Renewable Energy

Elephanta gets solar power

Residents of the Elephanta Island can finally bid farewell to darkness and diesel generators. On Monday, 30 homes of Rajbander village on the island that hosts the heritage Elephanta Caves, will be lit up with solar lamps. The island, which is a 90-munite ferry ride away from the Gateway of India,does not have electricity as it is not connected to an electric grid. Its 1,500 residents get four hours of power every,day – between 7 pm and 11pm – from diesel fed power generators provided by the Maharashtra Tourism Development…

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Renewable Energy

Hike of Rs 1-2/litre in petrol price likely this week

PTINEW DELHI: A hike of Re 1-2 per litre in petrol prices is on cards this week following international crude oil prices touching USD 90 per barrel mark. “We would have raised petrol price yesterday … we had the oil ministry consent to hike prices by Rs 1.90-1.95 per litre immediately after the winter session of Parliament ended yesterday, but at the last moment we are asked to wait for one or two more days,” an official of IndianOil (IOC), the nation’s largest fuel retailer, said. IOC and other state…

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Renewable Energy

Ethanol has a special appeal for India

The other day the director general of Indian Sugar Mills Association Abinash Verma made an impassioned plea for the central government to announce the final price of ethanol to be procured by oil marketing companies (OMCs) for blending with petrol. Till such time the final price is announced, OMCs are to procure ethanol from indigenous sources at a uniform ex-factory ad-hoc price of Rs 27 a litre for its doping with petrol. According to Verma, sugar mills have finalised “contracts with oil marketing companies for supply of about 600 million…

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Renewable Energy

Now, a cheap biomass alternative for industrial chemicals

WASHINGTON: American scientists have devised a new way to convert bio-fuel made from biomass into feedstock chemicals, an inventions which they say could reduce reliance of industries on fossil fuels to make industrial chemicals. Researchers at the Massachusetts University at Amherst reported in journal Science that they have developed a new processor to produce key chemical intermediates from pyrolytic bio-oils —— the cheapest liquid fuel derived from biomass. The new process, they said, could “reduce or eliminate industry’s reliance on fossil fuels to make industrial chemicals worth an estimated $400…

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Renewable Energy Solar Energy

Frenzy on Solar Street

By: Cuckoo Paul Solar power has had a slow start, but with increasing corporate interest, it might just make the 1,100 MW target by 2012 For all the hoopla around solar energy, less than 2 MW of power gets produced in India by harnessing the sun. The first phase target of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (part of the National Action Plan on climate change flagged off by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh year ago) is to commission 1,100 MW of solar power by 2012, gathering speed to reach 20,000…

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