India has witnessed increasing capacity additions in renewable energy (RE) with an installed capacity of close to 22 GW for solar and 34 GW for wind as on March 31, 2018. The achievement of the planned capacity shall have the country’s task cut out in terms of planning the transmission Read more…
The Union Cabinet has approved the National Mission on Transformative Mobility and Battery Storage. The Mission will finalize and implement strategies for transformative mobility and Phased Manufacturing Programmes (PMP) for electric vehicles, their components, and batteries. The Mission will finalize the details of PMP for Electric Vehicle ecosystem and drive Read more…
Shri Moon Kalita lives with his wife and two children in a small settlement close to the banks of the Brahmaputra River in upper Assam. Depending heavily on costly kerosene for lighting in the evening, he has been considering for quite some time to buy a small solar home system Read more…
At a time when farmers across the country are in distress, solar power-irrigated agricultural felds at Chakhaji village in Pusa block, Samastipur, Bihar, are lush green. Standing resplendently are bumper crops of peas, tomatoes, a variety of vegetables, and tobacco. Since the solar power irrigation project was launched towards the Read more…
India is committed to increasing the share of renewable energy in its electricity generation mix. With the rapidly declining cost of power from large-scale wind and solar projects, the renewables’ share has risen from around 5 per cent in 2014–15 to over 9 per cent in 2018–19.1 By 2021–22, over Read more…
The Minister of State (I/C) for Power and New and Renewable Energy, Shri Raj Kumar Singh releasing the booklet “State Distribution Utilities – Sixth Annual Integrated Rating”, at the Conference of Power and New & Renewable Energy Ministers of States & UTs, in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh on July 03, 2018. Read more…
The Minister Calls for a Clean Environment for Our Future Generations “India is making rapid strides in the field of renewable energy and we will overshoot the target of 175 GW renewable energy by 2022,” said Shri R K Singh, Minister of State(IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy, Read more…
Union Minister Shri Raj Kumar Singh, Minister of State (IC), Power and New & Renewable Energy, Government of India, mentioned that business and government must partner for sustainable development of India. He was speaking at the launch of NITI Aayog and CII Partnership on SDGs, at the Government and Business Read more…
University of British Columbia researchers have found a cheap, sustainable way to build a solar cell using bacteria that converts light to energy. Their cell generated a current stronger than any previously recorded from such a device, and worked as efficiently in dim light as in bright light. This innovation Read more…
Researchers in Ireland, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom have shown how long-term weather patterns affect wind and solar renewable energy technologies across Europe. Using 30 years of meteorological data, the scientists have examined and further modelled the impact of renewable energy on the electricity sector out to the year 2030. Read more…