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Solar Off Grid & Roof Tops
The Supra Eco Homes, India’s First Fully Solar Powered Real Estate Project, where even Elevators Work on Solar Power, Announced
It will be a wood free apartment. No geysers, invertors, diesel generators to be installed. When it is completed in next 18months, it will be the “Near Zero Carbon Emissions Building in the country.” Only 2% of the new constructions in India are Green Buildings. Residential apartments are responsible for 22 percent of India’s total […]
Kudremukh Iron Ore Company signs pact with CleanMax Solar
In a bid to move towards sustainable energy, Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Ltd (KIOCL) has partnered with CleanMax Solar, an Indian onsite solar power provider. The rooftop solar plant installed with a capacity of 377.6 kWp is expected to reduce the company’s carbon dioxide emission by 524.4 tonnes per annum. According to company spokespersons, this […]
Solar unit installed at PAPA Home
A 2 KW solar power unit, installed by Waltair Round Table-92,a chapter of Round Table India, was inaugurated at the Public and Police Association Home (PAPA Home) in Police Lines, Suryabagh. T. Yoganand, Commissioner of Police, commissioned the solar power unit. A S Khan, joint commissioner, Navin Gulati DCP Vizag Zone-1, T. Ravi Kumar Murthy […]
CEL launches 600 KW solar plant
Central Electronic Ltd (CEL) has commissioned a 600 KW solar power plant in Sahibabad Industrial Area of Ghaziabad. This takes the total captive solar power capacity on the CEL campus to 1 MW, said a company statement. The plant was inaugurated by Minister of Science and Technology Harsh Vardhan on Wednesday. He also laid the […]
ROOF-TOP SOLAR POWER SCHEME: ICFRE CHIEF WRITES TO UNION MIN
The chairman of the Foundation for Integrated Resource Management (FIRM) and former director general of the Indian Council of Forestry Research and Education (ICFRE) VK Bahuguna has written to the Union Minister of State for new and renewable energy, Piyush Goyal regarding removal of “irritants” in the implementation of the ministry’s roof-top grid connected power […]
Government to provide 50 per cent subsidy for installation of solar roof tops
State Government offers 50 per cent subsidy for installation of Solar Roof Tops in Households and 10 % subsidy to industry. Arvind Kumar , project director, Jharkhand Renewable Energy Development Authority ( JREDA)announced that the state government is keen to provide subsidy to encourage the installation of solar roof tops for consumers , households and […]
Solar power helps pump up petrol sales amid power shortage
Solar energy is displacing fossil fuels across the globe. But in India, it is helping boost sales of diesel and petrol at filling stations. As petrol pumps start using solar energy, many of them, especially in the hinterland with ample sunlight, are reclaiming as much as 10 per cent of sales earlier lost due to […]
HT Explainer: How and why Golden Temple’s langar will go solar
With a Mumbai-based group offering to donate a solar-powered steam cooking system, Golden Temple’s Guru Ram Das Langar Hall, known as the biggest community kitchen in the world, will be in the company of three other shrines — Shirdi (Maharashtra), Mount Abu (Rajasthan) and Tirupathi (Andhra Pradesh) — that already have similar systems. This will […]
Green energy: Delhi government urges residents, offices to set up rooftop solar plants
Green energy, clean energy: In a move to bring awareness about the use of solar energy, Delhi Government’s Power Department has planned an outreach programme for several resident welfare associations (RWAs) across the city. With an aim to harness one GigaWatt of solar energy by 2020, the department had opened the registration process for installation […]