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Off-Grid Solar Market Trends Report 2016 The 1.2 billion people living without access to the power grid spend about $27 billion annually on lighting and mobile-phone charging with kerosene, candles, battery torches or other fossil-fuel powered stopgap technologies. Solar-powered portable lights and home kits offer a better service at lower cost. This report takes stock of what the emerging off-grid ... Read More »

Singapore feeds first solar power into retail grid to reduce emissions Singapore on Monday announced it had begun to feed solar power into its retail electric grid for the first time, as it seeks to reduce emissions and prepares to fully liberalize its electricity market. Singapore, one of the sunniest cities in the world, generates almost all its power from ... Read More »

Is the US undermining India’s solar power programme? Whatever happened to all the talk of international co-operation to tackle climate change that we heard during the climate conference in Paris just a few months ago? That is what many environmentalists are asking after the United States delivered a damaging blow to India’s ambitious solar power programme this week. In response ... Read More »

AP set to turn into solar energy hub aving set an ambitious target of adding a minimum total solar power capacity of 5,000 mw in the next five years, Andhra Pradesh is now turning into a major hub for solar energy manufacturing facilities in the country. Major players including Essel Infraprojects, Golden Concord Holdings, Trina Solar Science and Technology Energy ... Read More »

Aptel stays discoms’ plea for power tariff hike The tariff hike proposed by three power discoms has been stayed by the Appellate Tribunal for Electricity (Aptel). On Thursday, Aptel stayed the petition which the discoms submitted to Rajasthan Electricity Regulatory Commission (RERC). The next hearing is on March 17. The Jaipur, Jodhpur and Ajmer discoms sought a 11- 18% hike ... Read More »

Death by pollution: Delhi’s fight for clean air The night before the biggest exam of his life, Sarthak Jain couldn’t breathe. His limbs were listless, his breathing labored. Jain’s parents, both trained doctors, recognized the signs of a severe asthma attack. They put the 18-year-old in the family car and raced to a nearby hospital. Doctors determined that Jain was ... Read More »

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 »