India

 Biogas from oilseeds

FARMERS who want to set up a biogas plant but are short of cattle dung -- the primary raw material used by majority of the 12 lakh biogas plants that exist today -- now have an alternative in

Publication Date: 
29/06/1994
Down to Earth
Tags:
Oilseeds, Biogas, India
India

 Starting off on the wrong foot

A non conventional energy complex set up in Brahampur village lies in a shambles today because authorities disregarded the people's requirements

Publication Date: 
14/09/1993
Shailendra Kumar
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Household Energy, Biogas
India

 Ministry gets a dose of perestroika

The ministry of nonconventional energy sources is being reoriented to improve efficiency and allow private sector participation to develop the market for its products

Publication Date: 
14/09/1993
Koshy Cherail
Down to Earth
Tags:
Renewable Energy, Wind Energy, Biogas, Private Sector
India

 Jumping on the biotechnology bandwagon

BIOTECHNOLOGY means a lot of things to different people. The new and the traditional coexist and reinforce each other within biotechnology -- now an established and highly interdisciplinary applied

Publication Date: 
30/12/1992
Bhanusingha Ghosh
Down to Earth
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Tags:
Biogas, Genetic Resources, Biotechnology, Scientists, Developing Countries
India

 Every cow pat counts

Even the lowly cow pat has ownership rules in rural India. But rights over dung, an important source of energy and soil fertilisation, vary from community to community

Publication Date: 
30/07/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Natural Fertilisers, Animal Dung, Rural Habitat, Energy, Biogas, India
Energy

Household Biogas Systems Improve Lives in Nepal

Health and wellbeing in Nepal are being improved thanks to a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) programme bringing clean-burning cookstoves to households in place of smoky traditional stoves.

The inspiring story of the Nepal Biogas Support Programme was told today with the premiere of video screened for climate change officials taking part in a workshop organized by the United Nations Environment Programme’s Southeast Asia Climate Change Network (SEAN-CC).

Tags:
Climate Change, Energy, Renewable Energy, Biogas, Nepal, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), Chulhas (Cookstoves), South Asia

WELTEC BIOPOWER Accomplishes Market Entry in Belgium

Biogas Plant to Generate Power and Heat for Textile Industry
 
The Belgian investor and project developer NPG Energy has requested WELTEC BIOPOWER GmbH from Vechta, Germany, to set up a biogas plant. The investor will also serve as the operator of the 2.4-MW plant, which is to go live in spring 2014.
 
Tags:
Energy, Power Industry, Textile Industry, Biogas, Renewable Energy
Energy
Grameen Shakti
Bangladesh, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Biogas, Rural Energy, South Asia
Energy
Centre for Renewable Energy (CRE)
Nepal, South Asia, Renewable Energy, Appropriate Technology, Solar Energy, Biogas, Biomass, Energy Technology
Energy
Winrock International
Nepal, South Asia, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy, Biogas, Rural Electrification

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