Repowering Wind Farm
Maximing Energy Yield From Existing Site Layouts
Things You Must Know About The Largest Solar Plant In The World
The largest solar plant in the world is up and running in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu. Here's some things you must know about it.
If only cities can see wetlands
Sixty People died in a building collapse in Chennai last fortnight. There is much more than the municipal incompetence that needs to be fixed to avoid such tragic incidents. This building was located on Porur lake, a water body that provides services like groundwater recharge and flood management to an otherwise water-starved city. If you care to ask the obvious question how construction was permitted on the wetland, you will get a not-so-obvious response. Wetlands are rarely recorded under municipal land laws, so nobody knows about them.
Energy conservation is a moving target
A decade has passed since the Energy Conservation Act was enacted in 2001.
Wind break ends
Centre wants to withdraw sops for wind energy sector; offers an incentive to improve performance Wind energy has been the poster child of India’s renewable energy programme. Data released by the government shows the staggering pace at which wind farms have been added across the country.
A week after the ban
Its been a week since the Supreme Court issued the order for the interim ban on endosulfan. There is no official confirmation on the joint committee yet, when they have to present the interim report within 8 weeks, from May 13, to the Supreme Court. It is after the interim report is submitted will the apex court take a final call on whether the pesticide should be allowed or banned.
India gets ready for banana war
By: Anirudh Nair A fungus that threatens popular Cavendish bananas traced in the country
Fix what is broken
By: Sunita Narain The high corridors of the nation are abuzz with talk about how much food should be given to the country’s poor as a right. Then they worry who should get this right to food. All who are poor, the very poor or the poor but not so very poor? This haggle over the below poverty line (BPL) and above poverty line (APL) seems to miss two crucial points. One, that the government does not know how to enumerate its people in terms of poverty. Two, there is no fixed and absolute line dividing the poor and not-poor.
Fix what is broken
The high corridors of the nation are abuzz with talk about how much food should be given to the country’s poor as a right.
Bank at your doorstep
Technology is helping public sector banks find customers in rural India. This is part of the Centre's efforts to include villages in the organised financial system; to ensure they are not cheated of their wages. Pilots show promise