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Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), one of the important invasive aquatic species, commonly covers the surface of rivers and lakes and causes a series of environmental…
Read insight — WATER HYACINTH: An Option for Biogas ProductionAn amount of RS. 600 crore has been allocated for the projects under ‘Grid Connected Rooftop and Small Solar power Plants Programme’ and Rs. 508.84…
Read insight — Rs. 600 Crore Allocated for ‘Grid Connected Rooftop and Small Solar Power Plants Programme’While battery manufacturers and solar power companies are struggling to develop batteries that would be cheap, smaller in size, and can store power for days,…
Read insight — Engineering Students in Kolkata Create Device for 24×7 Solar PowerThe Hon’ble President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee has inaugurated the first phase of a solar power project in the President’s Estate that would generate…
Read insight — Hon’ble President of India Inaugurates Solar Power Project in Rashtrapati BhawanFor the first time in the country, solar panels have been installed on an Indian warship. The survey class vessel INS Sarvekshak, attached with the…
Read insight — Solar Power Lights up Indian WarshipThe first real-life study to provide data on the potential of powering medical implants with solar cells has been done by some Swiss researchers. The…
Read insight — Solar Energy Powers PacemakersShri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, Government of India, and Ms Ségolène Royal, Minister for Environment, Energy…
Read insight — Shri Upendra Tripathy Appointed as Full Time Interim Director General of ISAShri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy, and Mines said that International Solar Alliance (ISA) can act as…
Read insight — “ISA Can Act as a Medium to Achieve Universal Energy Access Target Set Up Before 2030”—Shri Piyush GoyalEmployment in the renewable energy sector, excluding large hydropower, increased by 2.8 per cent to reach 8.3 million in 2016, with China, Brazil, the United…
Read insight — Renewable Energy Jobs Growing Worldwide: IRENAThe US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has captured the record for highest efficiency in solar hydrogen production via a photoelectrochemical (PEC)…
Read insight — Record for Solar Hydrogen Production