LEH, Jan 9: Union Minister, for New and Renewal Energy Dr. Farooq Abdullah, today visited Leh to review the implementation of Ladakh Renewal Energy Project, a Central special assistance to Leh and Kargil districts of Ladakh region under Jawahar Lal Nehru Solar Mission besides taking stock of rehabilitation of the cloudbrust victims.

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The Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU) is set to be the first state-aided university to install solar-powered street lights on its campus.
It has come up with an environment park with a building specially dedicated to house solar panels and other equipment needed to run the solar-powered lights.

The Centre has approved nine solar power projects of 8.8 mw capacity to be set up in Haryana by independent power producers.

Sanjay Chakrabarti

The year 2010 brought a lot of

State-run power equipment-maker BHEL on Thursday said it has bagged contracts worth `78 crore from Indiabulls for setting up three solar power projects.

Under an ambitious scheme of the Union government, Mohali will soon become a solar city.

Response to the National Solar Mission, which aims at generating 20,000 Mw of solar power in the country over the next decade, has been good so far.

In less than a year after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh launched the scheme, 300 bids for solar photovoltaic (PV) plants and 44 for solar thermal projects were received by NTPC Vidyut Vyapaar Nigam (NVVN), a nodal agency for the sale and purchase o