Innovation To Bring Electricity Solutions To 50,000 Villages In Bihar, UP, Bengal & Orissa

The Union Secretary for the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Mr Deepak Gupta, today called upon wind energy power generation firms to use the generation-based incentives and accelerated depreciation to help achieve the Plan targets of new capacity addition.

Chennai: With the diesel gensets powering 3 lakh telecom towers guzzling Rs 6,400 crore fossil fuel every year, the time has come to think about solar power replacing diesel gensets, said Farooq Abdullah, minister of new and renewable energy (MNRE).

CHENNAI: The government and industry need to jointly explore new sites with wind energy potential to scale down the use of fossil fuels, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah said on Thursday.

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The renewable energy sector, particularly solar energy, should now focus on technology and bringing down costs, said Dr Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy.

Chandigarh: After tapping the biomass potential of the state,the Punjab Government is now turning to solar energy for meeting its ever-increasing power demands.

Renewable Energy Ministry Working On Rs 2.53-Crore Project Likely To Become Operational By February Next