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SARI/Energy Small Grants Program Launched

Renewable Energy Monitor
Sources	Units	Potential	Installation
Wind Power	MW	45,000	1,870
Small Hydro Power	MW	15,000	1,519.28
Biomass Power	MW	19,500	537.17
Urban & Industrial Waste	MW	1700	25.75
Solar PV	MW/ sq km	20
Solar Water Heating	Mn. sq m	140	0.70
Biogas Plants	Mn.	12	3.440
Improved Cookstoves (Chulhas)	Mn.	120	35.20
			Source: MNES

Winrock International, Winrock International India and the Institute for International Education are working together to implement the USAID-sponsored South Asia Regional Initiative for Energy Cooperation and Development (SARI/Energy) Small Grants Program, and are seeking proposals for projects that encourage regional cooperation in South Asia on issues of mutual regional concern in the energy sector...more

Electricity Act: Winners and losers

The Electricity Act 2003 repeals a old legacy of 1910 and another of 1948 and has, in one stroke, forced the inevitability of total reforms in the electricity sector. No more can the States hide behind some excuse or the other not to unbundle the huge monoliths they have built over the past five decades...more

Two Indian Projects win Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy

Two of the four Green Oscars this year were awarded to Indian projects shortlisted for their innovative use of solar energy. Bunker Roy�s Barefoot College, which has been providing lighting using solar panels in over 136 remote Himalayan villages across seven states, won the Ashden Award for community welfar...more

Private firm to invest in wind power

Chennai-based Shriram group has announced to invest about Rs 60 crore in the current year in wind power sector. The investment was being mad...more

Electricity Act 2003

The Electricity Act 2003 has generated enthusiasm in the power sector. The Act, which supersedes three earlier ones including one enacted in 1910, will give a new push to much-needed reforms, according to Union power secretary R V Shahi...more

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