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AIIMS-Delhi Adopts Jakson’s Solar Rooftop Solution

Jakson Group, an energy and infrastructure firm, headquartered at Noida, has collaborated with AIIMS, Delhi to go green with a solar rooftop solution. This 9 KW project, on the rooftop of AIIMS Director’s Bungalow, has been developed under the aegis of Jakson Welfare Trust, the CSR arm of Jakson Group. The project was inaugurated recently […]

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Swiss Storage Firm Energy Vault Commissions First Gravity Energy Storage System In China

The world’s first grid-scale EVx™ gravity energy storage system (GESS) has entered the first phases of commissioning. Energy Vault Holdings, a firm that delves in sustainable, grid-scale energy storage solutions, has announced the commissioning of the project, along with its partners Atlas Renewable and China Tianying (CNTY). Located outside of Shanghai in Rudong, Jiangsu Province, […]

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CEA Amends Norms To Offer RTM For Cross-Border Power Trading

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA), in its recent order, has amended the procedures for approval and facilitation of the import and export of electricity with neighbouring countries. The order said that the move was taken to accommodate the participation of the Real-Time Market (RTM) segment in addition to the existing Day-Ahead Market (DAM) for electricity […]

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Even As EV Sales Boom in Australia, Fuel Efficiency Standards Arrest Further Growth

Australia is witnessing a demand-side surge for electric vehicles, yet the lack of new fuel efficiency standards is posing challenges for EV penetration. The Electric Vehicle Council’s (EVC) latest State of Electric Vehicles report highlights a significant surge in EV sales, representing 8.4 per cent of all new cars sold in Australia in the first […]

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Chhattisgarh Offers Sops For Grid-Connected Solar DRE Units

The Chhattisgarh State Electricity Regulatory Commission (CSERC) has come out with a new draft regulation to boost the uptake of grid-connected distributed renewable energy (DRE) units in the state. The Commission has now proposed a second amendment to its Gid-Connected DRE Regulations. These rules will be applicable from September 1, 2023. The draft CSERC (Grid […]

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CEA Releases New Norms For Forecasting Power Demand

The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has released its latest medium- and long-term power demand forecast guidelines. It said that the central agency had been carrying out the demand forecast of the country for medium-term and long-term periods through Electric Power Surveys (EPS) periodically to bring out National Electricity Plan (NEP). The new guidelines of the […]

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West Bengal Issues Tender for 900 MW Pumped Storage Project

The West Bengal government has floated a tender inviting bids for development and operation of the Bandu Pumped Storage Project- a 900 MW capacity power project. It will be executed through a public-private partnership. The project, located in the Ajodhya Hill Area of Purulia district, is valued at close to INR 4,700 crore with project […]

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Water-Scarce Rajasthan Poses New Challenges For Solar Pumps

By-Parul Kulshrestha  As temperatures rose in June this year, Jaman Singh Saini, a 69-year-old farmer from Badangarh village in Jhunjhunu district of Rajasthan, was irrigating his 31-acre farmland of millets, using an electric pump which came with its own challenges – erratic electricity supply, voltage fluctuation and associated costs. About 10 years ago, in 2013, […]

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