Sun in the house

Environment-friendly bus

Record-breaking

Cooling system

Showing the way

Scientists develop a solar-powered lamp designed to light up rural Kenya

Everlasting energisers

Researchers in Israel have developed batteries that could last a lifetime

KENYA

Showing the way

Beaming with energy

Australian Band Labrats's Solar Music 'Combat Wombat'

Annual investment of $2 trillion needed to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030: Report

The world would need to add another 8.1 TW between 2022 and 2030

Africa’s ambitious journey towards renewable energy – the ifs & buts

Sub-Saharan African countries have weak regulatory environments for RE growth as most of these policies are either very technology-specific or in …

Konark will now light up its Sun Temple with solar energy

Odisha plans to make the coastal temple town a 100 per cent solar town and also place it among India’s first few zero …

Distributed renewable energy : How to make it work for India

DRE projects have greater scalability and offer substantive co-benefits; they need a more favourable regulatory and policy environment 

Why financing entities are reluctant to invest in renewable energy sector  

Falling power tariffs and uncertainty over quality of assets are hurting investors’ confidence  

Energy in news on April 17

Here’s a round-up of today’s news reports and developments around energy

International Solar Alliance will soon be legal entity, but how will 1,000GW target be met?

On December 6, the ISA will become a legal entity for mobilising finance to meet global ambitions of energy access and climate action

Madhya Pradesh solar energy tariff hits new low with Rs 5.05 per unit

The rate is even lower than the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission’s benchmark of Rs 6.86 per kWh

Get on the ray

Book>> A Solar Future For India • edited by G M Pillai • World Institute of Sustainable Energy • Rs 1,200

Forecast: Clement climes

Given proper economic policies that fuel technological change, the world can rapidly switch over from fossil fuels to solar energy. In that case, …

As Jaisalmer villagers fight for sacred grove, a larger question looms

Allocation of village land for the development of solar and wind parks at the cost of pasture land is detrimental for villages

Bon appetit with sun

Enter the world’s largest solar kitchen

Use sun to make ice

Solar refrigerator to help immunisation programmes

Researchers find what happens when the sun goes to sleep

Magnetic activity stays low during grand solar minima phases, which can last decades to centuries  

Rooftop solar energy: Revised net metering cap in the new draft electricity rules means good news

The bidirection meter that will calculate the final bill after net metering should be a smart prepayment meter