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New Solar Device Removes Carbon Dioxide From the Atmosphere

By : sustainabilityo..., Aug 1, 2016

A new type of solar-powered technology has the potential to play a big role in the fight against climate change if its inventors can take it from the laboratory to industrial-scale use....

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Solar power capacity addition outstrips wind in Q1

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 29, 2016

Solar power has overtaken wind power in new capacity addition for the first time in the country.

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Azure Power to set up solar projects atop DLF properties

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 29, 2016

Solar energy developer Azure Power has tied up with DLF to set up solar projects on rooftops of the builder's properties, mainly in Gurgaon, where the first smart grid is coming up....

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Trust to provide solar lights to 100 homes

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 29, 2016

The Bharathiya Vikas Trust and Karnataka Bank, in association with Selco Foundation, is set to provide solar lights to poor families here with one or more students at a subsidized rate to aid them in their studies. Around 100 families are expected...

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Subject Tags: solar energy

Azure Power installs 10MW rooftop solar project in India’s Punjab

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 28, 2016

Indian renewables firm Azure Power has installed a 10MW rooftop solar PV project in Mohali, Punjab.

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SBI-Macquire in talks to buy Hindustan Power Project's operational alternate power assets

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 28, 2016

A private equity fund, jointly managed by State Bank of India and Australia's Macquarie Group, is in early talks with Hindustan Power Projects (erstwhile Moser Baer Power Projects) to acquire...

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Subject Tags: solar energy

Karnataka tops in implementation of solar pump-sets scheme

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 28, 2016

Karnataka stands in the first position in all-India achievement under the solar pump-sets scheme. “To further strengthen the position, it has been resolved that every rural and semi-urban branch...

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Subject Tags: solar energy , solar pumps

Watering Solar Cells Makes Them Grow… in Power!

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 28, 2016

Perovskite solar cells are the rising star in the photovoltaic landscape. Since their invention, less than ten years ago, their efficiency has doubled twice and it is now over 22% – an...

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Power Ministry sets green energy target for state discoms

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 27, 2016

State discoms will have to mandatorily draw at least 2.75% of their total power consumption from solar plants in the current fiscal, according to the renewable purchase obligation (RPO) norms...

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Subject Tags: RPOs , SERC , solar energy

Solar Impulse completes historic round-the-world trip

By : sustainabilityo..., Jul 27, 2016

The first round-the-world solar powered flight has been completed, after the Solar Impulse aircraft touched down in Abu Dhabi.

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