For the first time in the country, solar panels have been installed on an Indian warship. The survey class vessel INS Sarvekshak, attached with the southern naval command, has been fitted with 18 sheets of solar panels atop its hangar. “It took about six months to put the entire system Read more…
The Hon’ble President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee has inaugurated the first phase of a solar power project in the President’s Estate that would generate 670 kW electricity for the sprawling premises. Under the project, seven rooftop solar panels have been installed with an investment of Rs. 2.23 crore on Read more…
While battery manufacturers and solar power companies are struggling to develop batteries that would be cheap, smaller in size, and can store power for days, an engineering college in Kolkata has devised a combo of solar-based generation and power storage system that can supply power perpetually 24 hours a day Read more…
An amount of RS. 600 crore has been allocated for the projects under ‘Grid Connected Rooftop and Small Solar power Plants Programme’ and Rs. 508.84 crore has been released till January 31, 2017. This was stated by Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Read more…
Use of solar photovoltaics to generate electricity in terms of solar parks and solar panels on rooftops is growing but even decades after photovoltaics were first developed, the slabs of silicon remain bulky, expensive, and inefficient. Fundamental limitations prevent these conventional photovoltaics from absorbing more than a fraction of the Read more…
The Budget has given a boost to renewable energy, announcing another 20,000 MW of solar park development in phase II and a slew of duty reductions on components for fuel cell-based power generating and biogas systems, as well as wind energy equipment. Giving a boost to clean energy programme, the Read more…
The Government of India has approved the enhancement of capacity from 20,000 MW to 40,000 MW of the Scheme for Development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects. The enhanced capacity would ensure setting up of at least 50 solar parks each with a capacity of 500 MW Read more…
In India, paddy is cultivated in about 43.95 million hectares producing about 106.54 million tonnes of rice and approximately 160 million tonnes of straw with a ratio of 1:1.5 for rice grain produced to straw produced. Punjab produced 11.27 million tonnes of rice, which is 10.6 per cent of all Read more…
To Reduce Risk, Enhance Transparency and Increase Affordability of Solar Power According to one of the key objectives of Electricity Act, 2013 “Promotion of competition in the electricity in India” emphasizes on the reduction of electricity cost through the competitive procurement mechanism. The power purchase cost of electricity is the Read more…
Union Minister of State (IC) for Power and New and Renewable Energy, Shri R K Singh has emphasized the need for setting up more waste management plants around the country. Shri Singh said this while inaugurating a Workshop on Waste to Energy—‘Swachchata Se Swachh Urja’ on September 26, 2017, in Read more…