The National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE), an autonomous institution under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India, has installed a remote sensing instrument—LiDAR for assessment of offshore wind resource at the Gulf of Khambat, off the Gujarat Coast. The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA), a Read more…
India’s second-largest software services firm, Infosys, saw over 43% of its electricity requirements being met through renewable energy sources during 2017/18, a report today said. As per Infosys’ 11th Annual Sustainability Report, 43.7% of the company’s electricity requirements—equating to more than 100 million units—is sourced from renewable sources. The Bengaluru-based Read more…
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is providing subsidy up to 30% of the benchmark cost of the solar water pumps to the farmers under Off-grid and Decentralized Solar PV Applications Programme. Till date (August 2018) over 1.85 lakh solar water pumps have been reported installed in the Read more…
The Solar Energy Corporation of India Limited (SECI) conducted India’s first auction of wind power projects in February 2017 in which tariff of `3.46 was discovered, which was much lower than feed in tariffs in vogue those days. This was a 1,000 MW bid for projects to be connected on Read more…
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, has been conferred the Skoch Award for national significance at an event held in New Delhi in early December 2018. The award was received by Secretary, MNRE, Shri Anand Kumar. The award has been conferred on the Ministry considering Read more…
In India’s electricity output; in April–October 2018, this share touched the 10% threshold. The share of renewables in the total installed power capacity is also on a rise—from 14% in FY2015, this has risen to the current level of over 20%. Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Read more…
Cancellation of auctions for renewable energy projects because of high bids has saved central and state governments Rs 3,405 crore, a top official said, although companies have sharply criticised the practice as anti-investor. “It is important to go for a rebid if the prices are higher than expected,” Ministry of Read more…
Vijayawada: In a first, Kadiyam station in Rajahmundry earned the rare distinction of being the first energy neutral station in the South Central Railway Zone by meeting all its electrical demands through solar energy. This has been accomplished by the installation of a 10KWp ON-Grid Solar power plant on the Read more…
India has imposed an anti-dumping duty of up to US$1,559 per tonne on imports of a certain type of sheet used in the solar cells from China, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia and Thailand for five years. India solar panel This is done in order to safeguard domestic players against cheap imports. Read more…
The growth of renewable energy has boosted the need for developing power balancing infrastructure that can come to the rescue in the event of sudden fluctuations. This is an opportunity for developing battery-based balancing infrastructure that can ramp up or down power output in a very short period. “There is Read more…