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