The Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya) was launched on September 25, 2017, with the aim of providing electricity to every willing household in rural and urban areas by March 2019. The scheme […]
With a portfolio of over 300 MW of contracted and commissioned capacity, Amplus Solar is one of the largest rooftop solar players in the Indian renewable energy space. In fact, it was an early mover […]
Open access for renewable energy projects has not taken off, primarily due to the reluctance of discoms that stand to lose their highest paying customers. With capital costs for renewable energy plants declining, states are […]
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy has achieved the commissioning of 5 GW of wind power capacity in India. Markus Tacke, global chief executive officer, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, and Ramesh Kymal, Onshore CEO for India, Siemens […]
The Indian renewable energy industry was, till not so long ago, a largely fragmented market. Of late however, it has been witnessing significant consolidation, with a series of mergers and acquisitions taking place. Moreover, with […]
India has tremendous potential for producing energy from municipal solid waste (MSW) and the residue obtained from agriculture, and the processing and cement industries. According to industry estimates, the country produces over 150,000 tonnes per […]
Ratish Kumar, director, projects, NHPC, started his career as a trainee engineer at the company’s Baira Siul hydroelectric project (HEP) in 1982 and gradually moved up the professional ladder. He became a part of NHPC’s […]
The Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH) and the Leibniz Universität Hannover claim to have achieved an efficiency of 26.1 per cent for a crystalline silicon solar cell-based p-type wafer material at the laboratory […]
Waaree Energies has launched a do-it-yourself solar kit, Pronto. According to Waaree, the product not only saves time, but also requires comparatively less manpower. Pronto is available in the 1-5 kW range and requires only […]
Trina Solar has introduced a new smart photovoltaic (PV) solution, TrinaPro, for utility-scale, ground-mounted PV systems as well as floating solar plants. TrinaPro combines the company’s solar modules with a solar tracker system and inverter, […]
It is pitch dark as we near Nagwa village, 150 km from Varanasi. No lights emanate from any of the hamlets that we cross. Then, we see a bunch of barefoot boys and girls emerge […]
After a record capacity addition of over 5,400 MW in 2016-17, the wind power segment witnessed significantly subdued growth in 2017-18. Capacity addition dropped to 1,739 MW, a 68 per cent decline over the previous […]
Considered a pioneer in the power sector, Seema Gupta is among the first few women electrical engineers in the country to work for the development of power transmission projects. Gupta recently took over as director, operations, at […]
It takes more than two hours of a back-breaking drive of just 28 km on a bumpy, winding kuchha road from Rohtas to reach Rehal, situated at a height of 2,400 feet above sea level […]
Smooth grid integration continues to be a challenge for the renewable energy sector in the country. Besides intermittent power generation and poor existing grid infrastructure, the lack of grid connectivity in remote areas is a […]
J.D. Trivedi joined the erstwhile Gujarat Electricity Board, now Gujarat Energy Transmission Corporation (GETCO), in 1998. He was initially posted at the 220 kV substation where he was in charge of monitoring, operations and maintenance […]
Out of the entire capacity installed in the country in 2017-18, only 16 per cent of the modules were procured from Indian module manufacturers. Vikram Solar is one of the few domestic module manufacturing firms […]
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has issued guidelines for the accreditation of renewable energy projects and discoms by state agencies under the renewable energy certificate (REC) mechanism. The procedure will be applicable to all […]
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