Delhi government to provide generation-based incentive for power from rooftop solar system This is just the right time to install a solar roof top system for your house. Delhi government has decided to give a generation-based incentive (GBI) of Rs 2 per unit of solar energy produced to domestic consumers and charitable organisations in a month. This incentive will be ... Read More »
All sites for solar parks finalised: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has completed the first stage of its ambitious solar parks project, which envisages setting up solar clusters across the country with an overall installed capacity of 20,000 MW by the end of 2018-19. With two new areas selected this year, ... Read More »
India’s solar energy push to generate 1 mn green jobs India’s goal to dramatically expand solar energy could trigger a green jobs boom adding one million new engineers, technicians, solar installers, maintenance workers and performance data monitors to its workforce, according to a new report released by Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Council on Energy,Environment and Water (CEEW). ... Read More »
More than 16,000 homes in the ACT have rooftop solar More than 16,000 homes in the ACT have rooftop solar systems, new figures from the Clean Energy Regulator have revealed. And the number of Australian homes with rooftop solar is now more than 1.5 million. In Canberra, the post code with the most rooftop solar panels is 2615, which includes ... Read More »
A bright future for India’s power sector At COP21 in Paris, more than 190 countries committed to contribute to avoiding the rise of global temperatures by more than 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius. This demonstration of climate change awareness, and support for efforts to mitigate it, marks an enormous milestone in history. Now, all 190 countries have to follow through on ... Read More »
A Renewables Revolution Is Toppling the Dominance of Fossil Fuels in U.S. Power Renewable energy was the biggest source of new power added to U.S. electricity grids last year as falling prices and government incentives made wind and solar increasingly viable alternatives to fossil fuels. Developers installed 16 gigawatts of clean energy in 2015, or 68 percent of all new ... Read More »
Renewables to grow faster than forecast to 2035: BP Renewable energy will grow more quickly than forecast and provide around 15 percent of world power generation by 2035, oil company BP said on Wednesday. Renewables, including biofuels and wind power, are projected to increase at a rate of 6.6 percent per year, boosting their share of the total primary energy ... Read More »
Could Morocco’s megaplant revive dreams of Saharan solar? A gigantic solar power complex on the edge of the Sahara has gone online, boosting the North African nation’s renewable energy goals. But a former dream of exporting this clean power to Europe is still a long way off. On Thursday (04.02.2016), Morocco’s King Mohammed VI inaugurated one of the world’s biggest ... Read More »
Progress on Clean Energy It’s been barely two months since I got to be part of some exciting announcements about energy innovation, but there’s already some excellent progress to tell you about. Here’s a quick update. Just weeks before the announcement, Senator Lisa Murkowski went to the floor of the Senate to make a crucial point: If we’re going to ... Read More »
Bio-Gas as one of the Alternate Renewable Sources of Energy It is evident that no single source of energy would be capable of replacing fossil oil completely which has diverse applications. On the other hand, dependence on fossil oil would have to be reduced at a faster pace so as to stretch its use for longer period and in critical ... Read More »
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