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The National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE), an autonomous body under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), has called for ‘Expression of Interest’…
Read insight — MNRE CALLS FOR ‘EXPRESSION OF INTEREST’ FOR FIRST OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY PROJECT OF 1,000 MW CAPACITYThe Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India, issued the National Wind–Solar Hybrid Policy on May 14, 2018. The objective of the policy…
Read insight — MNRE ISSUES NATIONAL WIND–SOLAR HYBRID POLICYThe Hon’ble Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, and the French President Mr Emmanuel Macron inaugurated Uttar Pradesh’s biggest solar power plant of 75…
Read insight — MNRE SETS UP THE BIGGEST SOLAR POWER PLANT IN UTTAR PRADESHMeghalaya has become the latest state to become a participant of the Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya) programme, which aims to provide…
Read insight — ‘SAUBHAGYA’ PROGRAMME LAUNCHED IN MEGHALAYAHero Future Energies has commissioned the country’s first large-scale hybrid renewable energy project—a combination of sun and wind power—in Karnataka’s Raichur district. The company has added…
Read insight — HERO FUTURE ENERGIES SETS UP COUNTRY’S FIRST HYBRID RENEWABLE POWER PLANTThe Karnataka government inaugurated the first phase of a 2,000 MW solar park in the drought-prone Pavagada region of Tumkur district on March 1, 2018.…
Read insight — SHAKTI STHALA SOLAR PARK LAUNCHED IN KARNATAKACosta Rica’s new president has announced a plan to ban fossil fuels and become the first fully decarbonized country in the world. Carlos Alvarado, a…
Read insight — COSTA RICA TO BAN FOSSIL FUELS AND BECOME THE WORLD’S FIRST DECARBONIZED SOCIETYWith 2.3 million solar panels—covering the equivalent of 2,200 football fields in the arid northern state of Coahuila— the Villanueva power plant, built by the Italian…
Read insight — SEA OF SOLAR PANELS TURNS MEXICAN DESERT GREENIn 2017, Asia accounted for nearly two-thirds of the worldwide increase in renewable energy generating capacity, according to a report published in April 2018 by…
Read insight — ASIA LEADS THE CHARGE IN GROWTH OF RENEWABLE ENERGYAustralia can help solve its water crisis by optimizing use of water-friendly solar energy, a new report concludes. Because solar power generation consumes minimal to zero water, it beats…
Read insight — SOLAR ENERGY CAN HELP SOLVE AUSTRALIA’S WATER CRISIS SAYS NEW REPORT