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To address and ensure quality of solar components across India’s solar power ecosystem, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has floated a draft…
Read insight — MNRE Announces Draft of Quality Control Order for Solar Thermal SystemIndia’s renewable energy workforce has grown five-fold in the past five years. In 2019, nearly 100,000 workers are employed in the solar and wind industry,…
Read insight — Tremendous Growth in India’s Renewable Energy WorkforceI n the last 50 years, the global energy demand has tripled. It is projected to triple again over the next 30 years. Energy demand…
Read insight — Students to Become Climate Change WarriorsThe building blocks for the Indian renewable energy growth are now well in place, and it is time for the country to pole-vault to the…
Read insight — 3rd Global RE-INVEST 2019Agriculture is the main source of livelihood in rural India, contributing to food security. Two-thirds of the total irrigated area in India uses groundwater pumping,…
Read insight — Solar Agricultural Feeders in MaharashtraMytrah Energy India Pvt Ltd (MEIPL), an independent producer of renewable energy, is in advanced stages of talks for divestment of stake. According to unconfirmed…
Read insight — Mytrah Energy looking to divest stake; in talks with Canada’s BrookfieldIn a bid to save energy and electricity, the Delhi metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) will run metro trains powered by the solar energy as the…
Read insight — DMRC to run metro trains powered by solar energyTamil Nadu-based renewable energy company Leap Green Energy Pvt. Ltd is in talks with foreign investor EIG Partners to raise around $200 million through structured…
Read insight — Leap Green Energy in talks with EIG Partners to raise $200 millionThe pace of adding renewable generation capacities slowed down in FY19 with just 8.6 gigawatt (GW) of solar and wind power plants getting commissioned in…
Read insight — Renewable capacity addition slows down in 2018-19Children from poor families in sub-Saharan Africa have been able to swap cleaning up cowpats for lessons thanks to a solar power project that rewards…
Read insight — Solar power ‘cow’ helps children swap farming for classes