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Five European offshore wind test sites have formed HiPoTeSis, a new alliance aiming to improve conditions for floating wind demonstration projects. BiMEP, CEO, Foundation Open-C, METCEntre and Plocan have created HiPoTeSis. This collaborative network of five operational offshore demonstration test sites aims to provide the European Union with the future high-power infrastructure for testing new floating wind projects. The alliance will meet the common challenges of the sector, the most important being permitting. ”Testing and demonstration projects are absolutely necessary to bring costs down in floating offshore wind,” said Arvid Nesse, CEO of METCentre in Norway. In a seminar hosted…

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The RUCO (Repurpose Used Cooking Oil) initiative, launched by the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), is gaining momentum in Kerala. The state has seen a significant rise in the volume of used cooking oil collected through this program. In the 2022-2023 fiscal year, Kerala collected 419,561 liters of used oil, a figure that more than doubled to 960,605 liters in 2023-2024. In the first five months of 2024 alone, 311,030 liters have already been collected, with officials anticipating further increases in the coming months, reported The New Indian Express. As per media report, the initiative aims to…

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Bihar’s Agriculture Minister, Mangal Pandey, emphasized the need for private sector investment in hybrid maize seed production and storage facilities during a maize summit organized by FICCI on Wednesday. He outlined Bihar’s ambitious goal to cultivate maize across a record 10 lakh hectares this year. As the fifth-largest maize producer in India, Bihar is seeing a shift among farmers toward maize cultivation, driven by market prices that exceed the minimum support price (MSP). “Maize is no longer just for human and animal consumption; it is now also fueling our vehicles with ethanol-blended petrol,” Pandey noted, underscoring the crop’s growing versatility.…

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