Children from poor families in sub-Saharan Africa have been able to swap cleaning up cowpats for lessons thanks to a solar power project that rewards parents for sending them to school. South Korean solar firm Yolk has designed a cow-shaped solar power station for schools that can be used to Read more…
Delhi University’s Lakshmibai College has gone solar by installing a roofop solar project on its campus. Taking a major step towards becoming an environment-friendly campus, the college has installed solar panels which would provide 77 kW of electricity. Te project is expected to reduce the electricity bill by 40 to Read more…
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved launch of Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan (KUSUM) with the objective of providing financial and water security to farmers. The proposed scheme consists of three components: -Component-A: 10,000 MW of decentralized ground mounted Read more…
Te Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) approved a total funding of 11,814 crore for Phase II of the grid-connected rooftop solar programme for achieving cumulative capacity of 40,000 MW from Rooftop Solar (RTS) Projects by the year 2022 on February 19, 2019. As of December 2018, the installed capacity Read more…
In its commitment to renewable energy, India had set an ambitious target of setting up an additional installed capacity of 175 Gigawatt (GW) through renewable energy by 2022. Of this target, 100 GW has been apportioned for solar photovoltaic (PV), out of which further 40 GW target has to be Read more…
Shri Moon Kalita lives with his wife and two children in a small settlement close to the banks of the Brahmaputra River in upper Assam. Depending heavily on costly kerosene for lighting in the evening, he has been considering for quite some time to buy a small solar home system Read more…
At a time when farmers across the country are in distress, solar power-irrigated agricultural felds at Chakhaji village in Pusa block, Samastipur, Bihar, are lush green. Standing resplendently are bumper crops of peas, tomatoes, a variety of vegetables, and tobacco. Since the solar power irrigation project was launched towards the Read more…
The Minister Calls for a Clean Environment for Our Future Generations “India is making rapid strides in the field of renewable energy and we will overshoot the target of 175 GW renewable energy by 2022,” said Shri R K Singh, Minister of State(IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy, Read more…
The Gujarat government has launched a solar power scheme for farmers—Suryashakti Kisan Yojana (SKY) enabling them to generate electricity for their captive consumption as well as sell the surplus power to the grid and earn an extra buck. Announcing the pilot project of the scheme in Gandhinagar, Chief Minister of Read more…
India can surpass the target of attaining 100 GW solar energy by 2022, provided it replaces all traditional water pumps by solar water pumps, said a study. According to the report, these grid-connected,net-metred solar pumps will also play an important role in providing secondary income to farmers, while giving them Read more…