India’s second-largest software services firm, Infosys, saw over 43% of its electricity requirements being met through renewable energy sources during 2017/18, a report today said. As per Infosys’ 11th Annual Sustainability Report, 43.7% of the company’s electricity requirements—equating to more than 100 million units—is sourced from renewable sources. The Bengaluru-based Read more…
The National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE), an autonomous institution under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India, has installed a remote sensing instrument—LiDAR for assessment of offshore wind resource at the Gulf of Khambat, off the Gujarat Coast. The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA), a Read more…
With 27% of its power generation coming from renewable energy, Karnataka has emerged the leading State for renewable energy in India this year, piping Tamil Nadu. According to a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), the State reached 12.3 GW of the total installed Read more…
India is all set to comfortably achieve 100 GW of solar energy capacity by 2022 and has already installed solar capacity of 23.12 GW till July 2018. The data regarding generation of power from various renewable energy projects is consolidated by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA). “The Ministry of New Read more…
The government will come out with a single bid for setting up 25 GW of solar capacity in Ladakh, Power and New and Renewable Energy Minister Shri R K Singh has said, and asserted that renewable energy is a must for sustainable development. He also said that India will achieve Read more…
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval for the implementation of Phase-III of the off-grid and decentralized Solar PV (photovoltaic) Application Programme to achieve additional 118 MWp off-grid solar PV capacity by 2020. Phase-III of Off-grid and Decentralized Solar Read more…
The Central Public Works Department (CPWD) has directed its officials to explore the possibility of installing ‘solar trees’ in residential complexes of government employees. The move intends to promote renewable energy and reduce carbon footprint by the CPWD, the prime construction agency of the central government. According to an official, Read more…
In a major decision to facilitate the solar and wind energy projects, Shri R K Singh, Union Minister of State for Power and New & Renewable Energy (IC) and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship has approved a proposal to set up a Dispute Resolution Committee to consider the unforeseen disputes between Read more…
Residents of a Navi Mumbaibased cooperative housing society recently installed a 31 kilowatt-power (kWp) rooftop solar power system in a bid to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) by one tonne every month. According to the society members, the reduction in their annual carbon footprints is equivalent to planting 500 Read more…
The budget presented by the Hon’ble Finance Minister of India, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman on July 5, 2019, shows a marked increase in the budgetary allocations for renewable energy sources. The budget has an outlay of 9.20 billion for wind power,30.05 billion for solar (both grid-connected and off-grid), and 5 billion Read more…