The Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has invited applications from farmers, groups of farmers, panchayats, cooperatives, Farmer Producer Organisations (FPOs) and water use associations in Punjab for setting up of solar power plants of individual capacity of 1MW, 1.5 MW and 2 MW. the move comes even as Punjab struggles to find a way out […]
Bharat Serums and Vaccines (BSV), a leading biopharmaceutical company in India, has announced that it has acquired a 26% stake in AMP Energy C&I One. Though both the companies have not yet disclosed the financial details of the deal, the acquisition is meant to supply green energy for its manufacturing facility in Ambernath in Maharashtra. […]
The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has come up with the Mumbai Climate Action Plan (MCAP) aimed at achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. According to the document, the BMC says that Mumbai can produce 1,724 MW of solar power. This, BMC says, can meet half of the city’s peak energy demand which currently stands at 3600 […]
Engineering conglomerate Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has announced that the company has got an order to develop a 245MW solar power project in Rajasthan. It has also received another order to build 35 MW (AC) photovoltaic capacity with 57MWh battery energy storage system in Gujarat. The project will be based in the Kutch district. Larsen & […]
E2S Power and India Power Corporation Ltd (IPCL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate to transform power stations that run on fossil fuel in India into thermal energy storage (TES) systems for renewable energy. E2S Power is a thermal energy storage solutions developer and IPCL is a power utility company. The twin objectives of […]
The Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) Bhagwanth Khuba has told Parliament that the solar manufacturing industry is providing 29,900 new jobs every year. The employment generated is based on the installed capacity as the Minister informed the Rajya Sabha. Also, Power Minister RK Singh said that India has achieved 40 per […]
Indiana Michigan Power (I&M), an American Electric Power company, has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for facilities that will generate approximately 800 megawatts (MW) of wind energy and approximately 500 MW of solar power. I&M’s invitation for bids offers private sector developers the opportunity to propose the best and most cost-effective projects to add significant […]
A team of researchers from the Centre for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS) at the Indian Institute of Technology (Delhi) have found that air pollution is reducing energy output of solar panels in the country. The decline in solar power generation could be as high as 52%. Sagnik Dey, Dilip Ganguly and colleagues have modelled the particulate […]
International Finance Corporation (IFC), an institution of the World Bank that focuses on private sector funding and TUSCO Ltd, a Joint Venture Company of THDCIL and Uttar Pradesh New & Renewable Energy Development Agency (UPNEDA) have signed an advisory mandate with IFC. Under this mandate, which IFC will support TUSCO in the development of 600MW […]
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