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RK SINGH TO LAUNCH SAUBHAGYA SCHEME ON MARCH 9 IN U’KHAND

March 7, 2018 Anand Gupta

The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power and renewable Energy R K Singh would launch Saubhagya scheme, meant to provide power connection to all the poor households in Uttarakhand, at Pavilion Ground in Dehradun on March 9. It is learnt that close to 3, 52,000 houses in the State are still without power […]

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417 villages in state solar powered: Centre

March 7, 2018 Anand Gupta

New Delhi: The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Tuesday in the Rajya Sabha revealed that it has ensured solar power to 417 remote villages of Orissa under the Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) in the past few months. The response from the ministry came through a written statement against a question of […]

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Minister: Solar panel installation on roofs of 1000 schools by Mar end

March 7, 2018 Anand Gupta

State government will complete installation of solar panels on the roofs of 1000 schools by this March end and another 1000 by next year, said power and non-conventional energy sources minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay in Assembly on Tuesday. “Solar panels have already been installed in 673 school roofs and effort is on to complete installation in […]

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Bengaluru’s first 3-D map to harness solar energy

March 7, 2018 Anand Gupta

Bengaluru: For the first time in the country, researchers deployed an advanced Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) system on a helicopter to draw up a 3D map of Bengaluru city, to assess the potential for harnessing solar energy over each building, and provide civic agencies the data for better planning of all amenities in the […]

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India Solar Goal’s Secret Weapon: Rooftops of Small Business

March 6, 2018 Anand Gupta

Rakshith Kunder is adding more solar panels to the roofs of his warehouses. He isn’t seeking to save the planet, it’s pure economics. “Solar power costs us just a third of grid power and has also reduced our diesel backup cost,” Kunder, 33, said by phone from the city of Kota, in the southern state […]

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Kolkata: College Square goes green with solar lights

March 5, 2018 Anand Gupta

KOLKATA: Solar panels — 36 of them — lit up College Square on Sunday evening as the trial run for the green energy scheme was kicked off. The test run with the panels, capable of generating around 15kW per hour, will continue for a few weeks before the Kolkata Municipal Corporation formally inaugurates the system. […]

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New Delhi Municipal Council’s solar road project faces bumps

March 5, 2018 Anand Gupta

NEW DELHI: The New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) may have got too ambitious with its plans to make the Lutyens’ Zone run completely on renewable energy. One of the highlights of the NDMC’s budget presented in January by its chairman Naresh Kumar was a ‘solar road’ pilot project. But the trial of the project is […]

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South Mumbai mosque installs solar panels, trims power bill

March 5, 2018 Anand Gupta

Madarsa-e-Mohammadiya in Agripada has managed to reduce its electricity bill by 75% The Madarsa-e-Mohammadiya, also known as the Akash Masjid in Agripada, which recently became the fourth mosque in south Mumbai to adopt solar energy, has managed to reduce its electricity bill by 75%. The two-storey mosque, located within Akash Apartment complex in Ghass Gali, […]

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Amendments in norms for participation of MSME sector/Startups in tenders for Solar Water Pumps

March 3, 2018 Anand Gupta

Amendments in norms for participation of MSME sector/Startups in tenders for Solar Water Pumps For more information please see below link: Source: mnre.gov.in