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Olive Earth stands for sustainability and peace and ecoimagines a smart and sustainable earth with its value focused ideas. It is an effort to accumulate the information around emissions, energy efficiency, waste management and environmental protection and discuss their applicability in the Indian context. Olive Earth is a community for social blogging around sustainability with groups, forums, micro-blogging, opinion polls and points of views. The Olive Earth website provides several applications aimed towards sustainability like India car pool, India rentals and green classifieds across several Indian cities. Come join the revolution.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

India has a vast supply of green energy resources, and has a significant program for deploying these resources. The various types of Renewable Energy in India - are Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Hydro electric and bio mass energy. The Renewable Energy market in India is pegged at US$600 million, growing at 15% per annum. The Government’s renewable energy target by 2030 is 200 gigawatts, estimated to require US$200 billion in capital investment. Currently, 3.5% of installed capacity is in the renewable sector, producing 3700 MW. Renewable energy is projected to produce 10,000 MW by 2012.
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