The Gujarat government has launched a solar power scheme for farmers— Suryashakti Kisan Yojana (SKY) enabling them to generate electricity for their captive consumption as well as sell the surplus power to the grid and earn an extra buck. Announcing Read more…
State-run power sector financier Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) has announced its commitment of USD 1 million to International Solar Alliance (ISA). “In view of the World Environment Day 2018, REC contributed USD 1 million to the ISA becoming a corpus Read more…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Read more…
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