As the cost of clean technology continues to fall, the world added record levels of renewable energy capacity in 2016, at an investment level 23 per cent lower than the previous year, according to a new research published by UN Environment, the Frankfurt School— UNEP Collaborating Centre and Bloomberg New Read more…
Solar cells based on perovskites reach high efficiencies as they convert more than 20 per cent of the incident light directly into usable power. On their search for underlying physical mechanisms, researchers of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now detected strips of nanostructures with alternating directions of polarization Read more…
The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has captured the record for highest efficiency in solar hydrogen production via a photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting process. The new solar-tohydrogen efficiency record is 16.2 per cent, topping a reported 14 per cent efficiency in 2015 by a team made up Read more…
Employment in the renewable energy sector, excluding large hydropower, increased by 2.8 per cent to reach 8.3 million in 2016, with China, Brazil, the United States, India, Japan, and Germany being the leading job markets. If the large hydropower segment is included, the sector employed 10 million people worldwide in Read more…
Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy, and Mines said that International Solar Alliance (ISA) can act as a medium to spread lessons on energy security which can help achieve universal energy access target set up in SDGs before 2030. He was speaking Read more…
Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, Government of India, and Ms Ségolène Royal, Minister for Environment, Energy and Marine Affairs Government of France jointly decided to appoint Shri Upendra Tripathy, as the Interim Director General (IDG) of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Read more…
India’s solar energy capacity has expanded by a record 5,525.98 MW in 2016–17, according to the latest figures provided by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).In comparison, India had added 3,010 MW of solar capacity in 2015–16, which shows that growth nearly doubled over the past year. The Read more…
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval to raising of bonds of Rs 2,360 crore for renewable energy. The bonds will be raised by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) through the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) during the Read more…
The Indian Space Research Organization’s (ISRO) Ahmedabad-based Space Applications Centre has developed an android app for computing the solar energy potential of a place. Developed at the behest of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, the app is considered to be a ‘very useful’ tool for the installation of Read more…
IREDA’s cumulative loan sanction, since inception crosses Rs 50,000 crore. Cumulative loan sanctions towards clean energy projects as on date is Rs 50,559 crore. IREDA’s cumulative disbursements, since inception is Rs 29,172 crore. IREDA over the last 10 years has committed a cumulative loan amount of around Rs 40,792 crores Read more…