A new tender has been issued by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) calling for the electrification of more than 1,000 Indian villages using off-grid solar power packs. The global tender has been issued on behalf of the Arunachal Pradesh Energy Development Agency (APEDA) and will be developed under Read more
Solar Radiation Resource Assessment, National Institute of Wind Energy under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) in association with Iacharya Silicon Limited (ISL),Chennai has developed an online training programme in Hindi and English under Public– Private partnership at an affordable training fee of Rs. 599. The training is designed Read more
Solar cells, popularly known as PV cells, are actually electrical devices which help us to convert solar energy into direct current. When these cells are exposed to sunlight, they absorb protons and after completing the gap between two poles electric current starts to flow. These cells are helpful in controlling the Read more
A 5 MWp grid interactive captive solar power plant has been commissioned by BHEL, Trichy, on its premises as part of its efforts to promote the use of clean and renewable energy sources and to achieve significant reduction in energy costs.The captive power plant, including photovoltaic modules, power conditioning units, 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
Use of solar photovoltaics to generate electricity in terms of solar parks and solar panels on rooftops is growing but even decades after photovoltaics were first developed, the slabs of silicon remain bulky, expensive, and inefficient. Fundamental limitations prevent these conventional photovoltaics from absorbing more than a fraction of the Read more
An amount of RS. 600 crore has been allocated for the projects under ‘Grid Connected Rooftop and Small Solar power Plants Programme’ and Rs. 508.84 crore has been released till January 31, 2017. This was stated by Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Read more
While battery manufacturers and solar power companies are struggling to develop batteries that would be cheap, smaller in size, and can store power for days, an engineering college in Kolkata has devised a combo of solar-based generation and power storage system that can supply power perpetually 24 hours a day Read more
The Hon’ble President of India Shri Pranab Mukherjee has inaugurated the first phase of a solar power project in the President’s Estate that would generate 670 kW electricity for the sprawling premises. Under the project, seven rooftop solar panels have been installed with an investment of Rs. 2.23 crore on Read more
For the first time in the country, solar panels have been installed on an Indian warship. The survey class vessel INS Sarvekshak, attached with the southern naval command, has been fitted with 18 sheets of solar panels atop its hangar. “It took about six months to put the entire system Read more