Solar City

Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding dumping of waste in a canal in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 29/05/2025

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton Canal nearly choked due to garbage dumping appearing in the DT Next dated 11.05.2025". The application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled Chennai Citizen Connect: Captain Cotton …

Solar simulators: application to developing cities

Developing cities seeking to assess their policy and financing options for rooftop photovoltaic (PV) power generation can benefit from the increasing sophistication of rooftop PV simulators. This report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) examines the evolution of solar PV simulators, from single-rooftop assessments at the household level to …

New solar power goal lands Chandigarh in a corner

CHANDIGARH: The ministry of new and renewable energy has enhanced the city’s solar power generation target from 50 megawatt (MW) to 69 MW to be achieved by 2022, compounding the problems of the administration which is struggling to catch up. Chandigarh Renewal Energy, Science and Technology Promotion Society (Crest) has …

Selected to be solar city in 2015, only 260 Vijayawada households have solar power

The objective of the programme was to promote non-conventional energy to save on conventional energy and also to reduce the carbon footprint. VIJAYAWADA: There are only around some 250 to 260 households with rooftop solar power units in Vijayawada city, one of the 60 cities shortlisted by the Central Government …

Chandigarh to go green on power by end of 2018

CHANDIGARH: If all goes according to the plans of the ministry of new and renewal energy (MNRE), City Beautiful will be on green energy by the end of 2018. After the selection of Chandigarh for development as a model solar city, MNRE directed Chandigarh administration to make the city 100% …

Lethargic states stall solar cities

The aim of the programme is to promote the use of renewable energy in urban areas.a Hyderabad: The Telangana state and Andhra Pradesh governments have failed in submitting the detail project reports on solar cities to the Centre. The Centre had identified Mahbubnagar in Telangana state and Vijayawada, Narsapur and …

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Solar Cities, 15/12/2016

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Solar Cities, 15/12/2016. The names of the cities included under Development of Solar Cities Programme, State-wise, are given in Annexure-I. The details of funds allocated and released during the last three years and the current year, State-wise, are given in Annexure-II.

Chandigarh gets floating solar power plant

It has been designed to supply power to fountains at the lake for aeration A floating solar power plant pilot of 10 kw peak (kWp) — the peak power — has been commissioned at Dhanas lake in Chandigarh amid efforts by the government to develop the Union Territory as a …

Surat to become Solar City soon

Surat: If all goes well, the Diamond City is all set to become `Solar City' in real sense. The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) is set to launch a survey to access the ground situation and readiness of households, educational institutions, commercial establishments and industries, for installing rooftop solar plants, starting …

Elon Musk’s Tesla to buy America’s biggest solar energy provider SolarCity for $2.8 billion

Interestingly, this company has been founded by Musk's cousins. Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors just announced its offer to acquire SolarCity, one of the largest solar energy companies in the US. Interestingly, this company has been founded by Musk’s cousins. According to the Tesla Blog, the SolarCity team has built its …

Government announces policy to make Delhi 'solar city'

Giving a major push to clean energy , the AAP government today came out with an ambitious policy announcing incentives and tax breaks to promote solar power and making it mandatory for government and public institutions to install rooftop solar panels. The solar policy, finalised at a cabinet meeting chaired …

Solar power gets a renewed push

The city is set to become environment friendly in terms of power generation with the state cabinet approving on Monday a solar power policy. The approach outlines regulations and mandates incentives and tax breaks for the generation of rooftop solar power in the capital. The government plans to offer a …

MNRE selects Aryans College of Engineering for green campus

Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has selected Aryans College of Engineering, Rajpura near Chandigarh for developing it as a green campus under its scheme on development of Solar Cities. In accordance with this ministry's administrative approval vide no5/4/2013-14/SC on the scheme of "Development of Solar Cities", 12 organizations …

Pune a step closer to solar deployment

Pune can significantly contribute towards the overall national goal of 100 GW of solar power by 2022 from current its current 6 GW capacity. To accelerate the pace of solar deployment in the city, the newly formed Pune Smart City Development Corporation Ltd. ( PSCDCL) has planned to launch the …

Jaipur: Solar lights to illuminate Walled City area soon

Jaipur: The Walled City will soon be illuminated with solar lights. In a bid to save energy and utilise solar energy, the JMC under the Smart City Mission project, will replace the old lights at Walled City with solar ones. It will be the first project undertaken by Jaipur Smart …

Centre’s solar city project lags behind in Agra

Agra: The central government's solar city project is yet to make its mark in Agra. Against the target of reducing the total usage of conventional energy of the city by 10% through promotion of solar energy by 2018-end, the administration has been able to achieve less than even 0.5% during …

UGC invites ‘green campus’ proposals

Kolhapur: The University Grants Commission has asked all educational institutions to develop green campuses in a bid to promote the idea. As per a circular dated March 10, the UGC has asked university officials to send proposals under the Development of Solar Cities programme. The project, under the ministry of …

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Solar Cities, 10/03/2016

Question raised in Lok Sabha on Solar Cities, 10/03/2016. The Government has set a target for installation of 1,00,000 MWp solar power plants in the country by the year 2022. So far, an aggregate capacity of 5775 MWp solar power plants has been installed in the country. The Ministry of …

Delhi to lead Centre’s ‘solar city’ initiative

If all goes as planned then Delhi will soon lead the 55 cities being developed as “solar cities” under the Centre’s Smart City initiative. Central Delhi, which has been identified for the project, is likely to harness as much as 1.8 megawatt (MW) of solar energy by March next year. …

Narasapuram will be made a solar city: Nirmala

Union Minister for Commerce Nirmala Sitharaman on Sunday said that the town would be developed as a solar city, the second town in the State after Vijayawada. She laid foundation stones for various development projects with an expected outlay of Rs. 1.5 crore at Matsyapuri village. Reiterating that the Centre …

Solar City draft ready for scrutiny

The expert panel on solar cities under the central ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE), which is meeting next month, is likely to hear the presentation of Kochi Solar City project. The Kochi corporation sent the final master plan to the ministry last month after making changes to the …

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