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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 »

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 »