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Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd. (IREDA), a PSU under the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy (MNRE) has invited bids from solar module manufacturers for setting up solar manufacturing units under the central government’ Rs. 4,500 crore Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme. MNRE has appointed IREDA as the implementing ... Read More »

R.K. Singh,President of the ISA Assembly and Union Minister of State for Power and New & Renewable Energy (IC) and Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, today shared details of the First World Solar Technology Summit being organized by ISA on a virtual platform on September 08, 2020. The objective of the ... Read More »

NTPC has participated for 160 MW Solar capacities in Uttar Pradesh and has won the entire capacity bid by it, comprising 140 MW at a levelised tariff of Rs 3.17/unit and 20 MW at a levelised tariff of Rs 3.21/unit, applicable for 25 years. The above 160 MW of solar ... Read More »

NLC India and Coal India have inked Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), for formation of Joint Venture (JV) Company for setting up Solar Power Projects of 3000 MW and Thermal Power Projects of 2000 MW. The JV Company to come up on equal equity participation of 50:50 has a time line ... Read More »

Wind and solar farms are known to have local effects on heat, humidity and other factors that may be beneficial — or detrimental — to the regions in which they are situated. A new climate-modeling study finds that a massive wind and solar installation in the Sahara Desert and neighboring ... Read More »

As the saying goes, everything old is new again. While the common phrase often refers to fashion, design, or technology, scientists at the University of New Hampshire have found there is some truth to this mantra even when it comes to research. Revisiting some older data, the researchers discovered new ... Read More »

Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday to begin its journey to the Sun, where it will undertake a landmark mission. The spacecraft will transmit its first science observations in December, beginning a revolution in our understanding of ... Read More »

It’s solar revolution in Gujarat and people are already benefitting from it. Until last summer, Hitendra Patel, a resident of Visnagar in Mehsana district of Gujarat used to shell out around Rs 2800 for his monthly electricity bill, but this time its all saving for him.  He got a 2 ... Read More »

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Netherlands Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who is in India at PM Modi’s invitation held wide-ranging discussions on bilateral and international issues at the Hyderabad House on Thursday. Both leaders acknowledged the private sector’s role in boosting trade and investment. PM Modi assured investors from the ... Read More »

“In 2017, India emerged as the third largest solar market …having grown at a CAGR of approximately 170 percent since 2010,” it said. As per the report, India set a new record with 9.6 GW of solar installations in 2017, which was more than double the 4.3 GW installed in ... Read More »

The MNRE is also in the process of launching a scheme for new hybrid projects under this policy, which are 10 to 15 percent cheaper than 100 percent solar or wind projects, an official told said. The official said that under the scheme, the government would bid out wind-solar hybrid ... Read More »

Udaipur : Solar power is coming as a big blessing for many towns and villages in rural areas and Saatpuliya village in Divair gram panchayat of Rajsamand district is one of them. With a tough terrain nestled in valleys and rivers, electricity had been a dream for the locals here, however, ... Read More »

Hindustan Zinc’s Solar Power projects at Dariba (4.8 MWp) & Debari (14.4 MWp) have been awarded – Gold Award Winner in the Rising Category as Best Performing Project of the Year (Technical Performance) on Utility Scale Solar Energy at the RE ASSETS Excellence Awards Summit held in Delhi on 2nd February 2018. Presented ... Read More »

If we add the amount of solar energy that is absorbed by the Earth’s atmosphere, land and oceans every year, we end up with approximately 3,850,000 EJ (exajoules or 10^18 joules). To put it in more understandable terms, this amount of energy is equivalent to  :  2.7 million earthquakes of the same size as the Tohoku ... Read More »

Udaipur : Hindustan Zinc received Solar Innovation & Excellence Award at the 2nd Annual Conference-Expo-Awards – Roadmap for Innovations in Solar Energy 2017 (RISE 2017) for 12 MW Debari Solar Project. The award was presented by Mr. Ashwin kumar Khatri, Director General of Mission Energy Foundation in a glittering function held in ... Read More »

Tata Power Delhi Distribution (TPDDL), a joint venture (JV) of Tata Power and the Government of Delhi, has been assigned Solar Power 1A (SP 1A) rating by ICRA, one of India’s leading rating agencies, for the second time in a row. The acknowledgement has been credited to TPDDL as the ... Read More »