It’s Official: Nuclear Power Can’t Compete With Renewables The nuclear revival the global industry has been hoping for took another hammer blow this week when two reactors under construction in South Carolina were abandoned, only 40 percent complete. The plan had been to build two Westinghouse AP1000 pressurized water reactors to lead the nuclear revival in the U.S., but cost ... Read More »
Over 37 per cent of schools in India have no electricity In an indicator of the state of school infrastructure in the country, Centre told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday that over 37% of schools did not have electricity connections till March 2017. While only 62.81% schools in the country have electricity connections, Jharkhand is at the bottom of the ... Read More »
Solar Energy, A Cash Crop For Gujarat Farmers “Even if my crops fail, I still can survive by selling solar energy to the state grid,” says a relaxed Phodabhai Parmar, a 72-year-old farmer. Phodabhai has broken free of his dependence just on agriculture for livelihood, since becoming a member of India’s first ‘solar cooperative society’ set up in the small ... Read More »
Solar jobs growing 17 times faster than US economy President Trump may be focused on saving coal miners, but solar continues to be the hot spot in today’s jobs market. Solar employment expanded last year 17 times faster than the total US economy, according to an International Renewable Energy Agency report published on Wednesday that cited data from the Solar ... Read More »
Still Powerless Millions of Indians have still no access to electricity. Despite being the fourth largest producer of electricity, India’s per capita availability is less than a third of the global average. Read More Still Powerless Read More »
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