NOIDA: Showing the way to its neighbours, Noida has the maximum number of green buildings in NCR, occupying an impressive 7,64,513 square metre area. Gurgaon and Faridabad are way behind with green projects on just 5,80,962 sqm and 49,604 sqm area, respectively.The survey by the Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Read more
The market in India may reach up to 10 billion sq.ft. by 2022. Although sustainable real estate is still in a nascent stage in the country, India is one of the leading countries in green building development. In fact, India ranks only second after the U.S. in terms of the Read more
New Delhi: Covid-19 is expected to deliver a big blow to the power sector as distribution companies have stopped payments to power producers as state electricity departments are not taking coercive actions to recover bills from consumers. This has put a question mark on recovery of payments from the current Read more
Kolkata: The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has postponed implementation of real-time power trading by three months to June 1 following requests from the industry. It was scheduled to start from April 1. Real-time power trading involves selling and buying power at the exchanges for same-day delivery. Trading on electronic Read more
NEW DELHI: GAIL has entered exclusive discussions to buy a stake in privately owned solar power generator ACME Solar holdings, according to four people aware of the matter. The state-owned company formerly known as Gas Authority of India is said to be carrying out due diligence on solar power plants Read more
Majority of the infrastructure projects impose bad impacts on environment. Due to rapid urbanization in the country, the energy consumption is more than 60% in residential real estate projects. Green Building is the only solution which works towards achieving the sustainability. India has about 750+ LEED Certified projects as of Read more
NEW DELHI: The country’s rooftop solar energy capacity stands at 1,922 mega watt (MW) and so far over Rs 1,874 crore has been released as central financial assistance towards installation of capacities in the sector, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. Till March 13, 2020, rooftop solar power plants of an Read more
Indian green power firms can no longer take for granted that the tariffs at which they won projects in auctions will actually be adopted, Ranjit Gupta CEO of solar developer Azure Power told ET, citing it as a challenge for the sector. The New York-listed firm was a pioneer in Read more
BENGALURU: Solar tariffs increased to Rs 2.61 per unit compared with Rs 2.50 per unit in the last auction conducted in February. Vena Energy, Juniper Energy and Tata Power won 40MW, 190MW and 120MW at tariffs of Rs 2.61, Rs 2.63 and Rs 2.64 per unit, respectively in an auction conducted by Read more
Improving the energy efficiency of buildings can help to improve the challenges (health hazards, cost of living, pollution and climate change) that a city/society face. Green buildings/Sustainable buildings play a vital role to make a city sustainable. There are Numerous Benefits that a sustainable building delivers to its society Environmental Read more