Swedish-Swiss multinational giant ABB has commissioned India’s first industrial solar microgrid at its Vadodara manufacturing facility in Gujarat. The Vadodara factory is ABB’s largest facility in India with over 3,000 employees and is amongst its biggest manufacturing hubs in the world. “The microgrid is the first-of-its-kind to be installed at a manufacturing campus Read more…
The four stations of Central Railway’s Matheran Hill Railway in Maharashtra’s Raigad district have turned ‘green’ with the installation of solar power and wind energy plants. Sunil Udasi, the Chief Public Relations Officer, Central Railway said in a statement that on the installation of Green Energy System, the generation capacity Read more…
The National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE), an autonomous body under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), has called for ‘Expression of Interest’ (EoI) for the first offshore wind energy project of India. The global EoI is intended to shortlist prospective offshore wind energy developers for a 1,000 Read more…
With an aim to promote the usage of solar energy, the Chief Minister of Delhi, Shri Arvind Kejriwal, inaugurated solar power plants at Dwarka’s residential societies on August 4, 2018. The total capacity of the plants is 416.5 kW. The societies included are Ispat CGHS, Saksham Apartments, Supriya Apartments, Balaji Read more…
When the National Solar Mission was launched in 2010, the target of 20,000 MW of solar power by 2022 appeared too ambitious, as the country had only 160 MW of solar power then. India announced its commitment to achieve 40% of its total generating capacity from renewables by 2030 for Read more…
Under the present rooftop solar programme, which was approved by the Government in December 2015, an aggregated capacity of 2,100 MW is targeted to be achieved in residential, institutional, social and Government sector through central financial assistance by the year 2019–20. As per data captured on the SPIN portal of Read more…
The Society for Energy, Environment and Development (SEED) was founded in 1987 by a few professionals with expertise in engineering, management, solar energy, law, and social work. The purpose of the NGO is to draw upon the expertise of these fields of study to create awareness about environment and energy Read more…
India has a huge potential for installing grid-connected rooftop solar PV projects. Plenty of unused rooftop space is available in the buildings in the government, institutional, industrial, commercial, and residential sectors that can be utilized for installing grid-connected rooftop solar PV projects. The Government of India has also set up Read more…
After working in solar industry for almost 20 years, now it is time to share the experience and knowledge with the new generation. With this thought in mind this platform (Solar is my passion) was conceptualized. Today, social media is a powerful media, and everyone is connected to these social Read more…
This report, in collaboration with the SELCO Foundation and supported by the Good Energies Foundation, analyses the financiers’ perspective in lending for solar-powered livelihood appliances in India. It generates evidence on the impact of solar-powered productive-use technologies on the net incomes of end-users and their loan repayments. This helps financiers Read more…