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Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, laid the foundation stone for Atal Akshay Urja Bhawan in New Delhi on October 19, 2016. Shri Upendra Tripathy, Secretary MNRE; Shri P K Pujari, Secretary, Ministry of Power; Shri Balvender Kumar, Secretary, Read more…

IREDA has geared itself to spearhead growth of the RE sector envisioned to make a quantum jump and achieve accelerated capacity addition, ‘moving from megawatt to gigawatt’. It has been continuously developing new, innovative, and appropriate financial instruments that caters to the needs of its existing customers and new investors. Read more…

Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), one of the important invasive aquatic species, commonly covers the surface of rivers and lakes and causes a series of environmental problems due to its rapid growth and high reproducibility in both clear water and wastewater. Thus, it is also considered as a noxious weed as Read more…

In India, paddy is cultivated in about 43.95 million hectares producing about 106.54 million tonnes of rice and approximately 160 million tonnes of straw with a ratio of 1:1.5 for rice grain produced to straw produced. Punjab produced 11.27 million tonnes of rice, which is 10.6 per cent of all Read more…

Renewable energy source such as solar energy is available abundantly, therefore, by utilizing solar energy using solar panels a sprayer can be powered. In order to cover a large area and to overcome the scarcity of labour, the bullock-drawn, solarpowered, high-clearance sprayer was developed to utilize the available solar energy. Read more…

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) unveiled the findings of its study report ‘Transitions in the Indian Energy Sector—Macro Level Analysis of Demand and Supply Side Options’ on January 13, 2017. This report was released alongside two others— one by the Electricity Transitions Commission (ETC), and the other by the Read more…

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) organized a two-day National Review Meeting with the State Government officials of Renewable Energy sector on January 23–24, 2017. Mobile App for Solar Rooftop Systems: ‘ARUN—Atal Rooftop Solar User Navigator’ and Information Guide on Rooftop Systems were also launched on the occasion Read more…

Thayannankudi is a very old Muthuvan tribal settlement in the Chinnar Wildlife Sanctuary along the side of River Chinnar in Idukki District, Kerala. There are 48 families and nearly 200 members in this settlement as per the management plan 2012– 2022, and there was no electricity or communication facility in Read more…

Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, Government of India, and Ms Ségolène Royal, Minister for Environment, Energy and Marine Affairs Government of France jointly decided to appoint Shri Upendra Tripathy, as the Interim Director General (IDG) of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) Read more…