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Climate change has been identified as one of the greatest challenge by all the nations, government, business and citizens of the globe. The threats of climate change on our green planet

Millions of rural Indians have never experienced how electricity can change their lives. So, their life grinds to a halt as soon as the sun sets. But providing power to the villages would mean more coal-burning by power plants that already emit more than 50 per cent of India

Waterworld!

Cultivation of jatropha, a plant used to produce environmentally -friendly biofuels, using seeds may be banned under a proposal being considered by the government because of concerns over crop yields, officials say.

Agartala, Nov 5: The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has agreed to provide financial support to 8,719 remote villages of 10 states, including 1,704 hamlets in the Northeast in the current fiscal.

New Delhi: The Centre is back to the drawing board on the national bio-fuel policy, with warnings emerging that it had jumped the gun by paving the way for commercial expansion of the alternative fuel without plugging the techno-economic gaps in the largely untested sector through an experimental phase.

IWTMA seeks changes in the Generation Based Incentive to attract fresh investments into the wind energy sector
Everyone is for it. The investors want it for viability. Turbine manufacturers want it to expand market. The government too wants it for augmenting power supply.

BS Reporter / Chennai October 16, 2008, 17:44 IST

The central government is planning to remove the incentive cap in wind energy which is currently restricted to projects up to 49mw.

The government decision is to encourage more foreign investors to invest in various wind energy projects, according to a senior representative from the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE).

CHENNAI: The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has proposed a law to promote the use of renewable energy, Deepak Gupta, Secretary of the Ministry, said Thursday.

Sudheer Pal Singh

In order to tap India

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