The COP of Action The years leading up to COP22 have seen a drastic change in international political response to climate change. In December 2015, at COP21 in Paris, France, parties signed the Paris Agreement that specifies that countries will submit nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and report on progress on Read more…
The 7th World Renewable Energy Technology Congress and Expo-2016 (WRETC-2016) was held on August 21–23, 2016 in New Delhi and was organized by the Energy and Environment Foundation and supported by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, and UNESCO, New Delhi Office. The event served Read more…
Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA) CMD Shri K S Popli was awarded the ‘SCOPE Award for Excellence and Outstanding Contribution to the Public Sector Management-Individual Leadership Category III (Other Profit Making PSEs)’. The award was presented by Shri Pranab Mukherjee, Hon’ble President of India to Shri Popli, Chairman Read more…
Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited, (IREDA) was awarded the India Pride Award 2016–17 by Dainik Bhaskar Group of Publications under the category – CSR/ Environment Protection and Conservation. The Award was presented by Shri Manoj Sinha, Minister for Communication (Independent Charge) and Minister of State for Railways to Shri Read more…
ReNew Power Ventures, India’s leading renewable energy company exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Indian Institute of echnology, Delhi (IITD) to set up a research facility on renewable energy. This exchange took place in the presence of the Honourable President of India at the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The MoU Read more…
Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, laid the foundation stone for Atal Akshay Urja Bhawan in New Delhi on October 19, 2016. Shri Upendra Tripathy, Secretary MNRE; Shri P K Pujari, Secretary, Ministry of Power; Shri Balvender Kumar, Secretary, Read more…
IREDA has geared itself to spearhead growth of the RE sector envisioned to make a quantum jump and achieve accelerated capacity addition, ‘moving from megawatt to gigawatt’. It has been continuously developing new, innovative, and appropriate financial instruments that caters to the needs of its existing customers and new investors. Read more…
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 problems due to its rapid growth and high reproducibility in both clear water and wastewater. Thus, it is also considered as a noxious weed as Read more…
From Moderate to Exponential Growth Aswift transformation has been observed in the renewable energy (RE) sector of India in the past three years in terms of both installed capacity and programme formulation/implementation. The growth has been further pushed up by the encouraging policy regime, precise incentives, and declining trend in Read more…
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) had started ‘Akshay Urja Aur Hum’, a Radio Sponsored Programme (RSP) from September 16, 2016, on every Friday and Tuesday. The concluding episode (104th episode) was aired on All India Radio on September 12, 2017. The programme covered various areas of renewable Read more…