To help in policy development, awareness creation, as well as training and capacity building for solar energy is the main focus of Solar Thermal Federation of India (STFI).

Now with its major thrust on harnessing wind, solar, and nuclear power in addition to petroleum so as to get itself converted into an energy company, the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC) on Wednesday launched its solar lamps for the first time in the North East here at Santipur village.

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Feasibility study under way for setting up plant at Leh, Kargil.

Green energy thrust

ONGC to start off with a 10 MW solar PV plant with plans also for a solar thermal project

NTPC takes up grid interactive 15 MW solar thermal-based projects at Anta in Rajasthan

Richa Mishra
Anil Sasi

Shimla: In a bid to harness solar energy in a big way, Himachal Pradesh government has decided to develop Shimla and Hamirpur as

Srinagar: Solar home lighting systems were on Sunday distributed to about 388 houses in an unelectrified village in Jammu and Kashmir

The West Bengal Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, on Wednesday inaugurated the Rs 100-crore solar photovoltaic module manufacturing plant set up by Vikram Group of Industries at Falta Special Economic Zone in South 24 Parganas district, according to a company release.

Sudha Nambudiri

KOCHI: Germany has made policy decisions on alternative energy sources and has been concentrating on research in those areas long before the rest of the world began thinking of them, said Muller-Steinhagen, head of the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics (ITT) at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR).

Origin Energy Ltd, the Australian electricity and gas retailer, and India

Bibhuti Barik

BHUBANESWAR: The inhabitants 65 tribal families of remote Kolha village in Dhenkanal district never thought of experiencing the joy of electricity in their lifetime.

But now with indigenously developed straight vegetable oil (SVO) technology, they would fulfil their long-standing desire.

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