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Paris Climate Deal: ambitions and actions on the ground

January 15, 2018 Anand Gupta

India inked Paris Climate Change deal on October 2, 2016, a landmark pact which calls on countries to combat climate change and limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees celsius. Incidently, the Paris deal adopted by 195 countries in 2015 aims to limit global warming to 1.5 degree celsius, considering pre-industrial level as […]

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National Training Programme on Biogas Technology and its implementation

January 13, 2018 Anand Gupta

National Training Programme on Biogas Technology and its implementation For more information please see below link: Source: mnre.gov.in

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Shell Braces for Change by Expanding Its Foothold in Electricity

January 13, 2018 Anand Gupta

Royal Dutch Shell Plc is taking small steps toward a future dominated by electric cars, renewable energy and carbon constraints, demonstrating its intent not to remain solely an oil and gas company. The energy giant agreed last month to purchase First Utility Ltd., the U.K.’s seventh-largest power provider. Its offshore-wind partnership with Eneco may expand […]

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Wind Power Becomes More Cost Effective With 340,000 Turbines Already Installed Worldwide by 2016

January 12, 2018 Anand Gupta

Technological advances and falling costs have significantly improved the cost effectiveness of wind power in the recent years and spurred installations of wind turbines worldwide. Around 340,000 wind turbines were installed globally as of the end of 2016. Many of the wind turbines currently in operation are gigantic in scale, each capable supplying hundreds of […]

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Energy Generated From Wind In Britain Is Now Twice The Amount Generated By Coal

January 12, 2018 Anand Gupta

Only six years ago, coal was responsible for generating more than 40% of Britain’s energy. Today, that number has gone down to just 7%. This has been due to the rising wind power. Back in 2016, 10% of Britain’s energy was produced from wind power. That number increased to 15% in 2017 and it is […]

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Relief for smaller wind power projects as feed-in tariffs to stay

January 11, 2018 Anand Gupta

The crash in wind tariffs has hit smaller players NEW DELHI: Coming to the aid of small wind power players, the Centre proposes to continue with the feed-in-tariffs (FIT) mechanism for such producers. Last year, when the government went in for auctioning of wind projects, it moved away from the feed-in-tariffs concept. However, with tariffs […]

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Under the Head ‘Biogas Programme’ a provision of Rs.134 Crores was made in the budget estimate for the year 2017-18: Shri R.K. Singh

January 4, 2018 Anand Gupta

Under the NBMMP, about 49.6 lakh Household Size Biogas Plants have been installed since the inception of the biogas programme in the country Under the Head ‘Biogas Programme’ a provision of Rs.134 Crores was made in the budget estimate for the year 2017-18: Shri R.K. Singh Minister of State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy, […]

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Clean Energy Push: Time to power down old thermal plants, open exit route for legacy PPAs

January 3, 2018 Anand Gupta

Allowing discoms to exit power purchase agreements with over 15-year-old coal- & lignite-fuelled plants will facilitate them to meet renewable purchase obligation and relieve from onerous financial liability. As it inches towards the March 2022 target of 175 gigawatts (GW) of renewable energy (RE) capacity, India’s green push is blunted somewhat due to the feeble […]

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Clean energy developers look to diversify in bid to boost profits

January 3, 2018 Anand Gupta

Power producers explore entering consumer facing businesses such as transmission and distribution New Delhi: India’s clean energy firms such as ReNew Power Ventures Pvt. Ltd and Greenko Group are looking at diversifying across the electricity value chain in segments such as transmission and distribution to derive better value. This comes against the backdrop of record […]

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IIEST guiding Tripura govt on development of solar plants

January 3, 2018 Anand Gupta

Kolkata: The Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology (IIEST) Shibpur has started giving consultancy services to Tripura government on how to develop solar plants. The century-old Bengal Engineering College, now known as IIEST, is famous for innovations and teachers. The IIEST will provide technical support and share expertise with the Tripura government in developing […]

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