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September 25, 2009 by Team EAI
Folks are now talking about Indian having 60 cities being solar powered in about 10 years from now, if we are able to generate the planned 20 GW of electricity from solar by then (As an aside, I did not know that we had 60 cities in the first place,...
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September 25, 2009 by Team EAI
Moser Baer and SunEnergy of Germany won the bid for one of the world's largest thin-film amorphous-silicon solar power plants in the world. Mahagenco, the power generation company owned by the government of Maharashtra, said it has awarded Moser Baer India the engineering-procurement contract for a 1-MW solar power project...
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September 25, 2009 by Team EAI
The global venture capitalist Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) is seeking broader investment opportunities with two of its family funds —DFJ Growth Capital and Element Partners — kicking off action in India.DFJ, a marque Silicon Valley venture capitalist associated with start-ups, such as Skype and Hotmail, is believed to be managing...
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September 25, 2009 by Team EAI
September 25, 2009In a bid to exploit the available potential in the bio-mass sector, the Orissa government has approved two more bio-mass based power projects with a combined generating capacity of 39 MW of power, bringing the total envisaged generating capacity in the bio-mass sector to 129 MW.To promote bio-mass...
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September 25, 2009 by Team EAI
Intersolar,the world's largest trade show for solar technology, is expanding into India. Intersolar India will take place for the first time in 2009 in association with SOLARCON(R) India, being held in Hyderabad from November 9-11. Alongside the Intersolar events in Munich and San Francisco, trade show will now have a...
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September 25, 2009 by Team EAI
Lighting a Billion Lives (LaBL) - this is what India needs at this moment, with thousands of villages having no access to electricity.TERI has already steered the process of providing solar lanterns to a billion rural households across developing nations through their flagship campaign - Lighting a Billion Lives (LaBL)....
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September 25, 2009 by Team EAI
Growth in India's carbon emissions could be nearly halved by the year 2030 through the use of known practices and technologies, according to a new report from McKinsey & Company Through a 'step-change in...efforts to lower emissions,' India's carbon output could grow from 1.6 billion tons in 2005 to 2.8...
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September 25, 2009 by Team EAI
India is soon going to embark on national solar mission in a big way. Considering that the country presently generates less than 10 MW, the target of 100,000 MW by 2030. Indian Solar Energy Mission has two major components: solar power generation and manufacture of equipment to achieve it. India's...
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September 25, 2009 by Team EAI
The Union government is supposed to launch the National Solar Mission on November 14, 2009 and here are the guidelines from the final draft * Make India a global leader in solar energy and the mission envisages an installed solar generation capacity of 20,000 MW by 2020, 1,00,000 MW by...
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September 25, 2009 by Team EAI
Reva has been my favorite India company for a while now, for being determined in their efforts with their EV. And now their persistence is starting to pay dividends.General Motors India and Reva Electric Car Company announced recently in New Delhi the signing of an agreement to cooperate in the...
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