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Solar Tree to Charge Phones and Avail Free Wi-Fi in Coimbatore’s VOC Park

The Rs. 30 lakh solar tree will be used for charging visitors’ phones or be providing free Wi-Fi to the visitors. As a step towards being a smart city under the ‘Smart City Mission’, Municipal Administration Minister SP Velumani inaugurated a solar tree in city’s zoological garden and amusement park, VOC Park. The Rs. 30 […]

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Mytrah Energy Commissions Rooftop Solar Project in Maharashtra

The institute runs up an annual electricity bill of close to Rs. 15 lakh based on the current tariff followed by Mytrah Energy solar power plant. Leading solar power provider, Mytrah Energy has commissioned the operation of a 103.5 kWh rooftop solar power plant for Suretech Hospital and Research Centre, a nursing training institute in Nagpur, Maharashtra. […]

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Gujarat’s Harni Police Station ‘1st Certified Green Police Station’

The police station is the first to get the silver rating green building status in the country. The Harni police station of Gujarat is unlike any other dark and unsound police station of the country. Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) has recognized the same and has awarded a green building certificate to the police station. […]

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Forest Department Mulls Solar Power for Srirangam Butterfly Park

Souring monthly electricity bills has prompted the forest department to look at the possibility of non-conventional energy source, by erecting a solar power plant within the conservatory spread across 25 acres. The Srirangam butterfly park may soon be operated with clean energy as the forest department plans to generate solar power within the park’s premises to meet its electricity […]

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Indian Army Distributes 200 Solar Lights to J&K Nomads

The Indian Army’s Rashtriya Rifles unit based in Bhadarwah has so far distributed over 17,000 such lights among the Gujjars and Bakerwals under its ‘Project Roshni'(light). Bhadarwah (J-K): Continuing its efforts to extend a helping hand to the needy, the Indian Army distributed 200 more solar lights among the nomadic communities living in the high altitude areas here in Jammu […]

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MSEDCL, MEDA Disagree over Solar Power Development

MSEDCL’s sister concern Maharashtra Energy Development Agency (MEDA) has been in comprehensive support to the solar developments with deciding to provide a subsidy on solar power from 2018-19. Maharashtra’s state-run electricity distribution company MSEDCL has been reluctant in supporting the development of solar power in the state by proposing a surcharge to be levied on […]

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Sushma Swaraj Urges Indian Diaspora to Foray Country’s Solar Power Sector

Sushma Swaraj aimed at investment opportunities in the solar power industry that are doing rounds on the back of Indian Government’s target of achieving 100 GW of solar power generation by 2022. Speaking at a panel discussion of ‘Pravasi Bhartiya Divas’, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj urged the present dignitaries and the attendees from the […]

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LONGi Solar Backs Lightsource BP for 60MW Solar PV Project in India

The project is the largest solar PV power plant in India, tender of which was won by Lighthouse BP with the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) followed by LONGi Solar’s module supply. Global large-scale solar developer, Lightsource BP has completed the first utility PV project in Maharashtra procuring 2,00,000 high-efficiency  Monocrystalline solar modules from […]

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