...

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6,000 unelectrified villages provided with power: Government

By : sustainabilityo..., Mar 7, 2016

Electrification has been done in 6,000 of the 18,500 unelectrified villages and the renewable energy capacity has reached 39.5 Giga Watts, a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was...

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Subject Tags: Rural Electrification

Remote Kodaikanal village gets solar lighting facility

By : sustainabilityo..., Mar 4, 2016

For the first time in the State, a mini-grid solar power station was commissioned at Moongilpallam, one of most remote villages in Dindigul district, to provide lighting facility to all houses, fulfilling their decades-old-dream.

Commissioned at a cost of Rs. 3.78 lakh...

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18,452 villages to be electrified by March 2017: Piyush Goyal

By : sustainabilityo..., Mar 4, 2016

Government will meet its target of electrifying 18,452 villages by March next year, much ahead of the May 2018 deadline as over a third of the task has been completed already, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said.

"During the last 11 months we have already electrified...

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Subject Tags: Rural Electrification