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Contracts for Chandpur, Inani windmill projects likely soon

March 20, 2021 editorBangladesh, Lead News, Renewable

Contracts for two more wind power plants — one in Chandpur and another at Inani Beach, Cox’s Bazar — are likely to be awarded soon.

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Solar projects on water could come at a cost to environment

March 14, 2021March 14, 2021 editorLead News, Renewable

After spanning agricultural lands, obscuring wastelands, and adorning a handful of rooftops, the panels are now dropping anchors on water bodies.

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‘Irrigation, EV sectors should be focus areas of BD solar energy’

December 18, 2020 editorBangladesh, Energy, Lead News, Renewable

Dhaka, Dec 17 – Irrigation and electric vehicle sectors should be the focus areas for renewable energy applications in Bangladesh, Prime Minister’s Energy Advisor Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury has said.

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Inauguration of 5KW vertical wind turbine ’Onuva’ at BUP

November 23, 2020 editorBangladesh, Campus, Renewable

Dhaka, 23 November 2020: The inaugural ceremony of 5KW Vertical Wind Turbine ‘ONUVA’ was held at Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) on 23 November 2020 at the western side of BUP Plaza. Vertical Wind Turbine ‘ONUVA’ is a step towards…

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Experts for reducing solar power target to 30,000 MW by 2041

November 8, 2020 Lutfun NaharBangladesh, Energy, Renewable

Experts at a workshop suggested re-fixing the target of solar power generation to 30,000 MW by 2041 instead of current target of 40,000 MW and linking it with other national plans like Delta Plan 2100.

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Equal tariff eyed to promote solar-powered irrigation pumps

September 14, 2020September 14, 2020 editorBangladesh, Energy, Renewable

Dhaka, Sept 14 – The Bangladesh government has planned to make the tariff of solar-run irrigation pumps equal to that of the grid electricity-run irrigation ones.

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Poland quadruples solar energy output – 5th largest producer in EU

March 22, 2020March 22, 2020 editorEnergy, Renewable

The European Union increased its solar energy market by more than 100% making 2019 the most successful year so far. Being one of the five countries contributing to this growth the most, Poland has almost quadrupled its solar capacities in…

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Transmission key to large scale solar projects: say experts

February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 editorEnergy, Renewable

Some of the world’s most ambitious large-scale solar projects have been plagued by delay, ultimately making them a financial burden rather than a beacon on the renewable power horizon. Does this mean such projects are outdated? GlobalData’s power writer Andrew…

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BD Govt to buy idle electricity from solar power plants

January 7, 2020 editorBangladesh, Energy, Lead News, Renewable

Sadrul Hasan, UNB Staff Dhaka, Jan 07 – The Sustainable and Renewable Energy Development Authority (Sreda) has finalised a draft policy guideline for purchasing idle electricity from solar power plants now being used for running irrigation pumps.

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Solar cookers produce more than food for Mexican women

October 31, 2019 editorEnergy, Renewable

By Emilio Godoy Villa De Zaachila, Mexico, Oct 30 2019 (IPS) – The sun’s rays are also used to cook food and thus replace the burning of firewood and gas, improve the health of local residents and fuel the energy…

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Quest to develop 100pc renewable energy for Bangladesh

October 23, 2019 Lutfun NaharBangladesh, Lead News, Renewable

Dhaka, Oct 22 – Planning Minister Abdul Mannan has said the government is serious about the development of renewable energy across Bangladesh.

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German Co. Ib vogt tie-up wins 50-MW solar project in BD

October 5, 2019 editorBangladesh, Energy, Renewable

October 3 – A tie-up of German solar developer Ib vogt GmbH and AG Agro Industries Ltd has won a competitive tender process for the construction of a 50-MW grid-connected solar park in Bangladesh, it was announced on Wednesday.

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The clean-energy fast track

September 15, 2019 editorColumns, Energy, Renewable

by Kingsmill Bond, Angus McCrone, Jules Kortenhorst London – The global transition from carbon-intensive fossil fuels to cleaner, more reliable renewables like wind and solar is already well underway. But the big question – for the 2020s and beyond –…

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Solar project aims at making Africa renewable powerhouse

September 14, 2019 editorOp-Ed, Renewable

By Razeena Raheem UN, Sep 13 2019 (IPS) – When UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres launched the International Solar Alliance last October, he applauded the goal of mobilizing about $1 trillion dollars towards the deployment of some 1,000 gigawatts of solar…

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Mexican women cook meals with sunlight, not firewood or gas

August 20, 2019 editorLifestyle, Renewable

By Emilio Godoy Reprint Villa De Zaachila, Mexico, Aug 2019 (IPS) – Reyna Díaz cooks beans, chicken, pork and desserts in her solar cooker, which she sets up in the open courtyard of her home in a poor neighborhood on…

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New wind farm helps Indonesia meet its clean energy targets

