*?*Masali Village:

✅Masali village in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district has become India’s first fully solar-powered border village under the PM Suryaghar Yojana.

✅Location: Banaskantha district, Gujarat, 40 km from the Pakistan border.
✅Solarisation Scheme: Solar rooftops installed on 119 houses under the PM Suryaghar Yojana, generating over 225 kilowatts of electricity.
?Significance:
✅First solar-powered border village in India.
✅Promotes renewable energy and self-sufficiency in energy needs.
✅Part of the Border Development Project to solarize 11 villages in Vav taluka and six in Suigam taluka.
✅Boosts energy security in remote, strategic border areas.**

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**Libya:

✅Location: Situated in North Africa, bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north.
Capital: Tripoli.
✅Border Nations: Egypt (east), Sudan (southeast), Chad (south), Niger (southwest), Algeria (west), and Tunisia (northwest).
?Geographic Features:
✅Mountains: Nafusa Mountains and Jebel Akhdar are prominent.
✅Desert: Majority of Libya is covered by the Libyan Desert (part of the Sahara Desert).
✅Rivers & Lakes: Libya lacks perennial rivers; the Great Man-Made River (artificial water project) is significant.
✅Coastline: Over 1,770 km along the Mediterranean Sea, making it a key geographical location for trade.**

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?Integrated Ocean Energy Atlas

✅Recently, the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) has announced the development of an ‘Integrated Ocean Energy Atlas’ of the Indian EEZ (Exclusive Economic Zone).

?Integrated Ocean Energy Atlas:

✅It showcases the vast potential of ocean energy resources encompassing marine meteorological (solar and wind) and hydrological(wave, tide, currents, ocean thermal, and salinity gradients) energy forms.
✅It identifies areas with high potential for energy generation and will serve as a reference for policymakers, industry and researchers for harnessing the rich energy resources available in the Indian EEZ.
✅INCOIS prepared the annual, monthly, and daily energy estimates of ocean energy components following standard methods that can be visualised through a WebGIS interface at 5 km grid resolution.

?INCOIS

✅It was established as an autonomous body in 1999 under the Ministry of Earth Sciences(MoES) and is a unit of the Earth System Science Organization (ESSO).
✅Mandate: To provide the best possible ocean information and advisory servicesto society, industry, government agencies, and the scientific community through sustained ocean observations and constant improvements through systematic and focussed research.

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