Tag Archives: clean energy

 Ramsey energy company finds perfect pairing in putting bees, solar panels together Instead, wildflowers will soon bloom beneath the sleek solar panels in Ramsey, offering food to bees from 15 hives recently installed nearby. The colonies will produce honey by the jarful for Connexus Energy’s solar subscribers, with enough left over for local fundraisers. Pairing native plants with solar arrays ... Read More »

Solar Power Is Cheaper, but the World Is Still Running on Fossil Fuels The Price Of Power Even without subsidies, new wind and solar power plants are usually cheaper than new coal, nuclear, or natural gas power plants. In fact, they are often not only cheaper, but substantially so. According to Lazard, levelized cost of energy (LCOE) estimates based on ... Read More »

5 climate change challenges India needs to wake up to In the lead up to the anniversary of the signing the Paris Climate Agreement we need to re-assess climate change–induced national risks. On the 46th Earth Day, April 22, 2016, at the UN Secretariat in New York, in a record pact, several nations committed to slowing down the emission of greenhouse ... Read More »

Banks – Are you slowing clean energy adoption Fact:  In India, Clean energy adoption is being slowed down by lack of financing products on the ground. Industrial, institutional as well as residential buyers have almost no avenues for smooth  financing of clean energy solutions.  Anyone who is out there knocking on doors, encouraging users to switch to solar – has ... Read More »

The Biggest Clean Energy Advances in 2016 lean energy made critical strides in 2016. The Paris Climate accords went into effect, the price of solar installations continued to drop, investments in renewable energy soared, offshore wind finally got under way in the United States, and scientists made a series of technical advances that promise to make sustainable energy increasingly efficient and ... Read More »

Why clean energy is the next big business opportunity American politics shifted drastically on November 8, but the scientific facts of climate change remain the same. This year will break all global temperature records by the biggest margins ever. We’re on a real hot streak — and not a good one. Worse yet, global sea-ice recently hit record lows, as ... Read More »

Kendriya Vidyalayas to go green with rooftop solar power systems The Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) is going to generate electricity through the rooftop solar photovoltaic system. A pilot project will be launched at viable Kendriya Vidyalayas across NCR with more than 40 KWp capacity, and in such schools in the northeastern states. According to a press statement from the Sangathan, ... Read More »

Half of energy needs to be met by clean energy By 2025, half of North America’s electricity will be generated from clean energy sources Half of energy needs to be met by clean energy Read More »

Banks, NBFCs sanction Rs 71k-cr for clean energy projects As many as 40 banks and NBFCs have sanctioned Rs 71,201.54 crore to finance renewable energy projects and disbursed Rs 29,529.57 crore for the same during February 2015 and March 2016. “Forty banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) have sanctioned an amount of Rs 71,201.54 crore to finance the various renewable ... Read More »

EU, India outline climate and clean energy package The European Union vowed to help India realise its clean energy aspirations at a bilateral summit in Brussels on Wednesday. In a joint declaration, the major economies pledged to cooperate on integrating India’s electricity grid with large solar parks, support the development of smart grids and assist in the planning of its first offshore wind array. ... Read More »