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• China, India nullify CO2 emission cuts by developed nations
  Jul 12, 2010 - Asia Pulse Data Source - Energy Cenral
  
  Continued rise in carbon emissions in China and India have "completely nullified" the reductions achieved by industrialised nations, with the result that emissions have remained constant in 2009, a report said Thursday.
  
  
• States get savvy about climate change
  Jun 18, 2010 - McClatchy-Tribune - Energy Central
  
  Soon every village in Himachal Pradesh will know how to calculate its carbon footprint as Indian states get savvier about climate change.
  
  
• Berkeley Lab Report: Simple Energy Efficiency Measures Can Eliminate Electricity Shortage in India
  June 1, 2010 - Berkely Lab - energycentral.com
  
  Electricity in India can be a dicey proposition. Half the population lacks access or is too poor to afford it. The other half is using so much that demand far outstrips supply, resulting in daily power outages...
  
  
• Filed in New Delhi, India.
  May 17, 2010 - Michael Eckhart
  
  May 7, 2010‐‐It has been eight years since I have traveled to India, following an intense period in 1997‐2001 when I came here 3‐4 times per year and worked about 50% of my total time on mobilizing financing for solar PV in India and South Africa. It is good to be back.
  
  
  
• India & Turkey on Track To Be Wind Powers
  Mar 19, 2010 - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
  
  India and Turkey are both poised to become world players in the wind industry thanks to good wind resources, growing demand for electricity and emerging political frameworks to support the development of gigawatts of wind projects in the coming years.
  
  
• Solar energy expo seeks lighting solution to rural India
  Feb 06, 2010 -- Xinhua
  
  A four-day solar energy expo has been running since Thursday in the Indian capital, highlighting the "dark" situation especially in rural India and proposing " light'solution through solar energy.
  
  
• India to Boost Solar Power Generation
  Jan 12, 2010 - Voice of America News
  
  India has launched a program to boost solar power generation over the next decade. India wants to make solar energy a central part of its efforts to combat climate change.
  
  
• Coal trips India's electric car revolution
  Jan 5, 2010 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Samar Halarnkar Hindustan Times
  
  Twenty-four hours before the world's most-attended auto show began, actor Rahul Bose had decided his next car: A four-door Reva NXR made in Bangalore.
  
  
• 20,000 MW grid solar power by 2022 under Nehru solar mission
  Nov 25, 2009 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  The Government of India Monday said that it has approved the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission with an aim of setting up 20,000 MW grid solar power and 2,000 MW off-grid solar power by 2022.
  
  
• India to Spend $900 Million on Solar
  Nov 20, 2009 - Vakas Bajaj - New York Times - Green Inc.
  
  Ending months of speculation about exactly what it was planning to do to boost the use of renewable sources of energy, India said this week that it will spend about $900 million on solar energy.
  
  
• Wind could provide quarter of India’s power by 2030
  Oct 28, 2009 - Renewable energy focus.com
  
  Wind could also attract US$10 billion in investment every year and create 213,000 green collar jobs, says the industry.
  
  
• KSK Surya Photovoltaic Venture Selects Applied Materials’ SunFab Solar Panel Production Lines for 150MW Project in India
  Oct 7, 2009 - BusinessWire
  
  KSK Surya Photovoltaic Venture, Private Limited (KSK), a subsidiary of KSK Power Ventur plc, a leading independent power provider in India, announced today that it has signed a contract with Applied Materials, Inc. to purchase two Applied SunFab™ Thin Film Lines for manufacturing high-power output 5.7m2 solar panels. The SunFab lines will be installed in a state-of-the-art facility, including an R&D center, which KSK plans to build in the “Fab City” located in Hyderabad, India, at a total project cost (including land and buildings) of approximately USD $500 million.
  
  
• India's 1.1 Billion Move to Feed-in Tariffs
  Sep 30, 2009 - Paul Gipe - wind-works.org
  
  The world's largest single political jurisdiction to date, India, has made a strategic move to use a comprehensive system of feed-in tariffs to develop its renewable energy potential.
  
  
• India to step up technologies to fight climate change
  Aug 13, 2009 - The Associated Press
  
  India said Thursday it will step up use of technologies to combat climate change.
  
