Perovskites have emerged as a promising alternative to silicon for making inexpensive and efficient solar cells. A group of researchers at Brown University and University of Nebraska—Lincoln (UNL) has come up with a new titaniumbased material for making lead-free, inorganic perovskite solar cells. In a paper published in the journal Read more…
Apart from the President of France and the Indian Prime Minister, 21 Heads of State and Heads of Government, 6 Vice Presidents and Deputy Prime Ministers, 19 Ministers as Heads of Delegation attended the founding conference in addition to many other ministers who were accompanying the Heads of State and Read more…
The Government of India has embarked upon an ambitious journey on the green energy front with scaling up of target of installing renewable energy capacity to 175 GW by the year 2022, which includes 100 GW from solar, 60 GW from wind, 10 GW from bio-power, and 5 GW from 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…
Estimates from SolarPower Europe show that Europe installed about 8.6 GW of solar power systems in 2017, a 28% increase over systems installed in 2016. SolarPower Europe said that EU member states installed about 6 GW in 2016, a 6% year-over-year increase. “Solar in Europe is growing, this is good Read more…
Humans need food and water for survival. Cooking is ubiquitous in human life as a daily ritual. It is considered to be an important influence in human evolution for survival and sustenance. Charles Darwin considered ‘the art of making fire’ as probably ‘the greatest discovery’, except language, ever made by Read more…
Over the last two years, there has been a steady increase in the deployment of solar irrigation pumps in India. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, has already installed around 142,000 solar pumps by November 2017 and has a target of installing 1 million solar Read more…
The project was put up by the Group as a Demonstration Project for the clients intending to install biomass gasifiers for their electricity needs. Ownership towards ‘Green India’ is a one of the motivating factors for the investment. The Company further plans to install such demonstration projects in East Africa and Western Read more…