CHENNAI: The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has proposed a law to promote the use of renewable energy, Deepak Gupta, Secretary of the Ministry, said Thursday.

JERUSALEM: With its perennial lack of water and an overabundance of sun, Israel has long been a global leader in water and solar technologies. An Israeli kibbutz company, Netafim, invented the first drip irrigation systems, while Luz Industries Israel developed the first commercial solar-thermal power plants.

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Unlike the rest of the world, India has yet to wake up to solar energy's potential.

Proposals for over 2,000 MW projects have been received

The Union Ministry

Bangalore, DHNS:

The KERC proposes to fix tariff for solar PV energy at 3.40 per unit for the demonstration projects that will be set up during the 11th plan.

According to a release, this tariff will be in addition to the incentive of Rs 12 per unit of solar PV energy announced by the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy.

GLOBAL environmental NGO Greenpeace has called the recently released National Climate Change Action Plan (NCCAP) as an important first step but whose efficacy will be determined by the details of the mission documents to be finalised by the end of this year.