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
A 100-MW solar project has been commissioned by NTPC Ltd in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. This is the biggest solar project commissioned using domestically manufactured solar cells and modules. The plant is expected to generate nearly 160 million units of energy per year and help offset approximately 110,000 tonnes of CO2 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
Police stations in Kakinada district of Andhra Pradesh have tapped into solar power installing solar plants. The State police department has identified 14 police stations in the district in which solar plants were installed to harness solar power to meet the day-to-day requirements. Each police station would require 1.5 kW 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
PSU energy firm Oil India has inaugurated a 40 kW solar power plant, which will supply electricity to an eco-tourism project in Dibrugarh district. Utpal Bora, Chairman and Managing Director, Oil India Limited, inaugurated a 40 kW solar power plant in Sasoni Merbeel Eco-Tourism Project, which has been provided by Read more
Going green in its second year of operations, Jaipur Metro has decided to set up rooftop solar panels at eight elevated stations on its 9.25-km-long corridor between Mansarovar and Chandpole. The power generated by 2,500-kWp ‘rooftop solar power plant’ will be used to meet all the requirements at the stations Read more
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between NTPC, Andaman & Nicobar Administration & Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE). NTPC will set up solar power projects of 50 MW capacity with battery energy storage system at different locations in Port Blair in Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The Read more
In this article, we shall explain the fabrication of a small aircraft fly on solar power. The aircraft is radio controlled using the usual transmitter-receiver pair used in aeromodelling. The aircraft has a wing of span 2.5 m and chord of 30 cm with no tapering or sweep angle. The Read more
The Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) has decided to phase out traditional streetlights in the third phase of installation of energy efficient LED lights in the city. At present, around 20,000 LED streetlights have already been installed in two phases. In the third phase, around 7,000 such lights will be installed Read more