Residents of a Navi Mumbaibased cooperative housing society recently installed a 31 kilowatt-power (kWp) rooftop solar power system in a bid to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) by one tonne every month. According to the society members, the reduction in their annual carbon footprints is equivalent to planting 500 Read more
L&T, which builds solar power plants for energy companies, among other things, is working on enhancing services with its own robotised module cleaning system and containerised storage solutions. As part of ‘L&T Construction’, a division of Larsen & Toubro Ltd, the company is an active player in the ‘solar EPC’ Read more
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, has given its approval for the implementation of Phase-III of the off-grid and decentralized Solar PV (photovoltaic) Application Programme to achieve additional 118 MWp off-grid solar PV capacity by 2020. Phase-III of Off-grid and Decentralized Solar Read more
The government will come out with a single bid for setting up 25 GW of solar capacity in Ladakh, Power and New and Renewable Energy Minister Shri R K Singh has said, and asserted that renewable energy is a must for sustainable development. He also said that India will achieve Read more
India is all set to comfortably achieve 100 GW of solar energy capacity by 2022 and has already installed solar capacity of 23.12 GW till July 2018. The data regarding generation of power from various renewable energy projects is consolidated by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA). “The Ministry of New Read more
State-run power sector financier Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) has announced its commitment of USD 1 million to International Solar Alliance (ISA). “In view of the World Environment Day 2018, REC contributed USD 1 million to the ISA becoming a corpus contributor,” an REC statement said. REC Chairman and Managing Director Read more
The Gujarat government has launched a solar power scheme for farmers— Suryashakti Kisan Yojana (SKY) enabling them to generate electricity for their captive consumption as well as sell the surplus power to the grid and earn an extra buck. Announcing the pilot project of the scheme in Gandhinagar, Chief Minister Read more
India can surpass the target of attaining 100 GW solar energy by 2022, provided it replaces all traditional water pumps by solar water pumps, said a study. According to the report, these grid-connected, net-metered solar pumps will also play an important role in providing secondary income to farmers, while giving Read more
On December 6, 2018, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Shri Yogi Adityanath inaugurated a three-day long Khadi Exposition 2018, in Lucknow. At the event Navneet Sehgal, Principal Secretary, Khadi and Village Industries Board (KVIB) and Atul Bagai, UN Environment Country Head, India, signed a Memorandum of Understanding, under the Read more
Auctions for around 8,000 MW solar capacities worth Rs 40,000 crore were cancelled in 2018-19, leavig developers and investors high and dry, according to an industry source. Solar project developers continued to face uncertainties in 2018-19 as central and state government agencies as well as a private distribution company cancelled Read more