AMRITSAR: With an aim to provide clean energy to its institutes, the Khalsa College Governing Council (KCGC) has commissioned a new project to install solar power plants at its constituent schools and colleges. To begin with, six sites have been identified for the installation of solar plants, namely Khalsa College Read more…
BATHINDA: The state’s largest solar plant (33.5 MW), spread over 140 acres, was inaugurated by Union Minister of Food Processing Harsimrat Badal and Minister for New and Renewable Energy Bikram Majithia at Jaga Ram Tirth village today. The project has been commissioned by Welspun Renewables, the country’s largest solar energy Read more…
Hundreds of tenants who agreed to have solar panels fitted to their homes have said they were signed up to 25-year contracts without their knowledge. Solarplicity Energy offered customers in Stoke-on-Trent, in conjunction with the city council, free panels and reduced electricity and gas bills. But tenants said the firm, Read more…
SHIMLA: The state government’s plan to develop the cold desert of Spiti as a 1,000 mw solar energy hub by 2022 has been shelved by the Centre until it sets up the load dispatch station in upper Kinnaur to evacuate solar power from Spiti. The state government in assistance with Read more…
NEW DELHI: As many as 62 member nations of the ISA on Sunday committed that they will increase share of solar power in their energy mix to deal with climate change and provide energy to underprivileged in society. The Delhi Solar Agenda launched here at founding summit of International Solar Read more…
NORZAGARAY, PHILIPPINES: In battling the timber poachers who roam the thick Sierra Madre forests near his home, Larry Garaes has found a new ally: solar panels. With solar chargers, the radios he and other forest rangers rely on no longer run out of power on multi-day operations in the mountains, Read more…
KOLKATA: An international team of a journalist and a filmmaker will set sail down the Ganga in a solar-powered boat to bolster public trust in clean energy using environment-friendly transport. An international team of a journalist and a filmmaker will set sail down the Ganga in a solar-powered boat to Read more…
KARNAL: A state government’s project to promote rooftop solar power system has not caught the fancy of city residents. Scores of people have purchased solar panels and other equipment at a high cost. But only a few of them have installed the panels in their houses. In September 2014, the Read more…
MANDI/KULLU: Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju today said power would be provided through solar energy in the Spiti valley in the next four years. On his visit to the valley, local residents accorded a traditional welcome to the minister. The minister also attended a fair at Kye Read more…
CHANDIGARH: Acting on a proposal of the Chandigarh Renewable Energy Science and Technology Promotion Society (CREST), the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation has decided to install solar power plants on the rooftop of all community centres and waterworks in the city. Recently, Santosh Kumar, Director, Science and Technology Department, and CEO, CREST, Read more…