I n one of the most ambitious rural electrification projects in Africa that has tapped the use of solar energy, the Kenyan government has completed connecting some 4,100 primary schools to power using solar PV systems. The schools have been electrified as part of a determined digital learning programme that Read more…
Gujarat Refinery (GR) has successfully commissioned a 400 kW grid-tied solar power plant on the rooftop of South Block Control Room in its premises. The refinery had previously commissioned 250 kW solar power plants for reducing the carbon footprint and moving towards the sustainable operations. With its third solar power Read more…
A floating solar power plant pilot of 10 kW peak (kWp) has been commissioned at Dhanas lake in Chandigarh amid efforts by the government to develop the Union Territory as a solar city. It has been designed to supply power to fountains at the lake for aeration. The Unique Selling Read more…
France has opened what it claims to be the world’s first solar panel road, in a Normandy village. A 1 km (0.6-mile) route in the small village of Tourouvre-au-Perche covered with 2,800 sq m of electricitygenerating panels, was inaugurated on Thursday by the ecology minister, Ségolène Royal. It cost €5m Read more…
SolarTown Energy Solutions Pvt. Ltd (SolarTown) has installed a 41 kW net-metered solar rooftop system at the historic Bombay Presidency Radio Club. The Radio Club is now the first commercial establishment in Mumbai to have a net-metered solar PV system installed on its building. This will enable the Radio Club Read more…
Solar solutions provider Maxwell Solar and Wind Energy has installed 250 kV grid connected rooftop solar plant at the World Trade Centre in Mumbai. The plant has been set up on the Arcade building of the WTC spread across 25,000 sq. ft and the power from the project will cater Read more…
The launch of the world’s first large-scale tidal energy farm in Scotland has been hailed as a significant moment for the renewable energy sector. A turbine for the MeyGen tidal stream project in the Pentland Firth was unveiled in the Scottish Highlands. The turbine, measuring about 15 m tall (49 Read more…
A Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (ACAP), announced that her team at UNSW has achieved the highest efficiency rating with the largest perovskite solar cells to date. The 12.1 per cent efficiency rating was for a 16 cm2 perovskite solar cell, the largest single perovskite Read more…
Demand-driven production of liquid fuels from regenerative energy sources is a major element of the energy turnaround. Production of synthetic fuels from solar energy and carbon dioxide extracted from air is the objective of the Soletair project started now by Ineratec, a spinoff of the Germany-based Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Read more…
Moving away from the usual carbonemitting process of using electricity generated from burning coal and gas, one of the popular temples in Mumbai has gone the solar way and reduced their monthly electricity bill by 30 per cent. The two century-old Shree Siddhivinayak Ganapati temple at Prabhadevi has been saving Read more…