CHANDIGARH:City MP Kirron Kher inaugurated two grid-tied solar photovoltaic power Plants- 300 kWp at the Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT), Sector 17, and 200 kWp at the ISBT, Sector 43. City MP Kirron Kher inaugurated two grid-tied solar photovoltaic power Plants- 300 kWp at the Inter-State Bus Terminus (ISBT), Sector 17, Read more…
UNITED NATIONS: The UN is very appreciative of India’s gift of solar panels to it, a spokesperson for the Secretary General has said, amid suggestions that their energy can be used to run escalators in the world body’s headquarters. The UN is very appreciative of India’s gift of solar panels Read more…
LUDHIANA: A Solar Power Tree has been developed by the Center of Excellence in Farm Machinery (CoEFM), Ludhiana, an extension centre of the Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI). A Solar Power Tree has been developed by the Center of Excellence in Farm Machinery (CoEFM), Ludhiana, an extension centre of Read more…
CHENNAI: In 2001, Italian couple Alfredo and Maria Elena Cuomo were united by a vision that set them on a path to alter many young lives – to help vulnerable children in India avail better education. And so, they set up The Cuomo Foundation, which till date, has given out Read more…
Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh have built and contracted renewable energy generation capacity — at a combined total of 65.3 gigawatts (GW) of variable renewable energy — at less than ₹3/kWh (US$41.5/MWh) over the last three years. According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), India’s Read more…
Energy Secretary Ajay Mishra on Friday said the Telangana government was readying new initiatives in the area of renewable energy in which the State is nearing the pole position on the back of solar power projects, with an installed capacity of over 3,600 MW. The lull that prevailed for a Read more…
The 1,650-MW Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant (RTPP) at Kadapa bore the brunt of the State’s Renewable Energy (RE) capacities overshooting the Renewable Power Purchase Obligation (RPPO). RTPP had consistently operated at 70% to 80% Plant Load Factor (PLF) till 2015 when the share of wind and solar power in the Read more…
The percentage of renewable energy in India’s energy mix has risen steadily to nearly 9 per cent from the 2014-2015 levels. But, the current installed renewable energy capacity of the country pales against the 282 GW conventional power generation capacity. This is because despite the high installed generation capacity of Read more…
Concentrated solar power requires vast fields of huge mirrors MIT scientists have designed a system that could store renewable energy, such as solar and wind power, and deliver it back into an electric grid on demand. The system, described in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, may be designed to Read more…
Wind, solar energy firms that sell under unviable terms will be major beneficiaries The Indian Energy Exchange (IEX), India’s leading energy exchange, is hopeful of being able to introduce a trading platform for wind and solar power, early next fiscal. When this happens, wind and solar energy companies who put Read more…