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Soosai is interested in exploring the world of energy efficiency and sharing various ways to be energy efficient. He manages and updates the knowledge centre of Ulaginoli Energy Solutions
India in pact with Iceland on tapping geothermal energy
PTI India has signed an agreement with Iceland to tap geothermal energy in the country, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah has said.“We are going deep under the earth”s surface to tap geothermal energy. The potential of it has been identified in Ladakh region, Gujarat and Chatisgarh”, Abdullah said, without giving further details about the agreement.The minister, who was speaking yesterday at the launch of 2MW variable speed turbine at the Wind Turbine Research Station (WTRS) in Kayathar, said geothermal Energy(GE) would be an important source of…
Read MoreNow, 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…
Read MoreFrenzy 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…
Read MoreGovt helping rice producing states to use husk for electricity
Government is encouraging rice producing states in the country to generate electricity from its husk to fulfil the unmet need for electricity in their villages. New and renewable energy minister Farooq Abdullah said today that his ministry has been promoting rice husk based biomass gasifier system for providing electricity in villages. “So far, about 150 villages/hamlets of Bihar have been getting electricity from rice husk. In addition, one such system is under installation at Md Devipura village of District Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh,” Abdullah said in a written reply to a…
Read MoreSolar industry to gain from rising demand: Bank Sarasin study
Over the past two years the solar industry has shown itself to be incredibly resilient to the general economic crisis. This is the conclusion reached in the latest study published by Bank Sarasin’s Sustainability Research department entitled “Solar industry: entering new dimensions”. The Sarasin Group is incorporated in India as Sarasin Alpen India Private Limited which is a Non Fund Based Non Banking Financial Company” (NF-NBFC) with offices in Mumbai and New Delhi. The entity provides financial advisory and consultancy services to wealthy private clients in India and distribute select…
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