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Training Students in Renewable Energy Technology

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Solar Energy Job Creation in India

Training people in skills required at renewable energy plants seems to be the next wave in the Indian solar movement.

About six lakh jobs would be created in the next four years from projects coming under the solar mission alone. On an average, about 35 people are involved in the installation of 1 MW of solar plant— including manufacturing and installation of the final plant.

Colleges across the country are cashing in on the need to train students in renewable energy technology. Players across the value chain are engaging in conducting courses in renewable energy in partnership with colleges to offer diploma courses, certificate courses and full-time M.Tech courses.

Product testing and certification company TUV Rheinland India, for instance, is planning to set up two training institutes in partnership with universities from Mumbai and Coimbatore to promote training in operational skills and encourage research in renewable energy.

The company, jointly with Jain University, has been conducting courses in Renewable Energy for the past three years. It has trained about 200 people, and absorbs several students into its facility in India.

“We will be involved in creating blue-collared jobs in this sector,” Mr Enrico Ruhle, Managing Director of TUV Rheinland India, told Business Line. The ecosystem in India needs to be developed, he pointed out. The company expects to double its revenues from its training business next year.

According to Mr Debasish Paul Choudhury, President, SEMI India, several colleges have evinced interest in taking renewable energy as electives in colleges. “Amity University, for instance, has a full-time course in renewable energy,” he pointed out.

SEMI India has been involved in skill training for renewable energy projects. It works out of IIT Bombay in collaboration with some professors there to conduct classes for engineering students, academia and industrialists. “Over 250 students were trained at IIT Bombay last year,” Mr Choudhury said.

Source: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/economy/article3277787.ece

London clean energy talks to draw 22 countries

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Clean Energy Talks

Ministers from Australia, Canada, Europe and Japan will join counterparts from emerging economies Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates at the April 25-27 gathering, a British government statement said on Tuesday. The European Commission will also be represented.

New Investment to create clean Energy Jobs

The talks on speeding development of technologies that limit greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security will focus on how countries can collaborate on new investment and energy jobs in areas such as energy efficiency, carbon capture and storage, solar jobs and wind.

The gathering comes at a time when the United States, Britain and France are seeking cooperation from other consumer nations on a release of strategic oil reserves.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Saturday in Riyadh sought an assurance from Saudi King Abdullah that the kingdom would not neutralize a release of inventories by consuming countries by cutting its oil production.

During the meeting in London, Brazil and Britain are expected to sign an agreement on clean energy, while the International Energy Agency (IEA) will publish a review of UK energy policy, the first since 2006.

On Tuesday, Britain relaunched a 1 billion pound ($1.6 billion)competition for one or more power plants to capture and store carbon, five months after the government’s first attempt to finance the technology failed due to spiraling costs.

Results of the ministerial clean energy talks, to be co-chaired by Edward Davey, Britain’s secretary for energy and climate change, will be fed into a United Nations’ conference for sustainable development in Rio in June.

But time may be running out for world economies to act.

Last November, the IEA said the world may not be able to limit global temperature rise to safe levels if new international action is not taken by 2017, as so many fossil fuel power plants and factories are being built.

Around 80 percent of total energy-related carbon emissions permissible by 2035 to limit warming are already accounted for by existing power plants, buildings and factories, the IEA said in its World Energy Outlook.

(Reporting by Jeff Coelho; Editing by Anthony Barker)

Source: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/04/03/us-energy-summit-idUKBRE8320P620120403