Swedish-Swiss multinational giant ABB has commissioned India’s first industrial solar microgrid at its Vadodara manufacturing facility in Gujarat. The Vadodara factory is ABB’s largest facility in India with over 3,000 employees and is amongst its biggest manufacturing hubs in the world. “The microgrid is the first-of-its-kind to be installed at a manufacturing campus Read more…
Energy Efficiency Services Ltd (EESL) has floated a second tender to procure an additional 10,000 electric vehicles as part of the government’s national e-Mobility Programme launched earlier. In 2017, the company had come out with a similar tender for 10,000 electric vehicles (EVs) which was won by Tata Motors. The Read more…
Diu Smart City has become the first city in India, which runs on 100% renewable energy during daytime setting a new benchmark for other cities to become clean and green. Diu had been importing 73% of its power from Gujarat until last year. It has now adopted a two-pronged approach, Read more…
Solar PV generation capacity Wind generation capacity Source: www.bp.com
The Indian renewable energy sector has been in an extremely dynamic phase of evolution in the last few years, especially with regard to capacity addition and prices. India has set itself an ambitious renewable energy target of 175 GW by 2022. In spite of the several social, economic and environmental Read more…
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, is organizing the 2nd Global RE-Invest INDIA-ISA Partnership Renewable Energy Investors Meet & Expo from October 3–5, 2018, at the India Expo Mart, Greater Noida, National Capital Region of Delhi, India. The 2nd Global RE-INVEST will host the First Read more…
According to the REN21’s Renewables 2018 Global Status Report, renewable power accounted for 70% of net additions to global power-generating capacity in 2017, the largest such increase in modern history. But the heating, cooling, and transport sectors, which together account for about four-fifths of the global final energy demand, continue Read more…
TERI Energy & Environment Data Diary and Yearbook (TEDDY) is an annual publication brought out by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) since 1986. It is the only comprehensive energy and environment yearbook in India that provides updated information on the energy supply sectors (coal and lignite, petroleum and natural Read more…
The World Sustainable Development Summit (WSDS) is the annual flagship event of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). It has, in its journey of 18 years, become a focal point for global leaders and practitioners to congregate at a single platform to discuss and deliberate over climatic issues of universal Read more…
An international team of researchers has now succeeded in raising the efficiency of producing hydrogen from direct solar water-splitting to a record 19%. They did so by combining a tandem solar cell of III-V semiconductors with a catalyst of rhodium nanoparticles and a crystalline titanium dioxide coating. For the monolithic Read more…