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Is small-scale hydro the answer to India’s clean energy needs? In the western Himalayas, the entire village of Hamal is powered by a small hydroelectric plant on the edge of the Shalvi river. It produces enough power to light up 100 homes at a time, ending the village’s once-endemic power cuts. Small hydro projects, producing up to 25MW, have the ... Read More »

Haryana to set up 133 MW solar plants The Haryana government will set up solar power plants of 133 MW capacity by using ground and roof tops in the state, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said today. Inaugurating a Rs 57.67 crore solar power plant of 10 MW capacity set up by Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited in the complex ... Read More »

Bloomberg Says Cities Will Fight Climate Change, With or Without Trump Donald J. Trump has said climate change is a hoax created by the Chinese to get the United States to suppress its manufacturing sector. That prompted a public rebuttal last week from a Chinese official attending a climate summit meeting in Marrakesh, Morocco. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump appeared to ... Read More »

Apple’s New Headquarters Looks Like A Spaceship and Its Covered With Solar Panels Two drone operators in Cupertino, California stalk Apple’s ‘spaceship’ campus every month and they happened to catch some progress surrounding the secret Apple headquarters. Mathew Roberts, a documentary filmmaker, takes people on tours surrounding Apple’s campus and they happened to come across the solar panels that are ... Read More »

India ranks 20th on Climate Change Performance Index India has been ranked 20th on Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) 2017, which underlined that countries like India are making “great efforts” in the fields of renewables and energy efficiency. With the historic Paris Agreement having recently entered into force, the latest CCPI confirms a boost for renewable energy and positive developments ... Read More »

Banks, FInancial Institutions sanction Rs 1.08 lakh crore for renewables: Piyush Goyal Banks and financial institutions have sanctioned funding of Rs 1.08 lakh crore for renewableenergy capacities of 42.71 GW since February 2015, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said today. Banks and financial institutions have committed total funding of Rs 3.82 lakh crore for 76.35 GW of renewable energy capacities in ... Read More »

Solar-Panel Roads to Be Built on Four Continents Next Year Electric avenues that can transmit the sun’s energy onto power grids may be coming to a city near you. A subsidiary of Bouygues SA has designed rugged solar panels, capable of withstand the weight of an 18-wheeler truck, that they’re now building into road surfaces. After nearly five years of ... Read More »

Who pays the most for emissions from fuel use in India? India ratified the Paris Agreement, thus binding itself to its commitment to reduce the emissions intensity of GDP by 2030 to around one-third of its 2005 levels. While shifting to renewables would play an important role in this endeavour, taxing fossil fuels is also an important constituent of this ... Read More »

It’s equally important to talk about developing smart grids: Swedish minister India’s ambitions of boosting solar and wind power generation manifold by 2022 will face a transmission challenge, said Ibrahim Baylan, the Swedish minister for energy and policy coordination, who is on a visit to India. The challenge can be overcome by developing a smart grid, which he said is ... Read More »

Tesla powers a whole island with solar to show off its energy chops Tesla completed its $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity this week, and, to celebrate, the company has announced a major solar energy project: wiring up the whole island of Ta’u in American Samoa. Previously, the island ran on diesel generators, but over the past year Tesla has installed ... Read More »