Posted on Thursday, 12th August 2010 by Neeta
Heavy industries like steel mills, paper mills and cement mills have by far the largest untapped potential for energy generation in the wasted heat they generate.This energy generally goes wasted as there very few mechanism to trap this heat. Even if mechanisms are there they have been found wanting in operation. Coal based power Plants [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 12th June 2010 by Neeta
Global capacity addition in the year 2010 is expected to touch 10,000 MW this October. This is unthinkable and unbelievable even from the statistics of recent past. In the year 2000, world installed 170 MW of Solar PV. And 2010′s expected jump to 10000 MW is simply incredible. Today even 170 MW is the installed [...]
Tags: Capacity addition in SPV, renewable, renewable energy outlook, Solar PV Mission
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Posted on Saturday, 5th June 2010 by Neeta
Environment awareness has been growing amongst common people nowadays. We are becoming aware of how much electricity we consume per day. We have started looking for energy efficient homes, cars and bikes. All electrical gadgets which are coming up now are labelled under some rating programs so as to make people aware of the energy [...]
Tags: carbon footprint
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Posted on Saturday, 5th June 2010 by Neeta
Awareness amongst the urban people towards going Green has been steadily growing. More and more educated and concerned individuals are opting for Green Homes . This trend is reflected in more and more Realtors showcasing Green features of their upcoming projects in their advertisements. Noida’s Real Estate has been growing at break neck speed today. Two [...]
Tags: Environment Friendly flats, Green issues
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Posted on Saturday, 3rd April 2010 by Neeta
Green Buildings or the Energy efficient buildings have been catching the attention of planners and developers alike. This is an hitherto untapped area which can be made use of for the purpose of energy conservation. The fact that HVAC is the most important area and accounts for 55% of the energy usages in a typical commercial building [...]
Tags: Green buildings, Green living, Green Technologies
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Posted on Friday, 2nd April 2010 by Neeta
International Code Council has just released International Green Construction Code, a comprehensive Green Building Code which is expected to bring about paradigm shift in the way Green Building are being constructed. This would also spur other nations to review their national codes and come out with some revisions.
Tags: Green buildings, Green Technologies, igbc
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Posted on Saturday, 27th March 2010 by Neeta
China is leading the clean energy investment race. Asian country is the top most spender amongst all G-20 countries in clean energy investments. China spent $34.6 billions in clean energy investment in 2009. US was distant second with an investment of $18.6 billion. Investments by all G-20 countries have shown handsome improvements over last five [...]
Tags: Alternative Energy, renewable, solar, wind
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Posted on Friday, 19th March 2010 by Neeta
India is power starved nation. To motivate people here in India for Earth Hour is a tough task. But last time around the Earth Hour was a big success in Indian Metropolitan cities. This year on 27th March 2010 at 8:30 PM (Your local time) to support Earth Hour turn off your lights for one [...]
Tags: Earth Hour
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