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…
Kochi: SmartCity Kochi has won an industry body’s award for ecological sustainability in recognition of the IT townships go-green efforts that save energy, conserve water, recycle waste, avoid plastic and promote overall cleanliness. Known to be the best of the best within the facility management sector, the honour – FM Read more…
Everything on Earth requires water to endure itself. But water is a limited resource and the population growth puts a stress on water supplies. Clean water is reduced by the pollution and contamination we create. In essence, humans are decreasing our own water supply due to pollution and by misusing Read more…
With rapid growth of infrastructure industry, the problem of the waste generated from their construction and demolition has also increased. It becomes really important to reuse these type of waste and their proper handling. LEED in its green building certification v4.1 has put special attention on the credit of Construction Read more…
To enhance the environmental and human health performance attributes associated with freestanding furniture and medical furnishings LEED Certification rating system has introduced a credit entitled Furniture and medical furnishing under Material and resource credit. 1-2 points are awarded for this credit. This credit is applicable to healthcare Requirements Use at Read more…
Quality certification and standards for grid-connected rooftop solar PV systems are essential for the successful mass-scale implementation (in-order to achieve 40 GW of rooftop solar target under ‘National Solar Mission’ programme) of this technology. It is also imperative to put in place an efficient and rigorous monitoring mechanism, adherence to Read more…
Promoting solar Rooftop systems under third party financing model has had limited success due to inadequate availability of that capital to the project developers. The third party financing model is also known as RESCO (Renewable Energy Service Company) model. The limitation of RESCO model is that the payment security mechanism Read more…
Following are the Mandatory Requirements for ECBC Compliance with Reference to HVAC System of Building. Natural ventilation Equipment Efficiency Controls Piping and Ductwork System Balancing Condensers Natural Ventilation » As per National Building Code of India 2005 SOURCE: Bureau of Indian Standards, National Building Code of India 2005, Part 8 Read more…
Bureau of energy efficiency introduced Energy conservation building code (ECBC) in May 2007. This code has become mandatory in many states of India. Ten states have notified ECBC: Rajasthan, Odisha, Uttarakhand, UT of Puducherry, Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Telangana, Haryana, West Bengal, and Karnataka Also the green building rating system like Read more…