Renewable Energy Certificates: How new amendments provide safety net to renewable power developers

The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, India’s apex power sector regulator, will monitor to ensure that no RECs are hoarded  

Why has India's solar capacity addition slowed down?

India wants to add 100 GW of capacity by 2022. But according to a new report by global analytics firm CRISIL, it will only manage 60 GW by 2022. …

Renewable energy: India achieves half of its fiscal target in seven months

While wind power sector has not shown much growth, solar power is undergoing an unprecedented expansion

Offshore wind energy: project developers have to obtain clearances from 10 ministries

Exclusive economic zone up to 370 km from the shore will be developed for this

Beads that can heat water

With fossil reserves fast depleting, new technologies promising more efficient use of renewable energy sources, especially the sun, are flooding …

Sunny jobs

Energy management needs top priority

Unhappy compromise over atmosphere

Though the bracketed chapter on atmosphere was resolved in Rio, OPEC nations continue to feel dissatisfied

Straw can generate power, if available

'I don't think future generations will be very happy with our performance'

Michael Jefferson is vice-president of the London-based World Energy Council (WEC), an international association covering all energy forms. …

Too close to the sun

The internationally-funded programme to promote solar photovoltaic systems remains a nonstarter

Low-cost heating

Hot stuff

India has a potential to develop geothermal energy. It is time the government utilises it

Better than the pest

A renewable energy alternative to pesticides is gaining popularity among farmers in south India

Windy record

The growth of wind energy is fastest among all renewable sector energy sources

Gone with the wind

Wind will power Norway

Energising!

Nuclear madness

The closure of Chernobyl sends a clear message. Nuclear power is dangerous and unprofitable

Renewable policies

Conducive policy environment necessary to take renewable projects to the people

Boost to renewables

Levy plan scuttled

In Short

What's cooking in India's largest biogas plant

Methan village in Sidhpur tehsil, Patan district of Gujarat saves 500 metric tonnes of fuelwood annually. They've been doing it for the last 15 …

Lit by biofuel