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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 »

Instead of HPGCL put Haryana Power The Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL) has commissioned the first 10MW solar power plant at Panipat Thermal Power Station, Panipat. On the first day, the solar plant generated and supplied about 10,000 units of electricity to the grid. HPGCL Managing Director MKV Rama Rao said on Wednesday that the use of renewable energy ... Read More »

Global Solar PV Capacity Surpassed 227GW in 2015 “The renewable energy transition is well underway, with solar playing a central role.” Last year was a record year for global PV installations, according to the International Energy Agency’s latest Trends in Photovoltaic Applications report, released last week. Worldwide installed capacity amounted to 51 gigawatts in 2015, up from around 40 gigawatts in ... Read More »

Poor implementation of net-metering policies poses major challenge for rooftop solar: Bridge to India Grid interconnection regulations and processes remain challenging in most parts of the country despite almost all states announcing net- and/or gross-metering policies for rooftop solar, solar sector research firm Bridge to India today said. India’s rooftop solar market is growing rapidly with the country adding more ... Read More »