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India Creates Opportunities For Social Solar Entrepreneurs Upendra Tripathy, recently retired Secretary of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in India, sees tremendous opportunities for social entrepreneurs to play a role in expanding renewable energy there. Tripathy retired on October 31, 2016 from the top policy position in the Ministry. During his tenure, he oversaw a 400 percent increase ... Read More »

Adani to start constructing solar plants in Australia next year Indian energy giant Adani Group on Sunday announced its new venture for construction of two major solar projects in Australia next year as part of its efforts to develop renewable energy projects in the country with a total capacity of 1,500 megawatt (MW) within the next five years. “Adani today ... Read More »

How One School Used Solar Power to Go from Being an Electricity Consumer to Electricity Producer In the small coastal town of Pondicherry, south of Chennai, there is a school that is not only self-reliant in terms of energy but is also sharing the excess it produces with other buildings in the area. The Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education ... Read More »

Climate Bright Spot: India’s Growing Solar Market With the Paris Agreement now in force, world leaders signaled overwhelming support for strong action, as the climate talks come to a close in Morocco. Even though the talks were overshadowed by Donald Trump’s election campaign claims to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, countries emphasized their resolve to climate action to meet domestic ... Read More »

15,000 mosques are going green Morocco is looking ahead to a bright future. Literally. The government is installing energy-efficient lights and solar technology in more than 100 mosques in 2016 and plans to expand the program over the next five years to include 15,000 state-funded mosques. That represents nearly 30% of all mosques in the country. The so-called “green mosques” ... Read More »

Digital India: Rajastahan’s Alwar district gets internet via solar-powered telecom towers Despite being deprived of facilities like proper roads, hospitals, post-office, people in Alwar district of Rajasthan have internet facility. People are known to use cheaper Wi-Fi services for studying or streaming videos on YouTube. People in remote villages of Rajasthan’s Alwar district are catching up on the ‘Digital India’ ... Read More »

In Rajasthan’s villages, solar-powered telecom towers are providing Internet People in remote villages of Rajasthan’s Alwar district are catching up on the ‘Digital India’ trail as many of them, including women, have started using internet being provided through unique solar-run telecom towers.  Karenda, Phalsa and Bahadari, the three villages which lie close to the state’s border with Haryana, lack facilities like proper roads, hospitals, post-office ... Read More »

Solar energy firm Lightsource to invest Rs 6,500 cr in India in 2-3 years UK-based Lightsource Renewable Energy will invest Rs 6,500 crore over the next 2-3 years to set up 1000 MW solar energy projects in India. “The company is looking at developing 1000 MW of solar power projects entailing an investment of Rs 6,500 crore over the next ... Read More »

India wants to become a solar superpower, but its dependence on toxic coal says otherwise One of the world’s largest solar power projects has just been completed in southern India. At 648 megawatts (MW), the Kamuthi solar plant in Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nadu, can generate as much electricity as most coal or nuclear power stations. This is great news. But it ... Read More »

India Now Has World’s Largest Solar Plant, Which Can Power 150,000 Homes ndia has released images of the world’s largest solar power plant at a single location, Al Jazeera reports. The plant, which is located in Kamuthi, Tamil Nadu, took an impressive eight months to build. It stretches over 4 square miles of land and has a capacity of 648 megawatts, which ... Read More »