INSTITUTE PREPARES DRAFT LAW TO EXPLOIT RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES

Pune based World Institute of Sustainable Energy WISE, has prepared the draft ‘Renewable Energy Law for India’. The draft makes provision for important measures like making solar water heating mandatory in urban areas, solar rooftop lighting system in government buildings, conversion of captive diesel power plants to bio-fuel and constitution of a national renewable energy council.
The draft proposes that state governments buy 10 percent of their energy needs from renewable sources by 2010 and 20 percent by 2020. States that do not have renewable energy sources can buy renewable energy certificates from other states.
Among other things, the draft recommends, making it mandatory for automobile manufacturers to introduce hybrid vehicles, ultra-efficient engines for aircraft and 50 percent reduction in emissions at the time of landing and take-off in the next 5 years, improved aviation fuel , and imposing a ‘green cess’.
A seminar held by Wise in New Delhi in August05 initiates an action plan to adopt the draft into an act of Parliament and establish a special working group for its implementation.
Courtesy Times of India Pune