Saving energy: A member of Annai Charitable Trust demonstrating the use solar-powered appliances to children at the Nesakarangal Home in Salem.

SALEM: Annai Charitable Trust of India, a Salem-based non-governmental organisation, conducted an awareness programme on solar-powered appliances for children at Nesakkarangal, a home for the deserted.

Shastry V. Mallady

It will function as a resource, research, training and production centre

MADURAI: To encourage use of solar energy, an institute under the name Loyola Institute of Solar Energy and Technology (LSET) was inaugurated here on Saturday.

M. Soundariya Preetha

COIMBATORE: Windmill installations in the district during 2008-09 are slightly more than the previous year, according to K. Kasthurirangaian, vice-chairman of the Indian Wind Power Association.

He told The Hindu here on Tuesday that 212 MW was installed during 2008-09 in this region, which had the Palghat Pass.

This was about 50 MW more than the previous year.

For a cause: Participants at the

T. Ramakrishnan

But capacity addition was marginally higher than in 2007-2008

CHENNAI: The just-concluded financial year of 2008-2009 saw fewer wind mills installed in the State compared to previous years though capacity addition last year was marginally higher than in 2007-2008.

FIRST OF ITS KIND: A.K.Hazarika, Director (Onshore), ONGC (second from left),taking a look at the VAP project at the Kuthalam plant of ONGC in Nagapattinam on Wednesday.

TAMIL Nadu will soon have a solar thermal power station in Sivaganga district, chairman, Tamil Nadu Energy Development Authority (TEDA), Mohan Varghese Chungath told a meeting on

Many industries have not tapped the potential of solar thermal energy: Chunkath

Karthik Madhavan

ERODE: Tamil Nadu Electricity Board

CHENNAI: Energy security issues are likely to become more important than ever before in these times of great uncertainty caused by the global recession, Reinhold Babel, representative of the Hanns Seidel Foundation, a Munich-based agency that seeks to promote peace, democracy and development.