CLEAN energy initiatives are expected to figure in the meetings between President Obama and PM Manmohan Singh. India and the US are likely to announce the setting up of a centre for cooperating on developing clean energy, including solar power and biofuels.

Gujarat has taken the lead among states in solar power. And it has a plan: to integrate solar into its power ecosystem by working on both the demand and supply sides, report Himanshu Darji, Mitul Thakkar and Shelley Singh

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Talks with FIs, state governments on for 1,000-Mw capacity; may also float subsidiary for solar EPC.

After a small presence in the biomass energy sector, Areva, the French energy major, is betting big on solar power in India.

A new era in renewables is clearly round the corner. Things seem to be moving on the right track, but there is a need to have clear-cut norms and proactive policy to coagulate funds and resources right along the board in the renewable energy space
Jaideep Mishra

Solar power remains the brightly promising spot in the field of renewable energy, and its prospects seem to be improving by the day.

THE government will make it mandatory for mobile phone towers to be powered by solar energy, a move it hopes will cut pollution and tamp down a key driver of diesel consumption in the country.

JAIPUR: Solar energy to illuminate Ajmer Sharif The holy shrine of saint Khawaja Moinuddin Chishti in Ajmer will be soon illuminated by solar energy as the authorities undertook a project to introduce solar energy based public lighting system in Jaipur.

The Union minister for non-conventional energy Farooq Abdullah sanctioned a `50 lakh project to equip the shrine with the solar energy.