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• 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
  Apri 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 17, 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 proj have 60,000-MW potential
  Mar 3, 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 09, 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 ToProvide 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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