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AMRITSAR: With an aim to provide clean energy to its institutes, the Khalsa College Governing Council (KCGC) has commissioned a new project to install solar…
Read insight — Khalsa institutes to have solar power plantsBATHINDA: The state’s largest solar plant (33.5 MW), spread over 140 acres, was inaugurated by Union Minister of Food Processing Harsimrat Badal and Minister for…
Read insight — Bathinda gets state’s largest solar plant, to generate 33.5 MWHundreds of tenants who agreed to have solar panels fitted to their homes have said they were signed up to 25-year contracts without their knowledge.…
Read insight — Solar panel firm ‘mis-sold 25-year contracts in Stoke’Energy firm Aggreko is shifting towards solar and battery power in its supply of temporary generation to foreign markets and major sporting events. The company…
Read insight — Energy firm Aggreko shifting towards solar and battery powerA planned 80-hectare solar farm in Dorset would be a “blot on the landscape” and “destroy” wildlife, campaigners claim. Power producer Voltalia has proposed the…
Read insight — Higher Stockbridge Farm solar park ‘would be blot on landscape’Africa is both the world’s least electrified continent and the most vulnerable to climate change. And as the continent with the world’s fastest growing population,…
Read insight — Africa grapples with clean energy conundrumA farmer is building solar-powered ice cream vans to make the industry less reliant on diesel generators. David Baker, of Styles Farm near Minehead, came…
Read insight — Somerset farmer builds own solar-powered ice cream vanA new form of combined solar power generation and storage is being developed for the UK. It couples thin, flexible, lighter solar sheets with energy…
Read insight — New solar power source and storage developedMUMBAI: Faced with land acquisition hassles, the Maharashtra government has finally come up with a policy to let private players set up floating solar plants…
Read insight — Maharashtra plans floating solar plantsSHIMLA: The state government’s plan to develop the cold desert of Spiti as a 1,000 mw solar energy hub by 2022 has been shelved by…
Read insight — Plan to make Spiti solar power hub shelved