Electricity
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'Because it's my wicked way of life': 79-year-old Pune woman lived her whole life without electricity
India | May 08, 2019, 05:27 PM ISTThis unheard story of a 79-year-old former professor surprises us all. Dr. Hema Sane has been living in a house without electricity in Budhwar Peth, Pune all her life. Her reason for choosing this way of living her life is not due to any kind of constraint but her love for nature.
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New device generates electricity from snowfall
Apr 17, 2019, 11:28 AM ISTThe device, called as snow-based triboelectric nanogenerator or snow TENG, is an inexpensive, small, thin and flexible like a sheet of plastic which generates charge through static electricity, produces energy from the exchange of electrons.
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Novel ‘bionic mushrooms’ can produce electricity
Nov 10, 2018, 08:25 AM ISTWith 3D printing, it was possible to assemble them so as to boost their electricity-producing activity eight-fold more than the casted cyanobacteria using a laboratory pipette.
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New material harvests Sun's heat for cheaper electricity
India | Oct 21, 2018, 01:21 PM ISTThe innovation is an important step for putting solar heat-to-electricity generation in direct cost competition with fossil fuels, researchers said.
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Sweltering heat pushes peak electricity demand in Delhi to all time high of 6,934 MW
India | Jun 08, 2018, 07:21 PM ISTThe steep hike in power demand was mainly on account of the sweltering heat that is sweeping through the national capital.
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24-hour electricity to all by March 2019: Power Minister RK Singh
National | Dec 28, 2017, 01:22 PM ISTBy March 2019, all homes in the country will be provided uninterrupted 24-hour power supply throughout the year, Power Minister R K Singh said today.
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Chicken poop could replace coal in electricity generation, says a study
Trending | Nov 21, 2017, 10:33 AM IST''Converting poultry waste to solid fuel, a less resource-intensive, renewable energy source is an environmentally superior alternative.''
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PM Modi launches 'Saubhagya' scheme to provide electricity to all by December 2018
National | Oct 03, 2017, 07:42 PM ISTPradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana 'Saubhagya' launched on the birth anniversary of Hindutv icon Deendayal Upadhyaya will entail free electricity connections to poor households, PM Modi said.
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Gurgaon: Angry over power cuts, ex-judge opens fire at electricity board workers
India | Jun 08, 2017, 04:41 PM ISTIrked over frequent power cuts, a former judge allegedly opened fire at Haryana electricity board workers while they were fixing the transmission line outside his house here, police said today
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In Basti people are receiving electricity bill without any power supply
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17-year-old Odisha boy generates ‘electricity’ from scrapped Rs 500 note
India | May 22, 2017, 01:55 PM ISTA 17-year-old science student from Odisha’s Nuapada district has devised a technique that potentially qualifies as one of the most innovative methods to put scrapped notes to good use
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Good News: How these remote villages in Rajasthan received electricity through a solar power project
Good News | Apr 05, 2017, 11:32 PM ISTIIT-M students, in collaboration with Union Power Ministry have provided electricity to 2200 hundred homes and have changed the lives of thousands of people in the geographically challenged area.
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In a first, India now a net exporter of power, says Power Ministry
Mar 29, 2017, 05:10 PM ISTIn a significant turn of events for a country known earlier for its crippling power situation and severe infrastructural woes, India has now become a net exporter of electricity for the first time during the
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Move over, sunlight and water, THIS new method can generate electricity from footsteps
World | Oct 25, 2016, 12:30 PM ISTA team of researchers has found an inexpensive and simple method that allows them to convert footsteps into usable electricity. Researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison revealed that the method puts to good use a common
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PMO’s swift action on woman’s complaint ends 11-year wait for power supply for Etah village
India | Sep 14, 2016, 02:30 PM ISTA prompt response by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on a complaint by a 23-year-old college student in August has ended an 11-year-long wait for power supply to Bidhiya (also known as Madhuban), a remote village in Etah district.
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These T-shirts will turn body heat into electricity
World | Sep 14, 2016, 11:32 AM ISTScientists have discovered a new light-weight, conductive material which can convert body heat into electricity, and lead to T-shirts or arm bands that generate power for wearable electronics.
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Gujarat lights up: Electricity reaches remote island 70 years after Independence
India | Jun 11, 2016, 08:40 PM ISTVadodara: People of Shiyal Bet, a nondescript island in Gujarat’s Amreli district on Saturday woke up to cherishing moment as electricity reached their homes. They have had been waiting for nearly seven decades after India’s
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Discoms ordered to pay up to Rs 100 per hour for unscheduled power cuts in Delhi
India | May 31, 2016, 02:07 PM ISTUnscheduled power cuts by distribution companies in the national capital will now weigh heavy for discoms. According to a directive by the Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC), power distribution companies will now have to compensate consum
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Electricity consumption to touch 4 trillion units by 2030
India | May 11, 2016, 03:00 PM ISTIndia's electricity consumption will increase four times from about 1.1 trillion units to 4 trillion units by 2030.
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UJALA will be implemented across country by 2019: Piyush Goyal
National | Apr 30, 2016, 04:38 PM ISTThe Centre's ambitious National LED programme -- Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All (UJALA) -- will be implemented across the country by 2019, Minister for Power and Coal, Piyush Goyal said today.