Sun, the oldest source of energy, enriching life with all the basic amenities required to sustain life on earth from thousands of decades. The solar energy developments in this booming technological and commercially vigorous world has rendered engineers and scientists to harness it with a wide range of applications (lighting, Read more
L&T Construction, India’s largest professionally managed construction organization, is fully committed to fulfil social and environmental responsibilities for sustainable development. L&T is successfully running the construction skill training programme, since late 1993, to bridge the gap of skilled workforce required for the development of India. India has a vision of Read more
The world’s largest 11.5 MWp single rooftop solar power project has been commissioned at Dera Beas, District Amritsar in two phases—7.52 MWp in April 2014 and 12 MWp in December 2015. This project is India largest in campus with a total capacity of 19.5 MWp. The project has been set Read more
The growing need of energy and increasing environmental concern is a challenge to the mankind, hence, other alternatives of conventional resources of energy have to be explored, said Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Shri Virbhadra Singh after inaugurating workshop on ‘Promotion of Solar Technologies in Himachal Pradesh under Solar City Read more
India’s grid-connected rooftop solar power market is witnessing a surge in activity. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi recently approved the budget, allocating Rs 5,000 crore as subsidy support to select consumer segments till 2019–20. Also, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Read more
India is the second largest producer of horticultural commodities in the world wherein 88.977 million metric tonnes of fruits and 162.887 million metric tonnes of vegetables were produced during the year 2013–14 (Indian Horticultural database 2014). A large variety of fruits are grown in India, of which mainly banana (33.4%), Read more
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) under its Management Development Programmes (MDPs) organized a one-day training programme (second in the series) on ‘Grid-connected Rooftop Solar PV Systems’ for Banks and Financial Institutions/Investment Firms on January 22, 2016 at TERI, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. The training programme was designed in Read more
Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy and Ms Ségolène Royal, French Minister of Environment, Energy and the Sea, in charge of International Relations on Climate and President of COP21 co-chaired a Ministerial Side Event on International Solar Alliance (ISA) at Read more
As the reserves of nonrenewable sources of energy are falling down in the nature we need to look for some other alternatives in place of these sources. Some of the renewable sources of energy are wind, solar, small hydro, etc., but these sources are distributed, hence if we could find Read more
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) annually reviews the benchmark capital cost norm for solar PV power projects as per the proviso of Regulation 5 of “RE Tariff Regulations, 2012”. On March 23, 2016, the CERC determined the Benchmark Capital Cost for ground-mounted solar PV power for the financial year Read more