Floating Solar Power

Floating solar power plant is a new and emerging concept in India. In this system, the solar photo voltaic panels are installed on waterbodies …

Making it mandatory

First solar funicular

Solar mobile phones

Dual purpose served

Tall strides

Low-cost heating

Sunny jobs

Sunpower is for free

A new plan to popularise solar photovoltaic products has recently been launched in India

Doomsday?

The Earth will evaporate when the sun dies

Renewable policies

Conducive policy environment necessary to take renewable projects to the people

Levy plan scuttled

Towards cheaper solar cells

Now developed from everyday plastic

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Governor shows the light

COP21: India and France show the way ahead by launching Solar Alliance

'The climate change agreement must send a clear enough signal to investors to encourage the scaling up of solar and other renewable forms of energy'

STAR shifts from soaps, sleuths to nature

As people become more concerned about the environment, a TV channel moves its focus from family dramas and crime thrillers to nature.

Too close to the sun

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

A ray of solar hope

Solar plants have proved to be a great boon for villagers of Sunderbans who relied on kerosene wick-lamps

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 …

'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. …

How technology could help rural South Africa turn sunshine into income

Blockchain can replace both the current billing and the trading systems

What ails India’s solar energy drive?

The declining price of solar power and a high import dependency has got domestic solar equipment manufacturers worried. Is the government …

Cochin Airport: Powered by the sun

A host of factors contributed to Cochin Airport becoming fully solar powered and now, other airports in India are taking cue and following suit

The future of energy