Smriti Bhargavai, Shrawan Nigam

Stepping up generation-based incentive, enacting the renewable energy law and channelising the huge resources available to the renewable energy sector for maximum effect, will be some of the issues that are to be discussed at the

In order to do away with the cumbersome process of manually switching on and off streetlights, the administration has decided to install solar switches across the township.

MUMBAI: Kinetic chairman Arun Firodia, who saw an opportunity at the bottomof-the-pyramid long before the phrase became a catchword and launched the moped Luna, now plans to launch a project that would bring power to villages. The plan entails starting a two micro-electric plants at villages with a population of over 2,000.

NEW DELHI: Even as the Capital awaits the announcement of new power tariffs, the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission has announced solar tariff regulations.

The DERC adopted the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission's terms and conditions for the tariff related to solar power.

According to the DERC, the order is in line with the Jawaharlal Nehru Solar Power Mission guidelines.

Next Step: Around The World Powered Only By Sunlight

Payerne (Switzerland): An experimental solar-powered plane landed safely on Thursday after completing its first 24-hour test flight, proving that the aircraft can collect enough energy from the sun during the day to stay aloft all night.

Payrne (Switzerland): An experimental solar-powered aircraft took off from a Swiss airbase in the early hours of Wednesday in a bid to make history by flying round the clock and through the night.

PAYERNE (Switzerland): When the Solar Impulse airplane took off on its pioneering round-the-clock flight on Wednesday, the solar panels spread over a wing similar in size to that of an Airbus generated a tiny fraction of an airliner's power.

Kalpana Pathak / Mumbai July 7, 2010, 0:42 IST

To set up solar and wind power panels across the country.

State-run Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) plans to set up solar power panels and power plants at its over 18,100 retail outlets across the country at a cost of Rs 500 crore.

SPUDS & SOCCER BALLS SET TO ELECTRIFY THE FUTURE

An electric battery based on boiled potatoes could provide a cheap source of electricity in the developing world, according to the technology transfer company of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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