Solar Energy

Reply filed by the state of Odisha regarding increasing instances of high energy swell waves, May 1, 2025

Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …

Solar energy players launch industry body

To help in policy development, awareness creation, as well as training and capacity building for solar energy is the main focus of Solar Thermal Federation of India (STFI). Subsequent to the launch of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, players who claim to control over 75 per cent of the …

J&K: solar energy to light up 191 remote villages

In a bid to save energy, Jammu and Kashmir government under its

Photosynthesis is now possible in petri dish too

Researchers Create Sugar From Sunlight In US Lab Washington: In what could be claimed a major breakthrough, scientists have produced sugar from solar energy, using plant, bacterial, frog and fungal enzymes. A team at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, has focused its work on making an artificial photosynthetic material, which …

IOC launches solar lamps in State

Now with its major thrust on harnessing wind, solar, and nuclear power in addition to petroleum so as to get itself converted into an energy company, the Indian Oil Corporation Ltd (IOC) on Wednesday launched its solar lamps for the first time in the North East here at Santipur village. …

The sweet taste of solar energy

In what could be claimed a major breakthrough, a team of scientists has produced sugar from solar energy, using plant, bacterial, frog and fungal enzymes. A team at Cincinnati University has focused its work on making an artificial photosynthetic material, which uses plant, frog, fungal enzymes and bacterial, trapped within …

Govt counts on PSUs to drive mega solar projects

Feasibility study under way for setting up plant at Leh, Kargil. Green energy thrust ONGC to start off with a 10 MW solar PV plant with plans also for a solar thermal project NTPC takes up grid interactive 15 MW solar thermal-based projects at Anta in Rajasthan Richa Mishra Anil …

Haryana introduces solar education kits in schools

Haryana is the first state in the country to introduce solar education kits in senior secondary schools of the state. Financial commissioner and principal secretary for renewable energy S.S. Prasad said Sunday that the kits have been introduced in the state to educate students about the application of renewable energy. …

Shimla, Hamirpur to be developed as solar cities

Shimla: In a bid to harness solar energy in a big way, Himachal Pradesh government has decided to develop Shimla and Hamirpur as

J&K villagers get solar lights

Srinagar: Solar home lighting systems were on Sunday distributed to about 388 houses in an unelectrified village in Jammu and Kashmir

Tatas may invest Rs 13,000 cr on wind, solar power

AIMING to produce 25% power from green sources by 2017, Tata Power plans to increase its wind and solar energy generation capacity to 2,000 MW and 250 MW, respectively, which could entail an investment of over Rs 13,000 crore.

Draft guidelines for solar offgrid (photovoltaic & thermal) and decentralized application

The objectives of this guidelines are: To promote off-grid applications of solar energy (both SPV and Solar Thermal) for meeting the targets set in the National Solar Mission for Phase-I; To create awareness and demonstrate effective and innovative use of Solar systems for individual/ community/ institutional applications; To encourage innovation …

Solar module plant in Bengal inaugurated

The West Bengal Chief Minister, Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, on Wednesday inaugurated the Rs 100-crore solar photovoltaic module manufacturing plant set up by Vikram Group of Industries at Falta Special Economic Zone in South 24 Parganas district, according to a company release. Also present were Mr Debesh Das, West Bengal Minister …

Govt's solar mission aims adding 22,000 MW by 2022

Mr Bibek Bandyopadhyay, Advisor on the Solar Thermal Programme of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, has said that the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission aims at setting up 20,000 MW grid solar power and 2,000 MW of off-grid solar power by 2022. Speaking at the Indo-German dialogue on

Commercialising solar energy, German way

Sudha Nambudiri KOCHI: Germany has made policy decisions on alternative energy sources and has been concentrating on research in those areas long before the rest of the world began thinking of them, said Muller-Steinhagen, head of the Institute of Technical Thermodynamics (ITT) at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR). ITT is …

Rs 48-cr surplus Budget for Rsthan

Jaipur: Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot today presented a surplus Budget of Rs 48 crore, focusing on poor, farmers, potable water, power and health sectors. However, he has given a jolt to urban population by increasing power tariff and tax on four-wheelers. Presenting his second Budget, Gehlot said an allocation …

Just a bottle of water can power your home

With one bottle of drinking water and four hours of sunlight, an MIT scientist says he can produce 30 KWh of electricity

100 remote villages to be electrified through solar power

Ministry of Water and Power would electrify around 100 villages through solar energy during this year as part of its programme to ensure light in every village of the country. Electrification through Renewable Energy Technologies in remote and off-grid villages of country is the prime focus of the government which …

University of Madras plans to tap solar energy

Decision taken to cut down on electricity bill of Rs. 9 lakh MADURAI: The University of Madras has decided to switch over to solar power within a year in order to cut down its monthly electricity bill. A one-time investment of Rs.3 crore was being made to purchase the solar …

New avenues in solar energy

KOCHI: The Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology (RSET) is organising a twoday Indo-German dialogue on Accelerated Dissemination of Solar Energy Technologies ADSET 2010 on March 4 and 5 at the college campus in Kochi. The two-day conference is being held in collaboration with German Aerospace Centre and the Institute …

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