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Wednesday, March 3, 2010

German experts to attend solar energy meet

KOCHI: A seminar on solar energy technologies will be organised by Rajagiri School of Engineering, Kochi, on March 4 and 5. The programme, called Indo-German Dialogue on Accelerated Dissemination of Solar Energy Technologies (ADSET 2010), is being held in collaboration with the German Aerospace Centre and the Institute of Thermodynamics and Thermal Engineering of the University of Stuttgart, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, and Department of Science and Technology.

Exhibition: Announcing the details of the programme at a press conference here, the convenor of the seminar and Professor at Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Varghese Panthalookaran, said an exhibition would be organised as part of the meeting. Close collaboration between nations was a prerequisite for the success of the national solar mission announced by the Central government, and the meeting would be a step in that direction, he said. H. Muller Steinhagen, Director, Institute of Technical Thermodynamics, German Aerospace Centre, Germany, B. Bandopadhyay, Advisor, Solar Thermal Programme, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, R. Banerjee, Professor, Department of Energy Science and Engineering, IIT, Bombay, are among the experts expected to participate in the programme.

Source: The Hindu, Dated: 03.03.2010

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