In spite of the intention of governments to increase the use of renewable energy in electricity supply, particularly the use of solar photovoltaic (PV) for energy poverty reduction in rural and peri-urban areas of Africa, there is relatively little information on how solar PV electrification impacts on energy poverty reduction.

This report by Greenpeace shows that 35% of the country's electricity demands can be met from renewable energy by 2030 and 50% of the projected energy requirements from smart and efficient production, distribution and use of energy.

Forget barrages, dams or tidal turbines

Experts have often advised a mix of energy technologies to solve India

Date: 18-Feb-09
Country: ISRAEL
Author: Ari Rabinovitch

KIBBUTZ SAMAR - Israeli energy company AORA wants to prove it doesn't have to be sunny for a solar power plant to make electricity. Like weaning a car from total dependence on fuel, the answer, it says, is to go hybrid.

Jamshedpur, Feb. 17: Next time if you need to recharge your batteries but run out of electricity, make use of cow dung.

Gurunanak High School students have come up with this innovative way where in spite of lack of electricity one can generate his/her own electricity through a simple method.

The Congress Government in Andhra Pradesh launched a drive to ensure the farmers that the policy of free electricity to the agriculture sector will continue for another five years.

New Delhi: At its new landfill sites, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi plans to generate electricity, cooking gas, organic manure and bricks from the waste generated in the city. To come up at Okhla and Timarpur, the landfill sites will have a waste treatment plant for which the corporation is likely to join hands with the East Delhi Waste Processing Company Private Limited (EDWPCL).

Mumbai: Breaking new ground : Civic authorities to tap methane from closed grounds for 20 MW

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is getting ready to enter the energy sector and intends producing around 20 MW from waste and putting it on the distribution grid.

Mumbai: The Mumbai Rail Vikas Corporation (MRVC) has made an advance payment of Rs 9.8 crore to Tata power for producing electricity for the much awaited phase II of the Mumbai Urban Transport Project (MUTP).

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