Centre’s solar development draft aims at 25 parks, 20,000 MW power

The scheme still awaits suggestions from state nodal agencies

Afforestation not so cool

Planting trees will not reduce global warming, says study

Cooling tactics

Water body and trees around the building provide cooling effect

Green plans

India's renewable energy sector lacks clear policy

Clear policy needed in renewable energy sector

Sun screened

Pollution joins clouds, blocks sunlight over India

The sunny side

Another 100 years and the world will begin to suffer from high fever. Utilising solar energy may prevent a catastrophe

Budget 2023-24: Centre lacks clarity on India’s climate change obligations

Government should not allow the ageing units to operate endlessly and instead consider the environmental damage and GHG emissions from such units

Report shows ways to achieve sustainable, off-grid lighting in Africa

The number of people in the continent living in areas without access to power grids is expected to rise to about 700 million by 2030

Bats are avoiding solar farms and scientists aren’t sure why

One of the reasons could be that bats sometimes mistake flat surfaces for still water

More power to you: Why Botswana should go green

IRENA bats for solar, wind to increase energy access in Botswana

Energy in news on May 14

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on energy

Energy in news on May 9

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and debates on energy

Efficient dryer

Sunny chicks

Solar trees are beneficial in a land-scarce economy

Solar trees need nearly 100 times less space to produce the same amount of electricity as a horizontal solar plant 

Government spots constraints on renewable energy projects

Land constraints, insufficient transmission facility and Discom defaults on payments are the leading impediments

Are low tariffs of solar power sustainable?

The declining bids for solar PV projects seems like a good sign for the sector, but let us hope that the oversights that happened in the case of …

Why India needs electric commercial vehicles?

Medium and heavy commercial vehicles consume 42 per cent of India's oil. Replacing them with electric vehicles will have multiple benefits

Microcredit scheme for solar lighting system

Rural families pay less than what they spent on kerosene lamps for off-grid lighting

New guidelines for national solar mission power projects

Reverse bidding retained, small changes like use of domestic content raises technology concerns

Solar aircraft on world tour obstructed by bad weather

The aircraft is part of an experimental project to raise awareness about renewable energy

Harness solar energy with salt, spray-on cells

Magnesium chloride, used to make tofu and found in bath salt, can be used in solar panels to bring down their cost and cut toxic waste

The last over 4-minute-long ‘total solar eclipse’ in the US was used by Tecumseh to unite indigenous Americans

Tecumseh’s brother, Tenskwatawa, an influential shaman, predicted an eclipse on June 16, 1806; it happened, and indigenous people united …

WTO finally sides with the US; terms India’s solar conditions ‘inconsistent’

India had appealed against an earlier decision of WTO which favoured the US