August 15, 2019 editorEnergy, Renewable

Jeneponto, South Sulawesi — About 90 kilometres (km) south of Makassar and near the Flores Strait, 20 new wind turbines, with 80-ton rotating blades 63 meters long and 5 meters wide, are spinning fiercely on flat green fields in the…

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Using renewable energy, circular economy to fight poverty

August 1, 2019 editorOp-Ed, poverty

By Daniel Gutman Buenos Aires, Jul 29 2019 (IPS) – On the outer edges of Buenos Aires proper, where the paved streets end and the narrow alleyways of one of Argentina’s largest shantytowns begins, visitors can find the En Haccore…

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Planning can save the Planet: China chooses renewable energy

June 9, 2019June 9, 2019 editorEnergy, Op-Ed, Renewable, Sustainability

By Sara Flounders 23 Apr 2019 – The very corporations that are responsible for the problem are denying global warming, with immediate consequences for the whole world. Carbon emissions from the burning of oil, gas and methane are heating the…

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Solar plane completes historic round-the-world trip

July 26, 2016July 27, 2016 sub EditorRenewable, Tourism

Solar Impulse 2 landed Tuesday in the UAE, completing its epic journey to become the first sun-powered airplane to circle the globe without a drop of fuel to promote renewable energy. The plane touched down at 04:05 (0005 GMT) in…

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Bangladesh 1st country to receive UN funds for solar home systems

August 20, 2015August 20, 2015 editorLead News, Renewable

Bangladesh was in news on August 20, 2015 as it received 3.56 million US Dollar Carbon Credit from UN Framework Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC) for its fast growing solar home systems. With this, Bangladesh became the first country to…

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Pathway to affordable, sustainable energy in Dominican Republic

July 9, 2015 editorEnergy, Renewable, Think green

Washington, D.C. – Yesterday July 7, at the Energy Ministry of the Dominican Republic in Santo Domingo, the Worldwatch Institute presented analyses and recommendations to government officials and energy stakeholders to support a transition to a sustainable energy system in…

renewable

Renewable energy’s helps uncouple growth & CO2 Emissions

June 26, 2015 editorEnergy, Lead 1, Renewable

Record installations for wind and solar PV in 2014; Renewable energy targets created in 20 more countries, new total: 164; Renewables account for over 59% of net additions to world’s power capacity; Policy-makers more attentive to green energy heating /…

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Your next home may run off a battery

April 27, 2015 editorEnergy, Renewable

The future of home energy sits in Josh and Susan Fried’s Rockville basement near shelves of old tools and canned soup, an unadorned box the size of a wine cooler filled with a dozen silent batteries. Annoyed by blackouts, the…

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Why India is still looking for a perfect cookstove

April 22, 2015April 22, 2015 editorEnergy, Renewable

By Vaishnavi Chandrashekhar On many mornings, especially in winter, a pall of smoke hangs over the villages of Palwal district in Haryana, a landscape of tractors, brick kilns and new colleges. It’s the haze of thousands of hearth fires burning…

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UN: New renewables broke through 100GW barrier in 2014

April 1, 2015April 1, 2015 editorEnergy, Renewable

New renewable generating capacity broke the 100GW barrier in 2014, equivalent to the entire fleet of nuclear power plants in the US, a UN report shows. Global investment in renewable energy during 2014 increased by 17 per cent from 2013…

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Bangladesh aims to be world’s ‘first solar nation’

January 26, 2015 editorEnergy, Renewable

By Pantho Rahaman DHAKA, Bangladesh (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Residents of Islampur, a remote village in the northern Bangladeshi district of Naogaon, were stunned one night last summer when the darkness was suddenly illuminated by electric lights coming from a…

Energy, renewable

Sustainable energy starts with the sun

January 22, 2015 editorEnergy, Environment, Renewable

By Malini Shankar Baroda, India, Jan (IPS) – It began with an experiment to install photovoltaic cells over an irrigation canal that forms part of the Sardar Sarovar canal network – a massive hydel power project across the River Narmada…

Energy, renewable

Solar mamas engineer energy security in a Rajsthan community

January 22, 2015 editorEnergy, Renewable

Ranjan Panda and Hema Yadav To buck migration, the Barefoot College has turned to mothers and grandmothers to light up villages Satabhaya village, in Kendrapada district of Odisha, is barely 65 km from the district headquarters, but it can be…

Energy, renewable

Harnessing canal top solar power: Gujarat way

January 15, 2015January 15, 2015 editorEnergy, Renewable

By Nava Thakuria It was a sunny afternoon, when the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon inaugurated a canal top solar power plant at Vadodara (earlier known as Baroda) of Gujarat in western India, where the UN chief  highly commended the vision…

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Renewable energy market barriers in Latin America, the Caribbean

December 11, 2014 editorEnergy, Environment, Green corner, Renewable, Think green

Washington DC – The region of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is already a global low-carbon leader in terms of power generation from hydrological and biomass resources. Declining costs, maturing technologies, and vast untapped potentials including geothermal, solar, and…

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