The International Solar Alliance (ISA) came a complete circle at CoP23, Bonn, since its inception at CoP21 in Paris in 2015. The ISA, a treaty-based international intergovernmental organization of 121 prospective solar-rich Member Countries situated fully and partially between the Tropics, was co-founded by Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Read more…
The Global RE-INVEST 2017, India-ISA Partnership; Renewable Energy Investors Meet and Expo initially proposed to be held from December 7–9, 2017 has been rescheduled to April 19–21, 2018, due to unavoidable reasons. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is grateful to all the speakers, panelists, delegates, manufacturers, developers, Read more…
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH India on behalf of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany have signed an agreement on technical cooperation under the ‘Indo-German Energy Programme— Green Energy Corridors (IGEN-GEC)’. The main objective Read more…
Under the new set of rules, all families below the poverty line and cowsheds have been totally exempted from paying property tax, it was decided in the general House meeting of the Dharamshala Municipal Corporation (DMC) on Thursday. Dharamshala: A new format of property tax is being introduced in the Read more…
The 2017 edition of the Sustainable Energy in America Factbook—produced for the Business Council for Sustainable Energy by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, provides up-to-date, accurate market information about the broad range of industries— energy efficiency, natural gas, and renewable energy—that are contributing to the country’s move towards cleaner energy production Read more…
A solar still distills water, using the heat of the Sun to evaporate, cool then collects the water. There are many types of solar still, including large scale concentrated solar stills, and condensation traps (better known as moisture traps amongst survivalists). In a solar still, impure water is contained outside the collector, where it is evaporated by sunlight shining through clear Read more…
Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) are photovoltaic materials that are used to replace conventional building materials in parts of the building envelope, such as the roof, skylights, or facades. They are increasingly being incorporated into the construction of new buildings as a principal or ancillary source of electrical power, although existing buildings Read more…
India has one of the youngest populations in the world, with 350 million children less than 14 years of age making school education essential for future of the country. However, 221 million people residing in India are still without electricity access and many more with poor quality of supply (IEA, Read more…
Net metering allows developers to sell electricity to the grid and deduct its value from their bill for the power drawn from the distribution company. The government encourages this system to promote renewable energy, but discoms in several states are hostile to this because they lose revenue for each unit Read more…