Friday, August 10, 2012

Solar Electricity - As grids trip, Govt focuses on solar power




Numerous states of India recently plunged into darkness as the power grids across North and North East India crashed. Could there be an alternative to avoid such a prospect? Scientists at the Ministry of New And Renewable Energy are now trying out new ways of lighting and cooling your home. ibnlive.com



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IBNLive.com

As grids trip, Govt focuses on solar power
IBNLive.com
New Delhi: Numerous states of India recently plunged into darkness as the power grids across North and North East India crashed. Could there be an alternative to avoid such a prospect? Scientists at the Ministry of New And Renewable Energy are now ...
SPI '12 Speaker Lineup to Address Solar Energy Industry's Most Critical IssuesGeneration NT (US)
U.S Drought and India's Blackouts: Here's the ConnectionOnEarth Magazine

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China hikes 2015 solar power target by 40 pct
Reuters
BEIJING, Aug 8 (Reuters) - China has hiked its 2015 target for solar power capacity by 40 percent to 21 gigawatts (GW), a government agency said on Wednesday, with falling costs and new regulations boosting growth in the sector. China, the world's ...

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Off-grid power shines in solar village
Reuters
Meerwada, on a dirt track rutted by rains and outside the reach of the national grid, struck lucky when U.S. solar firm SunEdison picked it to test out business models and covered the hefty initial expense of installing hi-tech solar panels in the ...

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Greentech Media (blog)

India's Massive Blackout Calls for Smarter Grid, From the Bottom Up
Greentech Media (blog)
And while Monday's outage was tied to demand outstripping supply, the government was still “absolutely clueless why this has happened again,” Shakti Sinha, principal secretary in the power department of the Delhi government, told The Washington Post of ...
India Blackout Underscores Grid Vulnerabilities, Regulators SayBusinessweek
The End of Electricity?Huffington Post
Behind India's Grid Breakdown, Deeper Energy Issues – and OpportunitiesNew York Times (blog)
Asia Times Online -Examiner.com
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Off-grid power shines in India's solar village
NDTV
Meerwada, on a dirt track rutted by rains and outside the reach of the national grid, struck lucky when U.S. solar firm SunEdison picked it to test out business models and covered the hefty initial expense of installing hi-tech solar panels in the ...




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