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Bill Nye-backed startup is using particle accelerator tech to make solar power accessible After hitting more than $7 million in reservations as part of a Reg A+ equity crowdfunding campaign and getting a stamp of approval from celebrity scientist Bill Nye, Santa Monica-based solar company Rayton Solar has some big plans for the future. Its goal? Using particle accelerator technology ... Read More »

City hot? You ain’t felt anything yet   New Delhi: Around 44 cities worldwide, are likely to face the worst levels of dangerous heat stress under global warming and could experience in future twice the average number of extreme hot days a year, new research has suggested. The study has predicted increases in the frequency of deadly heat waves worldwide ... Read More »

How Schools Are Going Solar The cost for individual homes in the U.S. to “go solar” has dropped by more than 60 percent over the last decade. Those low costs helped convince more than a million Americans to install solar panels on their roofs. Now schools are beginning to get in on the benefits. One of them is the school ... Read More »

Recipe for a smart village In the last budget, the government of India assigned Rs9,000 crore as the budget for Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation. But I think the government needs to pause and think again. Do we really need smarter cities? Or should we be making our villages smarter? When we create a smart city, we try ... Read More »

Solar plants, not gensets, to fuel clean, green Andamans As part of an ambitious greening effort in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a plan to set up Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) power plants at two sites in Port Blair with battery storage amounting to 25 MW is underway — just short of half the islands’ current operational generation capacity that is predominantly ... Read More »

Indian solar power producers may get module prices relief Global prices of solar modules, a key component in setting up solar power plants, could fall by as much as one-fifth this year, companies and analysts say. That will come as a shot in the arm for Indian producers of solar power and could increase the financial viability of projects. India ... Read More »

This small village could spoil Modi’s plan to power India in 2 years Like generations before him, the only light Jurdar Thingya has at night in his one-room mud hut in India’s Maharashtra state comes from a small wood fire on the floor. A broken solar panel is all that the 35-year-old farmer has to remind him of the government’s ... Read More »

How the world’s largest solar park is shaping up in Karnataka Karnataka govt aims to generate by 2018-end around 2700 MW from the Pavagada solar park, in a region that has seen 54 droughts in the last 60 years. Heat that can give you blisters. Fluoride contaminated water that can leave your bones brittle. Endless stretches of barren land where ... Read More »

Govt says $1.77 billion fdi equity came into indian renewable sector between apr 14 to sep 16, Energy News, ET EnergyWorld India witnessed a total of $1.77 billion equity investment in the form of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the non-conventional energy sector between April 2014 and September 2016, the Modi government said in an “Achievement Report” of its flagship ... Read More »

The Science Express, a mobile exhibition on climate change, has begun its journey through 20 states Railway minister Suresh Prabhu on Friday flagged off the 16-coach Science Express Climate Action Special train from Delhi’s Safdarjung station. The train is collaborative initiative between the Indian Railways and the department of science and technology. It is scheduled to cover 68 stations across ... Read More »