World’s largest solar plant opens in California

The plant will generate enough electricity to power 160,000 homes

Mega solar power project becomes operational in Thailand

The project will produce enough electricity to power 287,500 households

Bandh in Kerala over solar scam

Protest by Left organisations turns violent; 30 policepersons and 50 protesters injured

Multi-powered craft

Future power

Reaching for the sun

Micro-financed solar energy systems light up Bangladesh’s rural areas

Off-grid thinking

Solar lamps can reach where transmission lines cannot  

Does space weather cause flight delays? New study spots links

Flight delay problems can be relieved to some extent if flight scheduling reasonably considers space weather effects

Al Gore's ‘sunny’ proposal to India

Climate crusader and former US Vice President wants India to realise its solar potential; but solar energy alone cannot solve problems of …

Double trouble

Two layers of black carbon, a pollutant causing greenhouse effect, have been found over Guwahati. Usually there is just one

Out of option

Solar becomes lifeline for power-starved Bihar, but cheap and inferior equipment dominate market

'I don't want subsidies'

For five years the non-profit Centre for Renewable Energy has been promoting and selling expensive solar lamps to poor families in Nepal. Today …

China opposes anti-dumping probe on solar panels by the US

Warns US of retaliatory measures

Science & Technology - Briefs

The four pillars of non-conventional energy

After initial success in deriving energy from water, sun, wind and biomass, India is poised for a great leap in making these the energy sources …

Clouds over solar

Solar trick

A number of solar mission projects operational only on paper

Guarantee of 14 companies under solar mission encashed

NVVN recovers Rs 28 crore from erring firms

Time to Plug in

The International Conference for Renewable Energies is to be held in Bonn, Germany. But here is a sector dwarfed by fossil fuels, and although …

Falling silicon prices shakes up solar manufacturing industry

What will prevail? Crystalline PV or thin-film

Infosys to switch to renewable energy, go carbon neutral

The global information technology services company, Infosys, headquartered at Bengaluru, plans to become carbon neutral and shift completely to …

Spurt forecast in nonconventional energy

The nonconventional energy sector is seen as the mainstay of the nation's future power requirements and is all set for major expansion, following …

Their place in the Sun...

Renewable interest

Despite its vast potential, India is yet to come up with a renewable energy policy

Here comes the sun

The German experience is a good example for India’s solar energy mission