Engineers at the University of Maryland’s A James Clark School of Engineering have created a novel technological solution to the pressing global challenge of water scarcity by creating a suite of solar steam generation devices that are at once efficient, easily accessible, environmentally friendly, biodegradable, and extremely low cost. Inspired Read more…
In one of its first outreach programmes post-ratification, the International Solar Alliance (ISA) hosted a two-day event ‘International Solar Alliance Forum’ during January 17–18, 2018, at the Future World Energy Summit (WFES) 2018. WFES is a signature event of a global initiative, Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week, hosted by Masdar scheduled during January 15–18, 2018, at Abu Dhabi (UAE). During Read more…
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) partnered the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India to host a panel discussion on innovative financing and market evolution to achieve India’s target to install 175 GW installed renewable energy capacity by 2022, on November 16, 2017 at the India Read more…
Inter-state transmission system (ISTS) consumers face some challenges upon buying energy generated from large renewable farms, whether solar, wind, or solar–wind hybrid. Although renewables enjoy waiver of ISTS, transmission system cost for renewables is very high due to low plant load factors (PLFs). RE generation suffers from variability, intermittency, and Read more…
Recently, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, had stressed to strengthen India’s manufacturing capabilities. For this MNRE released a concept note to upgrade country’s solar manufacturing supply chain. In this concept note, MNRE proposed to reduce dependency on foreign imports and create demands for local Read more…
The Indian solar sector has shown incredible growth trajectory. The industry doubled its solar capacity in the last few years (5 GW in 2015, 10 GW in 2016, and ~16.6 GW in 2017), which is really very inspiring considering the country lacks enhanced industrial infrastructure that China, the US, and Read more…
Energy systems around the world are witnessing transformations at an unprecedented rate. There has been a very rapid increase in renewable energy technology, costs of which have been falling at an average of 60% since 2001. In terms of demand composition, more and more demand has been electrified; some of Read more…
As part of their initiative to promote clean energy, BSES Rajdhani Power Ltd (BRPL), one of Delhi’s two electricity distribution companies (Discoms) along with GIZ, USAID, and TERI launched the country’s first solar rooftop consumer aggregation programme ‘BRPL Solar City Initiative’ for residential buildings. The programme is designed to maximize Read more…
The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) has announced that it has commissioned the country’s second largest rooftop solar PV power plant at GAIL’s Petrochemical complex at Pata in Uttar Pradesh. The 5.76 MWp solar plant would generate about 7,930,000 units of electricity per annum for GAIL’s captive use. The Read more…
Powering homes using clean energy is becoming easier thanks to a growing number of innovative technologies and initiatives. Some government programmes help homeowners with the financial burden of equipping their residences with energy-generating solar panels, and Elon Musk’s Tesla has developed roofing tiles that double as solar panels to give Read more…