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India needs to have a diversified generation and distribution system

Press release | July 31, 2012 at 20:44

New Delhi, July 31, 2012: The recent blackout due to the failure of the grid, crippling the lives of millions, is an eye opener that the present energy infrastructure in India needs to be diversified, both at the generation and the distribution...

Farmers will look to the skies, not for clouds anymore but for the sun

Farmers will look to the skies, not for clouds anymore but for the sun

Blog entry by Manish Ram | October 17, 2012

The phone at the Greenpeace office in Patna rang non-stop for a week. More than five hundred farmers from all over the state of Bihar were calling to know more about solar based irrigation system. This phone-call-frenzy was caused...

Supreme Court questions Centre's right to allocate coal blocks

Supreme Court questions Centre's right to allocate coal blocks

Blog entry by Ignatius Thekaekara | January 25, 2013

Stay up-to-date on news related to the environment. The Supreme Court has questioned the Central government’s authority to allocate coal blocks to companies and has sought legal explanation as the statutory Act empowers only the...

Kerala launches ambitious solar project

Kerala launches ambitious solar project

Blog entry by Ignatius Thekaekara | February 13, 2013

Stay up-to-date on news related to the environment. Kerala has become the first Indian state to create a very ambitious project to generate over 10 MW of solar power through over 10,000 roof-top solar power systems of one kw each.

No water for drought-hit Maharashtra as thermal power plants prosper

No water for drought-hit Maharashtra as thermal power plants prosper

Blog entry by Swati Mehta | March 22, 2013

Water was over. The sun was beating down our backs and a red-yellow, dried, mountain trail was around us. Our trek should have ended before sunrise, it was mid-day now. The desperate need for water was terrifying. Luckily we knew we'd...

Delhi can switch-on the sun

Hub | April 17, 2013 at 13:29

With renewable energy, Delhi can produce its own energy. It will not have to depend on coal which is destroying forests and and pollution by it is responsible for killing people. Thermal power plants are using and polluting water which could have...

What will Delhi do when the lights go out this summer?

Page | April 22, 2013 at 13:49

In another month, harsh summer will descend on Delhi. With it will come long hours of power cuts. Heat and power cuts are Delhi’s nemesis. How will Delhi solve its electricity issues?

Twenty two states fail to meet their Renewable Purchase Obligation

Twenty two states fail to meet their Renewable Purchase Obligation

Feature story | April 23, 2013 at 13:39

Even as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last week promised to double India’s renewable energy capacity by 2017, the country’s present commitments on clean energy have remained unfulfilled.

Will Delhi set the trend for renewable energy in India?

Will Delhi set the trend for renewable energy in India?

Blog entry by Ignatius Thekaekara | May 3, 2013

Currently Delhi produces only 0.03% electricity from renewable sources. Installling solar panels across the Capital can increase this figure drastically. © Harikrishna Katragadda / Greenpeace With the onset of summer in Delhi come...

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A solar power solution to Delhi’s power crisis

A solar power solution to Delhi’s power crisis

Image | May 13, 2013 at 18:09

Unfortunately, Delhi is one of the few states in the country that does not have any policy for alternate sources of energy like wind, solar and biomass. In 2012, in the absence of a policy and roadmap, the state failed to tap into solar and...

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