  
• India plans massive increase in solar energy
  Aug 10, 2009 - Renewable Energy Focus.Com
  
  India will launch a solar power target by September 2009, which could increase the output from almost nothing to a staggering 20GW by 2020 - in a bid to fight global warming. To put this in context, today's global PV installed capacity stands at around 14GW.
  
  
• 50,000 Indian Villages to Receive Hybrid Electric Renewable Micro Energy Stations Via Neah Power and EKOVEHICLES India
  July 31, 2009 - GLOBE NEWSWIRE
  
  Neah Power Systems, the company leading development in fuel cells for the military and portable electronic devices, will develop methanol fuel cell battery chargers to enable the building, by EKOVEHICLES of Bangalore India, www.ekovehicle.com, of Hybrid Electric Renewable Micro Energy Stations (HERMES), bringing renewable, green energy to thousands of villages in India. This innovative technology will use a combination of clean solar and wind power, fuel cells and batteries to replace the very polluting diesel generators that currently provide electricity for the more than 50,000 Indian villages located 200 miles or more off the grid.
  
  
• India To Launch 20 GW Solar Target Under Climate Plan
  Jul 28- 2009 - Energy Business Review
  
  India will launch its first solar power target by September 2009, according to Reuters. This is to increase the output from near zero to 20 gigawatts (GW) by 2020 as it firms up its national plan to fight global warming, draft documents show. The target, which would help India close the gap on solar front-runners like China, is part of a $19 billion, 30 year scheme that could could boost India's leverage in international talks for a new UN climate pact in December 2009.
  
  
• 12 pc rise in investment in India's renewable energy: UNEP
  Jun 07, 2009 - Asia Pulse Data Source - Chennaionoine.com
  
  New Delhi, June 7 India saw a 12 per cent rise in investment in clean renewable energy like wind, solar, biomass and small-hydro projects with USD 4.1 billion being pumped into this sector last year, according to a UNEP report.
  
  
• India, where the renewable energy business potentialities grow aplenty
  Jun 5, 2009 - Ramamathan Menon - Energy Pulse
  
  Many reasons make India a great investment destination for new and renewable energy firms from all over the world, especially the size of its market, its speeding growth, its future potential and its political and economic stability.
  
  
• Could India become a solar leader?
  Jun 5, 2009 - James Kanter - The New York Times
  
  India may be gearing to turn itself into the global leader in solar power generation, a sign that major developing nations could become renewable energy hubs to rival Germany and the United States.
  
  
• “Enormous potential” for solar energy in India - report
  May 6, 2009 - renewableenergyforum.com
  
  Solar energy offers enormous potential for a tropical country like India where around 45% of households, mainly rural, do not have access to electricity, according to Research and Markets’ report Indian Solar Energy Market Outlook 2012.
  
  
• EU to fund renewable energy projects in India
  Feb 7, 2009 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Hindustan Times, New Delhi
  
  The European Union will soon launch a programme, initially through a 300 million euro amount from the European Investment Bank, to invest in renewable energy projects in India. The Czech Deputy Prime Minister Martin Bursik announced this on Friday while visiting New Delhi following the European Union's adoption of its new climate and energy package. The Czech Republic holds the rotating EU presidency.
  
  
• Tata Power to set up geothermal, solar plants in Gujarat
  Jan 12, 2009 -- Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  Tata Group company Tata Power today said it is looking at the possibility of setting up a geothermal power plant and a solar power plant of 5 MW each at a suitable location in Gujarat, a move that will strengthen the renewable energy portfolio of the company.
  
  
• India to invest US$27 billion in wind power in next four years
  Oct 23, 2008 - Asia In Focus - Energy Central
  
  With the thrust on renewable sources of energy increasing, investment in wind power generation will touch Rs 1320 billion (US$27 billion) in the next four years, says Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association (IWTMA). "The installed capacity of wind power in the country by the end of year 2012 would reach 22,000 MW, at an investment of Rs 1320 billion," IWTMA chairman D V Giri told reporters here.
  
  
• Suzlon Green Power Commits USD 5 Billion to Renewable Energy
  Sep 24, 2008 - PRNewswire
  
  Suzlon Green Power Ltd. announced today a commitment to bring 3,500 megawatts of electricity to nearly 10 million people with the development of $5 billion in green energy assets over five years, primarily in India and China. Of the $5 billion total project value, Suzlon Green Power will provide approximately $1.5 billion in equity. Suzlon Green Power, a closely held enterprise owned 100 percent by India's Tanti family, made the announcement today at the 2008 Clinton Global Initiative (CGI).
  
