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BSS, DhakaBangladesh has made significant headway in implementing a renewable energy expansion programme by installing the Solar Home System (SHS) that reduces greenhouse emissions and ensures sustainable development in the energy sector. Every month more than 30,000 solar home systems are being installed in the country adding one and a half MW of electricity. One and a half years ago, about 12,000 systems were installed every month. Bangladesh will project its achievement in implementing the renewable energy project at Delhi International Renewable Energy Conference to be held from October 26-30.…

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National Policy on Biofuels 1.0 PREAMBLE 1.1 India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. The Development Objectives focus on economic growth, equity and human well being. Energy is a critical input for socio-economic development. The energy strategy of a country aims at efficiency and security and to provide access which being environment friendly and achievement of an optimum mix of primary resources for energy generation. Fossil fuels will continue to play a dominant role in the energy scenario in our country in the next few decades.…

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By Vaishali Balajiwale | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA Maya Khodave is a rag picker in Nashik. She was is inChina last week, asserting the role of ragpickers in maintaining the world environment. “Our work is dirty and hard, but it has real benefits for the larger society as recycling reduces greenhouse gas emissions and saves resources. Governments should recognise our work and cooperate with our efforts to improve our working conditions and increase recycling,” Maya, a leader of Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat, a union of waste pickers, told…

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Source: winddaily,by Staff Writers Champaign IL (SPX) Oct 13, 2010 Wind power is likely to play a large role in the future of sustainable, clean energy, but wide-scale adoption has remained elusive. Now, researchers have found wind farms’ effects on local temperatures and proposed strategies for mediating those effects, increasing the potential to expand wind farms to a utility-scale energy resource. Led by University of Illinois professor of atmospheric sciences Somnath Baidya Roy, the research team will publish its findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The…

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