Author: Manish Kumar

What is ailing the growth of solar irrigation in Bihar? 

Birender Singh is a 68-year-old farmer based at Azamgarh village in Sitamarhi district of Bihar. Buoyed by his interest in solar, he installed a 2HP, off-grid solar pump in 2016. It was installed under the state government’s Chief Minister New and Renewable Energy Solar Pump Scheme.  Singh was among the 2,771 farmers who received the subsidized solar pump under the […]

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Will Start Indian Manufacturing Unit Soon: Kumar Shailendra, Sol Bright

How much technological progress has the firm made since 2013?  In the sector of dry cleaning robots, we are the inventors of this technology. Around 2013, we invested in this technology. From 2013 to 2023, we moved from Gen-I robots to Gen-VI robots. Now, we are offering Gen-VI robots. It resulted from the experiences and […]

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China Dominates 80% of Indian Solar Glass Market: Shreevar Kheruka, VC,  Borosil Renewable

How did the anti-dumping import provision waiver affect Borosil Renewable or other Indian solar glass makers?   The anti-dumping duty on the import of solar glass from China went away around a year ago. Since then, the dumping of Chinese solar glass has expanded substantially in the country. Chinese players control over 80 percent of the Indian solar […]

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Large RE Market A Boon For India: Anadi Iyer, India Director, Fraunhofer

How is Fraunhofer’s helping the renewable energy sector in India? Fraunhofer works around science and engineering, whether it is renewable energy, production technologies, material science, smart cities, smart manufacturing, and artificial intelligence, etc. We can make solar cell battery storage systems of high quality. We are also working on several technologies simultaneously, like thins cells. […]

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Battery Swapping Can Reduce EV Costs Drastically: Kavinder Khurana, MD, TeslaPower

Why Tesla Power USA invested in India. How much potential do you see here? Tesla Power USA is a United States (US)-based entity. It has invested heavily in battery rejuvenation technology. The company was launched in India in September 2021. Globally, it operates in 18 countries. It includes four countries in Latin America, seven in […]

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Solar Feeders Promise To Fulfil Solar Targets in Agriculture

Radheshyam Singh is a marginal farmer from Noorsarai in the Nalanda district of Bihar. While a few farmers from the district have availed the benefits of off-grid solar pumps for irrigation in the past, Radheshyam and most of the farmers in the neighbourhood still depend on the grid. However, dependency on the grid for irrigation […]

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NLC India Moving Towards Hybrid RE Projects: Prasanna Kumar, CMD

Saur: What are the significant works NLCIL undertook in the past few years to boost its renewable portfolio? CMD: NLC India Limited (NLCIL) was an early bird central PSU to venture into the renewable sector. Our first renewable energy project was awarded in 2013 with a 51 MW wind power project. Later, we shifted towards […]

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Our Energy Storage Unit A Better Alternative To Li-Ion Batteries: Vijay Prateik, CEO, DeMITasse Energy

Vijay Prateik is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DeMITasse Energies. Prateik is an alumnus of IIT-Bombay and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His company was also incubated at IIM-Bangalore. His startup, founded in 2016, uses thermo-chemical mechanisms for storing energy for longer durations. It claims that the firm’s technology can aid […]

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