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KVIC creates over 3,000 jobs for women under PMEGP

September 4, 2017 Anand Gupta

New Delhi, Sep 3 (PTI) KVIC, the nodal agency for implementing the Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP), has said it has created over 3,000 additional sustainable jobs for women in the past two years. It said these jobs were created by providing charkhas to women. They were in addition to 4.69 lakh jobs under the […]

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NIESBUD to conduct solar energy training course for entrepreneurs

September 4, 2017 Anand Gupta

New Delhi, Sept 2 (KNN) In a bid to encourage and explore the opportunities in the field of solar energy, the National Institute for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development (NIESBUD) will be conducting a Solar Training course for the entrepreneurs as well as students, corporates and more. The course content would include business models, ROI, business […]

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Renewable energy : Micro grids mooted for power evacuation

September 4, 2017 Anand Gupta

VISAKHAPATNAM, SEPT 2: As the share of renewable energy is increasing by leaps and bounds in the power basket, with better and cheaper generation technologies, grid management becomes crucial due to the intermittent nature of such energy and micro grids may be the answer to some of the challenges in power evacuation. Experts in this field […]

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Commissioning of Rooftop Solar Power Plant at Kaeser Compressors

September 4, 2017 Anand Gupta

Kaeser Compressors India Private Limited, a subsidiary of global leader, supplier of compressors and compressed air products KAESER KOMPRESSOREN SE, Germany announced commissioning of 120kWp captive Rooftop Solar PV power plant at their state of the art manufacturing facility at Pune in state of Maharashtra. The whole concept of solar installation was to help Kaeser Compressors in […]

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Vivekananda Centre gets solar plants

September 2, 2017 Anand Gupta

The State has been able to harness 40% of its energy requirement from renewable energy and with breakthrough technology expected in a few years in energy storage, it would not be hard to absorb more green power, said M. Saikumar, chairman and managing director, Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco). Inaugurating a solar plant […]

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Students to encourage vendors to get solar lamps

September 1, 2017 Anand Gupta

Oorja is a Hindi word which means energy, and energy is just what these students of Hindu College are looking to provide through project Oorja, which focuses on promoting the use of solar lamps among lakhs of street vendors in the Capital. The team, which is working on the programme as part of its Enactus […]

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Can solar power solve India’s rural healthcare problems?

September 1, 2017 Anand Gupta

New Delhi: Are solar-powered primary healthcare centres (PHCs) the answer to India’s rural healthcare problems? A study of PHCs in Chhattisgarh has found that solar-powered PHCs could significantly improve in-patient services, out-patient services, emergency care, delivery services and laboratory services in rural India. Solar-powered PHCs in Chhattisgarh admitted over 50% more patients and conducted almost […]

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NDMC’s solar fair to inform residents about using rooftops

September 1, 2017 Anand Gupta

Residents in the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) area will be able to get all information about using their rooftops for power generation with the civic body organising a solar mela from tomorrow. The two-day event will begin tomorrow at Palika Services Officers Institute tomorrow. “Information like potential of rooftops, savings in electricity bills, solar […]

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Making impact: Mangalore Co-op Town Bank goes solar

September 1, 2017 Anand Gupta

Karnataka based Mangalore Cooperative Town Bank is perhaps the only cooperative body in the country that meets energy requirements through a captive solar power plant installed at its head office in Mangaluru. Talking to this correspondent Chairman of the bank Nakul Pai B.H. said “We are celebrating the 98th year of the bank’s existence and […]

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Conversion to green energy to save airport 20 crore

August 31, 2017 Anand Gupta

CHENNAI: The airport is set to become an energy conscious facility and saving nearly 20 crore in the process by switching to LED lights and installing more solar panels. The change expected to be complete by March next year, follows the Union ministry’s green airports initiative. Airside lighting – runway lights, taxiway lights and apron […]

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