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
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
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
Global trands in Renewable Energy investment 2016 data table, $BN Global new investment in Renewable Energy: Developed vs Developing countries, 2004-2015, $BN Source: UNEP, Bloomberg New Energy Finance
Leading air-conditioning firm Blue Star has collaborated with IIT-Madras for developing solar-powered airconditioners (ACs) and indigenizing controls and other parts used in inverter ACs. “We will jointly develop several products. IIT-M has an incubation centre. While we may end up using their facilities, we will also impart some training to Read more
Bearings and seals maker SKF India has set up a 1-MW rooftop solar plant at its Pune facility, taking the capacity of such solar generated power across its campuses in Pune and Bengaluru to 2.1 MW. The initiative is part of a solar mission announced by the company that envisages Read more
The Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport became the first airport in the country to get a 2 MW rooftop solar power plant. Apart from earning carbon credit for the airport, it would translate into a monetary benefit worth Rs 2.15 crore per year. Under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Read more
India-based EPC provider Hartek Power has commissioned new substations required to connect 28 MW of solar power to the grid in Punjab. Hartek has connected two solar power projects—24 MW and 4 MW—to the grid for a solar developer in the Muktsar district of Punjab. The projects are the first to connect Read more
Researchers working at Masdar Institute have discovered that the UAE’s desert sand can be used in concentrated solar power facilities to store solar energy, making it a viable and cost-effective alternative to the current materials being used. Naming the project Sandstock, the scientists carried out a number of tests using Read more
Rattan India Group firm RattanIndia Solar Ltd has won solar project of 50 MW capacity at Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh. “The project was won at a tariff of Rs 4.43 per unit plus a viability gap funding of Rs 75 lakh per MW in reverse e-auction conducted by Solar Energy Corporation Limited (SECI). According to the Read more