  
• India will avoid 5mn tonnes of CO2 by 2012
  Sep 9, 2008 - Nitin Sethi - The Economic Times - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News
  
  India - For those who believe India is not doing enough to check the growth of its greenhouse gas emissions, here is some news that should serve as an eye-opener. Through carbon trading projects under the Clean Development Mechanism, more than 5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide will be avoided by 2012 -cutting back 10 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions every year.
  
  
• Carbon Credits Are Financing Renewable Energy Projects in India
  Sep 4, 2008 - Anupam Tyagi - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
  
  Ghaziabad, India - When a firm in India invests in a renewable energy source to meet growing energy needs, it may be able to acquire carbon credits. These carbon credits are sold on international markets generating income for the owner of the credits. Carbon credits, which are issued to organizations based on their efforts to limit climate change, and renewable energy projects are intricately linked in India.
  
  
• Clean power need gives India's solar mission a boost
  Aug 29, 2008 - Times of India
  
  The government is looking to get India's 'national solar mission' underway with steps to set up research-industry partnerships, tariff structures and tax breaks to citizens aimed at promoting competitiveness and even seed 'solar valleys' for largescale energy generation.
  
  
• Indian Solar Loan Program Offers Access to Light
  Aug 8, 2008 - Peter Fries - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
  
  If you live in a rural area of southern India, two lights can literally save your life.
  
  
• India poised for leadership position
  Jul 28, 2008 - Rajiv Tikoo - The Financial Express
  
  India is promising to become the world’s clean energy hot spot. Seven trends are catalysing the evolution of low-carbon economy in India. These include big investment in renewables, proactive role of state governments, emerging IT solutions for emission reduction, innovative microfinance schemes, clean transport, carbon markets and corporate interest in rural renewables, says a new report.
  
  
• India needs 10-fold increase in power supply in 10 years
  Jul 6, 2008 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  India's demand for power will soar to a whopping 3,15,000 MW by 2017, requiring an investment of 600 billion dollars if the economy keeps its pace of growth at 8 per cent, a McKinsey report has said.
  
  
• India prime minister unveils plan to combat climate change
  Jun 30, 2008 - The Associated Press
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — India's prime minister announced a plan Monday to combat global warming by focusing on renewable energy, even as he stood by a refusal to commit to greenhouse gas emission targets that could stall the country's economic growth.
  
  
• India to Focus on Solar Energy
  Jun 1, 2008 - The Times of India
  
  The much-awaited national climate change action plan is almost ready. As per the final draft, to be discussed by the PM's Climate Change Council on June 2, the government has decided to launch eight national missions. These eight focus areas will be implemented in a time-bound fashion as part of India's domestic agenda to counter impacts of climate change and reduce the country's emissions of greenhouse gases.

• Protesters in northern India clash with police over power cuts
  May 2, 2008 - Biswajeet Banerjee - The Associated Press
  
  Rioters, some wearing just underwear, clashed with police in northern India early Friday in anger over massive power cuts that left wide swaths of the region without electricity as summer temperatures soared, police said.
  
  
• Govt Planning to Convert 60 Cities into Solar Townships
  Apr 21, 2008 - Times of India
  
  Taking a cue from European and American cities, the government is aiming to convert 60 cities into solar townships that run partially on renewable energy sources.
  
  
• Renewable Energy Holds Promising Future in India
  Apr 18, 2008 - Anupam Tyagi - renewableenergyworld.com
  
  According to the 11th New and Renewable Energy five-year plan proposed by the government of India, from 2008-2012 the renewable energy market in India will reach an estimated US $19 billion. Investments of US $15 billion will be required in order to add the approximately 15,000 megawatts (MW) of renewable energy to the present installed capacity. The government of India has planned a subsidy support system of approximately US $1 billion in government funds. This amounts to adding renewable energy capacity at 1 Watt per US $1, with potential subsidy support of US $0.07/Watt.
  
