AMRITSAR: Government schools in the district will soon have solar power systems in their campuses. Government schools in the district will soon have solar power systems in their campuses. The move has been introduced to save electricity and reduce the bill. These schools will be having a 5KW solar power Read more…
AMRITSAR: To promote the use of eco-friendly practices, the DAV College on Monday installed a solar power plant on its campus. To promote the use of eco-friendly practices, the DAV College on Monday installed a solar power plant on its campus. The college aims to become self-reliant in its energy 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…
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…
Worldwide, renewable energy has established itself as the technology of choice for new power generation capacity and India’s recent status of lowest-cost producer of solar power further reflects an ongoing shift towards renewable power as the driver of global energy transformation. Recently an analysis by IRENA found that the costs Read more…
Almost everyone understands energy security but not as many when it comes to energy poverty. More than 800 million people or nearly one out of every seven in the world today don’t have access to electricity and several million more who are denied a reliable source of power. This is Read more…