By Dolly Khattar The world today is drawing more and more of its power from the sun, wind, water and biomass fuel, as the cost of power generated from these resources continues to decline. At […]
By Neha Bhatnagar The power sector is evolving rapidly with renewables replacing thermal power across the world. A sharp reduction in the capital cost of renewable energy technologies, especially solar, and the growing commercialisation of […]
By Khushboo Goyal Even as the renewable energy sector is striving to achieve greater capacity at low tariffs, the discoms responsible for buying the majority of this power are struggling to stay afloat. The Ujwal […]
By Ashay Abbhi The total rooftop solar capacity installed in the country is insignificant as compared to the ground-mounted capacity. While ground-mounted solar capacity reached 26.4 GW as of March 2019, the rooftop capacity was […]
While renewable energy capacity is growing at a fast pace, transmission-related issues have been hampering progress in recent times. There is a mismatch in the construction timelines between transmission capacity addition and renewable energy capacity […]
By Anita Khuller With an area spanning about 7.62 million hectares, the Himalayan subtropical pine forests are the largest in the Indo-Pacific region. In India, these pine forests are widely found in the state of […]
The Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) for the State of Goa and Union Territories has finalised the net metering regulations. The new regulations came into effect on 24 July, 2019. A draft for the same […]
By Sarthak Takyar The solar engineering and construction arm of the Shapoorji Pallonji Group, Sterling and Wilson Solar Limited (SWSL) received bids for nearly 19 million shares for its initial public offering (IPO) of 22.17 […]
By Khushboo Goyal Nestled in the Garhwal Himalayas at an altitude of around 7,700 feet, a small off-grid eco resort is using solar power to meet its minimal power requirements. The Goat Village, located in […]
By Ashay Abbhi As per the estimates of the International Finance Corporation, India requires around $450 billion to achieve its 2030 climate change targets. This will include a debt component of $315 billion while the […]
One renewable energy segment that seems to be benefiting from the ongoing urban development schemes such as the Smart Cities Mission, the Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), the Swachh Bharat Mission, the […]
The country’s transmission infrastructure has grown rapidly in the past few years. As of May 2019, the total transmission line length (at 220 kV and above) stood at 414,858 ckt. km, the alternating current (AC) […]
Open access regulations, both at the state and central levels, are subject to frequent arbitration due to several reasons. Some of these are related to grant of connectivity, duration of open access, long-term access (LTA) […]
His father was into carpet weaving (manual) in Bhadohi village in Uttar Pradesh, but when Sandesh Maurya came to Varanasi, he, like thousands of young men, found work in one of the silk weaving factories. […]
The renewable energy sector added less than 60 per cent – about 8,600 MW – of its targeted capacity of 15,602 MW in 2018-19. This was the slowest addition in recent years. In the preceding […]
The importance of the bioenergy segment has been much talked about in the context of creating a sustainable and circular economy. However, the lack of a policy and financial impetus has held back the segment […]
Energy generation from municipal solid waste is still at a nascent stage. While the uptake of waste-to-energy (WtE) projects in the country has increased in recent years, capacity addition in the segment has not picked […]
Mechanisation of almost every process involved in the textile industry from fibre to fabric has led to increased consumption of electricity. In today’s scenario where the power purchased from state electricity boards works out to […]
Led by massive auctions and enabling policies, renewable energy has already become the cheapest source of electricity in many parts of the world. In India, for instance, owing to the cost competitiveness of solar and […]
By Dolly Khattar A recent report by Fitch Solutions Macro Research states that a combination of various challenges – including land availability hurdles, grid access bottlenecks and viability concerns over low tender bids – will […]
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