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- ‘Ladakh Renewable Energy awarded “Excellence Award” by Renewtech India’, 17 May 2013, Scoop News, http://www.groundreport.com/World/Ladakh-Renewable-Energy-awarded-Excellence-Award-b/2953273
- ‘India’s Off-grid Renewable Initiative Changing Lives” by Renewable Energy World.Com’, March 28, 2013, CBS NEWS, http://http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2013/03/indias-off-grid-renewables-initiative-is-changing-lives
- ’2nd day of Int’l conference on “Geothermal, Energy Resources” – Experts moot idea to start exploratory plant in PPP mode’, 6 July 2010, Daily Excelsior, www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/10july07/state.htm
- ‘Solar Energy is One of the Most Important Sources of Energy Used in Ladakh – Jigmet Takpa’, Solar Energy Review Magazine, Pankaj Som Chaturvedi, May 2010
- ‘Ladakh Renewable Energy Initiative’, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, April 23 2010, http://mnre.gov.in/press-release-23042010.pdf
- ’3rdRenewable Energy India 2009 Expo, Shri Deepak Gupta, Hon’ble Secretary, MNRE, Govt. Of India,’ Press Release- India Expo, 2009, http://www.renewablenergyindiaexpo.com/mnre-speech.html
- ‘Workshop on Solar Energy Action Plan for Ladakh Region held in Leh’, LEDeG, 12 November 2009, http://www.ledeg.org/pages/posts/workshop-on-solar-energy-action-plan-for-ladakh-region-held-in-leh5.php
- ‘Govt determined to tap Animal, Sheep husbandry potential in Ladakh: Ruhulla’, Official Website of Jammu & Kashmir State Government, 12 October 2009, http://jammukashmir.nic.in/view/october-12.htm
- ‘Central Steering Committee reviews Rs 473 crore Ladakh Renewable Energy Project’, Daily Excelsior, 10 October 2007, http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/web1/10oct07/state.htm#4
- ‘Ladakh 2025 – A Road Map for progress and prosperity, Ladakh 2025 Vision Document’, June 2005, Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, www.leh.nic.in/VISION_DOCUMENT.PDF
- ‘Solar PV on Top of the World’, Renewable Energy World Magazine, January-February 2003, http://www.sani-zanskar.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/solar_pv_on_top_of_the_world__rew_03_1.pdf
- Hon’ble Chief Secretary, J&K Government Madhav Lal inaugurated solar power plant of 12.5 KWP Capacity at Government Boys Higher Secondary School Designed by LREDA and a 10.4 KWP solar power plant at the LREDA office on November 21st 2011 http://www.scoopnews.in/det.aspx?17400
Workshops, journal articles and conference proceedings
- Solar Water Heaters Programme Overview – Presentation by Arif Kakpori at UNDP Workshop (21 June 2011, New Delhi)
- Daultrey, S. and Gergan, R. (2011), ‘Living with change: adaptation and innovation in Ladakh’, in Climate Adaptation Series (online), Cambridge, UK http://www.ourplanet.com/climate-adaptation/Daultrey_Gergan.pdf (PDF, 290kB)
- Takpa, J. (2009), ‘Energy situation in Ladakh and potential renewable energy source’, in Energy and climate change in cold regions of Asia – 21 to 24 April 2009, Conference proceedings, GERES (2009), http://india.geres.eu/docs/Seminar_proceedings/Seminar_Proceedings.pdf (PDF, 4.6MB)
- Tandon, A. (2005), ‘Ladakh gets IIT experts to tap geothermal potential’, International Association for Ladakh Studies, March 2005, http://ladakhstudies.org/ladakhstudies_assets/LS19.pdf (PDF, 2.4MB)
- Takpa, J. (2003), ‘Wildlife of Ladakh/ Scope of Renewable Energy in Ladakh’, 11th IALS Colloquium Conference Report, Leh 2003http://www.ladakhstudies.org/pastcolloquia_assets/Leh%20Colloquium%202003.doc (Microsoft Word Document, 57kB)