Light logbook
1857: Gas light (Chitpur)
1889: Electric light (Harrison Road/MG Road)
1970: Fluorescent lamps
1990: Sodium vapour lamps
2009: CFLs
2010: LED lamps
The Calcutta Municipal Corporation has taken up a pilot project to illuminate parts of the city with environment-friendly light-emitting-diode (LED) lamps.
GLOW The electricity bill comes to ` 2.76 lakh per year. To conserve energy and protect the mother earth from global warming, as many as 635 LEDs are used to light the Palace premises, writes Shyam Sundar Vattam
new: The Amba Vilas Palace is being decked up with the new LED lights in phases.
Pune Suzlon Group, the wind energy major, has become the second company globally after Google Inc to power its IT server using renewable energy.
Out of the 150 KW that it produces out of the wind turbine, solar and photovoltaic panels at the global headquarters of Suzlon Group at Hadapsar here, 30 per cent is used to power its IT server.
Jairam RameshThe United States today unveiled a $350-million multinational effort to help provide clean energy technology to developing countries, including India, to curb greenhouse gas emissions and reduce global warming.
Pune The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has won the second prize in national energy conservation awards for the year for its efforts on energy conservation through use of advance technology for streetlights.
