European Union (EU) countries are on track to meet their 2020 targets for renewable energy and emissions cuts but could fall short of ambitious longer-term goals, according to the European Environment Agency (EEA). “The EU’s 2020 targets on energy and climate are now well within reach,” EEA Executive Director Hans Read more…
Demand-driven production of liquid fuels from regenerative energy sources is a major element of the energy turnaround. Production of synthetic fuels from solar energy and carbon dioxide extracted from air is the objective of the Soletair project started now by Ineratec, a spinoff of the Germany-based Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Read more…
Today, India is one of the youngest nations in the world with more than 62 per cent of its population in the working age group (15–59 years) and more than 54 per cent of its total population below 25 years of age. Its population pyramid is expected to bulge across Read more…
Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines inaugurated the Conference of Ministers for Power, New & Renewable Energy and Mines of States & Union Territories at the first SWITCH Global Expo in the presence of Shri Upendra Tripathy, Secretary, MNRE. Read more…
The 7th World Renewable Energy Technology Congress and Expo-2016 (WRETC-2016) was held on August 21–23, 2016 in New Delhi and was organized by the Energy and Environment Foundation and supported by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, and UNESCO, New Delhi Office. The event served Read more…
A Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP), announced that her team at UNSW has achieved the highest efficiency rating with the largest perovskite solar cells to date. The 12.1 per cent efficiency rating was for a 16 cm2 perovskite solar cell, the largest single perovskite Read more…
Chemists at the University of Waterloo have developed a long-lasting zinc-ion battery that costs half the price of current lithium-ion batteries and could help enable communities to shift away from traditional power plants and into renewable solar and wind energy production. Professor Linda Nazar and her colleagues from the Faculty Read more…
The launch of the world’s first large-scale tidal energy farm in Scotland has been hailed as a significant moment for the renewable energy sector. A turbine for the MeyGen tidal stream project in the Pentland Firth was unveiled in the Scottish Highlands. The turbine, measuring about 15 m tall (49 Read more…
Solar solutions provider Maxwell Solar and Wind Energy has installed 250 kV grid connected rooftop solar plant at the World Trade Centre in Mumbai. The plant has been set up on the Arcade building of the WTC spread across 25,000 sq. ft and the power from the project will cater Read more…
Police stations in Kakinada district of Andhra Pradesh have tapped into solar power installing solar plants. The State police department has identified 14 police stations in the district in which solar plants were installed to harness solar power to meet the day-to-day requirements. Each police station would require 1.5 kW Read more…