Energy Technology

Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) regarding use of environmental compensation funds, 29/04/2025

Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …

Andhra Pradesh plant key in solar effort

The study at Simhadri and Dadri power plants will help in flexible power generation and thus maintain grid frequency. Hyderabad: The Union power ministry has chosen the Simhadri thermal power station in Vishakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, and the Dadri power plant in Uttar Pradesh, to study the impact and …

Conference stresses need to tap renewable energy sources more

Coimbatore: Efforts towards sustainable living in India is still a baby crawling, but India will be able to reduce carbon emissions up to 30% by 2030, and at the same time achieve 220GW renewable energy production by 2022, Chitra Rajagopal, director general, systems and modelling, Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO) …

India needs to invest in energy mix & power networks: IEA analyst

Michael Waldron also says that India is the fastest-growing major energy investment market The Paris-based inter-governmental International Energy Agency (IEA) has in its latest report indicated a decline in investment in the oil and gas sector for a second year and increase in energy efficiency and energy networks. India, it …

Wind, solar do not harm power grid reliability-draft U.S. study

The growth of renewable power, including wind and solar, has not harmed the reliability of the U.S. electricity grid, according to a draft U.S. Department of Energy study, echoing the findings of grid operators across the country. The conclusion of the draft, dated July and viewed by Reuters, could ease …

Tata Motors develops country’s first biomethane bus

“The use of Bio-CNG will contribute in a positive manner to the Smart Cities proposition of keeping them clean and is a good option for wet garbage management,” Head of Commercial Vehicles Business in Tata Motors, Girish Wagh, said in a statement. Tata Motors has developed country’s first Bio-CNG (bio-methane) …

The growing role of minerals and metals for a low carbon future

A new report released by the World Bank highlights the potential impacts that the expected continuing boom in low-carbon energy technologies will have on demand for many minerals and metals. Using wind, solar, and energy storage batteries as key examples of low-carbon or “green” energy technologies, the report, “The Growing …

Surveying sea floor animals for offshore renewable energy

There is growing interest in developing offshore wind and wave energy facilities in the Pacific Northwest. There is growing interest in developing offshore wind and wave energy facilities in the Pacific Northwest. But not much is known about the sediment and animal life along the sea floor in the region. …

Solar resource mapping in Malawi: annual solar resource report

This report is prepared within Phase 2 of the project Renewable Energy Resource Mapping for the Republic of Malawi. This project focuses on solar resource mapping and measurement services as part of a technical assistance in the renewable energy development implemented by the World Bank in Malawi. It is being …

Generating socio-economic values from renewable energies

Renewables are seen as to reconcile the urgently needed decarbonisation of energy systems and sustainable economic development. The list of possible social and economic benefits by renewable energies is long. Many of them are already empirically proven, and, throughout the world future prospects of benefits related to renewable energies are …

For nuke biggies, answer’s blowing in the wind

Despite a relatively robust position in its nuclear business, Russia’s state atomic energy corporation Rosatom is pushing the envelope by revving up renewable projects in sectors such as wind energy and small hydro. Little less than a decade ago, nuclear shills could get away by scoffing at renewables, given the …

Making it easy to go solar

Name of the Company: MYSUN (Registered as Eastern Light & Power Private Ltd.) Funding received: Raised first funding of $2.5 million in 2016 from a strategic investor What it does: Is an online platform hosted at www.itsmysun.com that uses engineering, data and analytics to deliver customised solar solutions to residential, …

Over the next decade solar cost will come down by 60 per cent’

International Renewable Energy Agency chief Adnan Z Amin on where the clean market is headed As the Director-General of the Abu Dhabi-headquartered International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) since its inception in 2011, Adnan Z Amin, is an authority on renewable energy economics. BusinessLine grabbed the Kenyan economist for a chat …

India, Russia may join hands for providing nuclear energy to third country

The decision by India and Russia at the recent (June 1) annual Summit to undertake joint economic projects in third countries including in the area of clean energy have opened up possibilities of collaboration in civilian nuclear energy sector. India and Russia are currently fine-tuning their civil nuclear energy partnership …

India’s LED programme, inspiration for many countries’

BusinessLine caught up with Fatih Birol, Executive Director, International Energy Agency, at the 8th Clean Energy Ministerial — a policy-cum-technical conference of clean energy ministers of 25 countries — held in Beijing last week. (The Indian delegation was headed by the Minister for Science and Technology, Harsh Vardhan, who now …

Vikram Solar achieves milestone of 1GW solar manufacturing

Globally recognized and India?s leading solar energy solutions provider Vikram Solar has announced reaching 1GW of manufacturing capacity. This feat is a major contribution towards the 100 GW target set by the Indian government by 2022. With this accomplishment, Vikram Solar cements its position as a forerunner of the Indian …

Adani commissions 50 MW solar PV plant in Uttar Pradesh

The Adani Group, a global integrated infrastructure conglomerate, on Tuesday announced the commissioning of a 50 megawatt solar PV plant in Mahoba district, Uttar Pradesh, under the National Solar Mission Scheme. The plant has been set up with an investment of Rs 315 crore. The technology used for setting up …

NTPC installs AC Microgrid at NETRA in Greater Noida

National Thermal Power Corporation Limited (NTPC) on Thursday announced the installation of an AC Microgrid test bed of 110 KWp Solar PV with demand side management at the NTPC Energy Technology Research Alliance (NETRA), the R&D; arm of NTPC in Greater Noida. Installed to cater three phase critical loads, the …

China’s Envision Energy to set up operations in India

Envision Energy, the second largest wind turbine manufacturer in China, intends to bring its products to India, the company’s Founder and Managing Director, Lei Zhang, said on Thursday. “We will set up manufacturing facilities for sure,” Zhang told BusinessLine here, on the sidelines of the 8th Clean Energy Ministerial, a …

Renewables 2017: global status report

The 2017 Edition of the REN21 Renewables Global Status Report reveals a global energy transition well underway, with record new additions of installed renewable energy capacity, rapidly falling costs, and the decoupling of economic growth and energy-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. This year’s report continues REN21’s long-standing tradition of providing …

One-year ban for 71 solar panel companies

KOLKATA: The government has barred 71 firms from rooftop solar projects for a year by removing them from the panel that makes them eligible to bid. These include Amra Raja Electronics Ltd, Cleantech Synergy, Hollandia Power Solutions, IL&FS; Energy Development Co and Jindal Green Technologies. The government has written to …

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