KOCHI: With climate change and energy crisis fast becoming a reality, scientists all over the world have started looking for solutions to tide over the crisis.

G.K. Nair

Ever-increasing demand for power without corresponding expansion in hydel power generation capacity in the State is gradually pushing up the state's dependence on thermal power with the ratio to touch 70:30 in the very near future, according senior sources in the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB).

KOCHI: The Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology (RSET) is organising a twoday Indo-German dialogue on Accelerated Dissemination of Solar Energy Technologies ADSET 2010 on March 4 and 5 at the college campus in Kochi.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Normal life was hit Tuesday in Kerala as the state woke up to a shutdown called by the workers of the Motor Vehicle Coordination Committee of the Left parties and the Bharatiya Janata Party to protest the hike in petrol and diesel prices.

The shutdown was supported by the trade associations as businessmen pulled the shutters of their shops down.

The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is on the look-out for a Designated Operational Entity (DOE) for validation of the three small hydro-electric pilot projects in the State being taken up for implementation under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM).

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A State Government Order adding muscle to the Central directive making Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) labels mandatory on home appliances is expected soon.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Forty -three towns in the state will benefit from a Rs 288-crore Central scheme meant to strengthen the power distribution sector and reduce technical and commercial losses by 15 percent. KSEB has been allocated the scheme under the Restructured-Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme (RAPDRP).

PALAKKAD: Palakkad district on Tuesday became the first fully electrified district in the country.

Announcing this, Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said that the government was working on a target of bringing electricity to all villages in the next two years.

Palakkad in Kerala has become the first fully electrified district of the nation. The Union power minister, Mr Sushil Kumar Shinde, officially announced this on Tuesday in the presence of the state electricity minister, Mr A.K. Balan. The government had taken out a special package to electrify all the 11 Assembly constituencies in the district, including Malampuzha, which elected the CM, Mr V.S.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: At a time when large parts of the country remain without electricity, Palakkad district in Kerala is all set to be declared the first fully electrified district in the country.