The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) increased its financing of green energy projects considerably in 2016–17, crossing the milestone of Rs 10,000 crore in a single year for the first time. IREDA provided loans of Rs 10,200 crore through 2016–17 for 112 clean energy projects across solar, wind, small Read more…
India has overtaken the US to become the second-most attractive country after China for renewable energy investment, according to a report by a UK accountancy firm EY. In an annual ranking of the top 40 renewable energy markets worldwide in terms of allure, China was ranked at the top, followed Read more…
Dr Arun K Tripathi has taken over the charge as the Director General of the National Institute of Solar Energy (NISE), Gurugram, on May 18, 2017. He has over three decades of experience in planning, development, and implementation of various renewable energy programmes particularly on biogas development, biomass gasification, solar Read more…
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has set another record in the wind power capacity addition by adding over 5,400 MW in 2016–17 against the target of 4,000 MW. This year’s achievement surpassed the previous higher capacity addition of 3,423 MW achieved in the previous year. The leading Read more…
NTPC has started power generation from India’s largest floating solar power plant at Kayamkulam in Kerala. The 100 kWp floating solar generation plant, largest of its kind in India, was indigenously developed as a part of the ‘Make In India’ initiative, at Rajiv Gandhi Combined Cycle Power Plant (RGCCPP) in Read more…
History was created as the record low tariffs achieved in the auction concluded in May 2017 for Bhadla Phase-IV Solar Park, Rajasthan has been broken, with an even lower tariff of Rs 2.44 per unit discovered in the auction carried out by the Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI) Read more…
Naturally occurring pigment found in jamun as an inexpensive photosensitizer for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) or Gratzel cells have been used to create more efficient solar cells. Scientists at IIT Roorkee have used jamun fruit to create inexpensive and more efficient solar cells. Gratzel cells are thin-film solar cells composed Read more…
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has produced a Special Report (Energy Access Outlook), which is part of its flagship World Energy Outlook (WEO) series. The Energy Access Outlook report: Expands and updates the WEO’s country-by-country electricity and clean cooking access database, and assesses the status for all developing countries, reviewing Read more…
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) partnered the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India to host a panel discussion on innovative financing and market evolution to achieve India’s target to install 175 GW installed renewable energy capacity by 2022, on November 16, 2017 at the India Read more…
The resurgence in oil and gas production from the United States, deep declines in the cost of renewables and growing electrification are changing the face of the global energy system and upending traditional ways of meeting energy demand, according to the World Energy Outlook 2017. A cleaner and more diversified Read more…