  
• Small hydro, wind power project have 60,000-MW potential
  Mar 10, 2008 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  India has been able to tap about 10,000 MW of the 60,000-MW power generating potential available from small hydro and wind projects, the Rajya Sabha was informed today.
  
  
• Leading Energy Company of India to Establish Geothermal Energy in India and Nepal
  Nov 27, 2007 - Market Wire
  
  Glitnir, the Nordic corporate investment bank, and LNJ Bhilwara Group with operations in India and Nepal has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate in developing geothermal power plants in India and Nepal. This MoU has been signed during the visit of the Finance Minister of Iceland on invitation from Finance Minister of India. The finance minister of Iceland H.E. Arni Mathiesen is on an official visit with a business delegation focused on Energy development in India.
  
  
• India's Dilemma: How to Continue Economic Growth While Reducing Carbon Emissions
  Nov 27, 2007 - Voice of America News/ContentWorks
  
  The United Nations wants its upcoming conference on climate change in Bali to devise a uniform strategy for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. India, with a booming economy and a billion-plus population, is on track to become the third largest carbon emitter behind the United States and China. As VOA correspondent Steve Herman reports from New Delhi, India is looking at how to maintain domestic growth while stabilizing its greenhouse gas emissions.
  
  
• Report: The World Must Help China and India Handle Energy Growth
  Nov 14, 2007 - EERE Network News
  
  Energy developments in China and India are transforming the global energy system as a result of their sheer size, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA). The IEA's "World Energy Outlook 2007" warns that global energy consumption could increase "well over 50%" by 2030. Energy use in China and India could double by 2030, providing nearly half the world's growth in energy consumption. If that happened, global carbon dioxide emissions from energy use would increase by 57%
  
  
• India, Iceland sign MoU on renewable energy co-operation
  Oct 10, 2007 - Thomson Financial
  
  The Indian Ministry of New and Renewable Energy said it has signed a memorandum of understanding on renewable energy cooperation with Iceland.
  
  
• India needs long-term energy planning: study New Delhi
  Jun 20, 2007 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  India needs to pursue an integrated approach to energy planning as high economic growth equaling or exceeding eight per cent would create much larger demand for energy in the next few decades, a study has said.
  
  
• India Sees Wind as Partial Answer to Its Perennial Energy Shortages
  May 14, 2007 - New Delhi - Voice of America News/ContentWorks
  
  The Asian Development Bank is helping to finance a 100-megawatt wind energy plant in India as part of a drive to promote renewable energy sources in Asia. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, India has emerged as the world's fifth-largest producer of wind energy.
  
  
• India to depend on renewable sources to meet energy needs
  Apr 9, 2007 - Asia Pulse Data Source
  
  New Delhi, India will be dependent on renewable sources such as solar, hydro and biofuels to meet 50 per cent of its energy requirements by 2050. Through the use efficiency measures the country will also be able to reduce 50 per cent of its energy consumption.
  
  
• U.S. Asks Firms To Provide Clean Energy Technology To India China
  Mar 13, 2007 - AsiaPulse
  
  The US Commerce Department has asked American companies to exploit opportunities in clean technologies for energy generation in India and China.
  
  
• Wind Farm in India is 500th Kyoto Project in a Developing Country
  Feb 14, 2007 - EERE Network News
  
  The Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) announced Monday that an 8.75-megawatt wind facility in Gujurat, India, is the 500th project to be registered under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM). The Kyoto Protocol specifies greenhouse gas reduction requirements for its participating countries, but allows countries to earn credits toward those requirements through emissions-reducing investments in developing countries. Even though developing countries don't have specific reduction goals, the CDM helps reduce the growth of green.
  
  
• China and India trying to harness the power of wind
  Sep 19, 2006 - Angela Macdonald-Smith - Bloomberg News
  

  Global scramble to develop alternative sources of energy has industry executives focusing on emerging markets
  China and India are accelerating development of wind power, luring companies including the turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems, as restrictions hamper wind farm construction in traditional markets like Australia. A venture, partly owned by CLP Holdings of Hong Kong, earlier this year scrapped more than $400 million of projects in Australia, where quotas on renewable energy have almost been met, in favor of China and India. Vestas Wind, the world's biggest wind turbine maker, and Suzlon Energy of India, Asia's largest wind turbine maker, are expanding in China.
  
  

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